August Meeting 2015

Old Business Tues. Aug 18th at Pat W's, 10am-2pm Class for the large art bowls, Sue M. is teaching her techniques with canvas and fusible, bring your sewing machine and potluck. Materials list and directions available at meetings. Friday August 14th, Pat G. is taking a van trip to the Portland "Quilt, Knit, Stitch" show, contact her for info. Our two challenges for this year are "She Flies with Her Own Wings" due at October meeting, and for our big challenge for the Umpqua Valley Quilt Show in April, "A Path Less Traveled" patterns sections available at October meeting. New Business "The Quilter" will be preformed at the Cottage Grove Theater August 14-16. Show & Tell

Vi brought her Forth of July beaded bouquet, the red roses and blue and white flowers, created a patriotic theme. They are handmade with fine wire and hundreds of seed beads.

She is making the sunflowers for her daughter, they are very time consuming, and needed special reinforcing to keep the petals from drooping. She has made a beaded bumble bee and a dragonfly to go with them.

Vi has also made a Pendleton wool purse with deer leather trim and handles.

Clothesline coil baskets made by Vi are embellished with beaded coil flowers and leaves. Each basket took about 30 feet of cotton clothesline. A workshop is being planned for this technique. No photo- but Sara made a purse with 7 fat quarters of sunflower fabric, that she had collected.

Pat G. shared some photos of the Umpqua Valley Quilters' Guild presentation of "Quilts of Valor" to the returning Charlie Company, National Guard at Riverforks Park. They had made over 100 quilts to present, unbeknownst to Pat, the commanding officer was named Eagle, and she had pre-choosen an eagle quilt to present to him.

As Pat G. collected Row by Row patterns, she also purchased several license plates designed by each shop. She put them together into a purse with a free pattern and some of the raindrop fabric that was designed for the Row by Row challenge. Pat, Lorraine and Sue have collected free patterns from all the shops in Oregon participating in the Row by Row challenge. Check out rowbyrowexperience.com for a list of all shops participating, in state by state lists. There are over 2500 shops in 2015, where you can get a free pattern, they all have a water theme.

They have also each collected patterns from California, Tahoe area, and even Tennessee. They are lots of fun to do. You can win fabric prizes if you are the first to finish a quilt with at least 8 patterns, including the shop pattern you take it to.

Vera has been dyeing yardage with some leftover old dyes.

Lorraine has been making modern block experiments, with her class mates from Asilomar. She will put all her pre-quilted blocks together into one quilt. She is using Warm & White batting and geometric quilting motifs.

Clare has made a purse out of the remainder of the weaving, from a commissioned rug. It was made with a "Mexican" flavor to it.

Another small bag was made with a small sample weaving, woven "around a box."

Sue M. made this beautiful Poppy wall hanging after taking a class at "A Common Thread" in Portland. Designed and taught by Ann Shaw, from her book "Flowers of the Gorge." She kept insisting Sue add orange reds to her quilt, but she stuck to her plan of only using true reds. Nancy has returned from her trip to Germany and Belgium, that included a tour of the Lindt Chocolate Factory, with many samples too.

Crystal dyed this glorious silk scarf with ice dyeing, at our summer dye workshop. She has also been teaching kids string art at the Umpqua Arts Center this summer.