Show and Tell From May
Angie and Marcia brought quite a few quilts! These are teacher quilts for Sheridan--pieced by Angie! Angie likes paper piecing, but usually cuts and presses for her mother to do the piecing. More quilts for Savannah's, and Porter's and Lily's teachers.
A quilt for the new Mayor who was the Bishop in her church--representing Sand and Sea, and Working Together.
And another for his granddaughter, Savannah Dawn (Noah's ark).
They won the Circle of 9's blocks.
Angie paper-pieced the center block.
For a great-nephew, born in March/April.
This one is an extra quilt, not yet spoken for.
Mystery quilt blocks were shown in two color ways.
Jeri had two quilts
This is one she's hand-quilting.
Leslie Lester went to Amish country to buy some beautiful quilts. She managed to find Emma, an 89-year-old quilter whose home was where she grew up. (The red and white block) was a copy of her wedding quilt. She was married at 18. She and her family made the quilts that Leslie bought--A double wedding ring for her kitchen, and a star for her mother who watched her children so they could go on the trip.
Joyce showed a cute Halloween cross-stitch of a cute little guy standing in a pumpkin! There were 15 pages of instructions, 30 colors of thread--11 different shades of orange.
Carol showed her first attempt at free motion quilting!!!!!!!!! Oh, to be so talented! It's from a pattern, but the black horse looks like her horses
