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.