Vintage Beauty.........2010 Raffle Quilt

Created by The Harlan Valley Quilters

Oregon Quilting Company

JanniLou Creations

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" Vintage Beauty "

Donated to raise funds for Women's Cancer Programs

Pattern: Disappearing 9 Patch

CLICK HERE for a Video Tutorial

CLICK HERE to see the Winner of this Quilt

This Vintage Beauty quilt was featured Saturday, January 30, 2010 at the La Sells Stewart Center in Corvallis as part of the Lunafest Event.

Our Comfort Quilts and Raffle Quilts are created with donated Fabrics, Battings and Threads.

If you would like to donate cotton fabrics or other materials to this worthy cause, please contact LuAnn Kessi kessi@pioneer.net

Everything is Better when it is Quilted,

The Harlan Valley Quilters

Jello Printing...

The table is set for........Fun!

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Jello Printing Class at HVQ

January 25, 2010

Acrylic Paints

Print Supplies from the garage, junk drawers, all over the house!

Willing Participants...

They arrived with an open mind and willingness to try something new!

Winter Jello Print 1

Winter Jello Print 2

Winter Jello Print 3

Plastic Motifs used to make the winter prints

LuAnn's Jello Prints

Kathi's Rust Fabric Printed on Jello

More Rust Fabric Prints

Jello Printed Ferns

Claudette's Spiral Prints

More Spirals and Netting

Frieda's Rubbing Plate Prints

Frieda's String Prints

Kathi Demo: Adding Borders to Prints

Kathi's winter print w/borders added

Claudette auditioning border fabrics

Frieda adding borders to her print

Claudette's spirals ready for quilting

Kathi's rust printed fabric ready for quilting

Kathi Demo: Free Motion Quilting

Kathi plans to add metal washers and some fibers to this piece

Claudette couched fibers on top of her print

Frieda quilted circles on her print.

Love the striped binding, too!

Kathi added free motion quilting

Lots of excitement from the printing process in the morning, all the way through to the quilting and binding at the end of the day. Everyone went home with completed journal quilts, and lots more prints to make more!

Our Comfort Quilts and Raffle Quilts are created with donated Fabrics, Battings and Threads.

If you would like to donate cotton fabrics or other materials to this worthy cause, please contact LuAnn Kessi kessi@pioneer.net

Everything is Better when it is Quilted,

Harlan Valley Quilters

Challenge Fabric......Get it while it's HOT

HVQ 2010 Challenge Fabric

I will bring the challenge fabric to class on Monday.

Be sure to get a hunk of it if you plan to participate in the challenge!

Our Comfort Quilts and Raffle Quilts are created with donated Fabrics, Battings and Threads.

If you would like to donate cotton fabrics or other materials to this worthy cause, please contact LuAnn Kessi kessi@pioneer.net

Everything is Better When it is Quilted,

The Harlan Valley Quilters

Harlan, OR

2010 Challenge........ Fabric

Announcing our 2010 Challenge:

Drum Roll Please.......

2010 Challenge Fabric

Your challenge this year is to use this gorgeous batik fabric!

Guidelines:

* Any project of your choosing: Block, Journal Quilt, Quilt, 3D Project, etc.

* You may use a published pattern, or design your own.

* You may use any construction method of your choice: Rotary Cut, Paper Piece, Applique, Machine Piece, Hand Piece, etc.

* You may add as many fabrics as you like, as long as you use some of the Challenge Fabric pictured above on the front side of your quilt.

* As always, you are encouraged to try something new, step outside of your comfort zone (but this is not a requirement of the challenge this year).

* You are also encouraged to take photographs of your work in progress, and jot down notes of your thoughts along the way. (these are helpful when you reveal your project).

* You may purchase 2010 Challenge Fabric from LuAnn:

$2.50 Fat Quarter

$5.00 Half Yard

If you absolutely love this fabric and want more, it can be purchased at JanniLou Creations Quilt shop in Philomath (while supplies last).

This is your opportunity to grow as a quilter, to challenge yourself and create something new.

Deadline:

December 13, 2010

HVQ Quilters Holiday Luncheon

Our Comfort Quilts and Raffle Quilts are created with donated Fabrics, Battings and Threads.

If you would like to donate cotton fabrics or other materials to this worthy cause, please contact LuAnn Kessi kessi@pioneer.net

Everything is Better when it is Quilted,

The Harlan Valley Quilters

Fancy Footworks Class

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Using Decorative stitches for machine quilting with your walking foot.

No more boring stitch in the ditch......choose a pretty stitch instead.

Betty quilting with a walking foot and decorative stitches.

Stitching in Circles

This class sample was machine quilted using circles.

Circles are created with a thumb tack, masking tape and a cork.

Class Sample: Circles turned into Peace Signs

Echo Quilting

Can be stitched with a walking foot or a free motion foot.

Class Sample: Couching Threads

Class Sample: Couching Threads

Kathi is couching a very think and bumpy fiber.

It looks great!

Most any fiber thick or thin can be couched.

Couching done as a grid by Linda

Couching done on a landscape fabric by Betty

Kathi Couching

It was a fun day of learning to use your sewing machine feet to enhance your quilting.

Our Comfort Quilts and Raffle Quilts are created with donated Fabrics, Battings and Threads.

If you would like to donate cotton fabrics or other materials to this worthy cause, please contact LuAnn Kessi kessi@pioneer.net

Everything is Better when it is Quilted,

The Harlan Valley Quilters

Comfort Quilt Day.......Circle Quilts

The first Monday of each month we make Comfort Quilts for the Harlan Valley Community.

Today we made circles...

This circle quilt is a great way to use up the solid fabrics that have been donated to our quilting group

Easy Circle Cut Acrylic Ruler and Rotary Cutter

Freezer Paper Circle Templates

Fold a piece of freezer paper in half

Place the ruler on top and cut a perfect circle in seconds

This is the ONLY way to cut circles!

Unfold the freezer paper and you have a perfect circle template

To make sturdy templates, we ironed together 2 layers of paper.

A 4 inch circle requires a 5 inch fabric circle.

Each template was marked with the fabric cutting measurements.

Templates and fabrics cut and ready to iron...

With the freezer paper (shiny side up) on the fabric, you press the seam allowance over the edge. The fabric will stick to the waxy coating on the freezer Paper.

This gives you a smooth turned edge on your circles.

When the fabric circles have cooled, peel off the freezer paper.

The circles piled up quickly...

The leftover fabrics were cut into squares and rectangles and pieced into 12 inch block units.

Kathi piecing 12 inch block units.

The circles were appliqued onto these block units.

(sorry I forgot to take a photo)

To temporarily hold the circle in place, apply a glue stick to the back seam, then press it onto the block unit. It will keep it in place until you stitch it down.

See you next month on Comfort Quilt Day!

Our Comfort Quilts and Raffle Quilts are created with donated Fabrics, Battings and Threads.

If you would like to donate cotton fabrics or other materials to this worthy cause, please contact LuAnn Kessi kessi@pioneer.net

Everything is Better when it is Quilted,

The Harlan Valley Quilters