Guild Meeting – May 18, 2011

Lots of business with regards to the 4th of July Quilt Show.  We had time to visit….

 

Our 4th of July Raffle Quilt.  Jeri Montella’s machine quilting was fabulous!

Katie Montella, age 10, made this quilt for her teacher, Mrs. Nielsen.

Cathy Cosby shows off several of her quilt tops.  Cathy’s goal this year is to use all of her stash before buying more fabric!

Gayle Shumway displays a few of her creations…

Deb Bayles shows off her latest Trip Around the World.

 

Nancy Kimmerle shows one of her first quilts, a baby quilt for her son, Kyle.  Kyle and his wife now use this quilt for their son.

Gail Glover displays her table runner from last month’s guild meeting.

 

 

Gail’s ‘Worst’ quilt.  The white fabric changed to pink once the quilt was first washed!

 

EveLynn Perkins shows of her African Safari quilt.

Janet Wilcox shows several of her completed projects!

Bobbie Holt displays the six table runners she’s made for her sisters for Christmas.  (Talk about getting your gifts early!!!)

Betty Shumway show two baby quilts she has recently completed.

Quilt of Valor Presentation in honor of Sergeant First Class James E. Thode

On May 7, 2011, Holly Walker of the Utah National Guard here in Blanding presented Carla Thode this Quilt of Valor, made by the Grayson Country Quilters, in honor of her husband, Sergeant First Class James E. Thode, who died on December 2, 2010 in Afghanistan.

Holly said, "Please tell the quilt guild how much Carla Thode appreciated receiving the beautiful quilt you made.  We snapped the picture after the tears had stopped--she couldn't believe how much time and effort had gone into making it and how pretty it was and said she will always value the love it represents from our community."

Carla Thode wrapped up in the Quilt of Valor

Using Your Computer to Make Quilt Labels

Courtesy of Rosalie Payne...

1. You must have an Ink Jet printer!!!!!!!!!
2. Cut piece of freezer paper 8 ½ x 11. (I just buy packages of precut paper. You can get 50 sheets from http://www.clotilde.com/ for about $8.00 (I’ve also seen it a little cheaper in some quilt stores and I have seen it at Mrs. Guppy’s here in Price.) Cut a piece of fabric slightly smaller – about 8 ¼ x 10 ¾. I generally use unbleached muslin but have also used light colored cotton broadcloth. Press the fabric to the shiny side of the freezer paper.
3. Design the label on your computer. You can use any pictures or graphics but you need to print in black and white for a permanent label. Colors will fade out.
4. Put the prepared paper into your printer and print as usual. In my HP printer I put the fabric side down but you may want to experiment to be sure you are printing on the fabric.
5. Press with a warm iron to help set the ink.
6. Remove the backing from the label, cut it to the size desired, and sew it onto your quilt.
7. If you have questions, call me and I’ll try to help you out – (Rosalie at 613-0634).
8. **Note: I generally “save up” and put three or four labels on the same page to save paper.
9. **Note: I tried this same technique to put photographs on a quilt. However, the fabric I used had a small pattern and the people in my pictures ended up looking like they had a rare disease.

April 20, 2011 – Guild Meeting

Norma Madden invited two visitors from Half Moon Bay, British Columbia to attend our Guild meeting.  These visitors even provided a show and tell quilt, BUTTONHOLES.  Pattern may be located at http://sew-be-it.biz/1800_quilt_patterns.html

 

Sallie Lyman shows off a table runner.

Sallie Lyman shows her quilt  using the Pioneer Braid technique

Norma Madden displays a couple of table runners.

 

Norma Madden made this scrappy quilt using five inch blocks with white sashing and one in blocks between the sashing.  This was made while at a quilt retreat with daughters and granddaughters.

Kathy Hurst displays a couple of recently completed quilts.

Kathy Hurst and Betty Shumway display their stack and wack quilts from March’s quilt-a-thon.   http://graysoncountryquilters.blogspot.com/2011/03/quilt-thon.html

Eve Lynn Perkins shows off a colorful spring quilt.

 

Robin Jones displays this bright quilt that she made for a family member.

Frame History - 4th of July Quilt Show

Kathy Hurst made the plastic display frames that are made out of plumbing pipes.  She made them back when we were still having the quilt shows in the high school cafeteria. (1990’s) The high school cafeteria had permanent wires strung for us on the walls, but we needed something for the middle of the floor.  Kathy had seen some like them in Logan, and she just designed them from memory, cut up the pipes and put them together. They seemed great at the time, but they’ve become quite rickety over the years, and they desperately need to be replaced.  People find them difficult and confusing to put together. (We're in the process of starting to do that, and have ordered 7 new display frames.)

One year, the guild even displayed the quilts in the high school gym, when Bonnie Meyer and Kathleen Guymon were in charge.  They displayed them on the bleachers.   For the State Centennial in 1996 we showed over 200 quilts  at the Blanding LDS South Chapel Cultural Hall.  Where we did the show for quite a few years, prior to moving it to the Elementary School.  That year many ladies from Monticello brought quilts down, and the next year the quilt issue of Blue Mt. Shadows was published which showcased many of these Centennial display quilts. 

Norma Madden and Sallie Lyman saw the medal pipe design at the Panquitch Quilt Walk and with the help of Jim Madden and Duane Lyman we designed and made them out of conduit pipe used gallon cans filled with premix cement as the base.   Betty Shumway’s husband Dan poured the cement into the gallon cans with cement left over from his cement business.  Winston Hurst did all the cutting on the plastic plumbing pipes. Kathy Hurst recalled that Jim Madden, Butch Brice and Dan Webb  were our most regular helpers   They came every 4th of July and helped like troopers. 

For several years we stored the frames in Kathy Hurst’s quansit hut, then in Norma Madden’s shed.  When Norma moved into town, we started renting the storage shed, but prices have continued to rise over the years.  In 2011 we received permission from the city council to store the frames at the Blanding Wellness Center.

In earlier years we relied on help from guild members' husbands, children, and grandsons as we set up. It takes many hands to do a show.  Hopefully, the Blanding Wellness Center will be a good match for our future shows.

 April 27th - The Last Day of the Storage Shed

Transporting the frames...

 



Cleaning the frames...