Club Notes - December 16, 2020

 

Our last meeting of 2020 was low-key as predicted.  No news to report. Pat Pipa is back from her Texas trip and we got to wish her a happy birthday today.

Show and Tell:

Ceal Pederson has been having fun making toys.  She came with 6 horses and 5 elephants, and a tote bag.

 

 

 

Bev Minnerly brought 3 cats ready to stuff and finished them during the afternoon.  

 

 

She also showed the Christmas purse she made, from her own design. 

 

 

Judith Mayer came back to join us today and brought 2 honor flight quilt tops, a Cornerstone Hospice quilt top, and a bag.

Karen Komp took fabric and the pattern for fidget walker bags last week and came back with 4 completed walker bags.

 

 

 

 

Diana Gosselin dropped off some dinos and frogs at my house last week and Carolyn Grasso stopped in at the beginning of our meeting to drop off a bag of stuffed toys.

I spent some time this week trying to useI hope some of our odd fabric.  I made 5 bears, a frog, a dino, and a bunch of zipper bags.  I also took a cue from Ellen and made 2 Christmas gift bags.

We spent the rest of the working day on various projects.  I was hoping to drop all the toys off at the hospital on my way home, but it started to rain really hard.  I will deliver them tomorrow when the weather is better.

 Our next meeting is January 6th in our alternate room - the Beach Club room.  We have a room for the 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th weeks, but NOT the 2nd.  Our schedule for January, February and March is one of bouncing between rooms, but I will let you know where we will meet each week. 

I hope you all have a wonderful two weeks off, enjoying the holidays.

Club Notes - December 9, 2020

 

There were 6 of us again today.  A gentleman from the Daily Sun stopped in during his lunch break to see what we were doing.  There were no announcements today, just fun sewing.

Show and Tell:

 

 

Ceal Pederson got the toy making bug and came in with about 10 cats and 2 dinos.  She also closed the horse and dino that EIleen DiSanto made last week and made another cat during the afternoon.

 

 

Ceal did such a great job painting the faces on the cats and securing the whiskers, I had to take a close up!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bev Minnerly came with a cat ready for stuffing and finished it during the afternoon.

 

 

 

Mic Pickard finished 4 soft, red dinos and showed us photos of some of her completed projects and her detailed project plan.

 

 

Karen Komp made 10 purple dinos and 4 drawstring backpacks.

 

Suzanne Barron confessed that our group has had an impact on her.  She used to discard her leftover fabric, but has now converted to the concept that scraps can be repurposed.  She showed a table runner she made with some of her scraps.

We were all very busy the rest of the afternoon.  Karen asked about the fidget walker bags so I showed her the templates and she cut several sets.  When she ran out of those she cut some pillowcase kits.

Ann Knoff brought in several bags of scraps so Mic filled dog beds.  She also brought tote bags that her friend made.   I made four zipper bags.  Everyone else worked on various projects.

Next week will be the last meeting of 2020 and we will do more of the same.  I am holding the toys and bags until after next week.  I'll add in anything that comes in next week and deliver donations before Christmas.

Normally, we would be having a Holiday party at our last December meeting, but that obviously can't happen this year.  Usually, at that party, I would be giving a prize to the person who attended the most meetings during the year. This year I will wait until our first meeting in January to do that, since I'm hoping a few more members will be able to join us once the holidays are over.  I am hoping by Spring we can get back to normal and have some parties again.

Club Notes - December 2, 2020

 

We had a small group today.  December is always a slow month, with many of our members traveling or otherwise occupied preparing for the holidays. 

Laura Tomich was waiting for me in the parking lot when I arrived.  She wanted to give me some dog bed scraps and crocheted shawls,  Laura has cancer of the esophagus and is undergoing extensive treatments. If the treatments are not successful, she may be looking at surgery.  Although she has not been attending meetings or otherwise mingling with people this year, she has been making masks, pillowcases and zipper bags at home.  I have left supplies on her porch or in my cart for her and she has been returning the finished items all year.   Please include her in your prayers during the next few months.

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Show and Tell

Suzanne Barron showed one of the crocheted squares she made. She is making several of these, I believe she said they are for an afghan. 

 

She also showed some coasters and napkins she made.

Bev Minnerly made 5 different stuffed toys from a set of easy McCalls patterns,

  (I traced 4 of the McCalls patterns she had.  I thought I might have copied these previously, but I have not found them in my files.)

 

 

 a backpack and 2 fidget walker bags.

 

Charlotte Cecillio showed a quilt she made for a new grandchild.

 

 

B.J. Herter is on her way to visit her family in Pennsylvania, but she left us some stuffed toys.

 

I made a bunch of stuffed dinos and frogs,

some zipper bags, 

 

and tried out a new bag pattern called "Open Wide".   It came in 3 sizes, so I tried all 3.  (It was supposed to be quick and easy but it was neither.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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For the rest of the afternoon we worked on the usual variety of projects. We had several bags of scraps that were cut to fill 2 dog beds.  Several ladies worked on more stuffed toys.  Eileen DiSanto brought a pattern for a cat that looks very easy.  I will scan that and send it out in a separate email.

Our friendly Daily Sun reporter, Michael Fortuna, stopped in to see what we were working on, so you might see a little writeup in the paper again.

On my way home I dropped off 21 more stuffed toys at the Villages Hospital.  That should hold them until after the New Year.  Please continue making them as the mood takes you.  I will deliver the next batch in a couple of months, and will collect them as they are made.

I expect the next couple of meetings will be lightly attended just as this one so I'm not going to schedule anything specific to work on.  I will bring some fabric, like I did today, so whoever comes will have some to choose from. We have zippers, zipper bag and backpack fabric, and dryer sheets in the storage closet.  If anyone would like to work with anything else, they can email me and I will bring any of the other supplies.

We have 2 more meetings before our 2 week holiday break.  Hope to see you next week.