Club Notes (Halloween Party) Oct 25, 2023

This afternoon we had our 2023 Halloween Potluck party.  There was lots of great food, trivia, and bingo, in addition to our show and tell.  We had lots of fun.

Show and Tell:

Carolyn Grasso showed her completed pumpkins 

and some lace angels.

Pat Pipa made 2 more folding boxes for our sale.

Louise Stem made a set of microwave bowls to add to our sale.

Candy Dodge made her first set of microwave bowls

 and showed a dress she successfully shortened for an upcoming cruise.

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On Saturday we have tables 53-54 at the QGOTV Craft sale at Savannah rec center.  The items we have made will be sold to raise money for either charity supplies or to give to some of our charities.   I will be there all day and the people shown below have signed up to help.   Since we have 2 tables we may be spread a little thin if it gets busy, so I was hoping to have 2 volunteers with me in each time slot.  If you can spare 2 hours to help, between 8:45AM and 10:30 AM or between 12:00 PM and 2:00 PM please let me know ASAP.    If you can’t volunteer, please come anyway to shop.  The sale is open 9AM – 2PM.

7:30 AM-9 AM  Set-up

    Caroline Grasso (& husband)

    Pattie & Dave Barrett 

8:45 AM-10:30 AM Sales

     Ceal Pedersen

10:15 AM-12:15 PM Sales 

     Marty Rhyne

     Louise Stem

12:00 PM-2:00 PM  Sales

     Pat Pipa

 1:45 PM -2:30 PM  Pack-up

     Pattie & Dave Barrett

     Betty Ulreich

Club Notes - October 18, 2023

 There were only 10 of us at this afternoon’s meeting, plus one prospective member.  I brought the Wrap N Zap batting and some larger pieces of fabric from our donation stash.  Mic brought 2 bins of fabric and a box of fiber fill.  We got the box of toy patterns out of the closet so each person could choose the toy they want to make. There were some dinos and cats that appeared, and possibly a whale.   I cut the fabric for a hound dog that we hadn’t tried before and gave it to Mic to sew together.  I don’t think she was happy with my choice. ☹

We talked a little about last week’s craft sale.  In prior years the sale was held in 3 rec centers.  This year they expanded it to 4 rec centers.  I think that most customers could not make it to all the locations and adding a 4^th location made that worse.  I suspect that the fact that we were in the northernmost rec center limited our customer traffic even further.  For the QGOTV Craft sale, there is only one location, Savannah.  I’m hoping that increases our odds of selling more.  I will send a separate email about that sale.  I am attaching a copy of the ad that will run in the Daily Sun the week prior to the sale.

 

Show and Tell:

B.J. Herter showed a wall hanging she made for a friend’s wedding anniversary.

Deb Chapman made a Halloween table runner 

and the small version of the pumpkin I showed last week.

Ellen Hein came with 2 bags full of the quilts she added the binding on for us.

I found this panel in our donations added borders, and quilted it.

B.J. Herter handed in this quilt top.

Ellen attempted to use up all her flannel and make this one and the next 3.

These are no-batting quilts that will go to Project S.O.S.

I finished this panel for Honor Flight.

This is a Cinderella leaving the ball panel that I finished. 

Finally, Ellen brought back 11Cornerstone Hospice quilts that she made, I quilted, and she bound.

Each one is unique.

Next week we will take a break for our Halloween potluck.  Costumes are optional but encouraged.  Bring a dish to share if you can.  We will have Show and Tell after lunch, as well as our usual games.   Bring 25 pennies, buttons or anything else you can use to mark your Bingo card.

Have a great week.

Lois

Club Notes - October 11, 2023

 

There were 15 of us at this afternoon’s meeting.  Snowbirds Brenda Severa and Kathryn Jeter have returned, and I think a few more will show up in the next few weeks.

Mic found a couple of bags of sale items she missed bringing in last week, so I will be pricing them tomorrow.

Last week I showed Mic where the Compassionate Care Hospice office is and we dropped off a few items. My niece came to visit over the weekend and I enlisted her help to deliver toys to the hospital. I am waiting until after the 2 sales to deliver anything else.

Today’s demo was on how to make a simple fabric pumpkin. I’ve attached the templates for 3 sizes to my email. I made the largest, which only comes out to about a 7” diameter pumpkin. You need to cut 6 of these shapes to make one pumpkin.   If you want a larger one, it should be easy to enlarge the template. In the middle of the template is a web address. If you go to that address, you will find a link to her YouTube that shows how to make the pumpkin.

Show and Tell:

Bev Minnerly made a walker bag.

Kathryn Jeter showed a witch dangler she made on her embroidery machine.

Ceal Pedersen showed 2 quilts she made with 9-patch squares. 

(I mentioned that I am keeping the 3.5” squares in the closet at El Santiago, so anyone can select squares to make a 9-patch and hand it in.  We have plenty of donated fabric that needs to be put to use.   When we have enough I will put them together to make a charity quilt. )

Diane Placek showed 2 placemats she made.

Ellen Hein showed a quilt top she made.

Ann Knoff made 3 more large tote for our sale.

 

The Villages Craft sale will be happening this Saturday, 9AM-2PM at Savannah, Laurel Manor, Colony, and Rohan.   I have a table at Savannah to sell some of our items to raise money for our charities.  Thank you to Ernestine and Diane for volunteering to help.  Some ladies from Allamanda are coming out to help as well. 

Ceal Pedersen also has a table at Savannah and I believe Brenda Severa’s table is at Rohan. Come and check out all the crafts.

Next  week we will get out our toy patterns and make some fabric toys.

Have a great week.

Lois

Club Notes - Oct 4, 2023

Thanks to the 12 ladies who joined me this afternoon to price and box the items for sale.   We have a table in a good location at Savannah rec center for the Oct 14^th Villages Craft sale, at the end of the first aisle as people enter.  We have much more to sell than we have room on the 8 foot table to display, so I plan to put things out a little at a time.  We have 35 quilts that were chosen as nice enough to sell, so I asked the ladies attending today to vote for their 5 favorites.  These 5 will go out on the table first, the rest will be backups.  I will also have pictures of each quilt available for shoppers to look through.  If they want to see a different one I will pull it out.

I asked for volunteers to help me at the table in a 2-2.5 hour shift, and got some volunteers.  If any of you can spare a little time, please let me know.

 I could use someone to help me unload my car and bring the boxes into the table between 7:30AM and 9:00AM that morning. 

I could also use someone to help sales between 11:30AM and 1:30PM.

The other shifts are covered.

For the ladies who were putting prices on tote bags this afternoon, we found another bag of them that didn’t get put out.  That is why the counts didn’t match. 

 Show and Tell:

Louise Stem turned in another set of microwave bowls for our sale.

Ceal Pedersen handed in a stack of nine-patch squares,

Audrey Phillips Turned in a stack of nine patch squares 

and a couple of blanket buddies.

Ellen Hein finished the binding on 2 quilts that I made

I made a macrame rope bowl embroidered with Simply Blessed and a smaller bowl with the leftover rope.

I also showed a quilt Anne Knoff turned in from Khaki quilters. I finished the quilting and binding so it would be ready for the sale.

Quilt Back

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Next week we will have a toy making week.  Patterns will be available and I hope to bring some larger fabric scraps, as well as stuffing.  

 I will also bring in a few of the items that didn’t get priced this week.

That’s all for now.  See you next week.

Lois