November 22 Surprise Project

Carrolee and Peggy have a fun quick project for us on November 22.
 Watch your email for specific supplies list but this will be made by strip piecing and then cutting into triangles with a 60 degree ruler...easy peasy
Here's a link to a TUTORIAL

If you have a 60 degree triangle ruler bring it along and strips...2-2.5 inch for a small version and 2.5 -3 for a larger version.

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Sneak Peek Block of the Month 2017

Yeah it's a little early but to allow group members to save or print the block of the month info we are going to get a head start on 2017's project.

Be My Neighbor BOM  click on the purple

More info to come at the Christmas party Dec 6....

Quilt of Valor August 16

Marianne will be heading up our Quilt of Valor work.
We will be presenting our quilts in November for Veterans Day remembrance.
We need all members to lend a hand!

Block of the Month August 9

Jill will be presenting our August blocks

Page 58 Scrapy Maple Leaf

page 64  Sunday Morning

Springville Trip

Join New Friends at the Springville Museum of Art for the

 43rd annual quilt show.

You will be sure to see the best that Utah has to offer in quiltmaking.
Meet at 10 AM in the parking lot to carpool 

After the museum we will head over to The Art City Trolley Restaurant  256 North Main Street in Springville...a change for this year.  It has great reviews for yummy food.

Community Service Day Once More

Always plenty to do at the quilt room for Community Service day.

 Don't let us down and see what we can accomplish as a group!

JULY  26  10 am

July 12 Day Group

It's Block of the Month day again

Cathie will be leading us through 

Milking Day  page 45

And Pinwheels  page 56

Quilt Show Info!

Add this info to your to do lists!

July 5  10 am Hang the Quilt show

upstairs at the senior building.  Bring a step ladder if you have one 

July 6  7 pm  Night Group Hangs the ribbons on the winners

July 7-9

Steel Days Quilt Show

Peggy and committee will have sign ups for quilt show minders (baby sitters) to keep the quilts safe and undamaged.  Take a shift or two and we can share the work.  It's always fun to be there as a representative of New Friends and answer what  questions the public might have and see the excitement when someone recognizes a quilt with a ribbon.  

July 9 4:30 pm

Helpers needed to take down the show and it's amazing how fast it goes when we have a lot of helpers.

June 28 Check In Quilts

Volunteers Needed to help check in quilts for the quilt show.

No experience necessary, you can sign up with Peggy and committee ahead of time or just show up and there will be something you can do to help.

June 21 Community service

June Community Service Day

June 21 which is the THIRD Tuesday not the usual LAST 

There is always some way you can help out with our latest projects.

See you there

June Farm Girl Vintage

Block of the Month day is June14 lead by Carrolee

 Fresh Pears  page 32

Old Red Barn page 48

NIght Group June 14

Subject: Sweet Pickin's tablerunner

The the tablerunner is SWEET PICKIN'S and designed by Darlene Zimmerman.  It is in the May/June 2011 Fons & Porter's LOVE OF QUILTING magazine.  It is not hard just takes a little time.  It is 18" x 43 1/2".

Materials needed:  You can use any color you want.  Just make they contrast with each other.

3 fat quarters in a white print, a red print and a yellow plaid or print for blocks

1/2 yard blue paid or print for border and binding

3/4 yard multi-color for outer border

1 1/4 yard backing fabric

Batting

CUTTING - If you come with it already cut, all you have to do is sew.  Yes!  Make sure you label them.

1.  From white fat quarter, cut:

     1 (4 1/4" wide) strip.  From the strip cut 3 (4 1/4" ) Squares.  Cut squares in half diagonally in both directions to make 12 quarter-square B triangles

2. From the red print fat quarter, cut: 

     2 (3 7/8" squares) Cut 6 (3 7/8") squares.  Cut squares in half diagonally to make 12 half square A triangles.

3.  From the yellow fat quarter, cut:

     1 (4 1/4" wide) strip.  From the strip, cut 3 (4 1/4" wide) squares.  Cut squares in half diagonally in both directions to make 12 quarter square B triangles.

4.  From the blue plaid or print cut:

     4 (1 1/2" wide strips.  From the strips cut 4 (1 1/2" x 14") F rectangles, 6 (1 1/2" 8 1/2") D rectangles and 6 (1/2" x 6 1/2") C rectangles.

5.  3 (2 1/4" wide) strips for binding.

6.  From the multi-print, cut: 3 (4: wide) strips for outer borders.  1 (10 1/2").  From the strip cut 1 (10 1/2" square.  Cut square in half diagonally in both directions to make 4 quarter square E triangles.

Hope you enjoy!

Janine

June 7

The first meeting in June is our annual

Picnic in the Park

10 am in the pavilion between the library and the senior building.  Because it is sprinkler season you might want to bring a towel to help dry off the picnic tables...just a suggestion.

Don't forget your pot luck dish and show and tell.  Can't wait to see everyone

Thought some of you might be interested in this free pattern 

It's a great traditional basket quilt

http://www.quiltviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/blooming_instructions-final.pdf

And another free pattern from Connecting Threads

http://www.connectingthreads.com/cfpatterns/pattern_display.cfm?ID=991667&media=BE160603&email=cooki801%40afconnect.com&elink=1--HugsAndKissesQuiltPattern&utm_source=media&utm_medium=bem&utm_campaign=BE160603&utm_content=1--HugsAndKissesQuiltPattern

NIght Group May 31

It's Quilt of Valor time again (QOV)

May Block of the Month

Patty will be leading the BOM for May
Hope you have had a chance to see her examples.

 Wooly Lamb

And one other not pictured.

Like You Don't Have Enough on Your Plate

Did you know that famous quilt teacher, author and radio personality Pat Sloan has a free Mystery Block of the Month going on?

Some of you may have admired Cathie D's Splendid Sampler but might not be ready to make 100 blocks at 6 inches each however these are 16 inch blocks with all the great style and pizazz of Pat's designs.

Find the info HERE

  It's not too late to join in and it's FREE!

NIght Group May 10

Janine will be giving tips and tricks for our Lori Holt Farm Girl Vintage BOM.
Bring any completed blocks for show and tell that night.

Also Janine will be leading our Lori Holt Flowers ideas that night.
Did you know that you can find similar shapes on the Brother Scan and Cut?
Maybe Peggy or Cathie will bring their machines and cut a few shapes.
Check out Lori's Pintrest boards for ideas!

April Community Service Day

Willing hands and happy smiles are welcome.  April 26

Remember we will NOT have show and tell on this day to leave plenty of time for all the work we need to do.

May Tea Party Time

All New Friends are invited to our 

May Tea Party meeting  May 3
NOTE CHANGE OF PLACE TO
 THE AMERICAN FORK SENIOR BUILDING

Dress in your tea party best and hats and gloves are encouraged!
If you have a tea cup/pot etc that is special to you bring it for display.
If you would like to share a favorite tea party snack we would love to have a variety of treats to share.

Tea Party food, lemonade will be offered
Bring your show and tell and let's enjoy each other's company

More Mini Quilts-April 19

Meeting time will be spent finishing up those mini quilts for our fundraiser.

Bring your project and get it ready for turning in.

This will be replacing our usual fund raising drawing...still a drawing but this time there will be multiple chances to win and hopefully more money for our community service projects.

 

Block of the Month April

It's Marianne's turn to present block of the month
page 18 Chicken Foot

 And Churn dash
page 19

April Monthly Meeting

Rain or shine New Friends always have a lovely monthly meeting day in the Pleasant Grove Library little theater. 

Join us April 5 10 am 

Trunk show from Sharon Badge...I bet you'll find some great inspiration

Don't forget your "block shuffle" blocks for the drawing and of course 

show and tell.

All Are Welcome

We are sad to see our sweet friend Jera move on to Washington but we want to give her a muy bien going away lunch.

Thursday March 24

Noon 

La Fountain Restaurant  right beside Denney's kiddy corner to Lowes  in Lehi

Night Group March 29

The evening's project is a demo of using a walking foot in your quilting by Janine.

http://www.connectingthreads.com/Books/Foolproof_Walking-Foot_Quilting_Designs__D46246.HTML 

National Quilt Day 2016

Block of the Month March

Lana will be leading our Block of the Month day with two new blocks to add to your Farm Girl Vintage project.

Flag page 47

And the fun Sunny Sunflower page 66

Two more great blocks to add to your quilt to be.

March Pleasant Grove Meeing

Don't miss a great guest presentation by Corn Wagon Quilts.

There are always wonderful things going on at Corn Wagon shop and it will be exciting to see what they have to show us.
If you have a project you learned from them or a class you have taken be sure to share it!

http://www.cornwagonquilts.com

NIght Group March 8

Night Group will be starting our journey through the book
Farm Girl Vintage by Lori Holt.  Members will need to purchase their own copy of the book, however there is a copy kept in the quilt room if you would like to use it while you are IN the room.
The book is to be shared with both the day and night group so it can't be removed from the room.

Janine will be leading the project and it will NOT be sewing at the meeting but a demo and answering questions etc.
It will be 2 blocks a month so stay tuned for more info

Then Linda will be leading us through the project.
Linda will be ordering patterns but here in a link
http://www.craftsy.com/pattern/sewing/accessory/sew-together-bag/36309

Community Service February

There is always plenty to do for our day of service this month.
Enthusiastic workers needed,  you never know what you can do to help.

Because we want to get as much done as possible Carmen has asked that you save any show and tell for the next week.  We know you are excited to share but it's important to use Community Service day to get as much done as possible!

Night Goup 2/23

Night Group will be making a table runner/topper from this pattern

LINK

Make Mine Plaid from Free Quilts .com.  JoAnn gave out patterns but you can download it free by signing up for the website linked above.

Supply list on the download

Workshops for Fun

We will be doing two projects on one day lead by our fun friend Patty.

See the pictures below and also supply list

Supplies:

1. One 12 inch square of insul-bright or two 12 inch squares of cotton batting (you can use 10 to 12 inch squares)
2. Three 12 inch squares of cotton fabric (10 to 12 inch squares)
3. Two 12 inch squares of contrasting fabric or all scrappy 12 inch squares (or again 10 to 12 inch squares)
4. One 1 inch by 5 inch rectangle fabric for hanger (optional)
5. Notions: Scissors, thread, pins or clover clips optional walking foot

Supply list: 

3/8 yard band color fabric (mine is dotted) cut to 10 inches by 41 inches.

2 inches contrast fabric cut to 2 inches by 41 inches

7/8 yard main body fabric cut to 26 ½ inches by 41 inches

All seams will be ½ inch seam allowance.

Block of the Month February

Next up for block of the month are blocks 27 and 42
Farmhouse

Mama Hen

Quilt Of Valor Jan 2016

Carolee snapped a picture of the beginning of Jan Quilt of Valor in progress.
Great Job Ladies!

Community Service Jan 26

Show up ready to sew for others.

We have lots to do and even if you only have a short amount of time there is someway you can contribute.

Because we want to get as much done as possible Carmen has asked that you save any show and tell for the next week.  We know you are excited to share but it's important to use Community Service day to get as much done as possible!

Quilt of Valor Workshop

Jan 19
Marianne Hampton will be leading us in a new QOV with a "kit" ready to sew.
If you don't want to sew Jera has the most recent quilt ready to baste so you can do that as well.

The QOV have been so successful because everyone pitches in and does a little bit so the quilts come together quickly and are off to those Freedom Keepers who need to know we appreciate their service.

Night Group It's January!

Finally it's time for quilting with New Friends night group once more.

Jan 12

Linda will be leading us through a cute project Dresden Neighborhood. 

Next week I, Linda Dodge, will be teaching the Dresden Neighborhood House block.

Please look through your stash and bring:

20 strips – 2 ½” to 4” in width x 5” to 8” in length in a variety of colors. We could even trade fabrics if you want.

small scraps for the roofs, windows and doors.

24” x 24” Background fabric

Fusible web

Dresden ruler I have two so if you don’t you can use mine if you don’t have one.

For ideas and pictures of what we are doing Google: Dresden Neighborhood quilt.

If you have questions call me.

Linda Dodge 801-785-4976

Then the next meeting, Jan. 26 will be our yearly planning meeting and pot luck.

Whatever you would like to do in 2016 bring ideas to share and be ready to teach or find someone who will teach the project or learning evening.  Lot's of fun ahead.