The Hamilton's Fabric Sale

Jennifer Hamilton is having a fabric sale: Nov. 16th-Dec 5th.

Several hundred bolts priced from $2.00-$8.00/yard

Appointments available weekdays 10am-7pm. Weekends 10am-4pm.

Email: ladyjbhamilton@gmail.com to book your appointment.

Sew & Tell November 2020 - our members are busy making beautiful things!

 

This is a great (free) site for quilt blocks...

                            https://www.quilterscache.com/QuiltBlocksGalore.html

Screenshot shown below

Site shows blocks -can sort by block name (alphabetized) or by block size

Online Quilt Classes http://www.iquilt.com/

 Shared by one of our members

A great website -AQS, Online Quilt Classes - iquilt.com that has a number of online courses that have already been rated by reviewers.  The courses are relatively inexpensive, about $20 US if you are a member or $25US if you are not.  There are good descriptions of each course, and you can buy the DVD instead if you want to.  There is a nice variety of courses too.  I am planning on taking the Sashiko course over the winter and likely one by Katie P-M.  I think some guild members might be interested in these courses too.

 

Linda

Poppy Machine Quilting Tutorial

 Lori Kennedy has on her website an excellent tutorial with plenty of pictures showing how to machine quilt a poppy.

Here is a link to her website. I have also included the images and steps below (her website allows this as long as we show attribution).  Enjoy!

THE POPPY-A MACHINE QUILTING TUTORIAL

Begin by stitching the edge of one of the petals–a short line. (NOTE-since this is a background fill or allover motif–we are not starting in the center.)

Add a large oval, then stitch the first full petal.

Add several more large petals around the central oval.

Complete the petals and stitch toward the center oval.

Stitch around the oval with a jagged, scribbly line.

Closely echo stitch around the petals to add more definition to the Poppy.

  

Add another row of close echo stitching to travel to the area where you would like to begin the next Poppy.

Do not worry if the petals of the Poppies are odd shapes–they will look like they overlap.    It is more important to keep the Poppies very close together than it is to make perfectly shaped petals.