Club Notes - September 29, 2021

We had a busy, slightly chaotic, but very productive meeting this afternoon.  I retrieved everything I had in storage in boxes marked "Sale items".  We sorted them, counted how many of each item, and priced everything.  As items were marked, we packed them back in boxes to go back to my house until Saturday. 

Show and Tell:

 

 

Pat Pipa made a stack of gift card holders 

 

and a tote bog for our sale.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 She also finished a table runner that matches a wall hanging she completed last week.

Bev Minnerly finished a reversible basket and 2 walker bags.

 

 

Ceal Pedersen made 3 tote bags.

Audrey Phillips was very busy.  

 

 

She turned in 2 soft books,

one of which has a matching angel doll,

 a walker bag 

 

 

and several loom hats.  

 

 

 

She also finished a strip quilt top.

 

 

Ellen finished the binding on a quilt Ceal Pedersen turned in a few weeks ago.  

 

 

 

 

She  made a bunch of Christmas reusable gift bags for our sale for our sale.

 

 

 

 

 

She also made some Halloween hangings and a hanging scarecrow for her son's family. 
 

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Several ladies volunteered to help with our sale table on Saturday and I am grateful for the help.  I will send another email update after the dust settles.

I hope some of you who have not been able to get to meetings will take some time to come out to the craft sale on Saturday.  It will be at Savannah on Saturday,  8:30 AM - 2:30 PM.  Please tell your friends as well.  All proceeds from our table will be earmarked for the kinds of charity supplies we don't get donated, like quilt batting and, if there are funds left over, fabric for children's pillowcases.

Club Notes - September 22, 2021

 We had a fun, active meeting this afternoon, with 15 ladies attending, including one more potential new member.  Next week will be the last opportunity to turn in items for sale at the Oct 2nd craft sale.  Next week I will bring in all the items we have collected for sale so we can organize the items and  price everything. We won't have any demo so it will also be a free sew week.

Show and Tell:

 

Pat Pipa made some of the reversible fabric boxes, 

 

 

 

a wall hanging (from a panel found in our donation stash),

 and a bunch of reusable Christmas gift tags.

 

 

 

 

Diane Placek made a tote bag for the Women's shelter from our 4.5" square stash.

She recently purchased a new quilting and embroidery sewing machine and showed her first attempts at using it.  She did a test piece and embellished a hex hot pad.

 

 

 

Ceal Petersen made 2 quilt tops to hand in.

 

 

 

Bev Minerly made 4 reversible fabric boxes, 

 

a couple of microwave bowl cozies, 

 

 

 some walker bags, and some backpacks.

Carole Lamb made a Halloween gift bag.

 

Donna Rissman showed an idea she had for our sale, making ornaments from some upside down glass jars she found at the dollar store.  She will be making more of these for our sale.

She also showed an ornament decoration made from ribbons.

 

 

B.J. Herter made some Halloween Place mats with fun skeletons on the back.

Mic Pickard made some of the reversible fabric boxes 

 

and a microwave bowl caddy set.

Ellen Hein made some pillowcases and a sweatshirt jacket for her granddaughter.

 

 

 

 

She made some gift bags for our sale

 

 

 

 and three quilt tops she finished using panels from our donation stash.

 

  She also showed the charity quilts she finished the binding on this week.  

 

 

This week all the finished quilts were tops she made, I quilted, and she bound.

 

 

Liz Manzione finished her first walker bag.

 

 

 

I showed 2 reversible fabric boxes.

 

 

 

Laura Tomich is still not allowed to mingle with groups due to her fragile health, but she dropped off some zipper bags and small totes.

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Today I described how to make a simple pumpkin potholder and several ladies tried this project.  I brought several boxes of other fabrics that the attendees looked through for ideas.  We also got several large bags of scraps, batting and finished dog beds.  I filled 4 dog beds and separated out some high-loft batting for future use.

As we packed the carts and started for the door, the heavens opened and we wound up packing Mic, Ellen and my cars in the pouring rain. With help from Liz and Lois (rec center staff), we got everything loaded.  I was soaked through by the time I was done and I'm sure Mic, Ellen and Liz were as well.  A half hour after I got home the sun came out and I was able to unload under the Florida sun.  Typical Florida weather.  Usually I can get home before the afternoon rains, but today either we left late or the rains came early.  Hope that doesn't happen too often.

Hope to see you next week.

Club Notes - September 15, 2021

There were 11 of us at this afternoon's meeting.  It was a low-key afternoon, with more socializing than sewing.  We got lots of show and tell though:

Show and Tell:

Ceal Pedersen started us off with a fabric box and a quilt top.

 

 

 

Mic Pickard made some fabric boxes and showed a purse she completed for a friend who found it too challenging.  Mic has been working on this for a few weeks and from her description it may be the purse from hell.  It had many pages of instruction and included a thick foam stabilizer and bias binding that has to go around several thick layers.  Mic did a great job on this despite the difficulties.

Audrey Phillips showed some embroidery she finished and several different sizes of the fabric boxes.

 

 

 

Charlotte Cecillio came with a bunch of stuffed dinosaurs and frogs.

Jean Piccirillo came back from her summer travels with a bunch of walker bags.

Donna Rissman finished some pillowcases and a fabric box

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She also made 2 gnome table runners, showing the 2 main variations on the 60 degree triangle pattern.

 

 

Pat Pipa made some fabric boxes and put together a Christmas Carol soft book that was found in our donation stash.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carole Lamb made some pillow cases

 

 

 and some zipper bags.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ellen Hein showed the final result of 4 quilts.  She made all 4 tops, I added the backing, batting and quilting, and Ellen finished the binding.

Liz Manzione finished a pillowcase and a fabric box.

I finished a fabric box and 5 "Round TUIT" coasters with a gardening motif.  I also showed 2 pumpkin potholders, which are examples of next week's project.

 

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I brought several boxes of donated fabric for attendees to work with and Mic brought the bins of semi-fat quarter pieces again.   Everyone had a chance to look through these and pick pieces to work with.  I pulled a panel from the "big block" box and, with some help from Ellen, added sashing blocks to design a quilt top.  Then I designed a 2nd quilt top with a more feminine theme.  I saw several other ladies helping each other in various projects.

Next week will be another easy week.  I will show how to make pumpkin-shaped potholders.  All you need is 2 9 inch square pieces of orange fabric, a 9 inch square of insul-bright and a 10-12 inch by 2 inch strip of green fabric for the stem. An optional addition would be some batting to make the potholder a little thicker.  I am experimenting with this pattern and will send an update in a few days.

If this email came a little later than usual, it's because I was a bit distracted tonight.  Ray and I watched the first civilians being launched into space on a SpaceX rocket.  We watched both on TV and from the back of our house as they soared into the sky. What a momentous event!

Hope to see you all next week.