Club Notes March 26, 2025

There were 12 of us at El Santiago today.  We received another fabric donation this morning so I added that to the fabric I brought last week.  

I reminded everyone that the club meets at Saddlebrook on 4/2, 4/9, and 4/23.  There will be no meeting on 4/16 or 4/30.  We will be back at El Santiago in May.

Diane Saculla went to visit Suzzette last week and gave her the quilt that was made for her.  She showed a photo of Suzzette with the quilt.  Diane said, although she looks frail, she is very lucid.

Show and Tell: 

Ceal Pedersen brought back 2 stuffed giraffes that she painted the faces on, 

and gave us 8 10” blocks and a sewn set of half square triangles that were in her stash, but unused.  I will put them in with our big blocks.

Diane Placek showed a couple of bunny treat bags that she made.

Bev Minnerly showed some doll clothes 

and 2 walker bags.

Louise Stem turned in 7 pillowcases.

(2 like this)

Donna Rissman gave us some quilts made with her Citrus Quilters quilt chapter.

Donna also showed a little Christmas tree that we might be able to sell in the fall.

Donna Bordian showed a walker bag she made.

After show and tell, I did a quick demo of how to make a zipper bag.  I also talked about how to make a drawstring backpack.  These are 2 items that have been requested for the Sheriffs’ Youth Ranch summer camp kids.  Patterns for the 2 variations I talked about are attached to my email. Wayne Witczak, the ranch Director of Development, will be stopping by my house on April 9^th to pick up the graduation gifts.  I will give him any zipper bags and backpacks that we have at the same time.   He comes to The Villages once a month to attend the Villages Friends Group social at Rohan, so I can still give him more in May if we make more.

 

Thanks for the walker bags that have come in.  I think we now have about 17.  I will try to get these to Freedom point later this week.

Next week I won’t be able to join you at Saddlebrook, so Mic Pickard will be running the meeting.  I took a small ironing board, 1 iron, a large cutting mat, our rotary cutters, our scissors, the toy patterns, freezer paper, and a few other things out of El Santiago today and will give these to Mic over the weekend.  She will bring them and the fiber fill to next week’s meeting.  The room at Saddlebrook is the card room.  It is a large room and there are outlets in the walls on all sides, so bringing your sewing machine will not be a problem.  The tables are card tables, so smaller than what we usually have, but you can put 2 together, as long as they get put back at the end of the meeting.  It should be a good substitute location.

I will see you all the following week.

Lois