CDCG Meeting This Monday!

It's time to fertilize those brain cells and be ready to learn something new!

This month's DieCutter's Guild meeting is on Monday, 23 February, at 6:30. No sewing machines this month :-)

Peggy will be our hostess, Marilee will be providing Tips & Tricks, and Betty will be presenting our new project.  Betty has put some information on the webpage (http://diecutters.blogspot.com/) including a link to click to see the pattern.

Minutes from last month's meeting will be online in a short while... (oops!)

Cowlewbia Die-Cutters Guild	Date and Location of meeting: Meeting: Monday, 23 February, at The Paisley Duck
Agenda
February 2015

 

Minutes of Previous Meeting

Membership and Treasurer's Report

Program Reports - New Service Project/Betty

New Business

Good of the Order

Show and Tell

Tips & Tricks/Marilee

BOM Feb/Mar 2015

Service Project Quilt

Precut background pieces will be available at Feb meeting.  Fabrics #2 and #3 will be cut at Feb meeting.

Finished blocks Due April 2015 meeting

Oriental Big Block Instructions

September Program: Petal Bags

Vickie led the group in a quick and easy project, Petal Bags, to carry and store 'stuff' in.  We all need more 'stuff' storage, don't we?

The bags were quick, easy and fun to make. Most of the guild members left with at least one finished bag at the end of the evening.

The blue/batik bag was made with 18" squares of fabric, the tiny ones were made with 10"  squares, and the red/green one was made with 15"(ish) squares.

Thank you, Vickie - what a fun project!

August DYO Block

This month's block is provided by Betty; another twelve-incher.

Betty made two samples, placing the colours in different places. 

Dies:  2½" strip die & value die

BACKGROUND (white)
    (8) 2 ½" half square triangles
    (4) 2 ½" squares – or (2) 5 ½"strips**

Star fabric 1 & 2 – from each fabric (red and blue)
      (2) 2 ½"squares or (1) 2 ½ x 5 ½"strip**
      (4) 2 ½" x 4 ½"strips
      (2) 2 ½" x 6 ½" strips

**(2) 2 ½"background square sewn to 2 ½" red square
(2) 2 ½"background square sewn to 2 ½" blue square 

OR

5 ½" strip background strip sewn to strip of red  or (2) 2 ½"red squares – cut into (2) 2 ½"  strata
5 ½"strip background strip sewn to strip of blue or (2) 2 ½" blue squares – cut into (2) 2 ½"strata

July DYO Block

Susie presented the July block, a 12" beauty.

The dies used are

A - 4½" square - one

B - 2½" square - four in colour 1, four in colour 2

D - 4 7/8" square cut on diagonal - four

G - 2½  x 4½" rectangle - four

E - 2 7/8" square cut on diagonal - eight (triangles) colour 1 and 16 (triangles) colour 2

These are NOT the green-labeled dies!

June DYO Block

Use die "Quilt Block A"  4 1/2 " square
And "quilt Block B". 2 1/2" square
Make sure you don't use the green dies!!!

Red - cut 10 - 2 1/2" squares - "QB B"
Blue - cut 8 - 2 1/2" squares - "QB B"
White - cut 10 - 2 1/2" squares - "QB B"
    And  4 - 4 1/2" squares - "QB A"
Sew 2Red and 2 White to make center four patch
Sew 8 blue and 8 white to make corner for patch
Take the 4 1/2" white and sew a2 1/2" red to 2 corners using flip and turn method. Make 4 of these. 
Assemble block as shown.

Hope these directions are easy to follow.

Vickie

July Die Cutter's Guild Meeting

We do have a way of getting... distracted, don't we?

Our 'scheduled' project for July was "Christmas Bags". The problem was that no one remembered who was presenting the project or why we were going to do it.  (We didn't do it.)

Remember The Meeting That Almost Wasn't? You know the one - April, when Phyllis made a lovely cake to share for Roni's going away 'party'. And somebody's car just went into auto-pilot and took them home instead of to the meeting. And somebody was sick. And somebody just plain forgot. And somebody else was held hostage on the Amtrak...  Yes, that meeting.  It appears that a new member joined that night - paid their dues and everything - and we just figured that out at this month's meeting.

These highlights (and much, much more!) are in the Minutes of the Meeting, posted for your edification on a brand-spanking-new tab on our webpage.

If you're reading this from the webpage (http://diecutters.blogspot.com/), it's up there at the top of the page, just under the title. If you're reading this in your email, click on the link above and then click on the tab. If you have any problems reading the minutes,  let me know and I'll attach a copy to you in an email.

Tracy