Welcome
Chris Ann Jensen welcomed both the morning and evening sessions. She read two notes from the Fillmore Food Band. They thanked us for our cash donations at Christmas time.
On-Time Drawing
Arlene Reid won a quilt clip holder with clips in our morning session, and Deanna Peterson won a Frixion erasable heat marking pen.
Basket Block of the Month
Suzanne Hellestad presented two quilt blocks this month. Both blocks use small blocks in their base. You can make scrappy pieces in groups of 4, or you can make strips and use consistent colors throughout the bases.
You can use one handle on the large basket, or add another for two handles. You could also use a larger or wider handle in the middle of the block. You choose how you want your handle or handles on your basket.
The small basket has triangles using the background fabric at each bottom corner.
Completed Basket Block From Last Month
We had blocks completed in the morning and evening sessions. They look beautiful. It will be fun to see these blocks put together into a quilt.
New Member
We are happy to welcome Denise Rohbock, a new member.
Last month, we introduced Choosing Colors for Quilts. Many of the ideas came from Jinny Beyer's book Color Confidence for Quilters, Karen Jordan's Just Get It Done classes, and other YouTube videos.
This month, we are continuing with color techniques for quilts. Tafta Watson acknowledged that she was simply helping Karen Jordan. Karen has done most of the work for this class.
Tafta reviewed warm and cool colors in quilting.
Warm colors are red, yellow, and orange. They are like colors in a wood fire. They are stimulating, draw attention, and evoke a "warm" feeling.
Cool colors are blue, green, and purple. These colors are more soothing and subdued, like in a lake or the sea. They give a "cool, calm" feeling.
Tafta showed an example of cool colors in a quilt top and a table runner that used both warm and cool colors.
She pointed out that a quilt or project could include both warm and cool colors, as seen in the table runner.
Karen then discussed saturation or the purity of a color. Next, she talked about chroma, or how vivid or dull a color appears.
We then divided into groups and had three activity stations. We did activities
and played with color, reinforcing the concepts taught in our meeting and this month's.
We had the following stations to experiment with colors:
Station 1
1. Choose a fabric swatch. Determine the following attributes of the fabric swatch: color, family, hue, tint, shade, or tone? Is it warm or cool?
2. Choose a Color Scheme, either complementary, analogous, monochromatic, or another of your choosing. Locate swatches to combine with your fabric swatch from step #1 to reflect that color scheme.
Station 2
1. Choose a pattern and pick out colors as recommended by the designer.
2. Determine a different color palette and/or color scheme that you might like better.
Station 3
1. Choose about 20 Jinny Beyer swatches from the basket. Transition from dark to light fabrics.
2. Pick a focus color, a deep dark, and an accent from the group. Shade these colors together to make a cohesive transition.
Note: I apologize that I did not get any pictures during our morning session, and I only got pictures of stations 1 and 3 in the evening.
Show and Share
We had some wonderful items shared in both our morning and evening meetings.
Karen Jordan made some bunting for her house. They did not hang the way she thought they would. Being creative, she cut them and sewed them into this patriotic banner.
Shelli Richardson brought three items to share with us. She has been busy again.
First, she shared this cute quilt with dog appliques. It says, The Road To My Heart Is Paved with Paw Prints." She got the pattern and pre-cut appliques with stabilizer on them from The Whole Country Caboodle.
Look at the cute Valentine's embroidery project Shelli made. It is charming.
This charming wall hanging is a perfect example of cool colors. It looks like a whale spotted in the ocean. It is full of movement.
Deanna Peterson made this cute quilt for her niece. Her niece is having a baby girl, but she did not want a feminine quilt. She wanted something more neutral. I think Deanna did a great job of making this cute baby quilt, which was not in feminine pinks. That baby will be cuddled in sweetness.
Ellen Harmon's daughter used some of her material, some of Ellen's material, and material from both of her grandmothers to make this quilt. She wanted it to look reminiscent of the quilts her Grandmas used to make. Ellen helped her daughter make this colorful, beautiful quilt. It truly looks like an old-fashioned quilt that her grandmas and all our grandmothers would make.
On February 21, 2026, Suzanne Harmon taught ladies in Holden and many ladies from our quilt guild to make a mystery quilt called Jellybeans. It measures about 68" X 84". The following quilt tops were started in Holden and finished at home. Each one is unique and beautiful. Enjoy these unique, charming quilt tops made by the following ladies.
Ellen Harmon
Jana McBrie Whitaker
Terri McBride Cummings
Suzanne Hillestad
Valene Haupt
Valene also showed us her two project bags. She made a project bag for our Block of the Month Mystery Basket Quilt. She also made a project bag for the red, white, and blue quilt displayed above. She is organized and talented.
Happy Quilting!
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