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| Ella shared this elegant ombre quilt made by Barry and quilted by Joanna. |
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| Close up of the lovely quilting and the ombre fabric |
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| Ella made this sweet bib for her great nephew. |
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| Ella brought this awesome painting by her grandson. |
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| Jean shared a new medium with the group. She used crumpled paper grocery bags and painted them with acrylic paint. |
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| Next, she fused the painted paper to batting and embroidered a design. You can use this method to make bags or art quilts. Very cool Jean! |
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| Sew many possibilities... appliqué and embroidery |
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| Here's another one of Jean's creation...snowflake embroidery. This would look stunning on a cross body bag. |
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| Winter wonderland by Jean |
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| Jean created this whimsical piece using adorable gingerbread people! |
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| Jean used her Christmas tree challenge block to go in a cross body bag kit for Family House. |
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| Jean created a beautiful hand towel using appliqué and embroidery. |
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| Candy worked on sewing binding on DeeDee's quilt. |
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| Ruth B had some questions about the directions for the cross body bag. |
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| Ruth S shared her fabulous fishing lure quilt which will be for her son's Christmas gift. |
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| Close up of one of the lures on Ruth S's quilt |
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| Ruth had fun telling us about adding real lures to the quilt...careful..they have real hooks!!! |
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| Here are some more real lures that may go on the quilt or maybe not? |
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| Lynda brought a sample of the upholstery fabric she found at Joann's. |
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| Lynda went to Mulberry Silks in Carrboro. She snapped a photo of this cute quilt which was displayed in the window. Cheryl K reported that she has been working on her Blooming Nine Patch. It's getting so big that she had to lay it our on her floor...too big for her design wall. |
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| Gayle has packed up all of her fabric but that has not stopped her form ordering fabric. She ordered some lovely Bella solids to use in making a coastal theme pillow for her new house. Gayle worked on her Chapel Hill wall hanging embroidery project. |
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| DeeDee shared a variety of handmade Christmas gifts. This is a coaster for a friend. |
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| DeeDee used her Christmas tree challenge fabric to make a hot pad for her neighbor. |
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| DeeDee has a new serger and put it to the test by making a new heating pad cover for her kitty. |
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| DeeDee appliquéd this whimsical cat fabric on a towel for a Christmas gift. |
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| DeeDee shows another a cute towel she made for gift. |
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| Joanna will use this pattern to make a table runner for her son and daughter-in-law for Christmas. |
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| Close up of the table runner pattern |
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| Someone shared this info from the NC Museum of Art. |
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| With a little encouragement from Jean, Deborah purchased more fruit and vegetable fabric from Pineapple Fabrics...for the great price of $3 per yard!!!! Joy sent a message for the group to consider ideas for making quilts for the Hurricane victims. Candy passed around the calendar for folks to sign up. Until next time, happy quilting! |
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