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!

Bargello Workshop

In April, the Viola (center) taught a Bargello class!  We had a brand new workspace and about 11 participants - fun, fun!

Then, some of the ladies brought their finished Bargello projects to Sew & Tell at the guild meeting!

Bargello - Nice job ladies!

Board Meeting - April

Did ya ever wonder what a GTPQG board meeting looks like???

Well, now ya know!

Mystery Clue #4

Naturally, April being the 4th month of the year, the 4th mystery clue was announced!  

Clue#4 - Block 1 & Setting Triangles

Here's Heather explaining Clue # 4 during the guild meeting.  And look at the 8 members who have kept up with the mystery so far proudly displaying their March clues #3!

Sew & Tell - February

Need a little inspiration?  How about a recap of February's Sew & Tell...

Vicki's 2012 Sew Day Sampler

Judith's Traded Patches Scrap Quilt

Anna's BOM & Lois's Hobo Quilt (Thread Peddler Kits) 

Betty's Civil War Sampler

Portia's T-Shirt Quilt

May's 2012 Challenge & Motorcycle Quilts

Susan's Table Topper

Dana's Table Runners

Virginia's MU Quilt (top & backing)

Kym's Tropical Rainbow blocks

So...feeling ready to begin a new project...or inspired to get out one of your old WIPs and UFOs and finish them up?  If so, we'd love to see them when they're done!

Quilt Challenge

Every year GTPQG has a Challenge!  Last year, the 2012 Challenge theme was "3Bs".  Participants were given a cut of pre-selected fabric (evergreen batik) and instructions to make a wall hanging using Batiks, Buttons (3 min.), and another "B" in their design.  In November, all entries are gathered and hung in the library for "community judging."  Here are last year's quilts:

And the winners were:

This year's 2013 Challenge theme is "Bling It On!"  Susan is heading it up...

Participants will be asked to design a wall hanging with a pre-selected fabric (blue floral with silver metallic) and must include an additional 2 types of "bling" (ie. sequins, metallic thread, beading, glitter).  Sounds like fun, right?  Well, come join in...it IS fun!

Sew & Tell - January

Well, how about a little more eye candy?  Here are some pictures of Sew & Tell at the January GTPQG Meeting:

Dana's Table Runners

May's Mariner's Compass & Thelma's Pillowcases

Kathi's Christmas Memory Quilt and Samplers

Victoria's Trip Around the World Baby Quilt

Heather & Debbie's 2012 GTPQG BOMs

Portia's T-Shirt Quilt

Virginia's Twisted Strips & Kym's Patriotic Quilt

Susan's Lil' Twister Projects & 2012 Challenge Quilt

Feeling inspired yet?

Baby Quilts

One of the charities GTPQG supports is GLWACH, providing baby quilts for lower enlisted families when their little ones are born.

January Donations

February Donations - Challenge Month for Baby Quilts

March Donations

So far this year, we've gathered 31 baby quilts to donate!  Let's keep up the good work!