Kim McCloskey's Trunk show today.
Welcome to the New Year by our new President, Michelle Preston. Fun to see friends and familiar faces.
On time drawing – Winner is Patti Kiser who was heading the drawing, so they chose another person. Mary Snow is the on-time winner for January!
New Members:
Bonnie Jacobs from Payson; Kristi Hollis from PG
Birthdays, our super singer: January birthdays.
Announcements
Wanda. Reminder of Spring Retreat on March 22. Blue handout on chair. Very fun, So Marvelous. 9-5 at Sandi Lai’s house. Bring own projects, tools, sewing machine and smile. Bring a potluck for lunch. Cost this year is $16.
Sarah – Last year, donated 712 items (177 quilts, 25 fleece blankets, 18 flannel receiving blankets, 429 soft balls, 63 bears.) Many hands service sheet (long blue sheet).
Service day, March 19. This is in place of the regular UVQG meeting. Don’t come here. Go to the Utah County Board of Health building in Provo. Second Floor. Park in the parking structure across the street and use elevator to the second floor. Anyone is welcome to volunteer for Food or Tying quilts or door prizes. Let Sarah know. Many Hands really do make great things happen. She appreciates the service minded members of the guild.
Sue – July Fair. Needs people to help with bake sale, sales, how
to price, etc. Needs someone for garage
sale. Machelle offered her garage for storage. Lana and Caleb hauled stuff up to the red
barn last year. So, clean out old fabric you haven’t used in a long time, so you have room to
buy that new stuff. Please bring fabric
measured and priced. Don’t use masking
tape on fabric, maybe paper wrapped around fabric or a plastic Ziploc bag. Also, other sewing treasures are welcome. Also
looking for volunteers for whatever. Many hands make light work.
Kim – outgoing president, National teacher BethAnn Menish. From Pennsylvania. (see https://whitearborquilting.com/) Master quilter, couching, retail finishing. Lectures available for everyone at the Sr Center for our regular meeting. Screen setup here. Classes will be the following day at Sandy Lai’s house. There will be a four-hour hands-on class and a 2-hour drawing class for couching. Ranging from beginning to experienced quilter. Six books on web site, online classes. Signups start in February. Separate signup for 4-hour class ($40) and 2-hour class ($20). Class will start at 10. Lunch at 12 and the 4-hour class will start at 1. Supply lists coming.
1) She put this in the Springville show a few years ago and won hand quilting solitaire prize. Whole quilt is applique, but you don’t have to do that. (The quilt design is called civil war brides)
Board members for 2025.
Back: Karlene Riggs, Kim McCloskey; Karin Carter, Sue Proctor, Wendy Cordon; Barb Murdock; Lana Osmun; Anne Thayne, Karen Marshall, Judie Oiler.; Susie Ricks
Front: Polly
Billings; Lisa Johnson; Machelle Preston; Sarah Yorgason; Nida Jackson; Carol Hinckley; Wonda Sump
Show and tell
1. Sarah Yorgason – Recently completed service quilts. Kits are available to complete in the back. Squares.
3. RevaBeth Russell – Esher in Quilts. I had the idea years ago. Working on it for 15-20 years. Had to “make” fabric. Designed pattern. Had each butterfly edge and tutted
it. Cut all to look like a butterfly, egg shape. But hated it. Added bling. Ok now.
3a. Machelle Preston – Reindeer Playground. Old pattern from Piece o’ Cake patterns, Alison Glass fabrics. Reminds her of her grandmother. Carleen embroidered cute names.
4. Carlene Riggs -- Gauze quilt. Gauze on front and back. Someone donated gauze fabric. Two pieces of gauze with batting in the middle, washed up nicely.
5. Tricia Tolton – Tiny Houses. Hoping to win some
of the houses at retreat but I did not win so I had to make my own. I had
fun using up some of my scraps!
6. Karen Marshall – Postage stamp. Sunbonnet Sue; All colors. Taught to quilt by her husband’s grandmother. Grandmother’s favorite pattern was called Postage Stamp. My brother-in-law had these pieces at his home. So, I put boarders around it to make it big enough for a twin and gave it to his son. Something from his great grandmother.
Sunbonnet sue also came from her. These were put together for a niece so now they will both have quilts from their great-grandmother.
8. Barb Murdock – Halloween. Halloween with lots of crystals for fun.
Making this quilt but it needed some bling.
9. Barb Murdock – Old fashioned blue Santa Quilt with Crystals.
10. Vonda Proctor – Scrappy Penelope. It’s called Posh Penelope but I’m naming it
Scrappy Penelope because “Posh”.... my husband went to England on his mission and “Posh”
means you’re really rich. And I did not buy a single thing for this quilt. 
12. Jean McPherron – Kansas Troubles 20th anniversary. Block of month at American Quilting but hated layout so changed it. KT Colors – queen sized from a BOM Jan 2020 that I re-arranged; so it was 120+ inches, I made it to 110x94 since I don’t have a bed that big. Took 4 years but it’s done.
14. Jo Anne Hawks- Little Loves. Project Bag – Cross Stitched. Free pattern at Fat Quarters Shop.
16. Miki Paskett – My Design. Bag to hold all her tools. Mariners compass. Added places to hold her tools. All these things you need when you are on the
road.
17. Miki Paskett – Based on Jen Kingwell. Peach/Gray.
Block of Month for 2nd
year quilt she did. Inside in Jen
Kingwell but was too busy for her so she added applique things and added them.
18. Miki Paskett – Black and gray modern. I just made it. I picked up a patter somewhere and just did
it.
19. Sandy Tanner –
a. Milkweed (Centerpiece inspiration)
b. Herringbone with impartial seams. Truly used up scraps.
20. April Johnson – Ypsilon. Set a goal to enter something in a quilt show. (Made many for her children but none to enter.) Took a class from Deon. First time to do something geometric. Showed it 4 times. Just got it back from Orem Public library. I even got a prize from Utah Quilt Guild from one of the international teachers from Australia, Helen Godden. A green ribbon. Helen said, “I can tell the quilting isn’t perfect but that’s ok.” She liked the color choices.
21. Donna Stott– Ypsilon. Purple- The “Y” quilt made by my daughter,
Nicole, my pattern, my quilting. What revitalized
her interest in sewing was the little purple featherweight sewing machine. She is a purple girl; she drives a purple Chevy
car. Purple is her assigned color from
birth because she is one of the triplets and that was her quadrant of the color
wheel. Donna just finished quilting it.
That’s her part.
22. Donna Stott – Ghosts. Purple ghosts made by my daughter, Nicole, my
quilting. Took class at Panguitch. Center ghost is quilted with glow in the
dark thread which her grandson really loves.
23. Debbie Proctor – Scrappy & Couching. Scraps.
With different size blocks. Flimsy
fabric. Going to Stitching Hearts. Ok to be tied.
24. Debbie Proctor – Whole cloth constellation with
couching yarn in quilt pattern. Couched on long arm. Rockets on from just made sense with the
constellations in the back.
Kim McCloskey Trunk Show
“Her mind thinks so outside the box in colors and creativity that I think it will be fun to see her ideas.”
Of all the people I want to impress, I wat to impress you people, my friends, the most.
Theme of show could be
“Quilter Interrupted”. So many things I
am in the middle of. It’s ok
to bring unfinished quilts. I also work by waiting for a quilt to speak to
me. Sometime quilts get put away for a while cause I just get stuck, and I
think, the quilt hasn’t told me what’s next.
Or I don’t have the skills yet to do what I have in my head. I’m still learning. I wish I could show you the quilt show in my
head of all the quilts I have dreamed up in my mind and still haven’t done
yet. But I’m still learning the skills
to make that a reality.
Start with a couple of
quilts that were not made by me but were an inspiration for me to get started
quilting.
Yellow and green one was given to my at my wedding by my grandmother that was made by her mother (great-grandmother’s quilt). Nine-patches are all pieces of grandmother and her four sisters' dresses growing up.
My mother was not a
quilter, but a painter. She decorated the
house, murals all over the walls. Quilts for our beds, all applique. Drew pictures and cut out fabric. This one is my brother’s who is 16 years
younger than I am. The one I had from my
bed doesn’t exist anymore. It was a
green alligator quilt, and I loved it.
This is all that
remains. This is a rocket ship. (it was
upside down.) This ended up on daughter’s
bed at BYU during her freshman year, she loved it so much. My brother still doesn’t know that I have it.
I’ll give it back someday.
This is the first one
that I made. Paper pieced. Loved that I
could get sharp points. Only one that I sent out to be quilted. Likes doing the quilt from start to finish.
Pulled this one off my bed.
These little quilts fit in an interior window. Hang up different ones through the seasons. This is a chance for me to just experiment with different ways. Flying geese was not with a pattern. I started learning that I really like just try to be inventive with my quilting. That’s the beginning of working without a pattern.
One thing that has been really inspiring has been to attend the classes. And the national teacher classes.
This was a national teacher, Jan Crench. Still waiting to be quilted. Taught Carpenters Star. Love choosing colors. Love the quilt and can’t wait to see where it goes. Got to play around with kaleidoscopes with the center.
Another class, not through the guild. Just using a tool/ruler. This one is waiting for more inspiration on to how I am going to finish it. Poor thing, it has been hiding in my closet of shame for a while. Just waiting to be loved. It’s ok to wait. This one is probably 20 years old and it’s still waiting. Ok to move from one project to another.
Another paper
piecing. New York beauty. Working only from stash.
(back)
Done for my grandson. Daughter in law is 6-1. She loves giraffes. So having a mother giraffe with a baby giraffe were perfect for her first baby.
Experment! Center block, rest was what I was going to do with the center. Had fun with the quilting. I had just started to work with ruler work. Used different techniques just to see what I like. This was first quilt I marked. Appliqued center.
Started taking online classes. The Quilt show with alexanderson and Ricky Tims. Loved online classes.
Through quilt show, they had a block exchange. Over 200 quilters from all over the country and some of them were international. We just did these half square triangles. The location was written on them. Blocks are from all over the country and London and Korea. I call this kaleidoscope. Ocean Waves pattern. Perry points on the outside. You could enter the quilt show by posting a picture of the quilt. Then I got a call one day from Alexanderson and she wanted to use this quilt in a book she was writing. Her book, “Scrap Quilting” has this quilt in it. I sent the quilt to California; she sent it back with a signed copy of her book.
For grandson. Done on machine embroidery then pieced together after. Airport runway, roadway, raised train tracks. Also did buildings. Train depo. Loved to death.
Made for grandson. Entered into Springville quilt show. It did win an award. So excited. Daughter-in-law wanted a Peter Pan. Paper pieced stars around the outside.
Playing around with applique embroidery. Started with center block. Just started added to outside. To me, it kind of looks like a coffin. I had
fun. I usually hang it over a
couch. Added a bar that went through the
center of the quilt.
One of guild challenges. Scrappy Trip Around the World. Usually takes a couple years to finish. Lots of K fabric. Used a lot of scrap fabric. She loves colors. Lots of family members are artists, including her daughter. This is a wedding gift. Entered into a show HMQS and it got a judge's award. Odd to see people at a quilt show talking about your quilt. A couple ladies said, Oh, more of that "K" stuff.
Entered into the museum, Springville art show. Call it Amorellos among the stars… Started with flowers and made it larger. First Springville Quilt show award (oh, second). First time getting into ruler work.
Another quilt interrupted. I have a bag back there that has all my English paper pieced things that are going to be added to this. Inspired by Karin. Karin has names of her grandchildren on the homes. I can't do that because my kids aren't done having kids yet and someone will be really sad not having their names on there. Thinking of naming stores, the baker, or unconventional names like the pawn shop. This is my long-term project; English paper piecing is not my favorite. This is my “someday I will get it done.” Something to take along for hand work.
Experiment when at the retreat several years ago. Davideen brought an AccuQuilt. So just playing around. Maybe a bed runner someday.
Another experiment. I love fabric. Astronaut, Rocketship, base. Just appliqued stars on top of it.
This one was a challenge at work. Got Tula jelly rolls at work. Make a quit top. Eye spy fabrics that play well with Tula fabrics. This is my version of an eye spy.
Kimball Bell design projects. One Christmas and one Halloween. They light up.
Quilter erupted. This just came off my design wall. Center is block of the month from the quilt show designed by Janet Stone. Janet designed block of month for quilt show but I had a different boarder on it but just didn’t like it. It wasn’t until I realized that I didn’t need to use that boarder for that quilt. So, I took the boarder off, it was all applique, and a lot of work was put into it but I’m going to use it on another quilt. I’m excited about this one now that it has the right boarder one it.
This one was entered into the Springville show. Made for my daughter when she had my first granddaughter. I asked her if I could make a quilt for her daughter and she said she didn’t want one for the bed, could you make me one for the wall. This one is from last year’s national teacher. It is from a painting by Gustav Klimt "Mother and Child". Appropriate for my oldest daughter for a wall hanging. The original painting is rather depressing cause it has the three ages of women. This is the middle age and young age and are ok, but the old age is so sad. Much better that they cut her out for this version.
This was another from the class by Emily Taylor. On the boarder, I just used a zipper and some lace. Quilting, there are the words “never more”. This is why if you have never tried machine quilting, doing something small like this, you can add your own personal things in there. It is a lot of fun to add personal messages in a small quilt.
I did a class on fabric dying. Getting inspiration. Actually, made the blue and white when I was in Taiwan. Traditional technique for dying. Some were ice dyed.
Doesn’t matter where
you are in quilting, a scatter-brained quilter. Someday I’m going to get to that one or
get to the boarder of that one. It’s ok
to if you let quilts kind of grow in your head and give them time to decide
what they want to become. And sometimes
you can let your skills catch up with those that are in your closet of shame. And they will be able to come out and join
the world.
Appreciate all your
support.
Love spending time with
you.
