Tag: Material Girls

Material Girls Club … and Away We Go

To one of the yearly quilt shows within driving distance. This time, it was the Original Sewing & Quilt Expo in Irving, showcasing over 300 quilts from six local quilt guilds. It was also the place to buy new products and more fabric, which I know husbands will appreciate. Soon there won’t be any place left…

Material Girls Congratulates Beginners

Congratulations to the women who just graduated from the Material Girls Beginning Quilting class! The Beginning Quilting class is offered once a year and is a six-week class covering all of the steps, tips, and techniques of quilt making. During the class, each student creates a table runner, created using a Disappearing Nine Patch pattern.…

Material Girls obsession over bags

Anita Brockell’s bag

Sandi Price Paula Hughes, a Material Girls member and a publisher of bag patterns, started it all. We were pleasantly surprised to find one of Paula’s patterns at Must Love Fabric on our recent outing. She designed a special bag for Material Girls and taught a “how to” class. Several members made the bag and it…

Material Girls check out the Texas Quilt Museum

Sandi Price Twelve of the Material Girls group did an overnight trip to the Texas Quilt Museum, originated established in 2011. It is housed in two historic 1890s buildings and features more than 10,000 square feet in three galleries. Of special interest to the group was the Hollis Chatelain exhibition, “Stories from West Africa.” The…

Material Girls win big

Sandi Price Members of our club brought home a whopping 21 ribbons including a Grand Champion ribbon as well as a Reserve Champion ribbon from the North Texas State Fair and Rodeo this year. The annual fair, held in Denton, Texas might be fairly small by Texas standards, but it brings in over 100,000 people…

Material Girls win big at the State Fair

Marguerite Rose and her butterfly quilt

Marguerite Rose is the North Texas State Fair Grand Champion. Her entry of the Butterfly quilt was the Best in Show for fiber arts. Lucy Rees’s wool pink flowers was the reserve champion. Other blue ribbon winners were Ruth Loyd, Paula Sanders, Ruth Kline, Kathy Marrou, Nancy Meyers, Judy Hilderbrant, Jeanne De Arment, Peggy Zilinsky…

Ruth’s Quilts

Splash of Color

Lucy Rees A Splash of Color by Ruth Loyd, Material Girls member, was displayed in the Arlington Quilt Show in August and the Bear Creek Show in June. Ruth has been collecting black and white fabric for several years. She put it to good use when she took a class on how to make the…