Club News - June 20, 2018

It was a fun afternoon.  Donna Rissman did her usual excellent job at giving a demo.  Today she showed how easy it is to make a foldable fabric box.  I've attached the instructions, but, for all of you who weren't there, it was much better (and more fun) seeing her explain it. 

 Before the end of the afternoon Marti Rhyne proved her sewing ability by completing the first one!

Announcements:

First one sad note.  Carol Riggs' son has recently undergone some very serious surgery and she has asked us all for our prayers for him.

Eileen DiSanto had vein surgery last Friday, the day before her birthday.  She is in a bit of pain as a result and can't drive or use the foot control on her sewing machine. She was disappointed because she had several projects cut, expecting to sew while she recovered, but she got a couple of hints on how she could sew without using leg pressure.  Prayers for her too.

On a lighter note, the Row by Row season begins tomorrow (the first day of Summer) and continues through Labor Day.  I've scheduled 3 all day shop hops for anyone who wants to come along.  The first will be next Thursday and you can see the details in an email I sent last week.  At the moment there are 4 of us going and my van will hold 2 more if anyone is interested. 

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Show and Tell:

Last week Carol Riggs donated a bunch of wine bags and we were trying to figure out how to convert these to the draw string bags that the Ocala Shelter requested.  Donna Rissman and Pat Pipa each took one home to try an idea and they both came back with the results today.  Both ladies decorated the sides of the bags.  

Donna added a channel for a draw string and left the handle as well.

Pat removed the handles and used a hole punch to make places to thread a draw string through.  Both solutions work great!

Eileen DiSanto showed the placemat zipper bag she finished from the demo a few weeks ago, 

Lynn Kluczynski took some of our ever growing supply of fabric squares and made 2 quilts tops. 







  She also started a third and talked about how this one could be turned into an on-point design.  She showed how it will be sewed blocks together 12 across and 6 down, then during the meeting cut the sides diagonally and showed how the 2 resulting triangles will be sewed together and then to the other piece.  It's not easy to explain, but it came out great.

Alice Meunier finished another beautiful charity quilt.

Carol Riggs embroidered a bag for table tennis paddles (her other hobby) for a friend

I showed a fidget walker bag with a draw string opening and a twin size fidget quilt.

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Lots of work got done after the demo.  

Carol Coyne finished a pillow she made for her granddaughter.





Some ladies worked on the foldable boxes. Pat Pipa worked on creating decorative panels for the wine bags.  Nella Rose got her twin fidget quilt pinned and ready to quilt.  I worked on sorting a box of 4" blocks by color and separating blocks that were in the wrong box.

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Next week is our summer pot luck  and games . Show and Tell is encouraged as always, but there will be no project  so you don't need to bring a machine.  Bring a dish to share if you can.  I will provide plates, etc. and ice tea.  Even if you can't bring something, come anyway.  There is always plenty.
Hope to see you next week.