How are you doing with your summer challenge? I’m brainstorming my layout and trying to figure out how to paper piece my name so it’s about 4 inches across.
Have you seen the latest issue of Love Patchwork and Quilting?
They’ve got a pass holder project that you could easily use as a holder for a name tag!
Let us know how you’re doing in the comments. Be sure to check out our Pinterest page for more inspiration!
Well, we’ve had our last meeting for the summer! I hope everyone had an amazing time at the meeting. Wasn’t Irene MacWilliam’s talk such an inspiration?
We started the meeting announcing the Summer Challenge: Nametags! We’d love to be welcoming to new members and to be able to know everyone’s names!
Be sure to check out our Pinterest page for inspiration for your nametag. Click on the photo to take you to the board.
We also passed out a special “Southern Branch of the Irish Patchwork Society” tag to include on your nametag. If you weren’t able to get to the meeting and would like to participate, please send an email to corkips AT gmail DOT com. From there, Erin will give you an address to send a self addressed stamped envelope so you can be sent a tag.
The Block of the Month was announced as well, the X-Plus Block!
We’ll be continuing this project over the summer, posting the instructions here on the blog. Be on the lookout in the beginning of July and August.
Irene MacWilliam also gave a retrospective on her work, and brought along samples to share. Here’s a slideshow of some of the works she brought along to show:
Our Show and Tell was also inspiring! Just look at all these projects!
Our next meeting will be September 12th, but keep watching the blog. We’ve got a lot of content planned to give you your patchwork fix! Have a great Summer!
Stuck in a rut with your quilting? Did you enjoy making the block from the block of the month?
Don’t forget to check out our Pinterest website! We’ve got boards over there for each of our Blocks of the Month, and of our recent demonstrations/speakers!
I’ve spent some time this morning finding some tutorials about improvisational piecing if you were inspired by Sandra Jensen’s talk at the last meeting! 
And look at all these interesting quilts using April’s Block!
Let us know if you’d like to see anything else on the Pinterest website!
What a fantastic turnout we had at today’s meeting.
We started out with announcements and then moved on to Show and Tell. And the show and tell? How inspiring are these quilts?
Well done ladies! Fantastic work!
We then moved on to the Block of the Month project, debuting our Churn Dash block.
Due to the fact that our speaker had the flu, several of our members stepped up and provided demonstrations.
There was a tissue packet demo:
And a Japanese Rice Bag demonstration.
You can find the handout for the rice bag demo here.
Our next meeting is April 11th. It will be our AGM and we’ll have Sandra Jansen speaking about Improvisational Piecing. Start working on your show and tell now!
Southern Branch of the Irish Patchwork Society 