A few photos of march meeting

The Basement Divas were not all there at the March meeting, or maybe I should state that a little differently. All of the Basement Divas were not present yesterday but those of us who who gathered were busy and had the usual good time and great lunch. I got a few photos early before I started hand sewing the binding on a quilt I am finishing and later I got a few more but by then much of what everyone had been working on had been packed up and ready to go. 

Maryann and Suzie had taken a class at Lake Farmpark during the quilt show and here they are discussing the pattern. Maryann is showing the paper pieced blocks she made. I tried to get her to display them on her chest as we are sometimes prone to do when we are discussing our quilt blocks but  this was the closest she would come to doing that.

Kathy is posing with her little bitty paper pieced fan blocks that she had started at a retreat with Mary Huey mentioned in an earlier post the she and  Diane and Jan attended.

 

Diane was working on a large double bed quilt in these beautiful colors. She had an impressive pile of squares cut in an equally impressive variety of fabrics. The black and white print throughout is the perfect fabric  to tie it all together, although the fabrics work together so well anyway.

Fran is holding up a set of square oven mitts and a hot pad that I (Ruth) made for her as a thank you for the bottle of Bubble Jet set she gave me last month. I had fun making these this past week while I pondered how I wanted to quilt my black and white piece.
Gwen and Suzie and someone else where playing with Brady's little transformers and were having a good time too. I only caught Gwen here with the toys.

 

Everyone was working on something but I missed getting photos of most of it.
Fran is working on a Bonnie Hunter pattern Bricks and Cobblestones which several of us have made. and Lori is working an a row quilt that I somehow missed.  Gwen layered up her challenge piece and two other small quilts and Jan was working on something as well. I don't hold out much hope of anyone posting photos from this month as most of the Divas seems to be bashful about posting. If you knew us you would never assign the term bashful to any of us but there you have it.

Our show and tell ended with Lori showing us her recently acquired Melody Johnson art piece. It is really beautiful and no photo can do justice to seeing it in person. She auditioned it in several places in the basement and received a lot of input from the Divas. She wants to hang in where it can be seen by everyone entering the downstairs area.