FEBRUARY 28th is a Guild Activity Night

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Time to clean out your sewing rooms and get ready for the guild Chinese Auction.   Bring your gently used quilting and craft items that you are willing to donate to the guild.  UFOs, kits and fabric you no longer think you will use make wonderful donations.  Tickets you have purchased will be placed in the paper bags placed next to the donated items.  A drawing will be held and you will then get  

Tickets will be 4 / 1.00 ..... Bring mailing labels to put on the ticket ... After all we do not want your hands to get too tired to fill out lots of tickets. 

Be sure to bring a friend to the event.  This is always a fun night full of treasures. 

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FEBRUARY CHARM SQUARES are GREEN !

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12 members have signed up for the charm exchange!

Green is the color of February's charms 

Provide a 6.5-inch charm square for each participant of three different fabrics that follow the theme for the month.

From a half yard of fabric, you can expect to get about 12 blocks with some extra scraps / strips of fabric.   QUILT SHOP QUALITY FABRIC is expected.  Be sure to trim off salvages before cutting your blocks.  Theme is often picked in anticipation of future Blotto blocks. 

Please put a sticker, mailing label or some indication of which blocks are yours. It will help sorting of the blocks easier.

February: greens

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FUTURE CHARM SQUARES: 

February …..  greens... any shade or type 

March …..  brights and jewel tones

April …..  birds and butterflies

May ….  FLORAL

June ….  Red, White and Blue

FEBRUARY BLOTTO BLOCK INSTRUCTIONS

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FEBRUARY BLOTTO BLOCK:

BACKGROUND FABRIC -  Cream, tone on tone, white on white, very light … the block needs good contrast ……..  please no white muslin

            Cut one 5 inch square  ……     Cut 4 squares of 2 inch size

On the back of the background fabric draw a line from corner to corner on the diagonal. 

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COLOR FABRICS:         RED, PINK, ROSE, PRINTS THAT READ AS THOSE COLORS, TONE ON TONE, RED& WHITE

            Cut one square 5 inches  ……   CUT two squares  4-5/8th inches

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Patch work:

Right sides together using a 5 inch background square and a 5 inch color square. Sew a quarter inch from the diagonal on each side and make a half square triangle.  Cut on your diagonal line.  You will have 2 half square triangles of  __4.5 inches__inches in size.  Press seams to the color side.  These will be used for the bottom half of the heart. 

LEFT SIDE

RIGHT SIDE

 

 

Using the 4-5/8 block place a 2 inch square of back ground fabric and sew on the diagonal and snow ball the corners.   Press seams to the colored patch.  Make two patches. 

 

MAKE TWO OF THIS PATCH

 

Sew all the patches together similar to a 4-patch block.  Your finished block should measure  8-3/4 __inches square. 

For Blotto you can submit up to 3 (three) blocks for a chance to win the hearts.   This is such an easy block hopefully we will have every one participates in the blotto lottery. 

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LILLIAN ORIGINAL DIRECTIONS

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