Club Notes - October 16, 2024

There were 11 of us at today’s meeting.  It was good to get back and hear no one had any significant damage from Hurricane Milton.    I brought the bin of 1 yard and fat quarter pieces, as well as some very large fabrics (yards). Mic brought 2 bins of small pieces and 1 of large fabrics. Ann Knoff brought lots of scraps that needed to be sorted for dog beds.

Thanks to those who were able to volunteer to help next Saturday at Savannah.  The schedule looks like the following:

7:30AM-10AM  Sydna Eastman and B.J. Herter

10AM-1PM – Diane  Brunovsky

1PM-2:30PM Faye McCarrell, Donna & Marc Rissman

 

We have 2 tables for this one so we should be able to display things better. Please let your Villages friends and neighbors know about the sale 9AM-2PM at Savannah.  Villages IDs will be checked for entry.

 

Show and Tell:

Louise Stem showed sets of reusable menstrual pad kits she made for Operation Christmas Child.

Eileen DiSanto made a table runner for her neighbor.

Ellen Hein made a bunch of fleece blankets. 

She also turned in receiving blankets, burp pads, and infant hats.

Finally, she finished the binding on a quilt I made:

During the meeting she worked on another quilt top:

Donna Rissman showed several aprons 

and 2 table runners.

I showed some microwave potato bags, 

neck lanyards 

and wrist lanyards I made for our sale.

Most of the ladies spent the afternoon sorting through the scraps Anne brought in.  Near the end of the afternoon Mic and I looked through a box of Christmas fabric to see what might be useable.  There are several large pieces that would work great as gift bags.   We will talk about these next week and make this fabric available to anyone who would like to make some to use instead of wrapping paper this Christmas.

 

Club Notes - Oct 2, 2024

We had 12 ladies come out today.  Mic brought a bin of nice fabric and I brought the fiber fill.  We also put out the 3.5 inch squares for anyone to work with.

This Saturday (Oct 5^th), is the Villages Craft Sale, 9AM-2PM.  I will be selling our club items in the Julio Iglesias room in the La Hacienda rec center. Proceeds from this will go to our charities. Several other of our members will also be selling their crafts. 

Carolyn Grasso has a table at Rohan rec center and Brenda Severa has a table at Colony.  This multi-rec center craft sale is open to anyone, whether they live in the Villages or not, so tell your friends and come out to shop.

Show and Tell

Brenda Severa is back and ready to sell her crafts at every local craft sale in the area.  She has been sewing like crazy all summer and showed some of the table runners she made,

 including 2 for our charity sale..

Anne Knoff showed a quilt top she made.

Donna Rissman showed a stuffed Candy Corn she made,  It came out a little lumpy 😉 , but she fixed it up during the meeting.

Diane Saculla showed a pair of moccasins that her friend made.  This friend makes them to order, custom fit to a person’s feet, and in any color.

 The rest of the afternoon was spent sewing, cutting, stuffing, and chatting, as always.

 I don’t have plans for next week yet.  I am just focusing on getting through the craft sale.  See you Saturday or next Wednesday.

Lois

Club Notes - September 25

There were 10 of us at today’s meeting, including 1 prospective new Villager.

I brought the fiber fill, Christmas fabric, and the bin of 1 yard and fat quarter pieces. 

We got assigned a table at La Hacienda rec center for the Oct. 5^th Craft Sale. The sale hours are 9AM-2PM.    I am now looking for 3 volunteers to help me at the sale.  I am only asking for 2 hour shifts, as follows:

8AM-10AM   setup and help with early shoppers

10AM-12:30PM   help with mid-day shoppers

12:30PM-2:30PM   help with afternoon shoppers and pack-up.

 

Please let me know if you can spare a few hours to help with this charity fundraiser.

 

Show and Tell:

Donna Rissman showed 2 Mommy-Baby Play mats.

  

She also showed a stuffed candy cord that we made a few years ago.  (I’m looking for it.)

Eileen DiSanto brought some bunnies, waiting to be stuffed.

Pat Pipa crocheted an infant hat, 

made some jar opener pads

and another hanging kitchen towel.

Ceal Pedersen showed a quilt she made for a great-grandchild expected in October. 

 She also brought back a bunch of stuffed toys, now with faces.

Anne Knoff showed 2 table runners made by her friend Cindy.

I showed a baby quilt I finished.

For the rest of the afternoon ladies stuffed toys, selected fabric, and chatted.

 

We ended early today.  The skies looked like rain. I hope everyone is prepared for hurricane Helene’s arrival tonight.  I shouldn’t hit us directly, but it is big enough that we will probably get some very strong winds and possibly some tornados.  Please stay safe.  I hope to see you next week.

Club Notes - September 11, 2024

 There were 13 of us at El Santiago this afternoon.  We received another bin of fabric yesterday, so everyone had a chance to look through to see if they can use any of it.  I pulled some pre-cut squares to add to the appropriate boxes.

I brought orange, purple and black 5” squares in case anyone wanted to make something Halloween themed.  I also put out the dryer sheets and fabric strips for anyone interested in making some of these.

Show and Tell:

Bev Minnerly made some doll bodies for another club.

Pat Pipa made 4 dryer sheet blocks and sewed them together in an X set.

Louise Stem showed 2 pillowcases she made.  

She also showed a reusable menstrual pad kit she made for Operation Christmas Child.

Ellen made another 25 infant hats from knit fabric.  

She also showed several quilts that she added the binding to.

For those of you who handed in 9-patch blocks using 3.5" squares, this is one of the results.

The next one is made with 4.5" squares.

I don't remember who made this quilt top.

Diane Saculla turned in a twin size quilt for the Sheriff’s Youth Ranch graduates.

Anne Knoff handed in a bunch of cute cup cozies for our sale.

 

For the rest of the afternoon ladies stuffed toys, selected fabric, and sewed.  I laid out the snow-ball blocks that have been turned in, to ultimately make a quilt.  It may take a while, but I will get it done eventually.

I promise to bring more stuffing next week.  Other than that, I haven’t decided on a plan for next week yet.  I will let you know.