2018

    2018 is off with a bang!

With the several meetings behind us, 
we already have a great start into the quilting year.

   New meeting place: 
Faith Baptist Church
25475 Hwy 17
Waynesville, MO

 

The Friendship Tea Cup Quilt was our first workshop project of the year. 
With May instructing, each participating member will make the required 
number of teacup blocks and these blocks will then be exchanged toward
 the end of the year.  Each block will have the makers name on it. When
 the blocks are exchanged, pieced and quilted the ladies will have a quilt 
with the names of their friends.
Check out the photos

During the January meeting Bonnie gave out the requirements 

for the Challenge Quilt. Those members who want to be involved 

in the challenge will soon be given the requirements.  They will 

have most of the year to design, piece and quilt a wall hanging. 

The quilts will then be hung and judged.

The new Board for 2018

Close up of a Sew and Tell scrappy quilt.

Sew & Tell - July

We didn't have very many Sew & Tell items in July.  I wonder why.  Busy summer?  Too hot to quilt?  Better things to do?  What could be better than this?????

Sew & Tell - July

Top - May, Kim & Kathy's locker hooking projects - Virginia's "Bowties"

Center - Heather's "Remember Me" - Virginia's "Colorfall"

Bottom - Mary's oven door hanging towels & workshop pressing pads

Sew & Tell - June

A couple of picture collages of our June GtPQG Meeting Sew & Tell...

Top:  Mary's framed yo-yo flag - Lois's "Drunkard's Path" - Layla's lap quilt - Virginia's watermelon apron & Prairie Women's Sewing Circle signature quilt

Bottom:  Susan's Twister Penguin & Heart - Portia's pancake baby quilt & stuffed patch dog - May's "Mini Stars" table runner

Top:  Virginia's summer porch throw - Ruth's giraffe baby quilt - Portia's "Irish Chain" baby quilt - Susan's Cut & Fold table runner - Delilah's "Cheaper by the Dozen"

Bottom:  Alex's "Squares" - Victoria's "Chinese Checkers" - Mary's memorial block quilt, "easy Pineapple" & "Thomas" baby quilt

Yard Sale!

In the hour prior to the June guild meeting and all through the break, we had a bunch of ladies set up a "Quilter's Yard Sale!"  All items had to be good quality, new or gently used quilty items and man, oh, man, did we have a field day shopping!

Quilter's Yard Sale - June 2013

Sew & Tell - May

How about some Sew and Tell?  Here are some of the fabulous projects that were displayed at May's GTPQG meeting!

Top:  June's Quilt Sampler - Heather, Ina & Debbie's "Dazzling Scraps" - Vicki & Viola's "Dazzling Scraps"

Bottom:  June & Kathi's "Dazzling Scraps" - Debbie & Vicki's "Dazzling Scraps" - Debbie's "Dazzling Scraps"

("Dazzling Scraps" was this year's Sew Day group project)

Top:  June's Cut & Fold Sampler - Christine's Cut & Fold blocks - Portia's Cut & Fold blocks

Bottom:  Jean's son's wedding quilt - Betty's "Wiggles & Giggles" - Betty's "Two's Company"

Top:  Dana's "Color Weave" - Dana's "Stained Glass" - Dana's "Bug Jars"

Bottom:  Betty's "54, 40 or Fight" - Heather's "XOXO" - Heather's "XOXO" back w/signature blocks

Top:  Lois' bed runner (back) - Lois' bed runner - June's quilt block sampler

Bottom:  Mary's framed bear paw - Viola's "Big Boy Bed" - Linda's KS State t-shirt quilt

Birthdays & Raffle Winners

We've celebrated lots of summertime birthdays...

And the celebrations didn't stop because we've had lots of raffle prizes to be won...

Raffle Quilt

We're making a raffle quilt with a Christmas theme!  The quilt will be raffled off on November 9th at the Craft Show sponsored by GTPQG right here at the St. Robert Community Center!

Here's a sneak peak of some of the blocks that will be included in the quilt:

Mystery Quilt Progress

Well we began the month of May with this new clue block...

And by the month of June we had tops put together...

And by July we were beginning to see some real results of beautifully pieced and quilted quilts...

This mystery was revealed as Bonnie Hunter's "Christmas Lights" quilt pattern!

Color Challenges

 Lots of ladies are coming through to participate in the color challenge each month!  The colors for May, June and July were blue, yellow and teal/turquoise/aqua!

New Challenge

Have we told you about our new challenge this year?  We've got a few going on...

1.  Challenge Quilt 2013 - "Bling It On!"  All entries must be wallhangings that use the given fabric and contain at least 2 other forms of "bling."  Due in November.

2.  Color Challenge - Each month a color is published in the newsletter and members are challenged to make an item using that color.  Easy!

...and the new challenge...

3.  "Use It Up!" Challenge - Use up those scraps to make a project featuring the announced element.  So far we've used 4-patches, pinwheels, 9-patches, and flying geese!

"Use It Up!" Challenge

Charity Quilting

I am so behind in sharing pictures from all of the guild meeting that I don't think I've ever posted the photos of the June & July charity collections.  So, here's what we made to donate in June & July...

 "Genesis House" Women & Children's Shelter

"Military Quilts" for Wounded Warriors & Veterans(see more about the recipients of these quilts on the "Military Quilts" tab above)


"Baby Quilts" for GLWACH Military Hospital

Programs

Over the last few months we've had some really neat programs during the guild meetings...

Liz's Easy Pineapple Block (May)

Delilah's Locker Hooked Rugs (June)

Robin's Not Your Grandmother's Tumbling Blocks (July)

April's Sew & Tell Parade

A little inspiration from April's Sew & Tell....

Heather's "Easy Street" (Bonnie Hunter mystery)

Dana's Earth Day Wallhanging, Betty's Twice Around the Block Variation, & Kim's "Estratra Star"

Kym's Jelly Roll Race & Tropical Rainbow blocks 

Virginia's Tulip applique, Viola's 2012 GTPQG BOM & Judith's  totebag

Christine's "Red Maze"

Elaine's "Circle & Stars" & Christina's vintage yard sale find & "Christina's Radiant Star"

Can't wait to see what next month brings, can you?

Door Prize Winner!

So, who won April's door prize?

Kathi!

It must have been meant for her...the cover photo is a purple quilt and Kathi is surely on a purple fabric collecting kick lately!

Charity Quilting in April

For the first few months of this year, each of our 3 charity coordinators took turns issuing a challenge to the guild for a specific goal to meet.  This month, members were asked to donate either a baby bib, hot pad, pillowcases, or cuddle quilt for a local women and children's shelter called the Genesis House.  Our members lived up to that challenge and many items were certainly donated this month!

Genesis House donations - April

And of course we didn't forget about our other charities...

3 quilts for the Veterans

6 quilts for the newborn babies

And, generously, this month, The Thread Peddler of Waynesville, MO, donated a bunch of pillowcase kits for members to sew up and bring back for donation to the Genesis House!  Thank you Thread Peddler!

pillow case kits

Color Challenge - Green!

The color challenge color in the month of April was...GREEN!

14 ladies participated in the color challenge this month!

Memorial Blocks

Recently, our guild suffered the great loss of one of our most generous and gifted quilters.  In honor of her, the ladies all got together to make a quilt for her son who is also a guild member (not to mention the youngest and only male)!

GTPQG makes memorial blocks quite often for the loss of any guild member's immediate family member.  We use a simple standard 8 1/2" 16-patch block pattern of squares and HSTs.  For the loss of a male family member, we make blue hearts on a muslin background; pink hearts on a white background for females.

It may be a lot of work sometimes, but in the end, most of the recipients appreciate the thought, time and effort that goes into each block gifted to them in their time of sorrow.

April Program

We invited the wonderful and talented ladies from The Fabric Store in Lebanon to come and set up shop during the April guild meeting.  They brought bolts and bolts of fabric for us to shop from as well as a few fun rulers, magazines and tools!

One of the shop ladies even gave us a demo on the 10 Degree Ruler and how to use it to make a tree skirt or table topper.  Too cute!