January 2019

Happy New Year!

We had fun getting together again this cold winter day.  There was a lot to share and chattering was going on constantly.  I don't know how much sewing we actually got to do.

Sue taught us how to do reverse applique.  I sent out a request for everyone to send me a picture of your block.  I will add them to the blog as I get them.

Here is mine.  Our artist in residence drew my picture for me.  (Sue)  This was fun to do.  After we got this step done we still need to do a zig zag stitch around each shape.

Peggy's

Rhonda's

Linda's

We had our mystery quilt blocks to share.  There has been a lot of progress made with these.

Linda's lime green

 Sue's indigo

 Sheree's navy

 Rhonda's brown

Peggy's peach

 Pam's green

Doris's red

There were a lot more projects for show and tell.

This is Sue's round robin.  

 This is her quilting of the Mariner's Star from the back.  Wow!

 Sue and her husband Jim made this quilt together.  He pieced the background and Sue appliqued the Santa on.

Then with the extra fabric, some of which was removed from the back of the Santa, Sue made this oven mitt and....

this table runner for their long table!

 In Sue's other quilt club, they exchanged fat quarters and Sue made this stack and whack star quilt with those.

The backing is made up of the left over pieces of fabric.

Rhonda finished her Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt from last year.  

 And her round robin quilt is finished.

 Another project Rhonda finished since last quilt club.

This is the matching pillowcase to go with the horse quilt.  This is the fabric Rhonda used on the back.

 These are some table toppers Rhonda had fun doing some free motion quilting on.

 Rhonda's snowman quilt top.

 This is the beginnings of Rhonda's triangle quilt.

Finally a baby quilt Rhonda completed.

This is my Bonnie Hunter Mystery quilt from this year-Good Fortune.

Peggy's round robin quilt.

Peggy sent me some pictures of some of her quilts that have already been gifted.  

 This baby quilt Peggy made was first made by sewing a blanket stitch around each block and then crocheting the blocks together.  I just love this!

There were a lot of pictures from today and I forgot my camera.  :(  If I forgot to add something, send it to me and I will add it to the blog.

Rhonda sent out another clue for our mystery quilt this morning, so be sure to check your email.

Our lunch was pretty much a Mexican theme today.  Rhonda made a Mexican soup, Peggy brought chips and guacamole that Ted made, Sheree made stuffed peppers, I made a chocolate cake, we had more chips and salsa and Sangria.  Everything was wonderful.  Rhonda and Sheree-if you send me your recipes I will add them to the blog.

Here is a recipe for the stuffed peppers.  I think this is pretty close to Sheree's recipe.  

https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/broccoli-chive-stuffed-mini-peppers/

Ingredients

• 12 miniature sweet peppers
• 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
• 1/3 cup minced fresh chives
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1/8 teaspoon pepper
• 2/3 cup finely chopped fresh broccoli
• 2/3 cup shredded cheddar cheese

Directions

• 1. Preheat oven to 400°. Cut peppers lengthwise in half; remove seeds. In a bowl, mix cream cheese, chives, salt and pepper; stir in broccoli. Spoon into pepper halves.
• 2. Place on a foil-lined baking sheet; bake until heated through, 9-11 minutes. Sprinkle with cheddar cheese. Bake until cheese is melted, 3-4 minutes longer. Cool slightly before serving.

Keep plugging away on your mystery clues until we get together in February.

Peggy is going to show us how to make fabric bowls then.  She will send an email with the supplies that we need.

Stay warm everyone-the temps are supposed to be in the sub zero range next week.  Brrrrrrr!

Round Robins

November 2018

Happy Thanksgiving weekend! 

We had a boisterous meeting today.  There must be something in the air.  Everyone was busily working on one project or another.  Sue was making aprons, Sheree was making Christmas stockings, I was working on Bonnie Hunter's new mystery quilt Good Fortune, Rhonda was working on her blocks for the Anniversary Mystery Quilt and Linda was working on one of her projects.  (Linda, I don't think I got what you were working on-let me know so we can all know!)  Poor Peggy was unable to make club as she was nursing a sick husband.  I hope he is feeling better soon.

It had been pretty dry for some of us the last couple of show and tells, but the dry spell is over!  We had a lot to share today.

 Sheree is finishing some Christmas stockings.

 Sheree's beginning design for her triangle quilt.

 Sue did a round robin quilt with her other quilt club and this is her Halloween fabric version of that.

  The is the top of the Fancy Forest Quilt I am making for Sarah's graduation from nursing school next month.

 I have done a little bit of knitting too.  This is a hat I just completed. 

 Rhonda made a couple of these Missouri Star's pattern quilts.

 How different they look with the different colors.

 This is the back of the Patriot's quilt.

 Rhonda's memory quilts.

 This is the one that was giving her so much trouble and it turned out great.  

Here are the Cloverleaf Sampler Quilts.

 Rhonda's  Cloverleaf Sampler quilt.  She used a very unusual and interesting layout.

Sue's Cloverleaf Sampler quilt.  Just wow!  Look at that Mariner's Star she made to complete the top.

This is my Cloverleaf Sampler quilt completed.

Linda's Cloverleaf Sampler quilt quilted and ready to get its binding.

Quilt blocks for the Anniversary Mystery Quilt

Rhonda's

 Sheree's

 Linda's

 Pam's

Patty's

Sue's

Peggy's

Virtual show and tell.

Sue made this from the left over blocks from Jim's quilt of valor he made for his friend.

 Sue's butterfly memory quilt finished.

 The back of the butterfly quilt.

Sue's Halloween quilt.  She free hand quilted the spiderwebs in the orange blocks.  She has really upped her quilting game!

We had pizza and snacks today to eat.  Sheree made mini cheesecakes for dessert.

Rhonda sent out the next clue for the mystery quilt.

This is all about applique.  You can use any technique you like.  (Needle turn, iron on, machine-stitched.

Block #1  9 X 9 square.  Since this is the holiday season, applique a Christmas theme image onto this block.  Pinterest is a good resource for images and of course Google.  

Block #2  9 X 12 Applique the initial of your first name.  You can find ABC templates on the internet, any style you prefer. https://tinyurl.com/yc3a37f9

Block #3  Go to 2018 Moda Blockheads and make Block 13.  It is a 6 X 15 inch block.

If you run out of things to do there is always your border strings. 

This was the final quilt club for the year.  Everyone has plenty of time to finish your sampler quilts and mystery quilt blocks.

In January Peggy is going to show us how to make the fabric bowls.   You need a zig zag stitch to do these.  Sue is going to show us how to do reverse applique in case we want to try this on our initial applique block for our mystery quilt.  She will let us know what we need to have prepared for this.

I hope everyone has a very happy and blessed Christmas and New Year!

Fifteenth Anniversary!!!! October 2018

Happy Anniversary Cloverleaf Quilt Club!!!  What a wonderful and fun adventure it has been.  Those 15 years have just flown by.  I hope that we can have at least another 15!

Rhonda has been our mentor and the catalyst behind our little group.  Without her, we would all probably still be doing some quilting and sewing.  With her we have done some amazing things.

We have done many charity quilts:  some for Special Olympics that raised a lot of money for that organization and some for Veterans. We have made bags for NICU.  

We have done a lot of group projects-Thimbleberry quilts and table runners, stack and whack type Christmas tree quilts, charm square quilts, round robins quilts,and sampler quilts to name a few.  This year we are doing a special Anniversary Mystery quilt that Rhonda has created.  

There have been a few of us who have done Bonnie Hunter's mystery quilts together.  

We have made purses and bags together.  

At least once a year we have gone shop hopping together.

There have been quilting retreats where we learned new skills together-Rehoboth, Cape May and Bedford.

And of course we have had our monthly meetings where we sew, socialize and eat!

Just looking over these few things I have listed that we have done together as a group is amazing.  We have had fun and enjoyed each other's company and even learned some things along the way.  

Cloverleaf Quilt Club is a jewel in my life that I cherish and I am sure everyone else does too.  

This last weekend in October we began our 15th year celebration by doing one of our favorite activities-shopping for fabric!!!

This is our attempt at a selfie during our stop at Goods!  Sorry Sue for missing your chin!  You still look cute!

We shopped at Zincks .  We didn't visit Obie's this time, but we did have a laugh about that during lunch as someone posted pictures of Obie's and made comments about it on Facebook.  

We stopped at the Kling House in Kitchen Kettle for lunch after first shopping at Zooks.  We all had delicious lunches.

Then we spent time in The Country Store.

We visited the Yarn Nook.

Then we went to the Log Cabin (I think that is what it is called.)  

The day flew by.  We headed home with a trunk full of fabric.  We didn't do as much damage to our wallets this time as we have done before, by the looks of it.

As usual, our shop hopping was an enjoyable time together.

Our shop hop was on Friday and only the beginning of our anniversary celebration.

Saturday night we all met at the Hillside Restaurant.  After a bit of confusion over our reservations, we settled into our own private room.  

Sheree had gift bags for everyone. They added a festive touch to our party.

To get our gift bag we played  What's your Quilt Town Name.  We had some pretty crazy names!

The cute bags contained some personalized gifts.  Are these not the cutest?  Sheree's daughter in law did the glasses.  There was also a cloverleaf cookie with 15 on it.  If anyone has their's and wants to send me a picture I will post it.  Mine didn't survive.  I just sampled the sangria-yum!

We took a break for dinner and I think we all had very good meals and drinks.

After dinner we played another game.  The Left/Right game.  We all brought gifts to share.  We started out with our gift in front of us.  Then Rhonda read a quilt story.  Every time Rhonda said left we passed our gift to our left and when she said right we passed out gift to the right.  We did a pretty good job of getting our directions correct.  At the end of the story, the gift in front of us was ours.  All the gifts were quilting/sewing related.

For dessert we has special cupcakes with candles.  We toasted our anniversary with these.  You can see the cupcakes in the photo below.

Talking about pictures-we got some group pictures.  We are a cute looking group of ladies, if I do say so myself!

 

There was one more special gift that Rhonda had made for us.  She had the same Cloverleaf Quilt Club 15 year celebration theme put onto a square of muslin, in our own colors, for our anniversary mystery quilt.  We were delighted with these.

We spent more time socializing and laughing together.  What a special evening this was for all!  Thank you Rhonda!

For our Cloverleaf Anniversary Mystery Quilt, CAMQ, Rhonda emailed the next clue.

• 1 - 12 inch Shamrock block (file attached) It doesn’t have to be green.
• 3 - 6 inch blocks with block names using the first letter of your first name
• 3 - 6 inch blocks with block names using the first letter of your last name

At the party she gave us directions for another Shamrock quilt block.  We can use either one.  I am not sure about the time frame for getting these finished.

We will be meeting next month right after Thanksgiving.  That will be our last meeting until 2019!

Here are some virtual show and tells.

These are Patty's 18 inch blocks and the start of her string block borders.  This is going to be beautiful!  

Peggy made this cute Fall quilt.

 This is another one of Peggy's quilts.

If anyone else wants to add pictures to our virtual show and tell send them to me.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving everyone!