Club Notes - October 5, 2016

What can I say- great fun meeting as always. 

First and foremost - everybody stay safe this weekend.  It looks like a hurricane is coming our way, so make sure you have food, water, charged cell phones, an evacuation plan and anything that wind could pick up and throw at your windows secured.  If you don't know what to do, check out the hurricane guide at http://thevillagesdailysun.com/app/hurricane_2016/

Lots of advertisements in there, but also some good info if you page through it.

Now that that's out of the way, the fun stuff:

During announcements, I suggested that we might have a pot-luck lunch and optional Halloween costume dress up on October 26th.  The majority in the room approved of this, so that is the plan.  I will send a reminder the week before.

Show and Tell

Donna Rissman showed another of her wreath wall hangings, a fabric bowl that converts to a place mat, and an embroidered purse she picked up on her travels.

Chris Leedy showed a framed chicken embroidery, and a 2-sided 60 degree  table runner with all but the binding complete.  Chris will be having foot surgery Nov 22nd, so she is preparing a bunch of projects that will require hand sewing to complete while she is off her feet.

Nita Hand showed her completed table runner

Eileen Navikas brought another cute fidget quilt.

Bev Minnerly made 3 walker bags, a wheelchair bag, and a fidget quilt

Lu Karatzas made 4 potato bags and a cute snow 60 degree table runner

Laura Tomich showed 4 walker bags, and a purse she made by modifying the lazy girl runaround bag pattern to add pockets. Of course, the bag matched her outfit.

Eileen DiSanto showed her finished 60 degree table runner.

Sharon McKiney showed several of the 10 Minute table runners she has made. (we'll do this pattern next Spring)

I made 3 potato bags and a pumpkin table runner.  This runner will be the basis for next week's applique demo.

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Everyone seemed to be having fun with this week's project.  Almost everyone was trying to cut out their fabric circles before Pat Pipa had a chance to show how to do the project.  Once she finally got her chance to explain the different ways you can make fabric pumpkins, she had everyone's attention.  I saw a lot of finished pumpkins this afternoon.  It would be nice if you could all bring your pumpkins back next week and we could get a picture of all of them together.

Also, I have to thank Donna RIssman for helping me today.  I had the first charity quilt we made from the drier sheet blocks together and quilted - all it needed to finish it was to sew on the binding.  I had made the binding and was planning to start sewing it on during our meeting today.  Binding is not my favorite part of quilting, but Donna says she likes doing it, so we made a trade.  She sewed the binding on the quilt and I wrapped the yarn around her pumpkin. Win Win.

It was also nice to have a non-sewing machine project today because we only had to move 1 table at the end of the day during clean-up.  I got home much earlier than usual.  Maybe we should schedule a non-sewing machine project once a month on a regular basis  

Hope to see you all next week.  As usual, project info will be sent out in a separate email.