Gift Exchange...

Each year in our quilt guild, we have a gift exchange. The exchanges vary from year to year such as a dishtowel decorated with embellishment, a pincushion or a hotpad. It was voted on this year to do a hotpad so this is my gift exchange. Just need to wrap it up and I'm ready to go for December's guild...

It's in the Bag...

At our last guild meeting, Holly taught us how to make this bag from her original pattern. I traced the pattern, but have yet to make one...however, my sister, Carolyn has made 3 and has a couple more in the process...
She has been mixing and matching prints and colors. The bag has a magnetic snap closure and is easy peasy to make...I'll put that on my must do list. How about making some fabric flowers to doll it up???? Hummmmmm...

Patchwork Friends Quilt Guild

Here's a little show and share...Holly made this cute Riley Blake Halloween quilt...

Holly also made this darling quilt from Heather Bailey fabric, pattern is shapshots by Atkinson Design...

Lucy made this adorable quilt from a kit. Love it!!

Kathleen made this cute quilt for her daughter...Love it!!

Claudia made this Hugs and kisses quilt and then quilted it herself. It looks great!!

Claudia also made this fun quilt...Doesn't it look like the perfect boy quilt???




This block is for the journey of a woman quilt. It says "Thank heaven for little girls."

Deb made this really cute block for the journey of a woman's life as well...love it!!!

Holly made this cute little dress out of her "ugly" fabric from last closing social. We are having a beauty and the beast contest--they take the ugly fabric and make a beauty!!!

Alissa made this darling quilt top and just used up fabric on hand. The skull and crossbones is the ugly fabric... (pattern from last Quilmaker's issue...

Kari made this really cute pillowcase for the challenge out of her ugly fabric...

Desirae made these adorable hot pads out of her ugly fabric...I just loved all the projects. I have still to make my beauty out of my beast but I am stumped as to what to make!!

Patchwork Friends Quilt Guild

This sweet little block was designed by Kari, the guild president. This year we are going to do a BOM that depicts the different stages of a woman's life from birth on. The guild members get to design the various 11 other blocks from school age to marriage to working woman, mother, grandmother, etc. We design the 10 1/2" block and then distribute the pattern to the other guild members and then everyone can make their own version of a woman's life. I think this is going to be a really fun quilt.

Show and share with members showing their projects. Desirae made this cute runner....

Deb made some darling embellished dishtowels...

These sisters made a couple of really cute quilts....

the other cute quilt...
an appliqued duck...

Carrie had knit up all these cute booties and socks...

Holli made this cute bag...

Cute bag by Alissa...

Kathleen made this quilt for one of her daughter's baby...

Kari's sister-in-law made this cute Christmas quilt and she is just a very beginner--great job!!

Kari and her cute quilt....

Kari and a group of ladies made this round robin road trip quilt...Such a cute idea!!! Well till next quilt guild meeting...

Patchwork Friends Quilt Guild May Meeting...

This month's block jack was selvage blocks. I did not make one this month as I had a lot of things going on and ran out of time...

Show and share--we had a lot of cute projects that were shared...this is a pattern with crayon tinted blocks...cute idea!!

Cute jelly roll bag in black and whites...

Hexigon table topper....

Another hexigon table topper...


Jelly roll quilt...cute...

Fun baby quilt with ragged edge...

Darling Buggy Barn pattern--love the colors

Fun placemats...It was a fun evening full of games and even a pinata to celebrate 5th of May...till next month...

Patchwork Friends Quilt Guild

This baby quilt is in the process of being quilted. She uses tissue paper or that artist paper to draw on the design or motif and then stitches it in the plain blocks.

Cute baby quilt for a new grandbaby.

Embellished dishtowels using an old fashioned cookie cutter for the applique.

Quilt pieced at a quilt retreat. She put plain blocks in between the pieced ones to break it up and create a new design.

These next two quilts were made using our exchange blocks of snowmen or snowflakes from last year. So very cute. Maybe I'll have to get mine out and set them....


By the way--I won the block jack so I'll be making the "free" denim quilt soon....