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Have fun with this one!
This Table Topper focuses on using your scraps from left-overs, fat quarters, 2 ½ in strips, collections or maybe one of those darling Jelly Rolls that you 'just had to have' but haven't used yet!
BATTING: 30-33 inch square (An insulated batting makes a nice heat-protective pad).
BACKING: 7/8 yard (or more if optional outer border is desired)
BINDING: about 120 running inches of 2 ½ in wide strips (I use jelly rolls scraps)
For a 28" X 28" Table Topper You'll Need:
BACKGROUND FABRICS: About ¾ yard total of 5 to 10 or more fabrics, including various Off-whites, very pale tones, or small prints that read very light:
MEDIUM FABRICS: About ¼ yard of 3-5 or more fabrics of the similar color, including various solids, tone on tones, or prints of medium tones. For example: different shades of medium pinks. The mediums should have contract from background and dark fabrics.
DARK FABRICS: About ¼ yard of 3-5 or more fabrics of the similar color, including various solids, tone on tones, or prints reading darker tones. For example: different shades of dark pinks. The darks should have contract from background and medium fabrics.
IN ADDITION: 6 sheets of 2" finished Thangles for constructing 1/2 square triangles, OR piece using your favorite method.
Check in on June 28th for the rest of the instructions!
Questions to Nat H. please!
STEP 1: Click Here on June 28th!
STEP 2: Click Here on June 28th!
STEP 3: Click Here on June 28th! Caution! This step reveals the quilt layout! Do Not Open until you are ready for the mystery to be revealed!
To give Moonlighters an extra incentive to complete quilts and enter them in the quilt show, Projects is issuing a 2008 UFO Challenge. Register your UFO’s, and then finish them to receive entries for a special drawing to be held in December.
- Make a list of your UFO’s (Un Finished Objects {quilts or quilt type projects that have been started, and then for some reason had to have work on them stopped, so they just sat}).
- On your list give each UFO a description or name (please make sure to give enough information to identify finished quilt from your list)
- approximate date UFO was started
- stage UFO is in now (quilt top done; blocks are finished; pieces are cut; fabric bought with pattern & recipient planned; etc.)
- size you intend UFO to be (dimension in inches; or wall hanging, throw, bed {size – crib, twin, queen, etc.} quilt)
- You may include any other information you wish (who it’s for, or why you started it, or even why it sat unfinished).
- Bring your list to the projects VPs – Donna C. or Nat H. to register your UFO’s
- When you finish a UFO, you must bring it to a guild meeting to share, or bring a picture of the completed quilt to the Projects VPs for inclusion in the drawing.
- Every completed UFO gives you another chance in the drawing. The number of participants and number of completed UFOs will determine the number of prizes available.
All UFO’s must be pre-registered, and must have been started in 2007 or earlier to be eligible.
Questions? Call Donna C.Ugly Fabric
Thanks to all who participated in our Ugly Fabric Challenge. We still are hoping to see the quilts created with someone else's "Ugly Fabric".
Moonlight Quilters' Birthday Club!
Birthday Club will continue in 2008!
Thank you to the 17 members who participated in 2007. We hope you are enjoying your birthday surprise.
Bring another 12 fat quarters and re-register for our 2008 edition Birthday Club.
To Join:
Bring in 12 assorted fat quarters (18 x 22" quilt shop quality 100% cotton fabrics)
Fill out a sign up card with your Name, Address, Phone #, Birthday, and Favorite Color.
How It Works:
The VPs will receive and mix all the fat quarters and in your birthday month you will receive an assortment of 12 fat quarters from those contributed.
To enable new members to sign up later in the year, new birthday club members can bring in their 12 fat quarters at any time between January 2008 and December 2008!
You must bring 12 fat quarters to join. If you join after your birthday has passed this year, you will receive your 12 fat quarters in 2009.
** Please do not bring in any flannel FQs
** Please do not bring more that 4 duplicated fat quarters (of the same fabric)
Scrap Busters
Scrap busting tips and patterns will be available periodically throughout 2008.
Our first set involves half-square triangles and will be available in January.
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Make your own list or use our UFO Challenge Form
Apple Flag Block-(diagram and cutting directions)
The Apple Flag block is just for fun as you roll into a New Year of quilting. Make a single block for yourself, or combine three for a table runner. You'll love having it in your home come July 4th!
Lynn's Completed Apple Flag
Completed Projects!
November Sew In Mystery Project-"Countdown to Christmas" was developed as a mixer for the Squamish Valley Quilters' Guild Christmas social.
Fabric You'll Need:
- 3/4 yd. print for blocks, borders, & binding
- Cut 3 strips 4 1/2" x width of fabric
- From above strips, sub cut 2-37" strips, 2 -21" strips, and 3-4 1/2" squares
- Cut 4 strips 2 1/2" X width of fabric & save in baggie for binding. If you don't have enough fabric--cut these strips at 2 1/4" or choose a coordinating fabric for binding instead.
- 2 fat quarters of two different fabrics to go with your print fabric
- *Cut 12-4 7/8" squares; Sub cut once diagonally=24 triangles
- 1/2 yd. off white, cream tone on tone, or plain background fabric
- *Cut 6-4 7/8" squares from each; Sub cut all squares once diagonally to yield 12 triangles of each fabric
Use the above cutting directions to make 24 -1/2 sq Triangles
- 12 - 1/2 sq Triangles from your Background (cream) and fabric 1 (red)
- 12 - 1/2 sq Triangles from your Background (cream) and fabric 2 (green)
Trim your 1/2 sq triangles to 4 1/2 in sq.
Piecing Directions:
| Make six sets each of 1/2 square triangles using background and colors 1 (red) and 2 (green) |  |
Add another 1/2 square triangle with color 2 (green) |
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| Make 3 strips using Color (1) 1/2 square triangles with your focus fabric |  |
| Now sew your strip together as in the photo |  |
| You have 3 friendship stars |  |
| Sew your three stars together. |  |
Add your borders cut from the long rectangles.
Quilt as desired. Add binding cut from your scrap strips of focus fabric.
Even scraps from the project can inspire!
Chicken Pin Cushion-Our first project of 2005!
Join other members and bring your finished Chicken to the March guild meeting. That is if you can get it away from your husband or your kids! Contact Linda P. for directions!
