Monday mysteries solved and a cute baby on a quilt

My guild had a mystery evening last night, where we brought a

set of precut coordinating fabrics

and then made these weighted pincushion organizers.

(The reason the two at the right are matching is

that I cut two from my set of fabrics

and brought one to share.)

Here they are lined up at the end of the evening.

The black or green stripes in the middle

is wool felt for needles instead of pins.

Cheryl brought her new Singer Featherweight 222K

which is a twin sister to mine at the right.

We even took off the removable tables to use the free arms for this project.

Just a note to FW lovers out there: in our guild of 12, we have

four of these little machines between us.

Meanwhile, this little future quilter enjoyed lying on a baby quilt

made by my mother in the log cabin quilt-as-you-go method.

This batik beauty will be donated to charity

as part of our Year of the Baby Quilt challenge.

Anne spent the evening tying a denim picnic blanket for

 her daughter's upcoming wedding social.

If you have no idea what a wedding social is,

it's a particular Manitoba custom.

Thanks to Heather for planning this mystery and to Karen for letting us transform

her house into a sewing studio for the evening.