There were 14 of us today, including one new member. Thanks to Ellen Hein for working with our new lady to get her started sewing on her new machine.
I started by talking about the requests from Freedom Pointe
and the UF Leesburg Maternity unit. I
thought we had some nice flannel for the receiving blankets, but when I
unrolled the bundles we realized that they were just a soft cotton. These will be available for making the Tummy
Time quilts instead. I asked the group
if there would be any objections to my using some of our charity funds to buy
some flannel for these and none of the ladies present objected. I will make a trip to Hobby Lobby because it looks like they have the best price
for this.
Show and Tell:
B.J. Herter brought 3 dinos and 2 walker bags.
Deb Chapman showed a quilt top she made using some of our “Big Blocks”.
Ceal Pedersen brought the stuffed animals that she painted the faces on.
Carolyn Grasso made a dog bed, a Teddy Bear, and a rocket toy.
Pat Pipa made 2 fidget walker bags.
Jean Peters made 6 catheter bags.
I showed 4 purses I made for our October sale.
We received several bags of fabric scraps from Allamanda on
Tuesday, so several ladies spent the afternoon sorting through them. We filled a couple of dog beds and picked out
a few usable pieces. There were a couple
of 1 yard flannel pieces in the fabric bin and I cut them into reasonable size
(35” x 36”) for receiving blankets, with the leftover 8” x 36” pieces perfect
for matching burp pads. Ellen trimmed
the corners to curves and roll-serged them.
We will pull some small quilts out of storage and be able to give our
first donation to Leesburg Hospital next week.
I brought a box of fat quarters this week and saw several
ladies select some of these. I also saw some big blocks go. It will be fun to see what comes back.
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