Club Notes - Sept 27, 2017

We welcomed Kandie Stedman back to our group this week.  New member Lynn Kluczynski has also just about settled into her new home and was able to join us again.  B.J. Herter, Jane Stafford, Sue Campbell,  Lu Karatzas, and Van Hathaway are all still missing with various health issues.  We miss you all and hope you will be well enough to join us again soon.

Kandie told us about an opportunity to get a grant for $250 to work on a charity project as a group.  The web site explaining the grant can be found at https://www.thrivent.com/making-a-difference/living-generously/thrivent-action-teams/.  Kandie thought we could submit a project proposal for work on a project such as quilts for veterans.  I'm thinking that the Hospice Veterans quilts might be easy enough for us to do since they only require eight 12"  blocks for each quilt, plus the center block that Hospice provides.  We could pick a simple design that everyone could do.  I will send out a separate email polling for this.

Show and Tell:

Lynn Kluczynski was up first, showing a couple of mondo bags and a row by row pattern tote bag she "corrected" and finished.


(We talked about making mondo bags as a group project.  I will send out a separate email to gage interest in this, since it would involve purchase of the special interfacing.)

Nella Rose began by showing how she put some of the scrap strips together to make a Log Cabin block.  She is planning to make several of these.

Then she showed some squares she put together using the web method I showed last week.  She plans to add to this to make it into a good size charity quilt.




Last week several of us laid out blocks from our fabric stash into a couple of quilt designs.  I brought one set to a woman in the Allamanda quilt chapter to be sewn together.  Nella took the other set and brought this quilt top back today for me to finish.

 Bev Minnerly was busy this week.

First, she turned a piece cut off from some pants into a pair of pants for her granddaughter's doll.

Then she showed the 2 fidgit quilts she finished on the cut pieces of a quilt I gave her.



Then she showed a quilt top she started a while back and finished with borders this week.

Finally, she showed a purse she made this week.

Ellen Hein showed some pants she made for her grandson.

Marty Rhyne made a cute monkey for her new grandson and a couple of reading pillows she made for practice. (We hope she will do a demo on these pillows in the future.)

Alice  Meunier was busy this week making surgical caps for her nurse daughter.  The black one is glow-in-the-dark for Halloween and the other is for Thanksgiving.

I finished a quilt started as a project at my quilting chapter by adding to each end to make it twin size and experimenting with various quilting methods.  This will be one of the quilts going to families impacted by Irma.


I was asked who the Irma quilts will be given to.  I am still trying to make a contact, but I did send an email to the Florida disaster relief coordinator for the Salvation Army.  I have not received a response yet.

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After show and tell I explained how to make a needle wallet to keep track of what needle is in your machine and which ones you have used.   Several ladies started making them during the free sew part of our meeting.

Carol Riggs helped me with 2 quilts that  were ready to be sandwiched by ironing the top and backing and helping me pin one of them.  Some other ladies pitched in to sort fabric that was waiting.  I also put out the pillowcase fabric and 2 pillowcases were given to Carol,

It was a great meeting.  Here is a revised list of our upcoming projects:

04-Oct-17	Coin Purse	Diana Gosselin
11-Oct-17	The Wemyss School of Needlework	Sheila Hubble
18-Oct-17	Charity Projects- Stuffed Toys	Lois Rose
25-Oct-17	Halloween Pot-Luck
01-Nov-17	Adult "Lobster" Bib	Bev Minnerly
08-Nov-17	Bra Purse	Charlotte Cecilio
15-Nov-17	Charity Projects - Fidget Walker Bags	Lois Rose
22-Nov-17	NO Meeting
29-Nov-17	Snowman	Carol Riggs
06-Dec-17	Mesh Bag	Donna Rissman
13-Dec-17	Charity Projects- Pillow Cases	Lois Rose
20-Dec-17	Christmas Pot-Luck
27-Dec-17	NO Meeting

From Jan-Mar 2018 we will be alternating between El Santiago and Mulberry rec centers because our normal room was booked by a snowbird club before our club was formed. I am looking for ideas for  projects for the weeks we will at Mulberry so we don't have to bring too much of our regular equipment (ironing boards, cutting mats, etc.) there every time.  If you have an idea of a project we can do that would require less equipment, please let me know.  Non-sewing projects are welcome for these couple of weeks.  Remember, this is your club and it will always only be as good as you make it.  Our primary goal is to share what we know.  I believe every person has something they have done that they can share and I am always looking for your input.