COMMUNITY QUILT CHALLENGE
Our new quilt challenge is designed to give
everyone, from beginner to expert, an
opportunity to contribute to community quilts.
The challenge is to make a small size quilt
(approximately 36” to 45” wide by 40” to 52”
long) using a log cabin design. The quilt may
be made for a baby or a small child. It can be a
traditional log cabin, a half log cabin, a
lopsided log cabin, a pineapple log cabin or
even a panel bordered in log cabin blocks.
Use your creativity!
This size quilt will give you a chance to
practice your machine quilting, either
crosshatch stitching with your walking foot or
try free motion quilting.
You can make a quilt yourself or gather your
quilting buddies and make a group quilt.
The quilts will be donated to Patches, a
daycare facility for disabled children in
Homestead. A 36” x 40” makes a perfect
wheelchair quilt!
Bring your finished quilts to the July meeting
for our own little quilt show. Viewer’s Choice
ribbons will be awarded. Come participate
and make this a successful event for our
meeting and for the children!
ONLINE FINDS
by Arlene
String-piecing is an easy way to use up scrap
strips while creating a visually exciting quilt.
But suppose you don’t have scrap strips?
Crumb-piecing is an economical solution – a
way to use up your small scraps (even the ugly
ones!) while making a beautiful quilt. Don’t
have time to deal with small pieces? The
beauty of this type of piecing is that you can
piece blocks while working on other projects
– just use pairs of pieces as leader/enders as
you start and stop seams on the quilt on which
you’re currently working. Bonnie Hunter has
a free tutorial on making a crumb quilt, with
lots of pictures, at
http://quiltville.com/crumbs.shtml.
A 2-part, detailed video tutorial on machine
trapunto, thread painting and free-motion
quilting is available from Patsy Thompson on
You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=5_wgE74Mro4&feature=related.
Need help with organizing your quilting/craft
supplies? If money is no object, this cabinet
may be just the ticket:
http://www.theoriginalscrapbox.
com/homepage.htm.
Sharon Schamber a national award-wining
quilter: Videos & Quilting Lessons
http://www.sharonschambernetwork.com
Journal Quilt Project 2007
http://www.quiltart.com/2007journals/index.html
Tips & Advice on using embroidery threads,
Angelina fibers and other embellishments:
Thread Studio in Australia
http://www.thethreadstudio.
com/hints/helpful_hints2.htm
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ONLINE SWAPS
by Marlene
At the November Ocean Waves meeting, I
showed a little quilt I'd made from "Grandma's
Basket weave" blocks I got in a recent swap
with a couple of dozen women I met in an
online forum. I found the forum several years
ago and have participated in a lot of their
swaps. Quite a few OW members wanted to
know more about the forum, so here's some
information. It's called QUILTING ARTS
FORUM. It's one of the Delphi Forums (of
which there are hundreds.) It is free to join
Delphi and to participate in the QAF forum.
Links (try either of these): http://forums.
delphiforums.com/quilting
http://www.quilting-arts-forum.com
You will find many conversations going on, in
several different threads of categories; one of
them is about swaps, sewn and un sewn.
Check it out. New swaps are announced
around the 20th of the month and
people sign up by the 5th, and mail out their
blocks or fabrics before the 20th. (If you are a
swapper, they e-mail you an updated mailing
list every month on the 5th).
Here is a link to our current block, called
"Knots." I swapped 22 blocks using various
bright batiks and white-on-whites (WOWs).
Hope this link works for you:
http://www.quilting-arts-forum.com/bom10_09.
html
I encourage all computer-savvy quilters to
check out this fun forum! You can ask ANY
quilt related question and get back a dozen
answers, or you can answer the questions of
others. There is one thread going
that is just about the recent show in Houston.
The forum moderator/host is "Threads," AKA
Mary Evans, from Portland, OR. There are
quilters from virtually every state including
Hawaii, and some from Britain and Australia.
Incidentally, Delphi Forums has several quilt-
related forums. I personally love the Quilting
Arts Forum, but there are others there, too.
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From May 08 Newsletter
For those who enjoyed Maya Schonenberger’
s wonderful mixed media exhibit at Biscayne
National Park, and especially for those who
missed it, she is featured in an article the
current Quilting Arts Magazine.
There is a mosaic tile quilt that looks just
like a real quilt, but is weather proof (and
weighs almost 300 pounds!) For a video
describing its construction, see http://www.
youtube.com/watch?v=e0JkHMRVhJA.
There have been emails bouncing around
the internet announcing the fact that foil and
plastic wrap boxes come with triangular push-
in tabs at the ends. By pushing in those tabs,
the roll is secured and won’t fall out if you
drop the box or pull too hard on the foil. What
they don’t say is that the same is true of
freezer paper boxes!
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