September - Susan Stein - Off beat Sampler Quilts

Susan Stein was our quest presenter. She showed lots of examples of sampler quilts.  To learn more about Susan check out her website here. http://www.susan-stein.com

There was lots of "Show and Tell" this month.  The following photos are just a few of them.

August - Annemarie Yohnk "Quilts Remembered"

Annemarie Yohnk from "Quilts Remembered" was our August speaker. "Redwork in the Beginning" was the lecture. People of all ages have enjoyed Redwork as a pastime from the late 1800s to the late 1930s.  Annemarie gave a fabulous trunk show of these embroidered pieces of art.  We left with a new appreciation of Redwork and hints/tips on what to look for when collecting your own pieces.

 

You might remember Annemarie Yohnk from "Quilts Remembered". She was here July 2013. You can check out that blog post by clicking here.

 

Check out Annemarie Yohnk from "Quilts Remembered" website here.http://www.quiltsremembered.com/index.htm

This is our second block of our new block of the month project created by Sharon Banister.

Here is the pattern for the second block.  Click on the photo of the pattern to make it larger.

Deb's show and tell included a quilt made by her children for her 60th Birthday.

Laura's gorgeous and huge king sized quilt and a locker hooked rug that she received a ribbon from at the Kandiyohi County Fair.

 Jan's fun cabin quilt is made out of flannel and the leaves are appliqued.

 Ramona's wonderful modern quilt.

 Anna's original design quilt received a blue ribbon at the Kandiyohi County Fair.

 Leah showed this fun quilt and explained how she is not enjoying sewing the binding on.

Smitty's finished block of the month that Pat demonstrated. Love the layout of this.

Sharon's tablerunner she made for her mom's birthday.  She quilted a doily in the middle.  What a fun creative idea.

2015 - Quilt Show Registration Form

Enter your quilts in the September Quilt Show by downloading (use your mouse, right click and choose open link) completing the following registration forms.  Return them to Daphne Evenson by September 8.  We look forward to seeing your quilts. 

 

 

To enter an antique quilt, download this form (link).  Thank you from the Country Quilters Guild Quilt Show Committee. 

July - Member Garage Sale

For our July Country Quilters meeting, members could bring fabric related items for sale. 

This is our first block of our new block of the month project created by Sharon Banister. 

 Here is the pattern for the first block.  Click on the photo of the pattern to make it larger.

The evening ended with lots of show and tell from the members.

May - Fabrics Plus Marshall, MN

Tracy Veglahn with Fabrics Plus, in Marshall, MN gave a trunk show and also demonstrated a “Machine Binding Technique”.  You can click here to view Fabric Plus website.

Some of the amazing show and tell projects.

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.