Club Notes - July 6, 2022

 We had a small group this afternoon, but lots of activity.  We welcomed 2 new members to our fold.

 

Show and Tell:

Mic Pickard is experimenting with her embroidery machine,

 She found some Halloween fabric and a fun ghost embroidery pattern for this bag.

Ceal Pedersen made patriotic quilt 

and showed the stuffed toys she painted eyes on.  

This included Donna Rissman’s experiment which morphed from scary to cute with the eyes painted.

Deb Chapman showed her completed patriotic place mats, 

her quilt row of the month,

 

and a cute, reversible hat she made.  (I’m hoping she will be able to give us a demo for the hat in late August.)

Eileen DiSanto made a 3 square bag for her sister.

I showed 3 zipper bags I made 

and a basket of cats.  The cats and basket were
from a pre-printed fabric I found in our donations.

Donna Rissman couldn’t be at today’s meeting so she dropped off the quilts she completed the binding on at my house on Sunday. 

Two of the completed quilts used quilt tops Ellen Boutin handed in before she left for the summer. 

 Carolyn Grasso created the third quilt top from some unusual fabrics in our big block stash.

For today’s project I showed how to make microwave bowls and a bag to make baked potatoes (and a few other things) in the microwave.   I will send the patterns out in a separate email. 

To make these I brought in a bolt of Wrap N Zap batting, a bolt of muslin, 8” and 9” squares, and some larger fabric pieces from our donations. In addition to making these for ourselves or as gifts, we can sell sets of these at the October sale. There was so much enthusiasm for this project that we actually emptied the box of large fabric pieces I brought and we were able to consolidate the 4 bins of fabric  Mic brought into 3 bins.

This was such an effective use of our fabric that Mic and I decided to schedule this project again in August. .  The muslin is used for the lining of the potato bags, and we still have plenty of that.   The Wrap N Zap was all used up this afternoon so I am going to order more from our charity budget.

 Next week we will take a break and have our Summer Pot Luck.   As always, I will bring the plates, cups, etc. and some ice tea. Bring a dish to share if you can, but don’t stress about it  There is always plenty of food.   Don’t forget to bring 25 pennies, buttons, or anything else you can use to mark our bingo cards, and a pencil for trivia. 

Hope to see you next week.