July Meeting Plans

Hi Everyone,

Stephanie here!  At our last meeting (I still need to get minutes posted....I am sorry!), we decided for our July meeting, we would do a field trip to Ann Arbor to visit Pink Castle fabrics (and other places along the way).



We will be doing this on July 22, 2017.

We are trying to organize folks for this event, so we've created a Google form for everyone to fill out.  We are asking all members of the guild to complete the form, whether or not you are planning to attend (that's one of the questions on the form), just so we know we've reached everyone.  If you please, could you complete the Google form located at this link?

Complete Google Form Here

Thank you very much!  Details about the event are located on the form as well.

Hope to see you!

Stephanie

Online Activity for June

This month we are going to make Kylie Kelsheimer's Starry Sky block. It's a fun paper-pieced block and the free pattern is available on her blog at http://aperseveringmom.com/starry-sky-block-get-the-pattern-here/

We will make the 12-inch block, pattern pieces on pages 4-7 of the pattern PDF.  Please use white with black designs/text for the background, and bright solids for the star points.

 If you need a refresher on paper piecing, Carol Doan has very good instructions here.

I found it useful to write "white and black" or "solid" on each section of the pattern pieces. 

Place fabric right-side out (wrong side against paper) on the back of the paper. 

To assemble the A-E sections, I sewed A to D, then sewed C to E, then sewed A+D to C+E, finally sewed B to the side.

Instructions here for winning all the blocks at our July meeting

Meeting this Saturday May 20

Hi everyone,

Our next meeting is this Saturday.  We will be at the Oshtemo branch of the Kalamazoo library.

Info here:  http://www.kpl.gov/oshtemo/


Carolyn will be doing a presentation on how to design and print fabric using Spoonflower.

The library opens at 10am and we will start the meeting at 10:30 am. Feel free to come early and stay after for social time.  We have the room until 2pm.

See you Saturday.

Pam