Summer Sewers Lunch Together

Margaret Leigh hosted our summer luncheon on Thursday, July 1.

In the morning, we visited over cinnamon rolls, cantaloupe and chicken tidbits, all yummy!

Shirley brought a visitor, Golda, which is always nice!

We had a great turnout for a summer meeting!

For our sew and share,Sara brought her completed scattered leaves friendship quilt. She had to leave early, so Susan did the honors of sharing her beautiful projects.

Sara's quilt is so beautiful!

She also shared two pillows made of ties.  One for Glen Cosper...

And the other made of Carl Pearson's ties for his son Craig...

Susan shared a simple notebook cover made of prequilted fabric. So easy!

Directions will follow in a later post.

Sue shared many projects. She shared a jacket made from a pattern she purchased at the Martha Pullen Sewing Market. Gorgeous fabric and design!

Sue also shared a decorated "cookie scoop" that she had included on Grace's son's gift...

She also brought two necklaces she made. Gorgeous!

And Sue also shared some cards she made with stamps purchased at Martha Pullen. So cute!

Glamour Puss....

A paper Sunbonnet Sue....

Charlotte, the cat lady...

We did not get to see any of Carole's cross stitch work this month. She says she is not a quilter.

 No one believes that after she showed us the bed quilt,

pillow cases,

shams,

and  two throw pillows she made.

The quilt is based on the sew and flip quilt patterns we have done in the past. Gorgeous!

Margaret showed her granddaughter Madison's French Rose quilt.  She is an excellent quilter, too! I guess it runs in the family...

And Margaret machine-quilted her granddaughter Annaliese's Butterfly quilt!  So cute!

But Margaret hasn't given up on her handwork.

 She has begun some garden blocks using needle-turn applique which are beautiful!

Three down and nine to go by December.

 Actually, she has patterns for twenty-four.  How about it, Margaret....

Margaret sent her mother's friendship quilt last month when she could not attend, but with some research, she and Melva have decided that it was actually made in 1929.

 You remember that Melva's mother had signed and worked on the quilt.

And the back has butterflies, too!

Grace McDonald asked for some expert advice (and we are full of that) on how to use her grandmother's Sunbonnet Sue and Sunbonnet Sam squares.

There are 24 Sues.

And there are 20 Sams.  Sounds like Grace is going to be busy making two separate quilts!

Then we lunched on some delicious salads.What great cooks we have in this group!

We showered Grace's son and daughter-in-law-to-be with some gifts.

We let Grace take a peek at the gifts, while we watched...

All too soon, it was time to leave. 

A walk through Margaret's beautiful yard revealed a beautiful spider spinning her new web. 

How appropriate, since early quilters always included a spider stitched carefully in their crazy quilts. Perhaps we can find inspiration in her work, and we can bring some new inspirational projects to share at our September meeting.  Don't forget about your Falling Leaves quilts!!