April 19, 2023 Notes

We had fun this afternoon making toys for the hospital auxiliary. I brought all the toy patterns I could find and the ladies had fun looking through the instructions and picking out the ones they want to make.  A few of us cut fabric for the dinos and bears that we like.  Mic sewed them together, I clipped the corners and Mary Ellen stuffed.

Show and Tell:

Deb Chapman showed a quilt top she made with dryer sheet blocks.

Bev Minnerly made several backpacks for young mothers

and some walker bags

Louise Stem made some pillowcases.

Mic Pickard embroidered the name tags for this year’s Youth Ranch graduates 

and made a child’s walker bag.

Pat Pipa made 2 baby quilts.

Ceal Pedersen showed 2 baby quilts 

and some stuffed toys she made.

Jean Peters turned in 6 cute stuffed giraffes.

Audrey Phillips made a quilt top from squares she got from our stash last week.  She put them together using her serger.

She also turned in one she made a few years ago.

Mary Ellen Boutin turned in several dryer sheet blocks 

and 2 quilt tops.

Ernestine Vawter showed her first completed walker bag.

I showed a purse I made in a class at Allamanda, using cork fabric.

Ellen Hein made several tote bags 

and some zipper bags using the same fabric as one of the smaller ones.

 She also completed the 2^nd duffle bag for the Sheriff’s Youth Ranch graduates.

Ellen completed the binding on 2 of our assembly line quilts.

I'm not sure who created this quilt top.

I made the orange and black quilt from our 5 inch squares.

Ellen and Mic showed the quilts that we selected to give to the Ranch.  The 2 graduates will each get a quilt, 2 pillowcases, and 3 zipper bags in a duffle bag with their name tag. 

 We also selected 2 quilts for employees retiring from the Ranch, each delivered in one of the lovely mondo bags that Anne Knoff turned in. 

Mic delivered all of these, plus 100 zipper bags for the summer camp kids, to Skip after the meeting.  I forwarded his thank you note earlier

 

Next week we will make potholders.   I will bring some different shape ideas that might work for our fall craft sale, as well as some insulbright and batting scraps.   If you have any fall/winter seasonal fabric that you can spare, bring it.  I will look through what I have as well.

 

Hope to see you all next week.