We will miss you!

Jean called this morning and due to circumstances beyond her control she is going to sell her HQ 16 longarm. It comes with a laser light, base, one groovy board, bobbin winder and half dozen bobbins. The machine does not have a stitch regulator but one could be easily added. Jean is asking $4500.

In addition Jean is leaving our little group. We will not have the meeting at her house in February. Look for more information on the meeting place and the February agenda.

If you have any questions or know of anyone who is interested in purchasing this machine, please drop me an email victoriandiva at hotmail.com and I'll let Jean know immediately.

Quilt Show

Shelly Library Quilt Show

If you want to car pool to the show please post in the comments which day and classes you are interested in and then we can see if we can get a bunch of girls together (this could include people not in our longarm group) to carpool to Shelly.

The 10th Annual Quilt Spectacular Open House will be held :

Tuesday January 27th from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm and
Wednesday January 28th from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm

• Quilts on diplay, old and new
  Quilt books to check out, door prizes for class attendees

There will be a block contest. There are two catagories (1) pieced and (2) applique. Your block must measure 12 1/2 inches square. You can make ANY block you choose, HOWEVER, you must use Black fabric, White fabric (not cream or off white) and one of the following colors: Bright Yellow, Red or Purple. Turn in your blocks by Wednesday morning.

If you want to display your quilts old or new, bring them to the Shelly library Monday, Jan 26 between 4 and 6 pm or Tuesday, Jan 27 from8 to 10 am.

• Demonstrations Tuesday
  11:00 Working With the Pre-Printed--Julie Sangendorf
  How to use panels, cross-stitch, embellishments, and hand quilting. See how cute!
  11:30 Heartstrings and Crumbs--Dawn Ramirez
  Using scraps, see the myriad of ideas and quilts.
  1:00 Kitchen Quilts--Susan Nelsen
  Using your leftovers in the kitchen. Lots of things to see.
  1:30 Chenille It!-- Susan Wood
  Decorate all those projects with homemade chenille. Easy......
  4:00 Machine Quilting---Ginny Dredge
  Tricks to quilt your projects, using your own home machine. Save money
  4:30 Cut It Again, Sam--Kaylene Christensen
  Cut traditional blocks and then resew for complicated looking blocks.

• Demonstrations Wednesday
  11:00 It's Not Food!--Blackbird Haven, Brenda Randall
  What to do with the jelly rolls, layer cakes, sweet rolls, and turnovers(fabric)
  11:30 Make it, Take it, a "Make-Do" Embroidery Project--Dalene Kohler
  A folksy embroidery kit to add to a table topper. Sign up at the library. Limited supply
  1:00 Ta-Da! Making half-square triangles--Sheri Bear
  Find a method for you and see all the quilts to use them in....
  1:30 Q E C Receiving Blankets--Rose Scholes
  (Quick, Easy, Cute) You will love to make dozens of these.
  2:00 Accurate Paper-Piecing--Susan Wood
  See all of Susan's cute patterns, and learn the joy of this method.
  2:30 Anounce block contest winners, and draw for the gift basket. Be Here!
  4:00 Cut It Again, Sam--Kaylene Christensen
  In case you weren't here, this is a repeat class, and worth it. Don't miss it.

Making Plans

It is time to start making plans for HMQS

If you haven't received your catalog for the Home Machine and Quilting Show in Salt Lake City, please visit the HMQS website for more information. The variety of teachers, many of which are nationally know is just amazing.

You can listen to an interview with Ann Collet of Home Machine Quilters Quilt Show by going to the HMQS website , look to the right side and click on Listen to Interview about HMQS 2009. You can also look at the winners of last years show by clicking on View Winning Quilts. Our very own Kat Blakley was a 1st place winner.

The theme for this year is "Pump up the color." Every year the show sponsors a charitable group. This year the charity to be serrved is Kwoyo Kochia village in Kenya. This village is in desperate need of a well to provide clean drinking water. Ann Collet wanted to have the theme be relevant to this important charitable contribution.

HMQS is the premier consumer exhibition and educational conference for all machine quilters and embroiderers! Featuring 100 classes taught by national instructors, a judged quilt competition with $23,000 in awards, hundreds of machine-quilted quilts on display, fantastic special exhibits, and a vendor mall with 175 booths.

The deadline for competition entries is April 1, 2009. If you want to hand deliver your items you have until April 18th. You can get your entry form from the catalog which can be mailed to you or online at the HMQS website. Ann Collet will gladly answere any questions you have, really she will, just give her a call.

Some recommended teacher would be: Pam Clark for beginning quilters. She is a wonderful teacher and she will give you more confidence than you could ever imagine. Linda Taylor is a wonderful teacher (her hands on class are a little pricey, however, everyone I know who has taken one just loved it). Karen Mctavish is an internationally know teacher and is very entertaining to say the least. Renae Haddin will really get you thinking if you are an advanced quilter. Please look through the catalog and make comments on teachers you are familiar with.

The fabric for our challenge is coming

This is the line we are doing for the HMQS Challenge group. We are using Karen Neuburger's Ellie Fun.

http://www.quiltingtreasures.com/content5456.html

The specific fabric and colors are as follows:

20682 - A Brown Stripe (with elephants)

20684 - H Light Green (with fanciful pink, white and salmon flowers)

20685 - R Red (background with pink posies)

20685 - A Brown (background with pink posies)

20686 - ZG White/Green (white background with green, brown & yellow polka dots)

20686 - ZR White/Red (white background with red, brown & pink polka dots)

20687 - A Brown (Small all-over print with heart squares, outlined flowers


The kit will contain 1/2 yd of each fabric except the stripe and you will get a yard of that. Also a piece of batting. If you do not use the batting provided, your hard work will be disqualified.

Please review the size requirements. The parameters have changed.

http://www.hmqs.org/pdfs/2009_quilt_challenges.pdf

Please put on your thinking caps and bring some design ideas to our February 2nd meeting at Jean's house.

January Meeting

We met on January 5, 2009.


We were a small group, but we had great fun. Melda, Sue and Debra were present.

We did a little show and tell.

Melda had her U of I quilt, and Debra had the quilt she made for her husband for Christmas.














The topic for this meeting was 'Become a Pantograph Expert'. Neither Sue nor Melda have used a pantograph before. They REALLY didn't like it at first but after some practice they got much comfortable and said they could see many uses for the Pantograph and they said they would try using pantos at home. If our group is interested in an intermediate class, we will do another class in the future.






The quilt on the machine will be donated to a local charity. Here is the finished product.

Becoming an Pantograph Expert

Happy New Year to ALL!!!!

This blog is for the Bustier Girls Longarm Group. We began our meetings in November. We meet the first Monday of each month. To be a member you must apply and have a longarm. Our group is limited to a maximum of 8 members. We have no dues and rotate our meetings so each member has a chance to host the meeting, provide refreshments and provide the education lesson for the month.

For our January meeting we will be learning how to set up and use a pantograph. Cindy Roth who is a teacher at Longarm University has an excellent website describing how to properly use pantographs on a longarm.

If you want some help in taking some of the math out of the process try this panto calculator.

There are many designers of pantos. For some names you can google, take a glimpse here.

To see the work of some of the designers, google the names you find at this site.

There will be pictures posted from each meeting and feel free to make comments. If people use this site then we will make it a site with access for all members.