Lots of Laughter and Quilts

Yesterday was the July meeting of quilt bee. We met at Cyndi’s house, and the only bad thing was that I had to climb a hill from where I parked my car to get to her front door. I was nice and didn’t park in the driveway, leaving others room. I should have been selfish. It was a hard climb. But worse, later when I left to go home, I got to my car only to realize that I had forgot my bag with my show-and-tell in it. So I had to climb the hill again. Almost didn’t make it that time.

But it was a great meeting. I don’t know what got into us all, but we laughed about everything--especially a discussion about a former member whose name Rita was trying to remember. We went through all the names of all the former members we could think of, but never hit on the right one. Cyndi even brought out her “President’s Quilt” from the mid-90s when she was guild president to see if that person had signed her quilt. She had not. But we did learn, from Rita, that she drove a Saturn and lived in Something Woods.

Enough of that foolishness. We also had a great display of show-and-tell. Here it is.

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Rita found three quilts in a box in her mother’s attic. The quilts date to sometime in the mid-30s.The tops were made by Rita's grandmother and probably quilted by a church quilting group. Some needed repair.  One had stains on the back from being in the box for so long. But even with a few stains and frays, they were beautiful.

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Nancy made this colorful top. We  encouraged her to add a bright border or two for a terrific child’s quilt.
 
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My show-and-tell was my recently completed charity cuddle quilt, made from a Pat Sloan pattern, using a few of my collection of novelty squares from past swaps. I entitled this quilt “I Spy By Starlight.” 
 
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Doris showed us her sweet quilt top, made from a Panda Panel. We loved the green and gold top and bottom borders, which she confessed were the result of a mistake. Instead of cutting both colors the same size, the gold was accidentally cut and inch smaller, resulting in the staggered checkerboard. We liked the mistake better than we would have liked a true checkerboard pattern.

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Doris also won some black and white squares and came up with this interesting way of displaying them. Doris said it wasn’t easy figuring out the math, but we all loved the finished project.
 
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Note: All photos by Cyndi Wheeler.
 
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On 07/03/2019, Barbara Anne said ...

Love the quilts, one and all, and am glad you were able to make it to the party.

Laughter is good for what ails anyone, but not so much when climbing a hill twice. Methinks I'd have called Rita and asked her to have the next person leaving bring your bag to you at the bottom of the hill or to toss the bag down the hill!

You've reminded me to check out Pat Sloan's free patterns. Thanks!

I highly recommend Crystal Light's Peach tea for this awful summer heat.

Have a happy 4th!

Hugs!
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