April - Deb Bomstad, Lorna Yanish, & Jean Rasmussen - Hand Applique

Deb Bomstad, Lorna Yanish, & Jean Rasmussen showed us their favorite hand applique method and provided us a trunk show with some of their appliqued quilts.

 

Deb Bomstad's favorite method is needleturn. She likes to use batik fabric, 3/16th seam allowance and turn as you go. Some of the tools she likes to use are a serrated scissors, Clover applique pins, size 11 needle and Aurifil thread. She competed her first applique quilt in 2000.

 

Lorna Yanish's favorite method is wash away foundation paper. She uses Dritz Wash Away Foundation Paper and Dritz Quilting Fabric Glue Stick for her applique. Some of her favorite tools are That Purple Thang and applique pins. She has been quilting for about 30 years and appliqueing for 7.

 

Jean Rasmussen's favorite method is with spray starch. She likes to use "heavy" spray starch and mix it with about 1/2 water. Then uses a stencil brush to apply this to the fabric and uses an iron to press it into place. She makes her templates out of cardboard and uses the thinnest thread she can find. Jean stated appliqueing about 60 years ago.

 

Three amazing appliquers with three different methods and all three have gorgeous results.

 

Ended the evening with lots of Show and Tell.

"Sneak Peek" of the Raffle Quilts for the Quilt Show

This is a "sneak peek" of the 3 raffle quilts for our Quilt Show. More information to follow in the future.

March-Sue Poser- Gruber's Quilt Shop

Sue Poser was our speaker for the March Meeting.  She gave us several quilting short cut demos and a fun trunk show of projects from Gruber's Quilt Shop.  You can check out Gruber's Quilt Shop website here.

 

This year Minnesota Quilters honors Sue Poser, the woman behind Gruber's Quilt Shop, as the 2015 Quilter of the Year. After graduating from the College of St. Catherine in 1981, she worked at the family-owned general store in Genola, MN. "My grandmother taught me to quilt when I was six years old," Poser said. "I began incorporating quilt fabric into the store right away because that's my love." Within ten years she was offering free quilting classes four times a week and regularly traveling to national quilting conferences. In 1998, she brought Gruber's to downtown St. Cloud and quickly expanded to a larger shop in Waite Park.  You can see all Sue's quilt projects at the Minnesota Quilters 37th Annual Quilt Show and Conference in Duluth, June 11-13th. 

 

Show and Tell

Peggy Starz showed us all the fun projects she made out of one quilt panel.  She also showed a fun table runner pattern and a chicken table topper.

Sharon Banister showed us her quilt. The back is just as gorgeous as the front.

 This orange and aqua quilt by Cheryl Cooper is striking.

Sandra Schlagel showed us another of her raw-edge applique art quilts. The detailed hand quilting on this project is breathtaking.

March-30's Mini Group Meeting

Bonita Kallestad gave a wonderful demonstration on the "double wedding ring" block from Eleanor Burns- "Egg Money Quilts" book.

 Linda Kacher's blocks are made out of 30's reproduction fabrics.

 Theresa Burgmeier's blocks are made with fabric that gives a civil war feel. The black background is stunning making the fabric in the blocks float above the background.

Linda Bjornberg's is making two quilts. One is made out of 30's reproduction fabric and the other has a Christmas feel to it.

Smitty Luschen is using 30's reproduction fabrics.

Deb Bomstad quilt blocks have a Christmas feel. The red background fabric is awesome.

Jeanette Swenson showed us her block of the month quilt from last year.

This is Linda Kocher's block of the month quilt from last month. 

Fiber Folk Mini Group-February Meeting-Sandra Schlagel "Raw-edge Applique Art Quilt"

The Fiber Folk Mini Group met on February 23rd.  Sandra Schlagel gave an inspiring demonstration and trunk show on "Raw-edge Applique Art Quilting".  Sandra explained the process she uses to design art quilts with voice and style, quilting, and finishing ideas. Sandra challenged us to use raw-edged fabric applique pieces in shapes that would be pleasing to us (squares, circles, rectangles, triangles, petals or free-formed variety.)

Just one of the amazing samples of Sandra's "Raw-edge Applique Art Quilting". 

 

The next Fiber Folk Mini Group Meeting is March 23rd, 1:00 at the Willmar Community Center.  The demo is on Gel Printing. 

 

 

 

 

February - Jan Martin, “Designing Quilts”

Jan Martin enlightened us with a power point presentation on designing quilts. She brought some of her amazing quilts to show us.  This quilt, she is standing in front of, is her "presidents quilt". Jan was our guild president in 1996-1997. 

Jan is also known for her talent of discharge dyeing. Discharging is the process of removing dye  from fabric with various household detergents containing bleaching chemicals. Patterns or designs appear through stamping, stenciling or block printing. This quilt is an example using a wall paper stencil.

Some of our show and tell.

September-30's Mini Group Meeting

Members showing their "Rosebuds" block from the Egg Money Quilts book by Eleanor Burns.