We had 14 ladies show up for today's meeting and boy, were we busy. Once Ellen finished her explanation on how to put the sides on the duffle bags, it was so quite all you could hear was the sound of sewing machines. Ellen did a wonderful job cutting the pieces, serging the edges, and putting in the zippers. All we had to do was add the sides, which was challenging enough but a great learning experience. I think 14 of the 16 we need were sewn together by the end of the meeting. All that's left is to add the straps and name tags. I gave Ellen some d-rings for the name tags and Mic is going to make the name tags on her embroidery machine. Ellen will let me know the status of the straps before our next charity project meeting.
Show and Tell:
B.J. Herter made 2 cute dinosaur toys to hand in.
Bev Minnerly worked on some of her UFOs, finishing 2 microwave bowls and adding lace to the bottom on one of her too-short camisoles.
Laura Tomich got some fabric from a friend who gave up sewing and made 38 pillowcases. (I pulled 16 of these to add to the Youth Ranch graduate's gifts.)
Deb Chapman showed a purse she made at her quilt chapter.
Alice Meunier showed a beautiful prayer quilt she made as a wedding gift.
Ellen Hein made appliqued Mickey and Minnie shirts for some kids she knows.
Mic Pickard finished the binding on 2 Cornerstone Hospice quilts that have been worked on by several people, and made a memory bear for a friend out of their loved one's shirt.
Pat Pipa finished her project bag and turned in a quilt top for our Youth Ranch effort.
Carol Thurston gave me a quilt top and back for me to finish too, but the photo of that one will appear when it's done.
Aieen Lee came late and turned in another Hospice quilt top, photo will appear when it is quilted and bound.
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We are making great progress with the project to give graduation gifts to the Sheriff's Youth Ranch kids. As I said before there are 8 girls and 8 boys graduating this year. I am confident that we will be able to finish the 16 duffel bags in time. Currently we have 6 completed twin size quilts, 2 ready for quilting, and 4 more tops turned in that I need to cut batting and backing for. Mic has another one in progress, so that makes 13. That means we only need 3 more. Laura Paulk is going to get some of our cut blocks from me next week to make another one. I have some panels that can be turned into quilt tops pretty quickly if anyone would like to try for the last 2. Let me know. I will be busy quilting for the next few weeks. 
Reminder: WE DO NOT HAVE ANY MEETING ROOM FOR THE REST OF MARCH.
Our next meeting will be on April 1st and we will be back in the Hula Lounge room. From then on we go back to weekly meetings.
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