Merry Christmas from Fat Stacks!!  

We started off with Jennifer F’s FABULOUS Serendipity Sampler.  Gina Allen custom quilted it for her.

A close-up.

Beautiful fabrics; beautiful quilting; beautiful hand applique.

Voile back.

Joyce’s finished quilt.  Beautiful Asian fabrics.

The pieced back.  Love this!

Carole D’s “Night Garden” from Sarah Fielke’s pattern.  She hand quilted the alternate blocks.

The back…

Tillie’s foundation pieced finished quilt for our Meals On Wheels Christmas quilts.  Our Fat Stacks group donates quilts for Meals on Wheels clients.  The volunteers deliver them at Christmas.  I’ll take 22 beautiful quilts to Senior Services this week.  Such a generous community of women.

My new clutch; Sue Lauer’s class and pattern.  So much fun!

Denyse Schmidt Fat Stack; pattern is “Box of Chocolates” from Skip The Borders.

It’s amazing what you can find on Pinterest.  🙂  This came from hmahercreative.com.  Fuse Christmas fabric to the back of the printed card stock.  Cut out the gift tags.  Sweet!

Carole’s Glimmer quilt.  Karen Fridy quilted this for her.  Wow!

Same Carole.  We love Carole.

Jennifer’s Sew Mama Sew blocks from their Modern Block of the month.

Jennifer’s blocks with sashing.  We liked this…

Carole’s block from last month.

All her blocks.

One more block.

Our 2015 Christmas ornament…3″ x 4″ miniature quilt ornament.  Arts and Crafts time!

And finally, a picture of my new Panthers iron.  HAHAHA  I bought it at Target.  Now Debbie and I just have to find Luke Kuechly and get him to autograph it for us!  12-0.  Crazy.

Happy Holidays to you!  I’ll see you next year!

Happy Fall!  We had a great Fat Stacks meeting last Wednesday.  So many pretty things.

Here’s Joan’s block of the month from Sew Mama Sew.  Wonderful piecing.

Martha Claire’s block.  Love the dark center.

Paula’s Tula.  Love.

We got a little crazy with drawstring bags.  These are Carole’s.  Paula shared the tutorial a couple of months ago.  It’s from S.O.T.A.K. handmade.

Here’s another one.  Carole used the new Joel Dewberry collection.  Her silk cords were such a nice touch.

Speaking of fabric collections, Village Fabric Shop looks fabulous.  It’s transforming right in front of us.  She has several new collections and more on the way.  It’s a rainbow in there!

Carole was also very busy making fabric trays.

Here are those great bags from Noodlehead.  This is a fabulous tutorial!

Diana is our resident framer.  Here’s her newest creation.  Pretty cute.

She also finished a pretty counted cross stitch piece.  So sweet.

More Noodlehead bags.  🙂

Here’s Martha Claire’s quilt from the Nod to Mod collection.  This is small and wonderful.

Martha Claire has finished her Churn Dash from my workshop.  Yay Martha Claire!

Paula got a few pieces of embroidery back from Carolina Stitcher.  This lady finishes “stuff.”  I fat stackhave used her and just love what she does.

Here’s a Lilipopo piece.  Now it’s a zippered bag!

One more Lilipopo.  “My New Dress”  That’s Liberty fabric.  I love it!

Debbie Gordon brought her 20-year-old Halloween pumpkins to share.  They look great!

I did a quick tutorial on fabric pumpkins.  How cute are these???  Find the info at A Delightful Life.

So three days later, Paula sends me this picture.

How fun!  Glammed up with bows!

Finally, we will be making quilts for the Meals on Wheels program to deliver at Christmas.  It’s an all-day sew-in at Village Fabric Shop on Monday, October 26 from 10-4.  No charge.  Come and sew.  Last year we delivered almost 30 new quilts.  Amazing.

Let me know if you have questions.  So fun!

Our Fat Stacks group met yesterday at Village Fabric Shop in Reynolda Village.  Wow!  This original design belongs to Carole.  Gina Allen quilted it for her.

Here’s the entire quilt.

The back.

Martha Claire’s design using her Fat Stacks stash.  Love!

Jennifer’s counted cross stitch of Chicago.  So fun!  She found it at Satsuma St. on Etsy.  Thanks for sharing the link Jennifer.

Pretty Tanna made two sweet original design table mats.  We want a class Tanna!

She went to the Sew South retreat and brought many of her goodies.  She was busy!

Her new bag to carry all her stuff.

Her Apple Blossom applique.  Y’all know I LOVE this.

A “club” exclusive.  🙂

Linda brought her hexagon quilt made from a jelly roll.  We loved it, especially the sweet little border.  Nice cutting Linda!

Joan brought this beauty.  It’s hand appliqued.  Joel Dewberry’s Bungalow pattern; Tula Pink Fat Stack.  Perfect combination!

Joan’s Sensu quilt from “Japanese Quilt Inspirations”.  LOVE.  She’s hand quilting this.

Her voile back with an insert.  Yes, those circles are appliqued.  🙂

Diana’s paper pieced “Outhouses” from Carolyn Friedlander.  Amy built a little village on the cutting mat.

Diana’s Mini Glimmer from Jaybird Quilts.  WOW.  She used Denyse Schmidt fabrics.

Here’s the rotary cutter for scale.  Crazy good.

Finally, Paula’s Tula Pink quilt from a Free Spirit pattern.  It’s just wonderful.

We also kicked off a new block of the month.  Stay tuned for block pictures from next month’s meeting.

Amy has some brand new “stacks,” her shop looks great and she took some great pictures!  Thanks Amy!

We had a great turnout for our March Fat Stacks class at The Little General.  Ann’s beautiful “Flowers in the Sunshine” brightened up the room!  I love this quilt; she plans to add three more rows.

Ann also made some pillowcases using the tutorial from February.  Here are a couple of them.  She has quite a collection; they are great.

Martha Claire went to Quilt Con.  Yay!!  She was able to take a class from Elizabeth Hartman.  These foxes are adorable.  She used a great blue for their eyes.  One more fox and she’s done!

Here’s Jennifer’s “Lizard” quilt.  It’s reverse applique and she quilted it herself.  It’s so right!

Jennifer also made this beauty called “Friendship” from Villa Rosa Designs.  Spring can’t be too far away!

She finished up with “Road Trip” from Quilt Trends magazine.  She wants to add two more borders.  It was pointed out that all Jennifer’s fish are swimming correctly.  None of her animals are upside down.  It’s a great directional quilt!

Here’s a panel from Diana’s “Glimmer” quilt from JayBird Quilts.  I love Diana’s color choices.

I showed my North Carolina embroidery sampler.   It’s not the greatest picture but Diana is framing it for me and I’ll share the finished project.  I like calling North Carolina home.  🙂

We didn’t have lots of show and tell (Debbie blamed it on the weather) but we did have an impressive turnout to welcome Amy Shively as the new shop owner.  Amy, we are so happy that  this great little fabric shop will continue!

I’ll be posting my QuiltCon pictures soon.  Like Martha Claire, I had a great time!  Stay tuned!

We had another great meeting at December’s Fat Stacks.  Here’s the show and tell.  Thanks to Gina for taking the pictures and to Tanna for being my “holder.”

We started with Ann’s Meadow blocks.  It’s so pretty!

Here’s her finished Serendipity Sampler.  This was her first applique project.  I am very proud of her.

Paula’s wonderful AMHorner quilt.

We know how to party at Fat Stacks.  Bev and Tillie are modeling Deb’s voile scarves.  Debbie made them for Christmas presents.  Perfect!I look good!  🙂

Kay made this great quilt for Senior Services.  The Fat Stacks group will be donating SEVENTEEN quilts for Meals on Wheels clients.  That’s amazing!

Kay also managed to make this glorious Jaybird Quilts top.  I love this!

Diana shared some great piecing.  These are so fun!

Here’s Carole’s original design quilt using Denyse Schmidt’s charm pack.  LOVE.

Remember this beauty?  We watched Carole create it at our Open Sew.  It’s quilted and pretty wonderful.

Martha Claire donated this wonderful lap quilt to Senior Services.  So soft!

Beverly’s Serendipity Sampler.  The bird in the middle…

Tanna’s hexie in a hexie in a hexie..

Perfect backing fabric for a Christmas gift!

DONE.  Yay Tanna! Tanna’s Essex flax table runner.  She hand quilted this.  Wonderful!

Here’s Brooks’ top.  His mom helped a little.  🙂

My 2015 beginner quilt.  It’s off to Gina Allen to be quilted.  I used the Utopia Fat Stack.Finally, my Serendipity Sampler.  I’m hand quilting it….

We finished off with a great make and take Christmas ornament from Stars Inspirations.   I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and thanks for reading my blog!

Here are some of the beautiful quilts from our Fat Stacks meeting last Wednesday!

We started with Gina’s wonky log cabin baby quilt.  Gina is going to have a little girl in April.  Yay!!

Here’s her original design using “Winged.”

Jennifer’s Girl Scout quilt.  Sorry for the blurry image.  We were excited!

Ellen’s sawtooth quilt from Denyse Schmidt.  This quilt is now officially on my bucket list.

The back makes it even better!

Sue’s Feathers from Allison Glass.  We loved her background.

Kay’s original design flying geese!  We had a flying geese challenge this month.

Kay’s Windmills.  We loved her block centers.

Carole’s flying geese.  There’s some big stitch hand quilting happening here too.

Use a primitive pattern with Amy Butler’s “Glow” and this is the result.  Yay Carole!  (more geese!)

Diana’s Science Fair.  She used Cotton + Steel and we loved the swirls!

Tillie’s Science Fair.  It’s wonderful Tillie; your color choices are so great!  I teach Science Fair as a precision piecing class.  There’s a new class on the schedule; come join us.

Beverly’s Science Fair.  Beverly wasn’t able to be with us but we took a picture of her quilt!!

Ginny’s Science Fair.  Ginny couldn’t be there either but that didn’t stop us from showing her beautiful top.  Ginny used Essex flax for her background.

Here’s Joan’s original design flying geese.  Far far away…  🙂

Joan’s Treelicious quilt.  Did I mention that I taught her how to applique??

Here’s my Serendipity Sampler…almost finished.  My classes are starting to finish their tops; look for them on the blog.  I’m starting a new class on the second Monday in January.   This is a great beginner hand applique block of the month.  Contact me if you are interested.

Here’s the infamous bubble quilt…without the ruffle!  Ha!!   I did a demo on how to construct this great baby quilt.  There were a few disparaging remarks but it scored high marks in our baby focus group!  Laurie’s comment was the best:  “awkwardly cute!”

What would a bubble quilt be without Minkie from The Little General on the back??  We had a lot of fun with this.  If you want to make one…and I know you do…Awaiting Ada has a really good tutorial on her blog.

We had a really fun morning.  If you are interested in joining this talented group just contact Gina at The Little General.  She will take good care of you!

Finally, The Little General is having an Open Sew at The Barn in Reynolda Village on Monday, November 17 from 9:00 until 3:00.  The cost is $25.  Bring a project and come sew with us!  Gina Allen and I will be doing one of our whiz-bang tutorials about 10:30 so it should be a big time.  The Barn is a great space with lots of room and we are excited!

Hope you have a great weekend and thanks for reading my blog!