June Meeting Recap

July 11, 2017

The June 2017 meeting was a major success!

Attendance

We had 44 members sign in. There were three guests, as follows:

Louise from Port St Lucie, brought by Marya
Joey from Port St Lucie, brought by Debbie K, Tonya & Jen
Monique - who googled 'quilt guild' online and found us

What a joy to see friendly new faces!

Block of the Month

The June block of the month turned out bright and fun! Can't wait to see a finished project in a future show and tell. See pictures in the slide show above.

The June block of the month is another fun project! Some simple paper piecing makes an adorable bird. You can find the instructions on the blog here.

New Charity Project

Susan DiBartolo spoke with us about a need in Miami for donations to the Ryan's Case for Smiles Charity. This charity provides fun pillowcases to hospitalized children. You can read more about the charity on their website here. A blog post will be up shortly containing more details on how to get involved.

Susan would like to invite anyone interested to make pillowcases and bring them to the meetings - there will be a raffle and prize for those who get involved! More information to come.

QAL - Modern Medallion

Just a reminder, the reveal for the Modern Medallion QAL will be happening at the July meeting! Bring your projects in whatever state they are in. If you are planning on bringing a project, please sign up here.

Latifah Saafir

The sign ups have opened for our August workshops and lecture with Latifah Saafir! Mark your calendars and sign up to reserve a spot! more details can be found on the blog here or on the event pages: lecture, Glam Clam, & Pickled Beets.

Make Do Challenge Reveal

The main event at the meeting was the reveal of our Make Do Challenge project. A HUGE thanks to Patti Auten for organizing this challenge and keeping us motivated over the past months. The projects were all so different and inspiring, as were the stories behind them. Thanks to everyone who participated! And a big thanks to Charlotte for taking the wonderful pictures below.

Louisa

Andrea Etkie

thesewcalledwife.blogspot.com IG: @abetkie

My Make Do Quilt is titled “Louisa” after the sweet woman that gave me a box full of scarves. Louisa was my grandmother’s neighbor for 25 years and a skilled seamstress. When she moved to Chicago last year she gave me sewing notions from her stash and a box of two dozen silk scarves. I decided on two parameters for my improvisational pattern: a limited number of scarves and the medallion shape recreated four times. This was my first time working with silk and my first time tying a quilt.

47 x 45 NFS

All Tied Up

Brenda Zimmerman

My inspiration for quilt was the ties that my husband had laying around after he retired as a College Professor. He had to retire from teaching do to kidney failure. He received a new kidney, but several years later was back on dialysis. I thought a quilt for him to use at dialysis that was personal would be a nice thing.

42 x 65 NFS

Blue Jean Butterflies

Charlotte Noll

IG: @kirkenoll

Machine pieced using denim saved for many years. The jean legs are perfect to make the long diagonal strips. Butterflies improv pieced with Moda Ombre Fabrics. Hand quilted using hand-dyed variegated thread. Butterflies hand quilted flying every which way reminds me of our visit to the Santa Cruz Natural Bridges Butterfly Preserve. Back and binding pieced.

60 x 93 $1400

Surfing Shirts

Debby Schindall

IG: @dschindall

Making do with re-purposed all cotton, surf themed shirts that my husband used to wear many years ago. He also calls it the "I can't believe you saved all of my old favorite shirts" quilt. The fabrics are retro, tropical or tiki style cut from the backs and sides of the shirts then pieced and quilted on a domestic machine in a half square triangle pattern. The back is from an old sheet that was used on my daughter's first big girl bed.

67 x 84 NFS

Fenestra

Deborah Krajkowski

www.quiltographic.com

I love the mysteriousness of windows. What cannot be seen? Are the people inside happy? All of the windows appear the same from the outside, but we know inside everything is different. After Quiltcon 2017, I was so impressed by the Quilt Design A Day exhibit, that I began participating in this daily design exercise online. This design began there. When I heard about the Make Do challenge, I thought this design would work in denim so I asked my friends for their castoff slacks.

30 x 49 $1200

Recollect

Deborah Krajkowski

www.quiltographic.com

This quilt is made from the shirts my husband and sons wore when they were younger, as well as purchased commercial fabrics for the background. This is the second quilt I have made from these shirts. The tactile act of piecing and quilting these familiar fabrics gives me a warm feeling of closeness to my husband and boys as I recollect those days. The hourglass blocks represent the passing of time and are constructed in various sizes, spreading out, growing and letting go.

55 x 63 NFS

100 Years Between Shirts

Diane Moss

I inherited many hand pieced quilt blocks from shirts (possibly my grandfather’s) made by my Great Aunt Lillian Jeffries 1867-1938). She was an exquisite seamstress, and a quilter. She lived in Bellwood, PA. With a few of those old blocks, I created a collage quilt with my husband’s long sleeves I had cut off. I also had my son’s discarded military uniform which I had saved for the fabric and inserted the pocket with his name on it. Finally I had altered a neighbor’s shirt so added a small plaid piece to the arrangement. Coast Guard fabric given to me several years ago used for backing.

33 x 39 NFS

Look what Luke Haynes HAD ME DO!

Jennifer Haugen

This quilt was started at Quilt Beach 2015 in Vero Beach, FL with quilter Luke Haynes and finished a few weeks ago. The class was entitled “From Clothes to Quilts.” I purchased several men’s shirts from Goodwill. Luke showed us how to deconstruct the shirts and then we started cutting them up, no rulers. Luke’s technique, cut, sew, recut, sew again, arrange. His technique for ironing was iron the top, not worrying about how the seams fell on the back! I loved his method and class.

17 x 24 NFS

My Guilty Quilty

Judy Shelton

It all started years ago when I realized I had all this sexy-ish lingerie that I never wore. Way too nice to throw out, so what to do? Why, make a crazy quilt with it, that's what! And so I began, adding other old clothing items as well; fabric from an old vest, lace from an old veil and various embellishments: lace, beads, silk ribbon. And then I put it away in a drawer for a very, very long time. Then along came the Make Do Challenge, which left me with no more excuses for leaving it in a drawer. Finally, I have completed what I call "My Guilty Quilty," in honor of (what used to be) the sexy lingerie.

13 x 13 NFS

Oda a los jeans

Kate Yates

This was the second quilt I started for the challenge. In my first attempt, I tried a lot of different techniques, and did a lot of piecing. It felt like too much so I started over, trying something simpler. I cut up the legs on a few pairs of jeans that my husband has worn out in the past 4 years, and one pair of my jeans. I kept the odd rectangular shapes from the legs, and pieced everything together like a puzzle. I flipped some of the pieces over to their backside to get more variety in color. I hand quilted the entire top without marking or using any templates. The back is made from a fleece blanket, which also doubles as the batting. The name for this quilt was inspired by Pablo Neruda's "Odes to Common Things." I read "Ode to my socks" with my students this year, and they wrote their own odes to common things. This quilt is my ode to something common.

32 x 31 NFS

Not Just Another Dish Towels

Marilyn Zier-Ehren

My Make Do quilt is made from flour sack dish towels. The fabric of soft cotton material inspired me to use the entire dish cloth and not cut it up. The print on the towels were so charming I decided to add to it. Back in the day flour sacks and potato sacks were used to make clothing for the family and quilts to keep warm.

58 x 58 $125

Marya Kissinger Amig

Spoolproof.com

To move to Florida in early 2016 to a home half the size of my home in Pennsylvania, I had to purge half of my clothing, linens, fabric stash, books, etc. Thus, I had nothing with which to “make do” for the challenge. As most of my clothing was donated to Goodwill, I returned to Goodwill in Florida where I purchased a linen shirt and a few pairs of linen pants. These items became my quilt, named Rewrite. The wall quilt is improvisationally pieced and big-stitch quilted by hand with perle cotton thread.

26 x 28 $750

FRAN: Make Do Memory Quilt

Maureen Drudi

After having made the first memory quilt from the "good" parts of my Father in Law's (FRAN) clothing, all that remained were shirt collars, button plackets, seams, waistbands, pockets and pieces of Neck Ties. The challenge for me was to use only these leftover clothing scraps to make a quilt top! A very old, thick, heavy mattress pad was used in the middle and the backing was a discarded and "free to me" fabric. I love this quilt and every uneven and wonky thing about it and when my family looks at it they see and remember my FIL wearing his pastel summer shirts, his plaid sleep pants, and especially his red swim trunks!

54 x 70 NFS

The Making of a Chef

Monica Peacock

TheQuiltedPeacock2.etsy.com

When my daughter was in school getting her culinary arts certification, two of these were her uniform chef jackets she had to wear. The Prostart jacket was from a national competition that she was a part of. I created this quilt using her jackets and skirt bottoms. I tried to include all the pieces on the jacket, pen and thermometer holder, the cuffs, collars and of course the buttons. I made this for her to keep as a memory quilt. I pieced and quilted it myself.

40 x 58 NFS

Nine Patch and Navy and Feedsacks, Oh My!

Nicole Kaplan

IG: PatchworkDuck

I purchased a stack of antique hand pieced nine patch blocks at an estate sale for $3.00. I celebrated the beauty of the blocks (even the stained, wonky ones) by incorporating them into nine patch variations, adding only navy and cream fabric. I assembled a modern sampler quilt, highlighting the variety of designs and adding modern graphic elements. The quilting is an organic nine patch pattern set on point. I hope to honor the original quilter's talent while making her blocks relatable to a contemporary audience.

45x54 $250

Levi Pockets Tote

Pam Chamberlin

I used a pair of my husband's worn-out all cotton Levi's for this bag. I didn't want the bag to look worn out, so I added a bright blue linen print that was leftover from a blouse I sewed several years ago. My Make-Do project is something I'll use and enjoy, giving new life to used and leftover materials.

12 x 12 x 2 NFS

Appreciate Those I Love

Pat Bidol-Padva

Materials Used: Quilting fabrics that I have had for years, fabric pieces given to me by quilting friends, jewelry made by my husband before he died, some ancient costume jewelry purchased in Israel souks plus some given to by members of the Boynton Bee and fabric flowers that I had made years ago. In an improv manner I wanted to combine the fabric and objects in a way that would show my appreciation to those I love. I cut the larger fabric into sections and appliqued smaller pieces on it with the result being a rectangle at the top with two different sized panels hanging from it.

21 x 33 NFS

Power of Juicy Crone Women

Pat Bidol-Padva

Materials Used: Pieced Ovals made in Sherri Lynn Wood's class, 45 year old Peruvian jacket that I kept on my office chair for when I was cold and a scrap of a hand-dyed felt. I used these materials to fashion a Make-Do quilt. The pieced oval represents a vagina and its power to bring life to the world placed on one end of the rectangle and used the felt to make a Tree that woman danced around when they had their women's circles (the tree is mentioned in verses in Deuteronomy).

18 x 21 NFS

Johnny Be Good

Patricia Auten

I was given a bag of football jerseys from a co-worker to make her son a quilt for Christmas. Her son had joined the Air Force. They ranged in size from about age six to high school and beyond. When I finished, I was left with two sets of sleeves from the smallest jerseys. For some reason I couldn't bear to throw out the sleeves so I opened them up and used them to make a small quilt. After the exhibit I plan to gift it to his mother so she will always have a piece of her son Johnny with her as he travels the world during his deployment.

22 x 22 NFS

Wondering

Patricia Auten

I received an old antique quilt top that a friend had bought off Ebay. It was stained and well worn with holes. I cleaned it up, added some fabric and cut the blocks in a more modern way. As I worked on the quilt, I was able to look at the workmanship of the person who originally sewed the top. It was sewn by hand and the fabrics used appeared to come from leftover clothing, mostly men's pants and shirts. The original maker sewed the pieces by hand and may have been just learning to sew. It made me wonder about who originally wore the items made into the quilt and who might have sewn these pieces into the original star design.

47 x 48 NFS

RememberingMommy/Nana/GiGi

Penny Stern

My Mother, Gloria Ferdinand Feller, always wore the most beautiful clothes , jewelry, makeup and high heels until she died at 92 1/2. It was very hard to part with these items so when this challenge started I knew straight away I would make a crazy style quilt. Later on I will add some of her costume jewelry to enhance it further. My favorite section is the white brocade buttons coming from the dress she had designed to wear at my first wedding in 1967. On the back are fabric photos of her in some of these outfits.

33 x 45 NFS

For your Age

Susanne McCoy Ellman

etsy.com/shop/fiberbysusanne

For this quilt, I am commenting on how surprised I am to hear so many people say to me - “For your age...”; they seem to express surprise that I stand straight, or walk long distances, as examples. So I chose to use this theme for the “Make Do” challenge. I had an old smock from the Elizabeth Arden Red Door Salon that I'd been wanting to incorporate in a quilt. The pink and white fabric used as hair, and as a blouse, is from the smock. This fabric seemed appropriate to the theme as I was a frequent customer of the Red Door, probably foolishly trying to stay “young”. I've used fused raw-edge applique, thread painting, foiling, and Shiva paint sticks for color.

16 x 21 NFS

SFMQG Make Do Exhibit at IS Projects Studio

A few of the artists with their creations at the July 29th Exhibit Opening at IS Projects Studio.

Make Do Challenge Exhibit Opening fun!

Thanks to IS Projects Studio for a great venue and all their hard work. Thanks to the members and guests who contributed and attended.

IS Projects Studio Front Door

The very talented IS = Ingrid Schindall!

ISP Front Viewing Area

Where the Art Happens - Ingrid Schindall and Intern

Quilt hanging - All Tied Up by Brenda Zimmerman

Recollect by Deborah Krajkowski and traveling press.

Louisa by Andrea Etkie and Items for Sale by ISP

Brook Franke, gallery coordinator and in charge of the installation. Brook also made those awesome chalkboard signs. She is off to Grad school after this exhibit - best wishes Brook!