Quilting Tip of the Week 5.22.14

For larger squares, try regular white tissue paper! Cut tissue paper into piles of four, pin  and mark the top copy. Sew without threading your machine and now you will have four identical quilting templates. Pin on your quilt top, thread your machine and sew away!

Country Square Quilters Raffle Quilt

Barbara Black of Country Square Quilters would like to share the beautiful quilt they are selling raffle tickets for the drawing at the end of the Wilton Blueberry Festival on August 2nd at 4:00 p.m.

Tickets are  $1/each or 6/$5. For tickets, contact Barbara at babs@beeline-online.net

 

Maine Quilts Adds a New Workshop

Maine Quilts is adding a workshop, Saturday July 26, full day with Dodi Poulsen

Do you like a good mystery? Dodi is offering a second mystery quilt replacing the Chinese Penny workshop.

“We will be taking a trip to an unknown destination. Pack your suitcase, put on your hiking shoes, bring your camera and get ready to have an excursion of exceptional proportions! Wear comfortable clothing…we will be visiting our destination for an extended sewing time!

Where will our trip take you?

Will it be to the Orient? Will you see an old English Cottage? How about a trip to the Tropics? That will depend on your fabric choices. You will decide what your quilt will look like.”

To register for this new workshop use the same Workshop and Event form, the same class number, #311 and indicate mystery.

The supply list will be on the website by the end of the month. http://www.mainequilts.org/ for Workshop and Event registration form.

Contact Callie Lavoie, Maine Quilts Coordinator with any questions; info@mainequilts.org  or 216-7358.

 

Country Aire Quilters to hold Fall Area 3 Meeting

Jo Thibodeau would like to announce that Country Aire Quilters of Turner will be holding an Area 3 meeting on Tuesday, September 9th at the Tripp Middle School cafeteria, 65 Matthews Way, Turner.

The speaker will be Beth Helfter of EvaPaige Designs http://www.quiltwoman.com/Beth-Helfter-EvaPaige-Quilt-Designs.aspx

More details to come!

Interested in a fabric swap?

Check out the link below for more information:

http://hexagonswap.blogspot.com/2014/05/are-you-interested-in-combo-swap.html

Quilting Tip of the Week 5.15.14

 

Instead of buying those expensive rolls of pre-printed quilting paper, try using adding machine tape! I take a 2' length of tape and using a template mark my lines. I then cut about three more pieces of the same length of paper and pin together. Using a non-threaded long stitch, I sew over the marked lines.

Place the ready pieces on the quilt and stitch away! Remember to always use a smaller stitch so you can remove the paper easily.

Quilting TIp of the Week 5.8.14

Here's another for those of you who do handwork on the road...

This is a suctioned-cup soap/sponge holder. You'll find these in plastic or metal at the dollar store, home store and even at home improvement stores!

Just place on your passenger side window and store your scissors, thread, etc.