Lucky Stars

Colorado Valley Quilt Guild presents "Lucky Stars" to Saint Mark's Medical Center Foundation Vice-President Linda Morrison. Each year, CVQG donates a quilt as a fundraiser to our local hospital. This year, Jackie organized efforts to make this beautiful 30s style quilt from a pattern by Atkinson Designs. The quilt will be auctioned at the Foundation's annual fund raiser October 24 at the KC Hall in La Grange. Pictured left to right are: Morrison, Kathy Theut, CVQG President, Debbie Higgins, CVQG Past President and Jackie Asbill, SMMCF Quilt Project Chair. Photo by Carolyn Bohot, CVQG member.

Dot Collins - Big, Bold Baskets

Be on the look-out for some Big, Bold Baskets from the Dot Collins Workshop participants last month. Dot taught the group how to turn striped fabric into a woven basket and then fill that basket with flowers – either strip piecing them or really filling the basket with broderie persed flowers.

The class then learned techniques for strip piecing 4 fabrics to form triangles that bordered that big basket of flowers. Workshop participants were Jackie Asbill, Brenda Camp, Dianna Foster, Jo Ann Gore, Kristi Grigsby, Debbie Higgins, Wanda Hubbard, Jo Knox, and Kay Marburger.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Animal Shelter Service Quilt

For the third year in a row, CVQG's nimble needles went to work for the           homeless cats and dogs of Fayette County. Last year, the pieced Scottie quilt brought rave reviews from supporters of the Gardenia E. Janssen Animal Shelter in La Grange. This year, the cats insisted on equal time and the result is "Sheltered Cats." The appliquéd cats are framed by Puss in the Corner blocks. The cat-print fabric is machine quilted with leaves and flowers, as if the kitties were taking a stroll in the garden. Our thanks go out to Critters Patterns (www.critterpat.com) for permission to use their wonderful appliqué designs.