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2018 Schedule

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

Gee Bend Improv block of the month:

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.

Charity:

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….

Come Sew In:

Starting February~ Join us every even month on the second Friday for a Sew In

Monthly Meetings~

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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December Meeting 2018 – notion swap and game night

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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November Meeting 2018 – selvages

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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October Meeting 2018 – long arm quilting

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:

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September Meeting 2018 – charity sewing night

Barbie will be directing us in our yearly Charity night sewing  We will be sewing 9 patch blocks to make an irish chain quilt blocks.

Feel free to bring 9 patches finished and ready for setting.

Some sewing machines might be needed- more information will be sent out prior to the meeting.

Date: September 20, 2018

Time: 7 pm

Place: Handi Quilter  501 N 400 W, North Salt Lake

show & tell theme: halloween….or spooky inspiration

2018 CHARITY BLOCKS

Scrappy 9 patch blocks using low volumes. Have no idea what that means, no worries, we found a great tutorial.

You can strip piece and do a bunch of blocks or just make one. We’re using 2.5″ squares and making a 6.5″ unfinished block. We’ll also need some 6.5″ low volume blocks. Bring any finished blocks to our weekly meeting.

We’ll be dedicating our September Meeting to sew some quilt tops. Any questions contact Barbie thequiltingmill@yahoo.com