Darcy Ashton Trunk Show and Class

Itchin' for Stitchin' hosted Darcy Ashton for a trunk show and hand applique class. The trunk show allowed us to look and see which of her patterns to start with. Most of her quilt designs include animals: Bunnies, fish, frogs, cats, & so many breeds of dogs; there are 2 books!!Darci Ashton

Famous bunny quilt

More bunnies

Darcy's showing a wool penny rug, made using recycled wool clothing.

Thank you, Darcy.

June 2010 Guild Meeting

Program

Arlene McKinney presented a program on Pin Cushions.

July BOM Project-

The July BOM project is a table runner. Here is a picture of a finished table runner made by Janice Hentzen.



Show and Tell

Dorothy Bath - Block of the Month quilt

Karen Boehner - applique project from Darci Ashton's class

Joan Gartner - applique butterfly from Darci Ashton's class

Joan Gartner - 'Fractured' quilt project

Arlene McKinney - wool applique sewing kit project

Nancy Kessler - Needle felted basket

May 2010 Guild Meeting

Program

Karen Boehner presented a "Big Stitch" program.

Quilt Raffle


The Itchin' for Stitchin' Guild will be raffling chances for this star quilt from May 6 - July 1, 2010. The winner will be drawn at the July guild meeting on July 1st. Raffle tickets can be bought from guild members. You may also call Sarah Gilreath at 620-784-2332 if you would like to buy some raffle tickets.

Flag Day quilt that will be raffled

Block of the Month Projects

The 12-month BOM project is now over and the participating members brought in their quilt tops. Everyone did a fantastic job!

Carolyn Green

Ruth Lavender

Gloria Eaton

Nita Billman

Vera Cramer

Janice Hentzen

Tammy Goodyear

Mary Ann Vanderford

Peggy Reynolds

Nancy Kessler

Show and Tell

Peggy Reynolds - table centerpiece

Peggy Reynolds - table runner

Karen Barnett - needle felted sheep

Ruth Lavender - Stack-n-wack

Rita Foster - number quilt

Rita Foster - animal quilt

April 2010 Guild Meeting - Spring Tea

The Altamont Itchin' for Stitchin' Guild held their annual spring tea during the April meeting. The spring tea committee did a wonderful job with the beautiful decorations and door prizes. Guild members brought covered dishes and the food was enjoyed by all!

Progam

Nita Billman shared a short program with the guild. She showed a bag of tangled yarn and read a short story that she had written about it.

Tangled Yarn by Nita Billman

Life is a series of strings that intertwine with other peoples lives and if we were to try and untangle the strings there would be many hours and years spent trying to figure out how to untangle those strings.

Once I had several skeins of yarn that I wanted to freshen up and I thought that if I would put them in a bag and put them in the dryer for a short time that would do the trick. I didn't quite have the correct bag so I thought if I put the yarn in a pillowcase and tied the pillowcase shut and put all that in the dryer that would freshen up the yarn. When I opened the dryer there was the yarn in the dryer tub with the pillowcase tangled among all the strings of the yarn.

I finally got the pillow case out of the strings without cutting anything. This is the goal (not to cut the strings). After several attempts, I got a small piece of the string out and into a ball. It has been quite sometime since I have been working on this project and today it dawned on me this is like life. You cannot undo things that have gone astray in a short time. You must put some effort into the project to accomplish what it is you are trying to undo. Sometimes there is no way to undo what is already done. This is why it is important to be sure the string that is your life will not become tangled with someone else's string and then someone else's that will cause you grief in your string of life. So we all should choose carefully where we leave our string and how it is tangles with someone else's string.

April Guest

Nancy Kessler's daughter, Kayla, and granddaughter, Lydia, are in the States for a couple of months.

Lydia

Quilt Raffle

The Itchin' for Stitchin' Guild will be raffling chances for this star quilt from May 6 - July 1, 2010. The winner will be drawn at the July guild meeting on July 1st. The May blog post will have more details about ticket prices and where the tickets will be sold.

Block of the Month Challenge

The final challenge has been issued for our current BOM challenge - Put your quilt together! Nancy Kessler showed her quilt top and told participating BOM members to bring their quilt top to the May guild meeting.


Quilt Trunk Show Featuring Darcy Ashton

Darcy Ashton of Oklahoma City will hold a trunk show in Altamont, KS, on May 21, 2010, at the First Baptist Church (400 S. Wabash) beginning at 6:00pm. Cost is 2 Fat Quarters of 100% cotton quilting fabric. There will be a drawing for some of these fat quarters later in the evening and refreshments will be served afterwards. For more information contact Nancy Kessler - quiltersbin1399@gmail.com or Peggy Reynolds- redbird7@ckt.net

Show and Tell

Nancy Kessler - Twilling

Arlene McKinney - wool needle felting

Arlene McKinney - wheat twilling

Arlene McKinney - sunflower twilling

Arlene and Betty McKinney - Iris Folding

Arlene McKinney - Iris folding

Nancy Kessler - photo folder

Inside view of Nancy's folder folder
(picture on left is of Nancy's daughter Kayla,
her husband Dan and their daughter, Lydia.

Arlene and Betty McKinney's folder folders

Karen Barnett - Maggie Bags made at 5th Monday Sew

Rita Foster's cute bunny vegetable tray