We invite you to join us for
an Area 3 Quilt meeting on Tuesday,
September 9th, 2014 at 6:00 p.m. in the Tripp Middle School
cafeteria at 65 Matthews Way, Turner, Maine.
Our guest speaker
will be Beth Helfter of EvaPaige Designs.
Beth presented her trunk show “Perfection is Overrated" at the April PTQG
meeting. For the Area 3 meeting, she will
present her trunk show, “Plays Well with Others”. This lecture focuses on group quilt making
beyond the basic round robin. Beth
displays wonderful examples of her quilts and presents her material in an energetic
and humorous manner.
Beth also has a blog, Quilty Hottie Haven, and is a
member of the Scrap Squad for Quiltmaker magazine. To read about her most recent experience go
to http://evapaigequiltdesigns.blogspot.com/ and click on the link for turning pup tents into
goose poop. Beth’s writing will give you
a sense of how enjoyable it will be to join us for her lecture and trunk show!
Light refreshments will be served, door prize drawings, a
Funky Chicken block drawing, and of course, fantastic show and tell; please
bring yours to share!
We also invite each of you to bring a fat quarter of
material that you feel represents Maine.
We will include these in a grand door prize drawing (or two) of Maine
fabrics. Let’s see… blueberries, apples,
lighthouses, mountains, chickens, beaches, umm – the possibilities seem
endless!
Our block for the drawing will be the Country Aire Funky Chicken in wild and
flashy colors and patterns. The pattern
can be found at the end of this post. The chicken block is from the Country Threads Pattern # 426, Chickens In the
Cornfield. The original 7 inch block has been enlarged so it creates a 9"
finished block.
We hope you will be able to
join us for a fun, enjoyable evening to kick off the fall quilting season!
Country Aire Funky Chicken Pattern
We invite you to take a walk on the wild side and make a
Funky Chicken square for our block drawing at the September 9th Area 3 meeting. Funky Chickens like to dress in bright, wild
colors for Area meetings!
The Funky Chicken is a 9” finished block (9 1/2"
unfinished) set on point. All seams are
a scant ¼ inch. The lovely chicken is a
bright fabric with a white on white background with a contrasting color for the
comb and beak.
Cutting:
Pieces:
#1 bright 1
square 8 x 8 inches
#2 contrasting
bright 2 squares @ 2 & ½ inches
for the chicken comb
#3 white on
white 2 rectangles @ 2 by 5
inches
2
squares @ 2 & ½ inches
1
square @ 2 inches
#4 bright gold fuse and cut a small
triangle for the beak
Two small buttons for eyes!
Use your
favorite method and the 2 1/2" squares to make 4 half square
triangles. These will be the points for
the comb.
Refer to
the photo for piecing the chicken together.
Be careful when placing the half square triangles together to make sure
they are going in the right direction to form the peaks of the comb.
Fuse and
stitch a small triangle for the beak.
Add two buttons for beady little chicken eyes and your funky chicken is
ready to travel.
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