Consistently honing our craft

The Conejo Valley Quilters is always working on numerous individual and group projects, including personal quilts and gifts for the community.

Scrappy block of the month quilt

Are you ready to start another fun year? I am! I don't know about you but I keep getting more and more scraps of fabric, so I have decided to have Block Party work on designing a scrappy quilt.

Again you will get to design and keep your own quilt. I will display photos of samples of some quilts to give you some inspiration. We will learn a new block/technique each month. The blocks will be of different sizes so you will be able to make different groupings that, when put together, play well with each other.

I will be taking signup in May and will have notebooks ready with some guidelines to get you started. We may even have a meeting or two to encourage one another.

Nadine Cassady

UFO challenge!

Boy, do I need this one. I have so many Un-Finished-Objects, it's not funny. So come join the UFO Challenge.

You decide how many UFOs you can complete in four months. Then sign a UFO Challenge Card with the number of projects you can finish, and get to work. I will be grouping you in small groups so you can keep each other motivated and get to know more people in the Guild. The first four months are planned so that you can enter finished quilts in the 2011 Quilt Show. We will repeat the Challenge two more times before June 2012, and you will sign a new Challenge Card each time. This will help each of us stay on track for a whole year. I will be at each Guild meeting between 5:30 & 6 PM for those that want to meet and share what you have accomplished that month. Bring your FINISHED OBJECTS for Show & Tell each month, and get your card stamped. Hopefully, your reward will be many finished quilts in the 2011-2012 year. That is my goal, I hope it is yours.

Nadine Cassady