February 2018 Meeting Highlights

Our learning activity night was our chance to learn some new hand sewing techniques for embellishing our quilts. With 4 new techniques offered - wool applique, 3D pinwheels, hand stitches for embellishing crazy patch quilts, and hexagons, we had a chance to learn 2 at this meeting and we'll learn the other 2 at the May meeting, providing ample time to learn each new technique.

We wasted no time in getting down to work!

Half of us learned wool applique and hand stitches for crazy patch quilts.

Wool Applique

Hand Stitches for Embellishing Crazy Patch Quilts

And the other half learned 3D pinwheels and hexagons.

3D Pinwheels

Hexagons

Instructors Mary DeVries, Brenda McLeod, Joanna Vlaming, along with Brigid Whitnall and Donna Sheaves (who stepped up at the last minute in place of an ailing Chris Gordon) did a great job teaching us.

It was a big month for preemie quilt donations - 17 beautiful new little quilts.

And we heard a touching thank you from a grateful mom whose premature daughter received a quilt in the fall of 2016. We enjoyed the photos of her daughter as a newborn covered by the quilt and another as a one year old sitting on her quilt!
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