Important News! Sad, sad
news but very important!
Grammie
Tammie’s, The Wet Mountain Quilt Shop, in Westcliffe, Colorado will close its
doors on August 31st. They will continue with their ONLINE Shop at www.grammietammies.com.
The
Creative Cloth Closet in Canon City, Colorado is closing its
doors. No date since everything’s heading out the door fast. Within a month or
so the Cactus Kilter Quilter predicts.
Stitcher’s
Garden Quilt Shop in Pueblo, Colorado is closing its doors on
December 31st unless a buyer steps up to keep the doors open. So if
you have a desire to run a small business, here’s your opportunity.
Not so sad news …
First
Stitches Quilt Shop & Sewing Center in Canon City,
Colorado has their OPEN sign up.
Check out what’s happening in person or visit http://www.firststitches.com/. Kim is a thread-aholic
and she has material witnesses.
That’s what’s happening in the
local area; here’s what’s happening closer to home…
Block of the Month is Garlic Knots
You know, those yummy pizza sidekicks from Angelo’s Pizza? For your
dining pleasure, head over to the strip mall over by WalMart in Pueblo West for
a nibble or a bite….
Whoa Nellie! That’s not the knots Katya Holden is referring to. She
meant the Garlic Knots Block using 2-inch fabric strips.
(Here’s a way to decrease your
fabric stash for CKQs who declared they were NOT buying ANY fabric THIS year.)
From http://www.quiltmaker.com/articles/Garlic_Knots,
here’s the naughty, I mean, knotty
quilt.
The exterior background is
cream tone-on-tone or white tone-on-tone. As you can see in the pix, it doesn’t
matter if the center squares are contrasting inside-out or outside-in, just as
long as there’s a contrast.
August Program: Using the Log
Cabin Trim Tool
Barbara Hensley gave a quick
demo on the Log Cabin Trim and the Pineapple Log Cabin tools. She showed how
using strip fabrics – doesn’t matter the width as long as it’s wider than the
finished size – can easily make log cabin (pineapple log cabin) blocks fast and
accurate using one or the other tool.
Tip of the Month
Bernie Villanueva
demonstrated the Tip of the Month. This was sooooooooo cool that CKQ HAD to
share!!!! Basting a quilt without destroying your knees or back! Here’s the
handout and Bernie basically uses the same techniques.
A 
moment! CKQ has a table, a collapsible cutting
table with a 5/8-inch thickness. She also has 2-inch binder clips leftover from
when manuscripts where bound and sent to editors. (Before the Internet highway
made manuscript transportation easy, fast, and inexpensive. No more over the
transom or under the bathroom stalls to get your mss into an editor’s hands.)
Anywhoooo, Bernie uses the
binders to clip the backing to the table, lightly spray-bastes, spreads the
batting over the backing, sprays, then spreads the top over the batting. She
readjusts the binders to clip all three layers and pin-bastes the three layers.
She removes the binders, moves the layers to spray-baste and pin the next
section until the entire quilt is basted. Note: Always leave a basted area on
the table and work from that section outward to straighten, tighten, and clamp
before basting. This method prevents ripples and excess fabric bunching.
No shifting occurs, even if
she doesn’t get to quilting the sandwich for a few months.
Bernie also handed out
homemade liquid starch recipes; one uses vodka. After reading the recipe, if
you use your mouth as the spritzer, CKQ recommends not using heavy machinery –
the sewing machine or your hot iron – unless you spritz in moderation, I mean,
in small ingestion, I mean… use a spray bottle!
2014 Quilt Challenge
How’s your quilt coming along? We
have 11 weekends left to work on it. Or for the lucky ones, you have about 79
days to complete and present your 2014 Challenge Quilt on November 3rd.
If you’re planning on having a large quilt, CKQ recommends you begin BEFORE
Nov. 2nd and BEFORE Oct. 27th. Some last-minute CKQs will
try to prove me wrong. Go ahead. But why add stress to your life?
Remember, September’s meeting
is not the first Monday of the month. That’s Labor Day and frankly, most of us
are lazing around the BBQ. Pueblo West
Quilters will meet the 2nd Monday, September 8th at 494 Hemlock Drive in Pueblo West.
Keep
yer head down. You never know when you’ll spot a pick-up dime….
Cactus
Kilter Quilter
