We had a great turnout this afternoon, 19 ladies including 1 guest. We had a large fabric donation that came in yesterday and a number of ladies chipped in to sort and iron pieces. They filled several dog beds with the smaller pieces, but there was so much this is a project to be continued. Mic volunteered to take charge of the rest.
Show and Tell
Pat Pipa showed the purse she made from last week's demo.
Eileen DiSanto showed a few small card purses she made. She will be doing a demo on this in the near future.
Ceal Pedersen showed the baby quilt that she started last week and is now finished. She cut figures from a valance that was in a previous donation and applique'ed them to a quilt top.
Deb Chapman showed her latest block of the month,
the bag she finished last week,
and 2 hex trivets from a previous week's project.
Diane Placek showed the purse she made from last week's demo.
Bev Minnerly showed 2 purses she made from last week's demo and 2 zipper bags she finished with the same basic design.
Judy Mayer showed a quilt top she made
Mary Ellen Boutin showed the purse she made from last week's demo
and her first completed walker bag.
Ellen Hein showed 3 quilts she finished the binding on.
Ceal Pedersen made this quilt top.
Ellen took a panel and made this one.
(I liked the chance to use a African animal backing)
Pat Pipa made the top for the 3rd quilt.
(I added the backing and quilting on all of them.)
Ellen also turned in 2 more quilt tops using the parrot fabric she found.
She also made some clothing for her grandkids
and several drawstring bags for her grandson's magnetic construction toys.
Lastly, this busy sewer showed the purse she made from last week's demo.
Mic Pickard printed a design by her daughter on fabric and added it to a towel for her granddaughter.
She also made 2 embroidered zipper bags.
Audrey Phillips made several fabric cornucopias from our demo a few weeks ago.
She also showed several border fabric table runners she made, including her most recent one.
This last one did not have a recognizable repeat, so she had to buy a lot of fabric to complete it and Donna Rissman helped her with the layout. It came out beautiful.
I showed the t-shirt I embroidered for Thanksgiving. The front has a turkey, a gnome holding a pie, and says count your blessings,
I embroidered Happy Thanksgiving on the back.
I also showed two purses I made from last week's demo.
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For this afternoon's demo I brought in my Brother Dream Machine and explained how to approach an edge-to-edge embroidery quilting project. I explained how to choose the right size design for your quilt and how to set it up in the hoop so the designs link across each row. For the quilt I am working on, I choose a design that requires 6 rows of the design, each having 5 repeats across. This covered all but about a half inch on either side and an inch at the top and bottom of the area I plan to quilt. During the meeting I finished the first 2 rows.
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There is no meeting next week, since that is the day before Thanksgiving and most of us will be busy. Our next meeting is December 1st. I will send a reminder a few days before.
Wishing you all a very Happy Thanksgiving.
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