Club Notes - September 21, 2022

You can tell today was the first day of Autumn There were 17 ladies attending this  afternoon’s meeting. I brought 2 boxes of skinny fabric strips and a stack of white 10” foundation squares for today’s demo.

Show and Tell:

Bev Minnerly made 3 more walker bags.

Pat Pipa made a walker bag 

and embroidered 2 sets of lace earings.

A few weeks ago we received 2 sets of blocks sewn together in a 5 by 6 missing a few blocks.  I added blocks in the empty spots and sewed the 2 panels together.  The result was still too small for a quilt so B.J. Herter took them and added several borders made from 4” squares from our stash.  She turned in the finished quilt top today.

Ceal Pedersen showed a bunch of teddy bears she made.

Louise Stem showed her first completed walker bag.  She also showed a bunch of the fabric strip blocks she is working on, but she flashed them too fast for me to get a picture.

Candy DeGarmo showed a tied quilt 

and a table topper she bought.

Ellen Hein showed the quilts she completed the binding for this week. 

The first 2 are quilts I made 

and the third is one she made. 

Ellen also finished a project carrier bag

Deb Chapman showed a runner she made.

 

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For today’s demo Ellen showed how to make quilt blocks using strips of fabric sewn onto squares of old sheets.  The idea is for each lady to make one or more blocks using one color strips. When they are turned in one of us will trim them to be all the same size and they will be put together to make quilts.  I supplied a stack of 10 inch foundation squares and also brought out the box of dryer sheets as a smaller block option.  I was happy to see most of the fabric strips that were color sorted last week went out today.  I’m always grateful to go home with one less box than I came in with.

Next week will be a bit different.   Mic and I each have boxes of items for the October sale and we will be bringing them all in to be inventoried and priced.  If we split up into small groups this should go quickly. 

We will also have a visitor next week.  Sarah Jackson is a reporter for the Sheriff’s Youth Ranch magazine.  She will be coming in to interview us and take some photos for an article she is doing on the various clubs in The Villages that support the ranches.  I would love to see a good turnout for her visit.

As always, show and tell is still welcome, especially to show our visitor what we do.

Hope to see you next week.

Lois