Fire Quilt Workday

We got together to make quilts for a Piecemakers by the Bay charity project dedicated to victims of fire. Those that experience such a loss are given a quilt to bring comfort in a very difficult time.
Pictured right are Judy McKinley and Judy Williams trying to salvage some wobbly star blocks donated to our cause.

And here is what the wobbly stars ended up becoming. GREAT!

Sometimes it is like putting together the pieces of a puzzle, that all came out of different boxes.

The blocks in this sampler were brought together from a variety of block exchanges our guild participated in over several months.
At the end of the day we had three finished quilts, one quilt that needed binding and 5 quilt tops that still need to be pinned and quilted.

Photo Imaging

Susie Monday conducted a workshop for Piecemakers by the Bay Guild Members. The class was designed to show quilters how to transfer photo images onto fabric, then incorporate the image into their quilt art. Susie showed examples of her work for inspiration.

Note: Double click on images for a larger view.

Charlotte McDonnell and Karry Crump become technology wizards, when printers and laptops replaced sewing machines for a moment.


Mimi Braniff and Terri searching for the right button.

Jettie Lahoud and Linda Sumner

Susie Monday gave a lecture with slide show presentation the following morning.

While students of the class got to show some almost finished projects.

Mary Ann Miller and Terri Welthiemer

Mimi Braniff, Laura Davidson, and Roxana Boinker

Throwing Down the Gauntlet

We are all eagerly awaiting the new Challenge project for the next show (to be announced at the next PBTB business meeting), so there has been a lot of talk at Wednesday night Bee about the different type of challenge projects out there in the world. There has also been a lot of talk about English Paper Piecing and Judy Williams' penchant for all things small. There has also been some talk about knitting.

So what came of all this talk? Well last Wednesday at Bee Mary Ann Hedge challenged Judy to knit using toothpicks (small).

We just happened to have two toothpicks and the rest....well, let the pictures speak for themselves.