Welcome to our new year for Crescent Quilters! While we are in the midst of the pandemic, we will not be holding meetings as we were before. We may have some very small get togethers at Seniors Come Share, but this will be decided on a month to month bases. We will still have a monthly newsletter, and a community quilt challenge.We have had good response of people signing up for the round robin activity. Twenty-eight people have signed up so far. It is an activity that will give us an opportunity to connect with a couple of other Cresent Quilters' each month. It will also be a great way to spark your creativity as well. If you have not yet signed up, but would like to, please send an email to Gloria. It will start in October.
This month, one of our new members Lisa P. has submitted her bio. Iris Z. one of our long time members has also submitted her bio. Read on for both bios.
Lisa Pulsifer
Lisa is a talented fiber artist who is accomplished in cross-stitch, crochet, knitting, embroidery, applique and quilting. While knitting is her first love, quilting is quickly overtaking her craft room. You may recognize Lisa when you see her as many of you will have purchased fabric with her help at Dragonfly Quilting and Gifts in Cloverdale where she started working in May.
When not diving into the world of quilting Lisa can be found hiking in the mountains. Don’t expect to see much of her during the summer months when she disappears into the mountains for weeks of adventures.
Lisa is almost entirely self-taught and looks forward to the opportunity to share with and learn from others in the quilting world.
Iris Zeller
I started Quilting in 1996 when my youngest of three
started grade 1. I took a beginner
quilting class in Tsawwassen through Delta Continuing Education. The class was from 10-2pm. Gave me enough time to attend and be back to
pick up my kids from school. One of my
class mates invited me to come to the Fraser Valley Quilters Guild. They met once a month in Surrey. I attended and it was huge 500 members. Approximately 300 people attending the day
meeting.
I made friends at that guild by volunteering and
taking classes. There was a small group
of us that would get together twice a week to quilt and take turns hosting in
the various members homes. I learned so
much. I liked the large guild for the
guest speakers and the classes. The
challenge was getting to know people. It
was a really large group.
One of the ladies I met in the group I mentioned above
had just moved to White Rock. We were
good friends and she heard that there was a group starting up in White
Rock. They would meet once a month in
the evening. This was perfect it was now
2001 and I had gone back to work full time now.
So daytime was not an option. I
was the last one to join the group of Crescent Quilters when it started.
The purpose was to have a small intimate group that
could get to know one another. I have
been a member ever since. I love this
group, it has had changes, both members have changed and our meeting location. This
is now our 3rd location at Come Share.
I find quilting enjoyable, and my therapy from my
crazy work life and sometimes our own busy lives with family and commitments.
I would say that I am a butterfly quilter. By that I mean, I go from one technique to
another. I enjoy trying all kinds of
quilting styles. I have some I really
like, such as machine applique or art quilts.
I am no expert, probably because I do not stay with one thing long
enough before I move on.
I dislike binding quilts by hand and I can not hand
applique to save my life. It looks like
a 5-year-old worked on it. I can thread
paint and I can complete patterns if the instructions and the instructor focus
on the visual.
I have taken many classes over the years, and been
very fortunate to have taken classes with many international quilters as
well. I even went to Houston in 2014.
2020 has been a very challenging year. Not just for me but for everyone I know. My daughter in law lost her dad early January
and he was only 59 years old. I am now
in the process of making a memory quilt for her mother from his clothes.
Originally, I thought this would be fairly easy, the
man always wore t shirts and jogging pants when I saw him. Well when I got the bag of clothes, yes there
were jogging pants and the plaid pj pants.
And some t shirts. Only one t
shirt had a logo and that was one his wife brought back from Vegas a few years
back when she and her mother went on a trip.
The rest of the t shirts were plain.
Let me tell you this memory quilt has been my biggest challenge so far and I
have been quilting for 24 years.
Everyone of the fabrics her wore were cotton spandex or polyester in the
fabric. I cut everything out and I
backed it with stabilizer. I ended up
embroidering, and doing photo collage to complete this lap quilt. I also backed it with a beautiful red minke
fabric.
I hope his wife loves it when I give it to her next
month. As you can see from the pictures
it is not quite finished yet. Probably
one of my favorite things is that I used one of the pockets from his Mack
Jacket. Inside I will be putting a hanky
that has his birthday their anniversary and day he passed. I hope it is a comfort and a surprise to his
wife when she finds it.
I have enclosed some pictures for you to see how I put
it together. I included pictures of
everyone in their immediate family into the quilt and embroidered his favorite
things.
Going back to the butterfly quilter, I am also working
on the following projects as well,
Bring home the Christmas tree.
Suzy sitcoms Pigeon quilt.
A monopoly lap quilt.
And I am still trying to finish 3 quilts from classes
I took recently. If you are a new
quilter, I hope you enjoy our group. I
look forward to meeting you. For those of you who already know me. I enjoy this group so much as we are
wonderful and inspire one another.
Iris
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