QBTS October Meeting

Vickie Clontz was our featured speaker this month at QBTS and these are some of the placemats she showed.  She sells her patterns at Annie's Keepsakes and she certainly had a lot of them!!

She specializes in felting of all kinds as well as the use of those felted fabrics in clothing, pin cushions, wall hangings and about anything else you can think of!  These were her felted flowers, the instructions for which are on a cd she sells.  I really liked these.

This was a wall hanging she constructed using felted fabrics and some of her felted flowers.  These were her interpretations of orchids.

 This and the next were jackets she created and used her nuno felted designs.  She does both nuno felting and wet felting and uses felted fabrics extensively.  She was limited to this however, and showed more traditional cotton renderings like her aprons.

 There was a recent day dedicated to neonatal quilts and these and the next were some of those.  The guild made its yearly quota of quilts already.

The winner of this year's scholarship to Consortium showed two of the pieces that she and her sister had created in a class with Karen Eckmeier.  I am a big fan of Karen and remember well her sitting behind me in a class at Quilting by the Lake making snarky comments about the class and making me laugh (and thus me getting the evil eye from the teacher).  She is a lot of fun.  I took a class on curves from her many many years ago.  Loved the output of this class.  Her website is Quilted Lizard .

This was the raffle quilt for the Brunswick quilt guild and I thought it was just beautiful.  I couldn't get back far enough to get the whole quilt in the picture though.

It was hard to get the whole quilts in the pictures because of tables and people but this was a row by row done by our former pres Ann.

Miranda has been finishing up UFOs.  Here was one of her random blocks which she made into a medallion quilt using it as a center.  She had more but this was the only one I got even a decent picture of!

There were quite  a few other Show and Tell quilts but I was either too far away, or  they didn't hold them up high enough or long enough for me to focus! 

Of course no blog would be complete without some pictures of my birds.  This is one of the Oystercatchers seen down at Ft. Fisher.  First ones I have seen this season.  I think the high water from the hurricane has kept them away.

This was a Snowy Egret catching lots of fish on the same day!

 Two Oystercatchers fishing together.

QBTS September Meeting - Challenge Quilts

There haven't been any blogs for awhile as I had to leave the beach house because of impending hurricane Matthew.  I went to my daughter's house in Charlotte intending to come back in just a few days.  I did try!  The roads between Charlotte and the coast were badly flooded necessitating me having to turn back to Charlotte for  a few more days.  The main road between here and there is still flooded and many of the side roads were also under water.  I ended up having to drive an extra two hours and head way north and then back south.  I waited until the road closings and detours were all online so instead of four days in Charlotte, I was there for about ten days.  My daughter had to be in Wilmington this weekend so she flew from Charlotte to Wilmington and back to make sure she could get here.  The flooding is incredible.  We had virtually no effect here at the beach thankfully.


It must have been  a really hot summer here in NC as there were more quilts from this modestly sized guild than from my very large guild in Rochester!!!  

The following series of quilts were made as part of a summer challenge.  Each person received a charm pack of fabrics called Brushstrokes (kind of a solid substitute) and the theme was "my favorite color is".  This quilt won for best original design and I really did like it -- both the composition and the machine quilting which really enhanced it.

This won for the best use of the fabrics.

This won for best use of embellishments (all the appliqued lilacs).  

These next three were all jurors' choices.

These next few were some of my favorites.

Our speaker for the evening was Janice Pope who designs quilts.  

This was a full sized quilt with the mini version of it below.

The mini version of the above quilt.  All these quilts were very simple and made good use of the fabrics.

There were lots and lots of quilts for show and tell but people moved quickly as usual so I didn't get as many pictures as I would have liked.

Only got the top of this one but you get the idea!

No blog would be complete without at least one bird picture.  Here is an ibis in a tree down by Ft. Fisher.  This was an unusual place to see ibis although you do see them like this out on the small islands.

You can see that there were a number of ibis in this dead tree!!