QBTS February Meeting

It was great to get together for an in-person meeting this month and a lovely program by our own Mari de Moya.  This spectacular quilt was done by Betty Van S!

Loved the colors in this quilt.

This was a crazy quilt which was supposedly done in 1948 and some of the blocks were dated as such  The fabrics were all much older and I suspect this was an update on some "found" blocks  My mother and grandmother did this with some blocks found in a barn in Massachusetts (although they were cotton and I suspect much older)

A Habitat for Humanity quilt.  This is the block I use in making these quilts as well.

Another Habitat quiit!

Again, really liked the colors and am certainly a sucker for anything purple!

This quilt was part of an exhibit at the Cameron Art Museum here in Wilmington as part of an exhibit featuring local pieces of art.  It was a reminder that another show is coming up starting in April.

Liked this one!

This guild participates in a lot of charitable quilt causes and this was a Quilt of Valor to be donated.

This was a quilt done by our speaker and it followed a spectacular applique quilt which I was sure would be hard to be matched but I think she did!!  Beautiful quilt!!

This is a closeup of the center of the quilt.

And this is the quilter (and our speaker), Mari!

This was an embroidered quilt maybe from the 50's?  Lots of signatures on this one and all using the same pattern.

This is a closeup showing the signatures.

This and the next picture were the top and bottom of an absolutely exquisite applique quiit.  Not only was the applique beautiful but the machine quilting was exceptional (done by another member of the guild).  

A closeup of the stitching.