Club Notes - June 19, 2024

There were 14 of us at today’s meeting. I put out a box of baby fabric that’s been sitting around, the big blocks, the 3.5” and 4.5” squares, and some of the yardage Mic and I pulled out of storage.  I’m hoping some of this went home with some of you and some nice stuff comes back.

Show and Tell:

Bev Minnerly came with 6 more walker bags.  I added these to 9 that were in the car and dropped them off for Helpertunity on my way home.

Pat Pipa took home a bunch of purple squares a few weeks ago and came back with a quilt.

Diane Saculla is back with us and showed a large beach bag she made.

Ernestine Vawter found a deal on some fabric and made a bunch of pillowcases, with one side dogs and the other side cats.  She plans to give these away to friends who have grandchildren.

Ellen Hein brought some receiving blankets and  burp pads for Leesburg Hospital 

and a stack of flannel baby quilts that finished.

She is heading north for the summer so this is the last set of quilts she will be finishing until September.  I will still accept quilt tops , but they may not get finished until the fall.

 

Ellen also made a couple of infant hats out of a knit fabric. We will give them to Leesburg hospital to see if these can be an alternative to the knitted ones.

 After show and tell I showed how to use a 60-degree triangle to cut border fabric and rearrange the pieces to make a table runner.  I was able to cut enough to make 3 runners for our fall sale.  Now to find the time to finish these runners.

 

If anyone has a request for next week, let me know.

Hope to see you next week.

Club Notes - June 12, 2024

We had a lot of fun at our party this afternoon.  The food was good and plentiful. The rec center staff, Louis and Eric joined us for trivia.  Today’s trivia was all about the founding of our country.  Eric thought he would win since he was a history major, but Bev Minnerly got more right answers than anyone.  As usual, we played several games of bingo after show and tell and had lots of laughs in the process.

Show and Tell:

Louise Stem was busy .  She made 3 pillowcases 

and 3 microwave bowl sets.  

 She also showed a snap bag she made for Operation Shoebox.  We haven’t demoed this method in quite a while, so I will schedule this demo as soon as I can.

Bev Minnerly was also busy.  She handed in a dog bed, a drawstring backpack, 

and 7 walker bags.

Deb Chapman showed 4 place mats she made as part of a Quilting Bees challenge.  

Last week I challenged anyone who was there to make 9-patch blocks from 4.5” squares and Deb handed in 3 of them.  

She also showed a block she made as a block of the month project.   

 Finally , she showed a quilt top she made from her scraps.

Laura Tomich was able to join us again.  She has been dealing with several health issues that have kept her from meetings for the past few years, but she has continued sewing items for us during that time.  Today she brought back a tote that she made from fabric she picked up at one of our meetings a few years ago.  

She showed some extra blocks that will go back into our “big block box”. 

Then, she showed a sample of the cup cozies she made for her daughter and her hospital coworkers.

Ellen brought back 2 flannel baby quilts that she finished

 

and 1 new one that she gave me to quilt.  She made all 3 of these quilt tops.

She also turned in a stack of receiving blankets and burp pads for Leesburg Hospital.

Next week I will bring the 4.5” squares back in the hope of getting some more 9-patch blocks.  I also have fabric that we pulled out of storage last week.  I am hoping some of this will be used to make some items we can sell in October for the charity fund.

 Ceil Pedersen has asked me to add a note on her behalf.  She has a lot going on at the moment and could use some help.  If anyone can spare an hour or two occasionally,  to sit with her husband so she can do food shopping, she would greatly appreciate it. Her husband has dementia and cannot be left alone.

 

Hope to see you next week.

Club Notes - June 5, 2024

We were a very small group of 6 ladies this afternoon.   I guess school is out and grandchildren are in town.  I know quite a few of our members have also gone north for the summer. 

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

A few weeks ago I dropped off some flannel at Laura Tomich’s house.  Today I found a bag she left us with 5 receiving blankets and 7 burp clothes.

Pat Pipa crocheted 2 baby hats.  We had a discussion regarding the size, since they appeared a little larger than the sample we had. She used a pattern for newborns. Mic will show them to the Leesburg nurse to see if the size is ok.

Eileen DiSanto made several more dryer sheet blocks for the quilt she is making.

Mic Pickard made a butterfly potholder, using her Cricket cutter.  She also sewed up the animals that were stuffed last week.

I showed a quilt top I just finished.

Last week I handed off a pile of quilts to Ellen for binding.  She brought them all back today.

These first 3 I put together from the 9-patch blocks that have been handed in.

Deb Chapman made this one from various pieces she found in our donations.

I found a long piece of fabric and turned it into 3 easy quilts like this one.

Mary Ellen Boutin handed this one in.

I believe the next two were quilt tops given to me at Allamanda.

Ellen also finished 3 burp clothes.

 

Next week is our Spring/Summer potluck. I hope more of you who are still in town will be able to make it.  Bring a dish to share if you can, something to drink, and 25 pennies, buttons or whatever to mark your bingo cards.  

 

Club Notes - May 29, 2024

 The El Santiago rec center reopened this week, with most of the renovations complete. To be honest, I didn’t notice much difference. We were able to put most of our stuff back in the storage room and we actually were given another shelf to store things on.  The renovators still planned to wax the floors after hours tonight, so they are moving the bin and other stuff that we store under the cabinet.  They said they will put everything back after the work is done.

It was a small group of only 9 ladies today.  I received more fabric donations, so several ladies chipped in to sort through it.  The larger pieces were put in a bin that Mic will bring back for members to select. I took the smaller and ragged pieces to cut into squares.

I received feedback on 2 of our donations, both regarding ribbon.   First, I gave some of our toys to the nurse from Leesburg Hospital for their pediatric unit.  She loved them, but asked that any ribbons be stitched to the animal to secure it.  I know Ceal does this, but there may have been some that someone else added that weren’t stitched.  We will check that in the future.

The other comment was on ribbon added to a walker bag.  It seems that small ribbons came off easily on one.  We need to check that all decorations are securely attached.

 Show and Tell:

Ellen Hein made 12 matching sets of receiving blankets and burp pads.  

She also made 12 flannel quilt tops and handed them in with matching backing.

She finished the binding on a quilt Nilda Nicoletta made 

and handed in a hospice quilt top.

Louise Stem made 2 microwave bowl sets

and 6 pillowcases.

Eileen DiSanto is back sewing again after her hand surgery.  She is making dryer sheet blocks and putting them together for a quilt.

Mic Pickard found 8 nice rectangles and made a set of 4 reversible placemats.  She also brought 12 receiving blankets that were turned in to Busy Hands.  They are no longer donating them anywhere so we will give them to Leesburg Hospital.

Anne Knoff made 2 fidget quilts that she will donate through her quilt guild chapter.

Lynn Delgado showed items that she and Audrey Philips made for Operation Shoebox.

I used up a few of the scraps to make 5 zipper bags 

and 4 butterfly potholders.

Before she left, Nilda cut fabric for 2 walker bags.  She was able to finish one and I took the fabric to finish the 2nd (identical) one.   

After the meeting I gave 2 big bags of quilts to Ellen for binding. Mic and I went to storage to store some quilts and some sale items, and to pull out some large pieces of fabric that might become pillowcases.  I gave Mic 30 receiving blankets, 21 burp pads, and 16 bibs to donate to Leesburg.

Next week I will bring the supplies to make potholders again.  I hope we can have a good selection of these for the October Sale.

It occurred to me that we are overdue for a potluck party. Normally we would have had one at the beginning of April and then again in July.   Instead, we will have a potluck and games June 12^th.   I hope many of you will come out for the fun.