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Happy Love Month, join us For —— the love of scraps with Brooke Johnsen of @pitterputterstitch
She’ll be sharing her tricks and techniques to organize scraps.
Date: February 15, 2018
Time: 7 pm
Place: Handi Quilter 501 N 400 W, North Salt Lake
show & tell theme: hearts, pink, red, white….something ‘lovely’
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2018 is planned to be a great year! You can find the monthly plans here, with more information on what’s happening during the meeting.
Meeting Dates: 3rd Thursday of each month
Time: 7 pm
Place: Handi Quilter 501 N 400 W, North Salt Lake
education: some meetings will have a 5 minute education chat on a specific topic or technique demonstration
notion share: each month someone from the group will be sharing their favorite notion and a quick how they use it
This year we will be sewing up quilt blocks to build a Gee Bend inspired, Improv Quilt. It measure 48 X 48 and features log cabins, flying geese, half square triangles, courthouse steps, bull’s eye and more.
Blocks will be sewn from February – October and setting instructions in November. Bring them to the December party for show off! Download the instructions to sew along each month here.
Challenge:This years challenge is lead by Christine. The challenge is making a traditional / antique / vintage quilt into your own modern design. We will be touring the Daughters of Utah Pioneer museum for inspiration.
This years charity is being directed by Barbie. We will be sewing 9 patch blocks and then put them into a Irish Chain layout. In September we will be having a sewing day during the meeting for putting these together. More info here….
Starting February~ Join us every even month on the second Friday for a Sew In
| January | February | March | April |
| 15 | 15 | 19 | |
| discussion on organizing fabric/projects/ideas | Christine Ricks will introduce our challenge, possible field trip to the DUP museum | Barbie teaching fabric weaving |
| May | June | July | August |
| 17 | 21 | 19 | 16 |
| english paper piecing | guest trunk show & speaker | July 14th 10-1 fabric dye – | Mini quilt swap! Bring one + take one |
| September | October | November | December |
| 20 | 18 | 15 | 20 |
| Barbie- Charity night sewing – 9 patch blocks to make an irish chain | charity quilts to quilt for donation! | selvage projects – gather your selvedges during the year. | Notions swap & mini party for the holidays |
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Join us for our holiday evening. We will be doing a notion swap + game.
Date: December 20, 2018
Time: 7 pm
Place: Handi Quilter 501 N 400 W, North Salt Lake
show & tell theme: hand dyed projects and quilts
extra activity: next year will be introduced!
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Selvage projects! Gather your selvedges during the year…. we’ll be showing off some inspiration on what to do with them, fun projects, ideas, and possibly a quick swap!
We will also be talking about fabric quality, prints, designs and more.
Date: November 15, 2018
Time: 7 pm
Place: Handi Quilter 501 N 400 W, North Salt Lake
show & tell theme: Christmas or holiday themed quilts and projects.
extra activity: We will be discussing 2019 and the new presidency!
Reveal of the Gee Bend Improv BOM for 2018. Bring your quilt tops all assembled!
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Cathie will be talking about machine quilting with a long arm quilting machine. We will be quilting / practicing our machine quilting on our charity quilt tops.
Date: October 18, 2018
Time: 7 pm
Place: Handi Quilter 501 N 400 W, North Salt Lake
show & tell theme: machine quilting– show us what you’ve done to make your quilts a little fancy
extra activity: