Even more Show and Tell

Here are two quilts by Leah G. being held up by Marge since Leah was unable to attend but we were sure glad she sent her quilts!  These are part of her 2.5" strips projects and they both were stunning.

 Barb V. showed us two quilts, one was an Over the River and Through the Woods embroidered masterpiece.  What a labor of love and then one called A Ribbon Runs Through.

 Carol showed us a great springtime quilt called The Egg Came First.  Just cute with embroidered chicken tracks in the border.

Sue G. finished up her Calendar Quilt and then really jazzed it up with sunflower applique.  It made it truly unique.

 
 Judy S. displayed her her pint size quilt, I call them her "Big Littles" as it takes a big amount of time to make such a little quilt but what terrific results!  The Pint Size gals are quite organized and get a lot done.
I believe this is Judy's BOM by Earlene Fowler from 2002, feels good to get that one done too I bet. 
 
 Here is Judy's Community Service block quilt, really nice.

 Karan V showed us a couple of her purses that she completed.

 Also Karan had a lovely tablerunner.

 Here she is showing her Bear sweatshirt designed for the purpose of taking walks out by her place which happens to be populated by quite a few bears...

This is Karan's spectacular Amish Quilt that she made with panels, quite a way to use panels!  It was very graphic and interesting, loved all the black bars of this quilt.

Bold Kathy T. displayed a a colorful and fun quilt done in bright batiks, she said it was sewed by her daughter Jenny and herself as a joint venture.  This reminds me of summer for sure.  No such luck with our snowy weather though.  Hope you snowbirds are happy!

I would like to get a couple pictures of the runners from Deanna's retreat as I was in the pictures and unable to take them so could someone send me them via our email?  Also, I forgot to get photos of the pincushion contest, my bad...but maybe someone took some of our cute pincushions at least of the winner who happens to be Judy S.  Congratulations on her fine flock of hens that gave us all a laugh.  There were some really creative cushions shown.  Now I only need pictures. 

Diana

A New Adventure For Pine Needle Quilters

A new year, a new idea and here we are.  As a new resource for our group, Laurie and Diana have volunteered to set up a blog and use this as a venue for almost all the information for our group.  After we get this set up and the bugs worked out, we hope to offer a lot of current information and with the capacity to change it quickly and as needed. 
In the future, we hope to offer links to Block of the Month programs offered on the web, upcoming quilt shows, locations and links to local quilt shops, and fun places to visit both in reality and on the web.  Also, we want to feature our ongoing projects such as our Mystery Quilt sponsored by Deanna, soldier quilts, challenges, demos and possible tutorials.  A wonderful feature of this blog could also be photos from our glorious show and tells that we have each month, we plan on getting pictures and using them on this blog.
We can also use this blog to update on progress of our own quilt show and we think it will be very helpful for that.
Now we need your help on this too.  We would like photos of your quilts that have been entered in shows, quilting adventures such as your retreats, or trips to quilt shows or shops.  We need you to keep us updated on shows, interesting links, BOM programs, and information from our subgroups such as the Pint Sized Ladies and Kathy's Flower Girls.  Really,this blog is what you help us make it.  
One of the nice features of a blog is that you can leave comments.  So please do that.  Also, if you go in our profile, you will find an email address to send information and photos to.
We would like to thank Rita for her work on our previous website, it was a great experience.  Also to those who kept up lists of BOM's, those who worked on the newsletter and to those who contribute so greatly to our guild.