Club Notes - January 24, 2024

 I love our winter meetings.  We get to see so many more of our friends as our snow birds and snow flakes are in town.  Today we had 21members attending, plus 2 guests.

We had 2 announcements.  As I mentioned in a prior email, we are looking for donations of 1” wide ribbon.  This will be used by the Santiago ladies club to finish the Boggie Creek bears. I found a bag with some nice ribbon at the rec center today.  If you have any more, please bring it to next week’s meeting so I can get it to them by Feb 1^st.

The Villages Quilt Guild is sponsoring the bi-annual quilter’s Marketplace next Friday and Saturday, January 26-27 at Rohan Recreation center.  For more information go to QGOTV.org.

Show and Tell:

Pat Pipa made a couple of 9-patch blocks.

Kathryn Jeter showed a bag, 

2 quilts,

and several embroideries.

Lorraine Manz turned in some 9-patch blocks, 

a pile of walker bags and a pile of backpacks.

Lisa Strahs-Lorenc showed the block tote bag she finished from our demo a few weeks ago.

Ellen Hein showed the quilts she finished the binding on for us.

I believe this quilt top was turned in by a lady in Allamanda Quilters.

Mary Ellen Boutin made this black and white quilt and the red and white quilt below.

A long fabric was donated to us, with each square having a message of Love, Peace, Joy, Patience, Kindness, Faithfullness, Gentleness and Self Control.  Instead of using this as a backing, I cut it in half and made 2 quilts.

Deb Chapman turned in this quilt top.

I have not been able to identify who made this quilt top. 

Ellen Hein made the following Cornerstone Hospice quilts.

Deb Chapman made a quilt top 

and a block tote.

Carolyn Grasso showed a quilt top she made for her son.

Audrey Phillips showed a bench cushion she made. 

(We were pleased to see her daughter Vicky here to help.)

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Lisa Holzhausen showed a Kimberbell embroidery she finished.

Candy Dodge forgot to sign up for show and tell, but remembered to show her centerpiece later in the afternoon.

 

Today I showed a Valentine mug rug that you can easily make, using either regular or reverse applique.  I tend to like reverse applique but that’s a personal preference.  The instruction for this project is attached to my email.  It was originally designed to use a layer cake (10” fabric set), but that much fabric is not needed.  I wrote the actual sizes of the fabric pieces on the copy I am sending.  I brought a recent batting donation and some of our red, pink and white fabric for anyone who wanted to try making some of these.

We received another fabric donation yesterday and several ladies helped me sort through it. Mic added the larger pieces to the bins she keeps for us and I took the small pieces to be cut into squares.

The 3.5” squares were put out for anyone who wanted to make some more 9-patches. I also put out the box of large blocks in the hope that something in there might spark someone’s creativity.  There were also 2 quilt kits that I announced are available for anyone who would like to put them together.

It has been a while since we did a strip block project, so that is the plan for next week.   If you can bring your sewing machine, this would be a good week to do so.  If you can’t, you can still pick out some fabric strips and take them home to work on.  I have a box of strips sorted by color for you to choose from and I will bring base fabric.  I’m hoping each lady can make 4 coordinated blocks.

Hope to see you next week.