Club Notes - January 19, 2022

We had another fun afternoon, with 18 ladies attending.

 I reminded everyone about the Marketplace at Rohan Jan 28-29.  The info is attached.

I also talked about the Sheriff's Youth Ranch request for curtains. I went through some of our large pieces of fabric and selected some that I thought might work.  Mic took it home to measure and see what might work to make the curtains.  I currently have 4 volunteers from Sewing N More and 3 from Allamanda Quilters to work on this easy project. The girl's cabin has 7 windows, so I'm thinking of claiming that one to start.  If anyone else would like to work on this project, let me know and maybe we can pick additional cabins.

Last week I matched up a bunch of pillowcase sets and 30 came back completed today, along with 4 pillows.  I mentioned that I would like to use some of our charity fund to buy additional pillows for the ad litem kids and received unanimous approval for this expenditure.

Show and Tell:

 

Lorraine Manz finished a quilt, 

some tote bags.

and10 of the pillowcases I handed out.

Pat Pipa made Tote bags and a zipper bag.

 

 

 

 

 

Audrey Philips showed several embroidery pieces she finished.

Carolyn Grasso showed an apron she made.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bev Minnerly made a zipper bag.

 

 

 

 

 

Mary Ellen Boutin turned in a tote 

 

 

and another quilt top using another of the half-square triangle patterns.

 

 

 

 

Brenda Severa embroidered some towels

and sewed 10 of the pillowcases I handed out.

 

 

 

 

Ceal Pedersen made a quilt, quilted it, and gave it to Ellen for binding.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deb Chapman made 2 quilt tops

and some tote bags.

 

 

 

 

Liz Manzione  finished a fleece blanket, 

 

 

a travel tray and a bowl cozy..

 Ellen came with a stack of quilts that she finished the binding for.  

 

There was one by Carolyn, 

 

 

one by Ceal, 

 

 

 

 

one by MaryEllen, 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

two by Ellen,

four by me, 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 and one that was handed in to Allamanda anonymously. 

 

 

 

There was also one that I don't know who made, so if you did it let me know.
 

Charlotte couldn't be with us today but she sent me a photo of a quilt she made for her son.

I sewed the other 10 pillowcases, 

 

 

 

 

 

made 2 totes 

 

 

and a bunch of zipper bags.
 

Ellen sent me 2 photos after the meeting, of items she made for the SoZo kids, using fleece scraps.

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Today's demo was on how to make Kissing Fish Mug Rugs.  I will send the instructions in a separate email.

In addition to the mug rug project, several ladies sorted through the big blocks.  Mic took a bag of recent donations and the box of large fabric pieces home.

Mic is going to run the next (Feb 2nd) meeting since I will be away.  It will be a free sew week. Mic is going to bring back the box of large pieces from today plus the bins of large pieces she has at home,  The task for next week will be sorting these large pieces by color so they will be easy to select for projects. Mic may have some other things in store for Groundhog Day, but you will have to come to the meeting to find out.

Have a good 2 weeks of sewing.

Club Notes - January 5, 2022

Happy New Year!!

We had our first meeting of 2022 this afternoon and 15 ladies came out, including 2 new members.

Laura Tomich stopped in to pick up some fabric that she can work with at home.  Her health is still precarious, so she couldn't stay to mingle with the group, but she continues to sew at home.

I asked Sue Campbell about her sister Jane, and Jane is doing well.  She spent Christmas day with Sue and her husband, and got back to her assisted living apartment late because she just couldn't leave until the end of the football game. :-))

Donna Rissman has been making items for the Ad Litem kids and she gave me an update on what they need. They have been getting pillowcases, but they don't have pillows to put in them!  We got a good supply of fabric this week so I am going to see if I can cut some pillowcase sets out of it.  If anyone would like to purchase some standard size pillows, we will donate them with pillowcases.

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Show and Tell:

 

 

 

Lorraine Manz came with a bunch of tote bags

 

 and zipper bags.

 

 

Charlotte Cecillio made 2 blue frogs.

 

 

Judy Mayer brought a lap quilt

 

 

 

 

 and 2 patriotic lap blankets.

 

Carole Lamb took some of our quilted fabric and made some more zipper bags.

 

 

 

Ellen completed the binding on 3 of the quilts we had in progress.

 

Pat Pipa made the top for this one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carolyn Grasso made this quilt top.

 

This one Ellen did the quilt top and binding.  I quilted it on my embroidery machine.

Pat Pipa made a bunch of stuffed toys

 

 

 

Mary Ellen Boutin made a tote 

 

 

 

and a quilt top from the half-square triangle challenge.

 

I showed a tote I made 

 

 

and 3 quilts, one that we designed at a meeting a few weeks ago

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 and the other 2 as my first attempts at the half-square challenge.

If you remember, I sent out 10 variations on how to design a quilt with half-square triangles.  They are so easy, I have decided to see if I can make all 10.

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This week we got a large bin of large pieces of fabric.  Combined with the box of large pieces we already had, the ladies had lots to choose from.  I also brought the 5 inch squares and large blocks.  I saw lots of fabric being collected so I think we will see some interesting projects come back.

Since we are only meeting every other week, I thought a Valentine's Day project would be fun for our next meeting.  I found a cute pattern for Kissing Fish Mug Rugs, so that is the Jan 19th demo.  I will send out the supply list in a separate email.

Remember, no meeting next week. See you on the 19th.