June Party!

Our celebration of the founding of Country Quilters of McHenry was held a few months early this year so we could spread our parties out a little.  The Black and White themed party organized by Jan and Karen was fun!  Many of  us sported Black and White attire. 

Pretty, delicate teacups and saucers with fresh Peony flowers decorated the tables.  Were you lucky enough to win one to bring home?  I was.  It sat on my bedside table looking fresh and pretty for nearly a week.

Check out all the blocks (so many!) for the Black & White block swap... 

Look closely at the two blocks at the bottom of the picture.  Some of us (I was one!) just can't seem to get things right!  Blocks were to be 9". One was 6" and one was 12".  Michaela won the blocks and I'm sure she'll figure out a way to handle the odd sized blocks.  We were just trying to provide her with a challenge ;)  I'm sure she's up to it!

The ladies used a couple of games to test our knowledge of quilt block names.  Back to school, y'all!  We failed miserably but it was fun to look at all the blocks and hear the names.  If you want to explore a little, Block Crazy has a list of over 500 quilt block names with links to pictures for some of them.  Or hang out for a while at Barbara Brackman's blog. Barbara is the author of the Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns.  Thanks to a donation by our guild, the McHenry Public Library has a copy of the book that you can borrow.

We enjoyed a little silliness with a cookie on the forehead game.  You had to get the cookie from your forehead to your mouth with NO HANDS.  Jackie Voltz mastered the move!  And there were calls for an encore because she was so fast some people missed seeing it! 

And of course there was food - always a favorite part of our parties, right!? - and conversation and laughs.

And....

• Cari won the I spy squares - 200 hundred of them.  Can't wait to see what she makes. 
• Did you buy a raffle ticket for the Gazebo Quilters quilt?  Good luck to you (and me)!

Have a safe 4th! See y'all at the July meeting!