Since our two January Quilts of Valor meetings were so productive, your Webmaster has made an
executive decision to break the recap of the meetings into three posts. You can read Part 1 at this link and Part 2
at this link.
Here
is Part 3:
During
our Monday meeting, we did some serious sorting of our donated fabrics to
ascertain their best use for our new quilt design for 2014. In case you missed it, the pattern is named
Waving Old Glory and it appeared in the book “The Best of Fons & Porter’s
Patriotic Quilts”. The designer is Toby
Lischko. Here's another photo of the sample that Debbie made up:
We
will be modifying this design to best fit our capabilities and volunteer
piecers. The center square will be
smaller and the strips around the modified Log Cabin will be cut at 2 ½ inches
instead of 2 to facilitate using a strip cutter.
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| The little Star detail is right in the center of the quilt! |
And here’s just one more reason why this is a great QOV Group:
Lisa
B gave us a mini-lesson and demonstration on how to make Magic Binding – a method
of machine binding that looks fabulous and professional. Here’s one she did during the meeting – see
the wonderful faux piping using an accent color?
You
can find instructions and a tutorial at this link, if you’d like to try this on your own. Thank you so much, Lisa, for sharing this
technique with us.
Here’s
a few pics of the Group at work, once again a few are finishing up sewing and
laying out tops from the old design and some beginning to cut and make blocks for
the new design. There’s already enough
blocks available to make a complete top due to the serious sewing and cutting efforts
of our newest members Cindy and Janice – sure glad to have you join us!
Check
out these worker bees:
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| Sewing Rows for a Top |
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| Sorting fabrics |
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| Laying out a Top |
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| Cutting strips |
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| Making Blocks |
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| Sewing binding |
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| Cutting strips |
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| Cutting strips |
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