November Recap

Today was our November meeting.  Luckily, we had nice weather but we all compared stories about this week's storm.

 

Dianne was sewing blocks for this pattern, using a pretty selection of fabrics.  She says she exercised self control in the cutting phase.

 

 

 

Mary Ann was making a lovely set of batik blocks using the Lemoyne star ruler that we learned at the Wildwood workshop.  They aren't wonky but the different camera angles may make it seem so.  Blogger is also uncooperative with my requests to change the photo positions in this post.

 

Fran was trying out a new pattern that converts a button down shirt into a maternity top.

 

Gwen was cutting a pretty selection of fabrics for a table runner.

 

Lynn was troubleshooting the herringbone blocks she is working on based on Friendship strips.

 

 

 

Judy used some of her Lemoyne blocks for a baby quilt and then she found out that twins were on the way.  Here she is working on the binding.

 

 Kathy knitted some lovely yarn into a scarf for Fran. Great modeling job, Fran!

 

Here's a shot of Syd's knitting (top) and Lynn's pile of L blocks from Friendship.  Susie was tracing snowflakes and Kathy kept us in line.

 

 

Judy continues to out do herself with the holiday food styling.  This gang was very impressive! 

 

Lunch was wonderful, as usual.  I asked Brady to pick his favorite thing he ate today.  He said the turkey.  It took me a second to figure out which dish included turkey. Duh!  I should have known he'd pick the candy.

We decided on the rules for our next challenge:

1. Choose any pattern from one of Jane Hardy Miller's braid books
2. Must have a minimum of two runs (no table runners)
3. Inject your personality into it--make it read as "you" somehow
4. Use a coveted fabric (on the front, of course)
5. Show progress by April and finish in time for the November Wildwood show
6. Add at least one embellishment that would make music when the quilt is in the dryer (zippers, coat buttons, home dec snaps)
7. Include dimensional pockets where you can store spare change
8. Ignore rules 6 and 7 (right, Ruth?)

 We missed Jan, Laura, and Ruth and made sure to talk about them throughout the day.  See you in December!  Happy Thanksgiving to all!