Club Notes - May 16, 2018

We had fun today learning how to make several different style caps for cancer patients.  I will send out the directions in a separate email.  

We heard that Jane Swafford has been released from rehab and is home with her sister Sue.  Jane, please remember we all continue to think about you and hope you will be able to join us again one day soon.

As usual, we received lots of fabric this week.  This time we got a bag full of usable shirts, which I plan to give to the Saint Vincent DePaul monthly collection. Most of the rest was all scrap and we managed to fill 3 dog beds.

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Show and Tell:

Last week's demo was well received.  There were several Mega Pinnie's completed. 

Lu added a thread catcher to hers.  She also made a 2nd one as a gift for a friend and attached the thread catcher with velcro to make it optional.

Bev added several small pockets to hers to hold the tools she uses for making doll clothes.

Eileen showed her completed Mega Pinnie.

I inserted a piece of cardboard in the bottom of mine to make it sit flatter.

Lu Karatzas also made a bunch of microwave bowls and showed some fabric postcards she made a few years back.  (She will give a demo on these when she returns to The Villages in the fall.)

Laura Tomich made a cute jacket and showed a purse she designed for travel.

Carol Riggs loves her embroidery machine.  She embroidered some shirts for a Maj Jong friend and also showed some embroidered hats made by her mentor.

Pat Pipa finished several projects from prior weeks, including bowl buddies and towel hangers.  She also made a quilt from donated fabric.

Eileen made a bunch of bowl buddies in addition to her mega pinnie.

Ellen Hein was inspired by working with Donna Rissman last week and finished her casserole carrier (which was in her UFO pile).  

Linda Parr showed a landscape bag she made on her embroidery machine.  It will be donated to local foster kids this December.

Mary Nazgiewicz made a pillowcase and 66 dryer sheet blocks.  (I think we can start looking at making a quilt from these soon.)

I took a bolt of strong fabric from our donation staff and made 10 more duffle bags for the Sheriff's Youth Ranch.

  I also finished the quilt that Donna Rissman sewed the top for and a 2nd quilt that I had some fun with using half-hexies from donated fabric.

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For today's demo, Nita showed us how to make caps for cancer patients.  She shared several different patterns.  We had lots of t-shirt fabric to work with and I expect some of these to come back next week.
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Next week  we will try a fun project - a stuffed toy duck.   I will send the pattern out separately.  You can make this for a child you love or make one to donate to the Ocala Shelter.