While we ate we all got caught up on our lives. It's been 2 months I guess since we saw each other. No meeting in June. Children got married, new sewing machines were purchased, children going to get married, babies born, others now expecting. Oh my lots of happenings.
When we finally got out of the kitchen into the living-room for the actual meeting we were given
some patterns if you wanted for pillows. Really cute. Linda went to Seattle WA for a trip and came back with fat quarters for each of us. That was neat. Love those fat quarters! Thank you Linda. While in Seattle she went to the Fremont Fair. It was really FREE. I mean people wore NO clothes, but were painted. Does that hit your imagination like it hit mine. It is Xrated!!! I can't believe they do that, but Linda isputting up pictures to show. You decide. WOW!Show 'N'Tell time. Linda brought two table runners she made, very pretty. Same pattern but so different.
Peggy was busy- she did a 
Thimble Berries Quilt, - I love those colors. Then with her new machine a beautiful silk of Rose Topiaries. With a chocolate background, truly a WOW! Also a July 4th quilt and disappearing 9 patch and a piece; embroidered and quilted in her hoop a kind of flip'n'sew. Tricia, her sister, did one too. Peggy called hers "Cosmic Shipwreck" (wasn't quite perfect) and Tricia called hers "Perfect Light." They were outstanding!!!
Dawn brought in her T-shirt from her parents 60th wedding anniversary we talked about some time back, really cute with the parents wedding photo on front. Also a beautiful Japanese table runner for a friend. She was so afraid the friend wouldn't like it but she told Dawn she felt like those people on the TV shows that redo your house and they get all excited to see how it was done. She loved everything about it and Dawn was worried. With your talents Dawn it was never anything to worry about.
Carol brought in a quilt her grand daughter Rain didn't think she had shown before. It was of a dragon, when she was much younger she loved dragons and so she made a dragon quilt for her. Also she had two women in her life that are having baby girls so she made two quilts similar, tho not exact and one is in sage green and the other pinks. Also kitty quilt of 30's-40's fabrics. Its kinda cute and her other grand daughter, Winter, asked for it, so its "Winter's Kitty's". Also, she showed off her new book Material Obsession. It is great and has several quilts she want to make, one she's already 
started; flowers in 30's -40's prints on white background. She decided to make it 25 squares and so it amounts to 500 petals and 100 leaves to applique and yes she does it by hand, she loves it. As Carol sees it, she GETS to do it, not has to do it. Her down time. Also the cutest circus quilt is in there and she's been collecting fabrics for that. Never quit quilting. Carol will be quilting in heaven, she knows she will.Randi is now taking a class, having been encouraged by Dawn, our expert quilter, to take a
year long quilting class. She showed us her start and it is awesome. It's with Windy Moon, too far for me. I think I'll check around here and see if we can't get something closer to home. She showed us also her "Hawaiian Sunrise, Sunset" quilt and a really cute Artic quilt for a baby shower.
After all of this Linda gave a demo on doing paper piecing for the Angel quilt we are doing this year to donate to Carson-Tahoe Cancer Resource Center. It will be beautiful. All the angels in certain colors represent a type of cancer. We all took an angel or two and will work on them either separately or together depends. Linda gave a great demo, looks like fun. Really Linda, fun.There will be NO MEETING for August. Not enough of us around town. Will meet again in September, the third Tuesday, the 21st, 2010.
Food makers will be : Linda - quiche; Peggy - salad; and Margie - dessert.
Meeting over at 8:15PM.
See you then, in the mean time keep cool, enjoy the summer (it finally showed up) and keep Bzzzzzzzzzz!
Carol
