Club Notes - Nov 28, 2018

Sorry for the delay in sending out these notes.  I really have to take some  time to read the manual for my camera.  Somehow I set it to "post focus" , which turned out to mean it recorded a one second video instead of a still picture each time.  This meant I had to extract a still photo from each video.  I guess I have to let go of my techie pride and actually read the manual to figure out how to set and unset these crazy features.

We had a great turnout this week, actually had to pull out all 6 of our extension hubs.

Announcements:

Nita Hand is recovering well from her first knee replacement surgery.  She is scheduled to have her other knee replaced on Dec. 11th and , if all goes well, hopes to be back with us in February.

The Villages has decided that quilt and sewing clubs should not use their own irons or ironing boards.  They will supply approved equipment to each rec center.  El Santiago will be getting these within the next few weeks.  The Sheriff's Youth Ranch is going to have a program to teach girls at the ranches to sew, so I will be giving the ironing boards and irons we have to them. 

Show and Tell.

Mic Pickard was busy.  She made a holder for her embroidery hoops, a duffel bag and a set of ice cream pint holders for a friend.









(She's having fun with her new embroidery machine.)

 

Diane Placek made several origami fabric ornaments (

demo next fall)

Donna Rissman made a lovely Menorah wall hanging and a 10 degree wedge table runner. (demo to come).

Eileen DiSanto showed 2 quilts.  

The second was planned to be the back for the first, but it came out so nice her husband said it should be a separate quilt,.






She also finished 12 Star Wars themed place mats for the Sheriff's youth ranch.

Carol Riggs turned in a dog bed and 10 place mats for the Sheriff's Youth Ranch.

Ellen Hein made 2 sleep sacks for her grand children and a pair of pajama pants to go with a pajama top she received.

Pat Pipa showed a quilt she made from blocks and r club donated to our club.  This quilt is going to the Panhandle.

I finished a queen size quilt top Eileen Navakas gave us a few weeks ago. I also created a  twin size quilt from the red-white-blue drier sheet blocks created by our club members.  Both of these will go to the Panhandle.

Over the past few months I have been working on a quilt for my great-niece.  She is a music teacher, a book worm, and a cat lover, so all those elements are included in the quilt.

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B.J. gave a great demo on making a snowman pillow.  I saw a lot of ladies working on variations of this project and am looking forward to seeing the results. .

Those not working on demos helped me go through the 5 bags of fabric we received from the 4H club's excess.  We separated the fabric into large, potential backings, under 2 yd pieces for pillow cases, flannels, and small pieces to be cut into blocks.
Next week the 4H club will be giving me batting that they don't need.  I don't know how much but it may be  a lot. I also received a donated queen size batting this week and we still have much of our latest bolt of 90" wide batting, so we are in good shape for batting. 
Next week is charity project week and Lynn will be showing us how to make a quick checkerboard quilt.  I will send out supply requirements in a separate email.

Club Notes - Nov 14, 2018

***NO MEETING NEXT WEEK****

I thought we were going to get drenched today, but the rain held off until long after our meeting ended.

On Monday I delivered the dolls and little elephants we made to The Villages Hospital volunteers.  They were very excited to receive them.  They will give them to children who come in to the emergency room or to visit someone in the hospital.

Lynn reported that she now has over 100 quilts to bring to the woman who is distributing them to the people in the Panama City.  She said word has gotten out and there are other communities in the Panhandle who were impacted by the hurricane who are contacting her and asking if they could get some quilts too.  Lynn said she will make another delivery Dec 3rd.  The coordinator will also be coming to the Quilt Show in January and will take another load then.  For those who use Facebook here's the link for more info : Quilts for the Panhandle

The initial goal of the quilt drive is to collect 2,000 quilts, but that is just a drop in the bucket of what is needed.  This effort will go on for a while.

Since the Boggy Creak Bear Ladies will be using our regular room again January-March, they have asked to have their shelf in the storage closet back as of Dec 1.  That means I had to take half of our boxes home for the winter.  I've left the pillow case supplies and the red, white and blue strips, along with a bin of dryer sheets for anyone who wants to use these. 

If anyone wants to put together a quilt with our blocks, please email me to request that I bring in a box with the size blocks you want to work with.  I have boxes with 3.5", 4",  4.5", 5", 5.5", 6", 6.5", and 7" blocks, as well as a box of assorted larger blocks and panels.  We have batting and backing fabrics available for charity quilts as well.  Just ask me and I will bring stuff in.

If quilts are not your thing, I have stuff for walker bags (fidget or not), duffel bags, and stuffed toys.  If you are interested in making stuff for charities, just let me know what you need.  We have more supplies than you can imagine!

Show and Tell:

Lu Karatzas showed some fabric post cards she finished.

Charlotte Cecilio got a head start on this week's project and showed a bear she made.

She Campbell showed a pillowcase her sister Jane Swafford made and didn't have a chance to hand in.

Bev Minnerly showed some doll clothes and 5 child bibs for a class of young children.

Ellen Hein showed a sleep sack she made for her grandchild.

New member Lorraine Manz dived into one of our block boxes and some sashing Mic cut last week, and completed a lovely quilt for the Panama City collection.

I made 2 pillowcases last week and finished 2 quilts.  One is for the Honor Flight and the other is a baby quilt for Panama City.






























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Today's project was to make some stuffed animals for charity.  I brought in templates for about a dozen different toys.  Some of the patterns I sent out last week seemed a bit small, so I made enlarged templates for the dog, elephants, pig, and dinosaur.  If anyone would like to make larger versions of these, let me know and I'll bring the templates. 

Since next week is Thanksgiving and most people are busy the day before, there will be no meeting next week.   I will send out info for the following week's project after Thanksgiving.

Club Notes - Nov 7, 2018

We had a great meeting today. Lots of show and tell, a great demo by Lu, and much activity after.

Show and Tell:

B.J. Herter started us off by showing her finished cornucopia.

Mic Pickard finished another set of place mats and a couple of pillowcases.

Brenda Severa showed a charity quilt top she made.

Pat Pipa showed a t-shirt quilt she made for her granddaughter, a set of placemats, and a finished doll for our charity effort from last month.

Bev Minnerly finished 4 more placemats (making 8 of her set of 12), and the tunic she made from our project a few weeks ago.

Linda Parr showed 2 ditty bags she made, one of which was made from a Walmart placemat.  (She will do a demo on this in January).

Ellen Hein made a set of placemats, some infant hats, and a project bag for her grandson.

Lu Karatzas showed her set of finished placemats.

I showed 4 quilts.  The first one Pat Pipa made and I quilted.

The second one I made from our stash of blocks,  












The last 2 are baby quilts I made from some panels I had in my stash.

Lynn arrived late with a stack of quilts she made.  She spent the afternoon tying them so they will be ready to go to Panama City.

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We have now given 12 quilts to Lynn to send to Panama City.  She reported she currently has 52 quilts to deliver next week.  She is leaving on the 18th to transfer the quilts to the woman who is bringing them to the hurricane victims, so we have a chance to get her any more we have ready by next week.  Lynn said they will be taking another load of quilts before Christmas as well.  They have a goal of getting 2,000 quilts to these devastated families before the real cold weather sets in on the Panhandle.

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Lu Karatzas gave a demo today on how to make fabric postcards.  I am attaching a template I found for the address side of a postcard that you can print on printable fabric or stabilizer, if you wish. Eileen Navikas chimed in and showed a card she made.  She writes letters to her granddaughter in cards she makes by folding a regular size piece of paper in half and gluing a fabric motif to the front.

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After the demo everyone got busy. Two new ladies, Sandy and Lorraine, dived into the box of 6" blocks and laid out a charity quilt to sew.  I took the box of patriotic dryer sheet quilt blocks and laid out a quilt from these.  Mic Pickard and Diane Placek went to work on our massive supply of white fabric, cutting it into 1.5 inch strips for sashing and dryer sheet center strips. Everyone else was busy making postcards or working on other projects.  It was a very productive afternoon.

Next week we are planning to make stuffed toys.  I will send out a couple of easy patterns in a separate email.  We have some fabrics in our supplies that should work for making these.  I will look in our supplies and bring in what I think might work, as well as stuffing.  See you next Wednesday.