Tacoma "Show and Tell" for this month.

My husband teases my friends in quilting or anyone he can tell the story to. We did a shop hop visiting several in a day and then we gathered at someones home and had 'show and tell'. He laughs...he just does not get how excited we all feel when we look at what others have bought and the great bargains. This is our show and tell for yesterday when we met with Tacoma Quilters. ABOVE is the group of us, we were probably in the middle of a business meeting , getting side-tracked as we sometimes do. Barb our Pres. uses a gavel and you will hear it several times throughout the meeting to quiet us down. We just get so excited about everything. There were 19 of us today...



Below are the some of the quilts done by our members that belong to Casey Q group. These are charity QUILTS FOR KIDS. They send everything but the batting with a month's time limit. They have all been quilted ...several by Sue, Sherry and Pauline and probably others. Very colorful and the gals did a great job!!


Pam...Sue R....Pauline....Sandy...Sherry...Barb

Donna had finished 3 different projects. #1 a large quilt...stunning!!

#2 by Donna..do not remember the name...Love it!!

#3 Her delightful Mini

2 children's quilts that Janice (right) made. Barb helping her hold them. Cute!!

And Koleen who produces so many and they are always very big and expertly done. You can check out her website. She owns and operates the Quilters OASIS Workshop and Retreat Center in Wales, ME.

This was found in a box by Rayna who thought she had finished it about 16 years ago...unusual fabric. The front is paper dolls

The back looks like rooms that a little girl would have in a doll house....A great find

You will be hearing more about this candle mat. This will be a little workshop taught by Koleen in a few weeks. This one is wool but you could make it in other fabrics. Her sister is owner of Pickering Farm Quilt Shop that our group will be visiting. We are all excited about that trip.

This ends it for this time...did not get all the details but it takes a little time to resize and get this done trying to remember all the details is impossible. I do really enjoy it and the gals like having them on line so they can save them. I have a couple of my own but will post them above so I can have a separate listing so I can find them when I want. So until next time.....

Tacoma Projects

Our Tacoma quilt group had a demonstration of 'miniature quilts'. This was the first time that Kayleen had led a class and she was a little nervous. But she did a great job and I am sure this is only the beginning. And of course she made a lot of us hungry to launch into a new area we had never been. These are the ladies looking over her samples, books and tools she uses.

These are a couple of samples. I am making the one on the right. I am piecing the pinwheels by hand.

Each month we have a block drawing. This month was Easter. I used bunny material and I made a cross. The cross is very meaningful to me and puts me in remembrance of what He did for mankind.

My flying geese came out perfect. I used Flying Geese x 4 ruler by Lazy Girl Designs
Very easy to use. You can make 4 at a time in 12 sizes. No Math, No Waste and No triangles to cut. 1/2" seam allowance included. The winner this month was our President Barb.

We are a busy club. We had two new members this month giving us a total of 20. There are always many ideas of new projects.