We had a smaller group of only 10 ladies this afternoon, but plenty of activity anyway.
Last week I delivered 8 lap quilts to the woman collecting quilts for a girl scout gold award project. GIrl scout Emily Matlach is collecting quilts to help
support the veterans in the VA hospital in Lake Nona.
Tomorrow I intend to give 5 quilts to a DaVita treatment center. I misspoke at our meetings regarding this organization's function. They provide kidney dialysis treatment. There are several of these offices in The Villages. I am going to give 5 quilts to the one on Rt 441/27 in Oakland Hills tomorrow morning. We still have more lap quilts in storage, so I will give some to the office near Laurel Manor as soon as I can make the delivery.
Show and Tell:
Pat Pipa showed her completed fractured art piece\\
and a zipper bag for our sale.
Bev Minnerly showed a completed walker bag.
Charlotte Cecillio showed 2 stuffed dino
and 2 waiting to be stuffed.
She also showed several hex hot plates mostly finished, just waiting for top-stitching.
B.J.
Herter
showed her latest fractured art piece
and the one she did the last time we demoed this.
Then she showed an
Advent calendar she made. It has stars around the border attached to
buttons.
Starting with December 1st, a star is transferred from a
button on the border to a button on the tree. Each day another star is
transferred until the last star is placed on the tree on Christmas day.
Donna
Rissman showed a patriotic row-by-row block she got s few years ago
and a stuffed spider she made (after figuring it out without any instructions).
A
friend of Anne Knoff's, CIndy, has been giving us some lovely bags for
quite a while. Today as I was coming into the rec center she gave me a
lovely tote (which will go into our sale item inventory) and a quilt.
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Today
I gave a brief explanation of how to make a walker bag, using the
Helpertunity pattern. Several were completed during the afternoon (I
haven't counted yet), and I will make a delivery within the next couple
of days. Several ladies also took kits home to complete. This is a
fairly simple pattern. Once you have done one and understand the
pattern, a walker bag can be completed in 1 to 1.5 hours after the
fabric is cut.
I
spent my sewing time last week starting to process the backlog of quilt
tops. I quilted 3 of them and gave them to Donna for binding. The
rest have been matched with backings and battings, and I will be
quilting them as time permits. I am going on vacation August 11th, so
any I don't get to this week will wait until I get back.
Next
week is a free sewing week. I will bring some pre-cut squares so we
can lay out some quilt top designs, but there will be no demo.
The
following 2 weeks (Aug 11 and 18th) I will be away. Pat Pipa and Mic
Pickard will be running the meetings while I am away. Demos have been
scheduled for both weeks. I've included the project/demo schedule
below..
| 4-Aug-21 | Open Sew/Quilt Squares Design | |
| 11-Aug-21 | Toy Eyes/Ceal Pedersen | Pat & Mic |
| 18-Aug-21 | Triangle Frenzy Table Runner/Donna | Pat & Mic |
| 25-Aug-21 | Car Trash Bag | Lois Rose |
| 1-Sep-21 | Pat & Mic | |
| 8-Sep-21 | Scrap Strip Placemat | Lois Rose |
| 15-Sep-21 | Travel Jeweltry Tray | Lois Rose |
Hope you will join us next week.
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