January’s Block of the Month is up here, and is due at the January 13th meeting.

Charm Squares for the January meeting are green prints.

Bring your Round Robin quilt to hand off to the next person, and your UFO challenge list. The first UFO will be drawn at the January meeting.

I hope everybody is having a lovely holiday season, and getting lots of projects done

Pumpkin Log Cabin Table Topper
Supplies:
½ yard for tan/cream background
If you have them use scraps of light rust, orange, gold and green.
½ yard of assorted oranges/light rusts
½ yard of assorted golds
½ yard of assorted greens
¼ yard of binding (your choice)
1 yard of backing
1 yard of warm and natural batting
Basic Sewing Supplies

Cutting Instructions:
PUMPKIN:
Check your scraps—If you have access to as much as 15 different prints in light rust/orange and gold. Cut these Width of Fabric in 1 ½ inch strips. It is fine if some of the lengths of strips are short just cut some extras.
BACKGROUND :
Tan/cream material. This is background for all 6 pumpkins. #A 1 ¼ x 1 ½ inch (cut 6). #B 2 ½ x 4 ½ inch (cut 12). #C 2 x 1 ½ inch squares (cut 12).
GREEN:
For all 6 pumpkins. Stem #E 1 ½ x 1 ¾ inch (cut 6). #D 2 x 1 ½ in squares (cut 12). NOTE: The green for #D should be the darkest green used of log cabin center and will be the outside strip of the log cabin center and also will be the green used for the leaves.
You will be making a total of 6 pumpkins—two of each color combination and slight difference in sewing.
LEAVES
There are four leaves. The leaf is a 5″ square. For each leaf cut: Same as #* green log cabin.
Background #A 1 x 3 inch square (cut 4) #B 2 3/8 inch (cut Cut each in half diagonally. #C 2 ¼ inch (cut 4) Cut each in half diagonally.
Background Corners: #D 4 x 5 ½ square cut in half diagonally.
Leaf #1 2 inch square (cut 4), #2 2 ½ x 3 ½ (cut 4), #3 1 ¾ inch x 3 ½ inch (cut 4), # 4
2 3/8 square (cut Cut in half diagonally.
CENTER:
Assorted green 1 ½ inch strips. Size is 18 ½ inch x 9 ½ inch. Odd #’s are light, even #’s are dark.
See next page.
Light Greens:
#1 Cut 1 1 ½ x 12 ½ inch. #3 Cut 2 1 ½ x 3 ½ inch #5 Cut 2 1 ½ x 5 ½ inch. #7 Cut 2 1 ½ x 7 ½ inch.
Dark Greens:
#2 Cut 2 1 ½ x 12 ½ inch #4 Cut 2 1 ½ x 14 ½ inch #6 Cut 2 1 ½ x 16 ½ inch # Cut 2 1 ½ x 18 ½ inch
CUT AS MUCH OUT AS POSSIBLE PRIOR TO SIT AND SEW.

Days are getting colder, which means more time to spend indoors sewing!

The directions for October’s block of the month are up here.

Charm Squares are red and green Christmas prints! Time to start those Christmas projects, so here’s to building up your stash.

UFO #6 is due at the October Meeting, Friday the 14th. UFO’s #2 and #4 are due at the Christmas party in December.

The rescheduled Guild meeting will be this Friday, the 16th, at the Church. Anne was able to get that approved, thanks Anne!

I know rescheduling has inconvenienced everyone but after speaking with Happy and Laura last Friday morning it was decided to err on the side of caution and reschedule. We made the decision before noon so that we could get the word out and at that time they were calling for more rain in the evening. We updated Facebook, the website and I sent an email to every address I have. I asked people to spread the word but I’ve since learned that at least 5 people were not notified. We will discuss ways to better handle cancellations/changes during the meeting. If anyone has ideas, please bring them with you Friday.

I believe this meeting will be smaller because people had other obligations and can’t attend. If you are part of the Round Robin group please make arrangements with your group to trade off tops.

Because of the flooding issues in our area, the September Guild meeting for tonight, Friday the 9th, is postponed until next week, Friday the 16th. Location will be announced as soon as we know where we’ll be meeting. In the meantime, continue bailing, stay safe, and enjoy the extra week to finish your projects.

From our beloved leader:

Due to the Threat of Hurricane Irene it was decided that we needed to cancel Sit and Sew this weekend.

The Retreat Committee will want to check with Kathy and/or Julie to see if they want to get together Saturday morning.

The Crazy Quilt class will be rescheduled for September 17, 2011.

Without knowing Irene’s exact path and potential impact we want to make sure everyone has time to prepare their homes and hunker down to remain safe. I am praying it will pass without making too much of a fuss and that power will remain on in my home so I can sew.

Stay safe!

Hello All!

September’s block of the month is up here.

Charm Squares are Harvest/Farm.

August 27th will be our Crazy Quilt Sit & Sew.
October 15th is the Harvest Pumpkin Table Runner Sit & Sew.

First iteration of the Round Robin quilts is due at September’s meeting.

UFO #6 is due October 14th, which means UFOs #2 and #4 are due at the December 10th Christmas Party.

Anything I forgot? Just send me a quick note

The Christmas Tree BOM is up here.

The Charm Square list is here.

Don’t forget UFO #3 is due at the August meeting!