July 27th Notes

We had a few mixed feelings at this afternoon's meeting.  Wednesday I received an email from the Villages Recreation department saying that, when they started working on our permit for 2017, they found a conflict.  It seems that the Boggy Creek Bear Sewers have a standing reservation for the room we are in for January, February and March. Since that club was formed in 2011, they get priority on the room and we will either have to change our meeting time, change our meeting date, change our meeting location, or not meet for those 3 months.  I have been going back and forth with the rec department and they are looking for another room for us.  I have also sent an email to the leader of the other club in hope we might be able to work out a compromise. I will let everyone know the results when I hear back.

After getting that info out of the way, we had a great meeting. After show and tell, Kathy Jones showed us how to make aprons out of a shirt.  Everyone seemed to be having a great time making these.  I heard a lot of laughter.  It is always so nice to hear everyone having a good time.

We only had 3 people bring items for show and tell this week:

Bev Minnerly showed some of the doll clothes she makes and a purse insert for transferring items from one purse to another.






 Kathy Jones showed a mesh bag she made.  She will be demoing this as a future club project.

B.J. showed the neck pillow from last week that she finished.








Kathy Jones started the demo right after show and tell.  As the meeting progressed, several members finished their aprons.  The following are photos of finished aprons.

Susie Pendry, Cathie Shuart, and Kathy Franklin finished first.

Linda Parr was next

Diane Placek finished third.










And Eileen DiSanto was the last to finish before the end of the meeting.


Like so many others, I had to take mine home to finish, but I did it.  There was a suggestion that everyone who finished should bring their apron back in next week so we can get a group picture I think this would be fun, so please, bring your finished aprons in next week.



Thanks to some volunteer presenters and some suggestions from the group, we now have a project schedule taking us into November.  See the list below and I hope to see you all next week.

3-Aug	Iron Caddy	Donna Rissman
10-Aug	Fractured Fabric Art	Lois Rose
17-Aug	Charity Projects	Lois Rose
24-Aug	Mesh Purse	Kathy Jones
31-Aug	Prairie Point Wreath	Donna Rissman
7-Sep	Denim Water Bottle Cover	Nita Hand
14-Sep	Triangle Table Runner	Lois Rose and Donna Rissman
21-Sep	Charity Projects	Lois Rose
28-Sep	Potato Bag	Marty Rhyne
5-Oct	Fabric Pumpkin
12-Oct	Candy Corn Cutie	Donna Rissman
19-Oct	Fabric Squares Wreath	Lois Rose
26-Oct	Tissue Holder	Linda Parr
2-Nov	Suggestion??	Volunteer??
9-Nov	Wine Cork Horse Ornament	Lois Rose