End of the Guild Season

Well this past Saturday was the last meeting of my guild for the season. I had a good time at the meeting- I handed off a donation quilt and got rid of some fabric and tools from my sewing room as well. We have a "free table" at every meeting and members bring in fabric, notions and whatever for it. I usually get a pretty good haul of stuff and this month was no exception, but this month I had some good things to give away as well.

At the end of every guild year we make quilt blocks for departing Board members; we're assigned the patterns ahead of time and bring them to the final meeting.

This is one of the blocks and

this is the other; variations on the same pattern in different colorways. They were easy and fun to piece up and I got to use some scraps which is always good.

I got to show off the two things I've completed recently- the Crumb Stars and the unfinished top from the retreat. Here's a picture before I actually stitched it together:

I have a few other things to work on first but I'm hoping to get it quilted up before the fall. I'm planning to back it with some special fabric. More on that later.

The guild also introduced two challenges for the summer, neither of which I'm participating in. I did agree to take a round robin quilt home and quilt and finish it over the summer months, so that is my contribution to guild activities.

As always it was so great to see everyone and I had a great time. Cheers to our Board for doing such a terrific job for another year.