January Quilt Guild Meeting

Patricia brought her "chain of stars" quilt

Joy showed her yellow and blue star quilt from Patricia's class

Belinda won the Focus Fabric Blocks from a previous month and put them together to finish the quilt (Christmas Colors)

Evelyn showed a baby quilt - blue sail boats

Maggie made blue and white couching - beautiful

Mahiran made a pink and brown and green sampler quilt from Wendy's class

Mahiran made a blue and brown sampler quilt.

Norah showed her purple and white stars from Patricia's class

Norah holding Joy's blue and white star quilt

Patricia showed her color of the sea quilt in pastel colors

Leslie brought her appliqued Qatar quilt with Arabic letters on the borders

Nattawan showed her multi-colored fan quilt

Kathleen brought her finished UFO of a bright-colored sampler
Good for her!!

Nattawan showed her yellow and green quilt

Guild Has New Email Address

The Qatar Quilt Guild has a new email address please update your records to:
qatarquiltguild@gmail.com

Dec. 30th Sloppy Stars Class

This was a great class taught by Patricia. She was organzied and we had a great potluck lunch as well. She took a few pictures so maybe she can share some later. She worked us to death and kept our spirits up when we thought it had to be "perfect" and was not! Thanks Patricia!

Social Development Center Tour December 3rd

Thank you, Evelyn al-Misnad, for arranging this wonderful tour for the Qatar Quilters and their guests. In the photo below, QQ's and guests are watching Evelyn's sister-in-law demonstrate how wool is spun in the center, into yarn.

A demonstration of Gulf Sadu weaving, a cherished tradition in Qatar:

A view of the new Social Development Center, where the abandoned women, widows and homeless in Qatar can develop skills which will help provide a livelihood.

Qatar Quilters Christmas Lunch at La Cigale

A great time was had by all! Thank you, Roberta, Pat, Soraya, and everyone who contributed to making sure we all had a good time. The door prizes were wonderful, and it was a time of great quilting fellowship.

November Guild Meeting and Challenge

Another glorious meeting, with the unveiling of the Holiday Challenge, and a visit from Mala to provide us with our quilting needs - and things we didn't even know we need!

As the quilts arrive in their anonymous bags, Debbie and Sandy are busy setting them up for the vote.

Giving Qatar Quilters time to find everything they need from Mala's Magic Suitcases:

What did you find, Quilters?

The meeting starts, and Wendy wins the Licorice and Chocolate Fat Quarter Draw.

Who will be the lucky winners of the Focus Fabric blocks?

Belinda !

And Karen!

It's time to take a close look at the Challenge contestants, and to vote!

While the results are tallied, we have Show and Tell, starting with Wendy's Sampler Quilt:

Patricia shows a sample of the quilt we will work on at the meeting December 30th:

Patricia's raffle quilt:

Patricia's KaleidoStars baby quilt:

Carmen gives the Quilt-As-You-Go a whirl:

Carmen shows a new Christmas hanging:

Carmen's Cardinal quilt for her Mom:

Diane discusses her Butterfly Applique Quilt:
Molly shows us her finished Card Trick:
And her crenelated pillowcase:
Janet shows us her newest baby quilt, Kisses and Hugs -

With it's soft and textured back that any baby would love!

Mala shows us her Boxes quilt and what you can do with the right machine doing your quilting.

The Holiday Challenge is complete. Every single entrant was a winner - the entries were each fabulous. Voting was hard - and close.

In the end, six years of hard work paid off for Joy, who walks away with top honors. She said she spent months sewing on the embellishments that gives this quilt it's twinkle:

A very close second - Sandy's Adoration Quilt, with stars and camels and wise men:

A very close Third, Shirley's 12 Days of Christmas, which she says her husband calls the 12 Years of Christmas for the amount of time she has spent hand quilting the entire quilt with tiny fine quilting stitches:

Yoghini claims the Victorian Patchwork Stocking:

Wendy's entry is the Nativity Quilt:

Molly displays her Christmas Village, Santa and Reindeer Quilt:

Marya has a quilt of jolly witches:

Tammy has a three dimensional quilted piece, with hand embroidery:

Lisa displays her 12 Days of Christmas Quilt:


We won't be meeting up again as an entire Guild until after all the holidays - Thanksgiving, Eid, Christmas and New Years. See you at the next meeting, Wednesday, January 27, 2010! Happy Quilting!

Embroidery Tea/Coffee November 16th

Lora McCamey will be hosting a tea/coffee on Nov. 16th 9 am at 148 Riviera Gardens for those who are currently using or wanting embroidery machines. She will set up a yahoo group called "Embroidery Forum". Please contact her for more details.