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Cyndy shared this great tutorial for binding corners greater than 90 degrees. Go to: http://ankastreasures.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/binding-odd-angles/
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Here is great way to finish a comforter quickly... Thanks to Marian for finding this cool tutorial.  If anyone is wanting to make a comforter for Hospice, this might be a way to get 'er done!  Go to: http://sewnbyleila.blogspot.com/2010/11/tying-quilt-by-machine.html
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We are beginning to finalize details of classes being offered at our Quilt Show.  One of them is the Grab and Go Bag.  It is pictured below and on our quilt show page... or if you're in Moab, stop by It's Sew Moab to see the sample.
               We have been meeting monthly to discuss our upcoming Quilting in the Red Rocks Quilt Show the second weekend of March, 2013.  All of a sudden that date is not looking so far away.  This will be our 7th biennial quilt show, which means we've been doing this for 14 years!  It is a beautiful show that many locals and visitors from out of town enjoy.  Please note that we have a page dedicated to information about it.  We will update that page as more details come into focus. 
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STRIPPIN' / Stringin'   Pat Ferguson just finished this king size quilt.  It is a birthday gift for her son if she can part with it! Beautiful!    
I was searching for free quilt patterns and came across this great website! www.freequiltpatterns.info . You can go into their pattern playground and change the block sizes, colors, etc., then print out the pattern. I thought it would be a good one to add to the blog. Marian   The link is now on the side of our blog / Our Favorite Websites... Interactive Quilt Patterns
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Our Feathered Friends Museum of Moab Quilt Challenge 2012 Anniversary Quilt by Peggy Harty Birds in My Garden by Laura Senter Birds in the Woods Chatelaine by Marian Eason Cape May, New Jersey Light House by Shauna Dickerson Chickadee Chatelaine by Mary Hofhine Coming Home by Sandra Davey Fancy Feathers by Lou Gostlin Gathering Her Chicks by Crystal Day Gracie's Feathered Friends by Darleen Nelson Great Blue Heron on the Colorado River by Peggy Harty Home Tweet Home by Lou Gostlin Hummer Haven by Lou Gostlin Our Feathered Friends by Bonnie Crysdale The Cuckoo Neighbor by Murine Gray The Hunter by Patty Walker The Jester - Trickster's Alter Ego by Marian Eason The Old Geezer by Bonnie Crysdale
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Check out the article about Springville Quilt show.  Marian's Bird Brain quilt is highlighted! :) http://www.heraldextra.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/visual/springville-museum-of-art-hosts-th-annual-quilt-show/article_faf723cd-406a-5f5b-a9db-ee1b1db25ea6.html
It's time for me to get my FMQ challenge done by midnight tonight!  So what am I doing?  Well, I'm trying to learn how to add badges to our blog.  I have added the Sketchbook Challenge badge which really has nothing to do with quilting per se, but it does have to do with design.  Really I added it because it gave me explicit directions on how to add it.  Still figuring out the others!
The blog continues to be developed.  On the show and tell page we now have posted the pictures from our May 8th meeting.  Minutes are posted on the minutes page.  My concern is that the pages just keep growing instead of being archived.  Oh well, it's a work in progress. The basket for Quilt Fest is now finished.  I forgot to take a picture of it to post. Will try to get one before it goes to Quilt Fest.
Next Meeting: Tuesday, July 10th Program for night includes: Book Review:   Kathy Shields Star Block: Bonnie Crysdale presenting "Block 19" from the book" Stars By   Magic" by Nancy Johnson-Srebro. Lesson:   Lou Gostlin – A Quilter’s Vocabulary Featured Quilt:   Antique quilts BRING:      Featured Quilt: Don’t forget to bring your antique quilts, your Block of the Month, a nd your name tags.   Also, Last call for Quilt Fest Garden Basket items if you have any. Meetings are held the second Tuesday of each Month at the Grand County Senior Center located at 182 North 500 West.   We meet at 6:30 p.m. to socialize; Business begins at 7:00 p.m.
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Highlights From HMQS! Judy and Peggy enjoyed their own little quilting bee in bed, finishing the binding on the Trip Around the World Charity Quilt.   Judy broke out her new needle threader and eventually figured out how to work it!   In the other bed, Lou was getting her beauty rest oblivious to our giggles!   Peggy had previously shown her newest hot product.   She won a bottle of Blue Line remover and was anxious to remove the blue lines from her practice piece.   She kept spraying and spraying until she finally realized the quilting was done with blue thread!   Too funny! Some of us attended a trunk show by Jill Finley.   Her family had done a Medallion Quilt Round Robin.   The quilts were amazing.    Sandy Davey photographed them and would love to interest some of us in doing our own medallion rou
I was told this was easy, but so far the learning curve is great!  I'm having trouble navigating, signing in, formatting etc.  HELP! Next Meeting: Tuesday, June 12th Picnic at Rotary Park – 6:00 Program for night includes: Book Review: A book about appliqué -   Tommye Paddock Star Block:   Amish Star – Peggy Harty Lesson:   Triangle Measurements, Figuring Yardage – Marian Eason BRING:      POTLUCK DISH Featured Quilt: Don’t forget to bring your quilts featuring appliqué and talk about your favorite method of doing appliqué. Bring 4 fat quarters to play the fat quarter game, bring items for our Quilt Fest Garden Themed basket....And bring name tags.    Meetings are held the second Tuesday of each Month at the Grand County Senior Center located at 182 North 500 West.   We meet at 6:30 p.m. to socialize; Business begins at 7:00 p.m.