We had 14 members attending this afternoon, and lots of activity. I started by giving out my annual attendance gifts to Ceal Pedersen and Mic Pickard for having attended the most meetings in 2022. They each attended 36 meetings last year.
Next I talked about the information I heard at the Sheriff’s
Youth Ranch Donor Thank You Luncheon. The camp in Bradenton has closed, so now
there are 2 camps. Live Oaks is a co-ed
campus that can accommodate 82 boys and girls.
There is a private school on the campus or they can attend the local
public school, The private school is accredited and has a 100% graduation rate.
The other campus is Safety Harbor and focuses on taking
siblings out of foster care. Children 3
years old and up are cared for there.
They also run week long camps during the summer for kids to
give them the outdoors experience and for them to learn that the officers who
work in their schools are real, OK people.
The 4th program they have is called Harmony in
the Streets. This is a mobile camping program
that provides day camp activities directly to local communities that may be
socially and/or economically challenged.
If you want to learn more about this program that we donate
to, see https://www.youthranches.org/.
The next item I talked about was the Giving Showcase to be held Feb. 4th at Lake Miona. We have a table there and I plan to display a sample of items we donate to various local charities. Thank you to those who have turned in items for me to choose from. I will have information printed that can be handed out to those interested in joining our club.
I will be there the entire time (8AM-2PM), and would
appreciate at least one person to join me for each 2 hour shift. Ceal has volunteered to work with me 8AM-10AM,
but I still need help from 10AM-Noon and Noon-2PM. If
you can spare a little time to help I would greatly appreciate it.
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Show and Tell:
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mini yo-yo clips for her daughter to use in her business.
Louise Stem made some pillow cases.
Donna Rissman also made pillowcases.
B.J. Herter made a bunch of strip blocks for Ellen to turn into quilts.
Brenda Severa made a charity quilt from some of our squares.
Jean Peters made 8 cosmetic bags.
Lorraine Manz made some bags and pillowcases.
Ellen Hein made a hat for a friend dealing with cancer
and a Hospice quilt top.
She also showed the latest batch of charity quilts she completed the binding on.
Ellen put this together from strip blocks made by club members.
BJ Herter, Pat Pipa and I showed
quilts we made as entries in Allamanda Quilters’ annual sewing challenge. I won’t
post these photos until our next meeting, which is the day after the day when
they will be entered in the challenge.
We received a HUGE fabric donation today, so sorting it all
diverted a lot of the planned activities.
I did show a couple of ladies how to make a pillowcase using the “burrito”
method, and how to make a walker bag according to the Helpertunity pattern. I went home with a load of dog beds as well
as some fabric large enough to use as quilt backings.
Our next meeting is in 2 weeks, on February 1st. We will continue making zipper bags. I forgot that there is a box of fabric sets
for walker bags in the closet, so I will pull that out for anyone interested in
making one. I will repeat the demo if
necessary. We can also use some stuffed
toys. I will ask Mic to bring the
stuffing next week so we can complete some of these.
Have a great 2 weeks and I hope to see you at the next
meeting
