Club Notes - May 25, 2022

 We had a great afternoon with 19 ladies attending, including 1 new member and 1 guest. Ceal Pedersen gave a great talk on what to do and what not to do to take care of your quilts.  The 2 main takeaways are, do not keep your quilts in light for any length of time and don’t store your quilts in plastic, store them in a pillowcase instead.

 

I made a couple of announcements today:

-          The Honor Flight leaving on 5/31 will be an all female veteran flight, with 65 veterans including some who served in WWII.  Unlike prior Honor Flights, these ladies will be staying overnight and returning on 6/1.  If you would like to welcome them home, go to the American Legion building at the corner of Rolling Acres Rd and Rt 466 that evening.  They are scheduled to return at 10:45PM.

-          Although they have enough quilts for this and the next Honor Flight, they are looking for more quilts for future flights.  Honor Flight quilts should be 40” x 60: and be red, white and blue.  Use of panels, especially ones with specific service branches are welcome.

-          We give patriotic quilts to 2 other organizations, Cornerstone Hospice and Compassionate Care Hospice. 

o   Cornerstone quilts need to be 35-40 inches square and need to have the special cornerstone block in the center. I have these center blocks with me every week.

o   Compassionate Care has no size requirements, they only want the quilts to be red, white and blue.  The recipients are mostly in nursing homes or receiving hospice care at home.

-          Next week I will bring the patriotic fabric in our stash, along with red, white and blue scraps for dryer sheet blocks, so we can work on some of these.

Show and Tell:

Pat Pipa showed the bag she made using last week’s pattern.

Bev Minnerly showed a mesh beach bag she finished.

Charlotte Cecilio showed a purse

 and 2 toys she made. (Ceal's twin Bonnie helped show the dino.

Mary Ellen Boutin made 2 zipper bags 

and a patriotic quilt top.  She is heading north for the summer so we’ll see her again in September.

Audrey Phillips made a stuffed cat for one of her grandchildren and is working on 2 purses using last week’s pattern.

Laura Tomich was finally able to join us again and she showed 2 pillowcase dresses she made.  She was given a bunch of these to make on her serger, but the pattern they required was not serger friendly.  Since the lady who requested she work on them was very fussy about how they should be done, she gave the rest back (and we applauded her for that.)  

 Laura also showed a Runaround purse she made.  She reinforced the strap with a decorative stitch.

Liz Manzione finished a tote bag she has been working on.

I finished a quilt that was one of my UFOs.

Several ladies expressed some difficulty in making the purse I demoed last week, so I reviewed the instructions I sent out.   These instructions have to be followed in the order listed on the page.  If you do anything out of sequence you will have trouble, so please read the instructions carefully.

This week I brought the large blocks, some sample fabric for zipper bags, and our 3 ½ inch squares.  I suggested that some of you might want to match up sets of these to make 9-patch blocks which we can later put into a quilt.

 

Next week Donna Rissman is scheduled to give a demo on how to make a folded basket.  Details to follow in a separate email.

Club Notes - May 18, 2022

 We had 16 attend this afternoon's meeting and, as usual, had lots of fun.  I only brought batting scraps, the 8.5" squares, 10" squares, pre-quilted fabric and some large pieces of flannel.  Mic brought the bins of large fabric pieces, as usual.

Show and Tell:

Mic Pickard showed the quilt she pinned last week, all finished.  This quilt was donated by someone outside of our club and Mic found areas where there were holes or other defects that needed attention.  She resolved this by applying yo-yo's to cover the problem areas.  This was a great solution.

  

She also took a pre-printed aprons and finished it.  

Pat Pipa made some more embroidered rope coasters.

Judy Mayer turned in a lovely scrappy quilt top

Ceal Pedersen showed how she has expanded her applique fun from tote bags to various items of clothing.

Diane Sacula showed two pillowcases she made for (great?) nephews and a quilt top she made.

Diane Placek made a stuffed fish and a zipper bag.

Bev Minnerly showed the beach tote she started last week. She also showed some thin wood she picked up at a Dollar store to use in the bottom of the bags.

Mary Ellen Boutin made a quilt top, a tote bag, and matching zipper bag.

Liz Manzione showed a bag she has been working on.

I showed 2 more phone and ID cases I made in the hoop on my embroidery machine.  I enlarged the pattern on these so they fit larger phones.

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Today's demo was on how to make a cute purse from 6 fabric squares.  The pattern and an explanation on how to make an adjustable strap are attached to my email. 

Next week Ceal will talk to us about how to care for our quilts and how to restore old ones.  I hope to see you all there.

Lois

Club Notes - May 11, 2022

 Thanks to all the ladies who pitched in to help set up and pack up today.  I'm a little slower lately, and that doesn't look like it's going to resolve soon, so I really appreciate your kindness and help so we can keep this club going.

No announcements this week, so we got right into show and tell.

Show and Tell:

Eileen DiSanto showed her finished carrot bunny.

Mary Ellen Boutin made a tote,

 several zipper bags.

and a quilt top.

Bev Minnerly brought a quilt top

 and some in-progress mesh totes.

Deb Chapman showed a row of the latest quilt she is working on.

Ellen Hein showed 2 of our quilts that she completed the binding on.  

I think this top may have come from someone at Allamanda Quilters. 

The back I used was actually a quilt top Ceal Pedersen made that happened to be just about the same size,

Ceal also made this quilt top.

Ceal Pedersen made some more lovely tote bags and zipper bags.

Diane Saculla showed some pillowcases for her grandson.

Carolyn Grasso showed tote bags she made.

Sue Campbell made a flannel baby quilt

 and 2 flannel receiving blankets.

Audrey Phillips showed a stuffed cat toy she made for her granddaughter

I showed a quilt 

and 2 soft books I made for my new g-g-grand nephew

 and a phone case I made on my embroidery machine.

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Today I brought all 5 boxes of our 5" squares and Mic brought the large fabric pieces plus some children's panels.  The ladies attending today looked through and selected fabric to work with.  I pulled some green squares and layed out a quilt design.  Mic used my pool noodles to pin a quilt she had.  In all, it appeared to be a productive afternoon.

I haven't decided what our agenda will be next week yet, but I do have some ideas.  I will send another email in a day or so when I try out the pattern I have in mind.

See you next week.

Lois