Today was Busy Bees - always fun!  Seems like lots of the ladies had stuff for me, and I was practically 'attacked' when I arrived. <g>  Carol brought in a very interesting article for me - about a cat that had breast cancer!

It was especially nice to see a number of ladies who had been MIA for quite a long time due to their illness (like Doris and Pati) or a family member's (like Grace.)  

Pat brought in a pile of charity quilts (some piled on the table in back) that she was getting ready to deliver.  I made this top a few years ago trying out the Crazy 8 block from the Quilter's Lumberyard (used up a bunch of my green scraps) and it finally drifted to the top of the 'to quilt' pile.

It was a short meeting, so we got to the best part (Show & Tell) pretty quickly.

Sharon  brought in a couple of Friendship quilts.  

This one was made by her quilting friends in Hampshire, Illionois

and this by her friends in Florida.

And look at the beautiful jacket that she made -

Sandy brought in a Friendship Quilt from when she first started quilting.  In the beginning she cut a small square out of every fabric she bought (of course that plan didn't last too long) and they ended up in this quilt.  

Sandy's other Friendship Quilt dates back to 1980, when Busy Bees started; she set the blocks to go from light to dark in the same direction that the sun tracks in her house.  The really amazing thing about this quilt is that Marty, one of our 'newer' members, spotted her name today on one of the blocks, which 'proved' that she remembered correctly that she was part of the Bees 'way back'!

Pati, who is back after chemo, shared this Friendship Quilt made by her online quilt group to cheer her during treatment and recovery.

They signed these blocks on the back.

Pati's hand-pieced work was made for the Hoffman Challenge, and recently returned after being 'on tour'.

Pati does beautiful work, and this is not the first time a quilt of hers has toured!

Sandy's 'Day of the Dead' quilts were colorful

and this one had lots of sparkly embellishments that (sadly) don't really show in the picture.

Sharon tried the One Hour Table Runner - 

and said the yoyo spiders took longer than everything else combined!

  

She won this embroidered block and by merely adding a border has a nice holiday wall hanging.

Louise finished up some UFO Sunbonnet Sue and Fisherman Sam placemats...

too pretty to use!

And Bobbi Carr elicited many oohs and aahs with her spectacular quilt that we all decided she MUST enter in the  AQG show in March.  Would you believe that her husband Dick made a bunch of the flying geese?  (Apparently once he got started he really went to town.  Wonder if I can get Tom to help me with my quilts....)