September 14, 2016 Club Notes

We had another fun afternoon. More members are bringing items for show and tell each week, and it is great!

 Audrey Philips made 3 pillows for her new home from a 10-minute pillow pattern.  The first 2 were straight fabric, but she had fun and embroidered the 3rd one.

Lu Karatzas showed a quilt as you go, reversible quilt in progress.  As usual, beautiful work and sh promised to bring it in again once it's finished.

Bev Minnerly gets the prize for the most items to show this week. She made 2 wine bottle cozies, a Christmas Wreath wall hanging, and a Sun Flower Wall Hanging. All of it beautiful.












Lu and Bev turned up wearing the same blouse and called themselves twins for the day.  

Eileen DiSanto showed her finished wine bottle cozy and some Dallas Cowboys pillow cases.

Kathy Jones made 2 bottle cozies and another pretty mesh bag.

Pat Pipa made 2 bottle cozies, one wine bottle size and a smaller one for her water bottle.

Nella Rose showed her finished all-season wreath wall hanging..

Jane Swafford brought in another pretty pillowcase.

B.J. Herter showed what she made from her husband's old jeans - 2 very pretty purses.

 

Carol Riggs got carried away and made 4 bottle cozies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kim Hart finished her wreath wall hanging, but she could not be with us this week.  She is on her way to Wisconsin and is giving her wreath to her mother.  She sent me a picture, so it will be in the blog this week.

For today's project I demonstrated how to cut border fabric with a 60 degree ruler and turn it into an interesting table runner.  It was fun to see the different fabrics the ladies brought in and how each one is turning into a uniquely beautiful runner.   In a separate email, I sent out links to a couple of YouTube videos on 60 degree triangles, to supplement the demo.   In addition to the pattern I showed, the videos show several other patterns that can be put together easily using these triangle cuts.  I'm looking forward to seeing a bunch of finished runners over the next few weeks, and maybe someone will try some of the other ideas too.
Video 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOZOFMznckI
Video 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o2rTVlmO5U

We did have a little mishap near the end of the meeting. One of our members cut her finger going too fast with a rotary cutter.  We got the finger bandaged and sent her off to urgent care.  I just heard from her and she is OK.  She needed 2 stitches.  This is a reminder to everyone to please be careful with all the blades, needles and the irons . A few weeks ago we had another incident, with a needle going through someone's finger.  We have to always remember we are working with tools that can be dangerous and we need to have our minds on our tasks.   There is never any reason to rush.  If we don't finish something in our 3 hour time slot, we can take a project home to finish or save it until the next week.  We are here to have fun - there are no deadlines on fun.

Hope to see you all next week. Stay safe.