The Harlan Valley Quilters

In our gathering, we honor and celebrate our diversity. We do not seek a unity that would deny our differences. We seek rather a deeper union, a union quilted through choice and intent, through time and attention, through respect and compassion, until we recognize that we have become a whole cloth, made rich and textured and vibrant through our differences. We are quilted together. We are bound to one another. We belong to and with each other. --Mary Pauluk

Monday, February 27, 2012

Free Motion Quilting.....Class

We spent the day learning

Free Motion Quilting Designs:

We are working from DVD Tutorials

By Patsy Thompson Designs

Along with Patsy's excellent video lessons,

we trace out the design in out sketch books

to increase our muscle memory before

quilting into the fabric sandwiches.

Whimsical Vine

Patsy provides you with files of her designs

to print out directly from her website.

The Whimsical Vine is a favorite!

Light and Airy Branching Vine

Please Note:

This was quilted on a Featherweight 221

Loop D Loop Vine

By the end of the day we learned

6 new vine designs.

Now we will go home and continue

to practice and stitch these

into our quilts!

CLICK HERE to view: Patsy Thompson FREE Videos

CLICK HERE to view: Jello Printing Class

CLICK HERE to view: Challenge Quilts

CLICK HERE to view: Raffle Quilts

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

Monday, February 6, 2012

Comfort Quilts.......February 2012

The first Monday of each month...

We create Comfort Quilts....

Betty is piecing a wallpaper quilt today....

Kathy is finishing a wallpaper quilt top today...

Kathi & Abril measure a backing for the quilt...

Kathi & Barbara tying the wallpaper quilt...

We enjoy a Potluck Lunch on Comfort Quilt Days:

Yummy food baking in the ovens !

After Lunch:

Show 'N Tell...

Claudette created this wallpaper quilt for her mother:

We pulled out all of the completed Comfort Quilts:

We took inventory of the quilts...

Then we sewed labels onto the back of each quilt:

We have gifted more than

50 Comfort Quilts

to members of the Harlan Community

in the last 8 years

See you next month for Comfort Quilt Day !

CLICK HERE to view: Raffle Quilts

CLICK HERE to view: Free Motion Quilting

CLICK HERE to view: Classes

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

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