QBTS January Meeting with Becky Bucci as Our Speaker and the Mystery Quilt Reveal!

Our guest speaker for this month was our own Becky Bucci who talked about her evolution as an artist.  In the background is this incredible hexagon quilt -- all hand done and hand quilted as well.  I figured it had close to 10,000 pieces in it!!  

Besides a really inspiring talk, Becky brought many examples of her art work in a variety of mediums.  She discussed how she evolved through embroidery, needlepoint, and knitting before arriving at quilting. 

Many of us have experienced the same journey.  I have sewn since I was about 8, knitted soon thereafter and picked up embroidery and needlepoint later on.  I always knew I would quilt though from about the 1960s on although I didn't take my first class until 1976.

Here is a bit closer view of the hexie quilt.

I was shocked by the number of people that participated in our Mystery Quilt Challenge.  I am sure I didn't get pictures of all the quilts and mine basically didn't show at all as there was just no room!

I got pictures of as many as I could as they were a moving target and there were a lot of them -- I think close to 25 which I think is a really good showing!!  (I think some of our missing members also made one as well.)  I wish I could have gotten everyone to pose with their individual quilts at the end of the meeting!  It was very cool!

 This last one is mine.  I do think that I was the only one that did a scrap quilt version of the mystery quilt.  Below is a closeup of my quilting.  It turned into a pretty big quilt!!

I decided there were so  many pictures that I would have to do 2 blog posts this month so neonatal quilts and show and tell will come out tomorrow!!