Club Notes - November 13, 2024

We had a great turnout today. There were 18 of us in attendance.  I brought the fiber fill and a group of ladies got busy stuffing the next batch of toys.  Mic brought the bin of Christmas fat quarters and a friend from Allamanda Quilters brought several boxes of fabric, batting and scraps.

Ceal Pedersen announced that she is having a garage sale this weekend.  Her address is
2428 Tamarindo Dr. 

Last week we attempted to clear out our storage, delivering as much as possible now that the temperatures are dropping. I sorted the quilts and gave 2 bags to Mic to deliver, one to Project S.O.S. and the other to the Leesburg Hospital Maternity ward. I also gave her  bags of stuffed toys for the Villages Hospital Auxiliary.  Last Friday I gave 20 quilts to the Christian Care Center in Leesburg. The checks also went out to the Sheriffs Youth Ranch Hurricane Recovery fund, Project S.O.S., The Marian County Humane Society and the Lake County Humane Society.

 

Show and Tell: (https://sewingn-more.blogspot.com/)

Kathryn Jeter showed her completed project bag and an embroidery she made.

Pat Pipa took last week’s challenge and made a little girl’s purse and a zipper bag from the long trivets. 

She also made a thread catcher and a project bag.

Laura Tomich made a little draw string bag, aprons,

 pillowcases and little dog and cat tags for family pets.’

Suzette Katrishen showed her collection of sun hats.  She buys the basic hats and decorates them.

Mic Pickard took the long trivets and made travel jewelry cases.

Anne Knoff showed a monster charity quilt she made and a pillowcase. 

She also made an apron.

Louise Stem showed the reusable menstrual pad kids she finished this week.  She has completed 80 of these for Project Christmas Child.

Mary Ellen Boutin made 2 quilt tops.

Bev Minnerly made a zipper bag from one of the long trivets, and made 2 small Christmas Stockings for gifts to neighbors.

We will not have meetings for the next 2 weeks.  Next week the building is closed for quarterly maintenance.  The following week is Thanksgiving and we traditionally do not meet the day before. So our next meeting will be on December 4^th.  I will send out reminders.

 

Have a great Thanksgiving and I hope to see you in 3 weeks.

Lois

Club Notes - November 6, 2024

There were 14 of us at today’s meeting.  I brought the 10” squares, some clear vunyl and lots of quilted fabric for today’s project.  I also pulled the big blocks out of the closet and Mic brought 3 bins of fabric for everyone to look through. 

 

Show and Tell:

In one of our donations we received a bunch of pretty 7” x 16” items we called long trivets for the sale.  Very few sold so Mic Pickard decided to find a way to use them.  She made a mason jar cozy, to dress up gifts of soup for neighbors.   She challenged the group to find other ways to use these.  

Bev Minnerly showed 2 pillowcases.

Anne Knoff showed an apron 

and a charity quilt she made.

Ceal Pedersen showed a quilt she made from her husband’s shirts.

Diane Saculla took a Santa panel from our donations and made a quilt for a friend.

 

Today’s demo was on how to make a project organizer bag.  Since this has a clear front you can put the pattern in front so you can see what the project in the bag is.  I have several of these for my UFO’s and planned projects, and can always use a few more.  I actually made 1 during the meeting and started another one.  I saw several ladies cut fabric and vinyl to make one.

 

After the meeting Mic and I went to storage.  We put away the party supplies from last week and pulled most of the quilts out. We left a few of the largest to save them for the Sheriffs' Youth Ranch grads.  Mic took the no-batting quilts to give to Project S.O.S. and I took the rest home with me.  I will record the measurements of the ones I took, put some aside for Leesburg Maternity ward, and give the rest to the Christian Care Center in Leesburg. 

When we were in storage we found a large bag of Christmas fabric, mostly fat quarters.  Mic will bring these to next week’s meeting for anyone to use.  You can make something for charity or for yourself.   I will bring a pattern for a Christmas stocking.

 

See you next week. 

 

Lois

Club Notes - October 30th Halloween Party

We had lots of fun at our Halloween party this afternoon. 16 of us enjoyed lots of great food and fun games.  I challenged the group with 20 trivia questions about Autumn, and Suzzette won the prize with 14 right answers.  I also gave prizes to 2 ladies who got 12 right.  We also had some fun Halloween Bingo games to round out the afternoon.

 

Show and Tell:

Grasso showed an Eyor baby quilt she made for a soon-to be-born grandchild.  

She also made a smaller floor- play time quilt for her.

Ceal Pedersen embellished some of the pocket purses that Audrey Phillips brought last week.

Lynn Delgado showed her Halloween bat purse 

and her very first T-shirt quilt.

 

I am still deciding what next week’s agenda will be.  There are so few ladies bringing sewing machines, it doesn’t make sense for me to do demos. I might just keep bringing cut squares.   Let me know what you think.

 

Lois

Club Notes - October 23, 2024

There were 18 of us at today’s meeting.  I was very happy to see everyone.  Mary Kalow brought Carol Riggs so Carol could give away some of her sewing items she no longer needs.

Thanks again to B.J., Donna, Mic, and Sydna for helping at the 2 craft sales this month.  We netted $654 from the 2 sales.  That brought our total charity fund to $1116.  I gave some of the items to Mic for the Busy Hands sale at Colony in 2 weeks, so we may be able to sell a few more items.’

We talked about how we would distribute the charity funds this year.  I proposed that we give a larger amount to the Sherriff’s Youth Ranch this year, since they got hit by 2 hurricanes this year, and the ladies in attendance agreed.  Three of our other charities will also be supported, but with lower amounts than last year.  The distribution we agreed on was as follows:

$500 – Sheriff’s Youth Ranch

$100 – Project S.O.S.

$100 – The Marion County Humane Society

$100 – The Lake County Humane Society

 

I also let the group know about another donation.  Last Thursday the head of the QGOTV Charities sent an email saying that there was an opportunity to get quilts to the hurricane Helene survivors in North Carolina.  The catch was that the truck was leaving at 8AM on Saturday.  My husband and I went to storage on Friday, pulled 20 quilts and delivered them that afternoon.  We still have plenty of quilts to distribute locally and will work on that in a week or 2.

Show and Tell:

Ceal Pedersen brought back a bag of stuffed toys that she painted the eyes on.

Mary Ellen Boutin was back with a stack of 9-patch blocks and a tote.

Deb Chapman showed her progress on her quilt chapter block of the month challenge.  She has finished 9 blocks and is waiting for the patterns for the last 3.

Laura Tomich took fabric from our stash and came back with several lovely pillowcases.

Audrey Phillips has been working on projects for Operation Christmas Child. She showed some pocket purses she made and brought some that needed a little embellishment.  She offered for anyone interested in helping glue items on to finish some, for them to come and help.

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This afternoon I put out all the Christmas fabric we had and one Autumn bolt, to be used to make gift bags or anything else.  Almost all of it went.  I also put out the 5” squares and the box of big blocks.  I was happy to see some of that go as well.

Next week is our Halloween Pot-Luck.  Wear a costume (optional as always) and bring a dish to share.  I will supply the plates, plastic, etc., as well as the games.  BYOB and 25 pennies, buttons, or other items to mark your bingo cards.  Hope to see you next week.