AZ Huggy Bunch

Five of us met today and we had a visit from Andee too, so we hope to see her here again to sew in the near future.

BJ said Andee needed to try the baked banana pudding I had made and she put her stamp of approval on it!

As did the rest of us a bit later after we shared a lunch of Margarita pizza, chicken salads and roasted cauliflower salad!

Today we all worked on a quilt project together making scrappy red, white and blue Disappearing Nine Patch [D9P] blocks for a Quilt Of Valor. We got off to a good start........

then Alissa came and we had to break to check out her latest project- Alissa likes to sew tiny pieces together! She is probably the most "modern" style quilter among us, preferring these graphic sort of quilts. This will be a city skyline scene, it's going to be very cool!

I managed to catch our youngest member taking a phone picture of the progress we made on the QOV.

We ended up with the thirty blocks we wanted for a quilt that will measure around 60"x70", we are not planning to put borders on it.

Next time we will square up the blocks and sew them all together and I will quilt it with the flag and star design that works so well for these patriotic quilts.

We were all quite pleased with our work and our first community project as a group- I sort of think that makes us an "official" group!

AZ Huggy Bunch

Five of us met on Saturday and all made some progress. BJ brought turkey wraps and deadly [for our figures] brownies for lunch, Lauren and Shayla brought their wonderful chicken salad and I had made fresh biscotti.

BJ showed off her latest finish, now bound and needing just the label. We all love it.

Here is Lauren's work so far on her "Rattlesnake" quilt - she has decided that she will need to make eight more of these PP blocks to have a more useable sized quilt.

I finished binding this orphan block quilt.......

and cut up the fabrics for another baby boy quilt.

Shayla learned to machine applique and I forgot to take pics, and Alissa worked on her cityscapes quilt, I promise photos from these last two next AZ.HB meeting.

Our next full meeting will be in two weeks and we are planning to make patriotic blocks for Quilts Of Valor for Wounded Warriors. We will pool our red, white and blue fabrics and make scrappy D9P blocks.