Club Notes - July 5, 2023

 This week I brought all our 6.5” squares for today’s project. There were 17 of us having fun after 2 weeks off.

 

Show and Tell: 

Mic Pickard showed a walker bag 

and a tote she made..

Bev Minnerly made several hex trivets.

Pat Pipa showed a “lazy girl” purse, 

a “potato chip” purse, 

and some placemats.

Charlotte Cecillio made some some dinos 

and Christmas Stocking coasters.

B.J. Herter made four dinos 

and 4 pot holders.

Louise Stem made some trivets,

 a set of microwave bowls,

 and 2 pillowcases.

 

She also showed a valance she made for her bedroom window.

Ceal Pedersen showed her latest quilt.

Audrey showed 2 lazy girl purses, one she made 

and one her daughter Lynn made, 

and a baby quilt. 

 

She also turned in a fidget quilt in response to the request we got. 

Finally, she showed fidget sleeve her daughter made for her husband 

and a badge she made for herself for Bunco and several she is selling to her Bunco team members.

I showed my latest completed UFO, an Owl quilt.

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After show and tell I demonstrated how to make a travel tissue holder. These use a method similar to the hex trivets. Each one requires 5 pieces of fabric 4.5” by 6.5”   The instructions are attached.

Last year I showed how I pin quilt sandwiches using pool noodles on PVC pipes. At the time we discussed getting a set for our club so I don’t have to bring my set in on request.  I finally got around to buying 3 pool noodles and 3 two yard long PVC pipes to go through them to make them stay stiff.  I brought a small quilt to today’s meeting so I could show how this works again.  This set will be stored behind the ironing boards and will be available every week for anyone who wants to use them.

Today’s tissue case project was very popular, so I had a request to repeat it next week.  I left the 6.5” squares in my car so I can bring them again next week. 

It is also time for our quarterly break from sewing for a party.  Our July 19^th meeting will be our summer pot-luck. 

On July 26^th we will have a guest speaker for the first 10 minutes of our meeting. Sara, from the UFHealth Precision Health Research Center is going to talk to us about the research opportunities they currently have with The Villages community.  After that we will have our normal meeting with a project TBD.

 

I am a little behind schedule tonight so the photos will be posted on the blog tomorrow.

See you next week.