We were happy to welcome Ellen Hein back to the club this afternoon. She and her husband both tested negative on Monday, so she is able to be out and about again. Ellen told us she spoke to B.J. Herter and B.J. has also received a negative test result. It's great to know our 2 friends are well again.
Show and Tell:
Charlotte Cecilio left a bag by my door on Monday. In addition to the patriotic dryer sheet blocks (a photo of which was included last week), she made a bunch of masks.
Bev Minnerly was busy this week. First she showed a bunch of patriotic dryer sheet blocks she made.
Next she showed her latest batch of doll cloths.
Finally, she completed a bunch of drawstring backpacks with outside pockets.
Mic Pickard has been busy working on a t-shirt quilt and pillow for
her granddaughter. She finally finished them and was able to join us
and show the results.
Ellen Hein attacked her supply of fleece again and completed 12 of them. She brought one to show us.
I brought the latest completed quilts.
The first 6 are ones I designed and Diana Gosselin sewed the tops for.
We found a bunch of star and half star embroidered blocks in the donations. Deb Chapman put them together in this lovely quilt/
Deb also put this one together and donated it to our charity effort.
A few weeks ago this quilt was designed at one of our meetings, using 10" squares from our donation stash.
We found a bunch of blue and white 9-patch blocks in the donations, but there weren't enough for a quilt. I matched up some more blue and white 3.5" squares and gave some sets to Diana and some to Deb to make more. I found 4 classic art squares of the same size and incorporated them into the design.
I quilted them all and Ellen added the binding for all of them.
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For the rest of the afternoon we worked on various charity efforts. I had 2 dryer sheet quilt tops that were 40" x 48". Since the Honor Flight committee is asking for 40" x 60", we need to add another row. Ellen took the blocks I got from Charlotte and added them to one of the quilt tops. When she was done with that she laid out the design for a quilt top from the 6.5" squares and took the whole box of 6.5" squares home to work with.
Mic brought in a box of fabric scraps from Busy Hands and Deb Chapman sorted through them to find what we can use.
Bev Minnerly went through the boxes of red and blue strips to find some for more dryer sheet blocks. She also pulled out any that were 2.5" wide for Ellen to use on quilt bindings.
I worked on cutting and sewing together fabric for a couple of quilt backs. Mic ironed them and another quilt top and back I had.
It was another very productive day.
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