Club Notes - August 21, 2024

We had a good turnout of 16 ladies today. I brought the 1 yd cuts, the bin of fat quarters and a box of small pieces from our donated fabrics.  I also brought the batting scraps, insulbright, and fusible fleece for today’s project.  When I wasn’t looking, a lady brought in 4-5 bags of fabric, including many finished and partially done items. We spent some time this afternoon sorting through this..

 Show and Tell: 

Laura Tomich came in and showed a table topper and some decorative mats for her daughter-in-law.

Ceal Pedersen showed a couple of stuffed toys that she painted the faces on.

Donna Rissman was given a challenge by a friend to do something with a bunch of men’s ties.  She turned them into a lovely quilt.

She also brought a delicious chocolate/oreo cake, shaped like a turtle, for us to enjoy.

B.J. Herter made 20 more snowball blocks 

and 9 dinosaurs, needing stuffing.

Diane Placek showed 2 pillowcases she made for her husband.

 (He wasn’t impressed with the fabric of the first one, even though it matched their bedroom, so she made the 2^nd one more “masculine”.)

I worked on a few small projects this week.  I made 4 tote bags using political blocks from donated fabric, 2 Republican and 2 Democrat.  

 There were 4 gingerbread house squares left over from a quilt I made a few years ago, so I turned them into hot pads.  

Lastly, I made 4 mug rugs using an Alice in Wonderland “drink me” motif.

Audrey Philips came in late and handed in a walker bag. I didn't get a picture .

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Today I showed how to make “Hot Fingers”.  These are little potholders, that just fit on your fingers to grab a hot pot handle, or, with a set of 2, hold either side of a pot.  The instructions are attached.   I invited anyone who wished to make some to cut some fabric, Insul-bright, and batting or fusible fleece, to make some of these for our sale in October.

There will be no meeting next week.  El Santiago rec center will be closed so they can do some maintenance on the rest rooms.  I hope to see you in September.

Club Notes - Aug 14, 2024

We were a smaller group today; only 9 of us.  I think the rain may have played into some decisions. It actually poured from about 1PM to 1:15, then was fine for the rest of the afternoon.

October is going to be a busy month. I announced that I submitted applications for the Villages Craft Sale on Oct 5^th and the QGOTV Craft Sale on Oct 19^th.  Tables at the Villages Craft Sale are awarded via a drawing, so we won’t know for sure about that until notifications go out on Sept 19^th.  The QGOTV sale is usually first come first served, so I have more confidence that we will get a table there.

The Giving Showcase is scheduled the following week, on Oct 26^th. That means we potentially have 3 events on Saturdays in October that we need a few volunteers to help with. I will be talking about this more as the dates get closer.

Today I brought a box of 1 yd cuts and some of our 4-8 yd pieces.  I also put out the 3.5” squares for anyone to use.

 

Show and Tell:

Mic Pickard showed some of the snowball blocks she has finished.

Audrey Philips came with 3 walker bags.

I made 2 purses, 

2 placemats,

 a table runner 

and a hot pad.

Ellen Hein showed 9 quilts that she completed the binding on. She made the tops on 7 of them.  As usual, I did the quilting on these, then handed them back to Ellen for binding.

I couldn’t find a record of the last 2, so I think they came from Allamanda. 

  She worked on the binding for two more during the meeting and handed them in at the end of the afternoon.

 

We all left before the next storms could come in.   This is what summer in Florida is like.

Hope to see you all next week.

Club Notes - August 7, 2024

There were 13 of us at today’s meeting.  We put out the 3.5” and the red, white and blue 5” squares, plus some of the donated fabric.  After show and tell I showed 2 easy ways to make interesting placemats from 2.5” fabric strips.  I hope to have finished examples of these next week.

Show and Tell:

Louise Stem made 2 pillowcases.

Diane Saculla showed a beach/shopping tote she made..

Pat Pipa made a potholder shaped like a Christmas ornament.

Mic Pickard showed a reversible mason jar cosie she made for her daughter.

B.J. Herter made 10 more snowball blocks..

Ceal Pedersen made a quilt for an expected great-granddaughter.

I made 2 purses

and 2 table runners for our sale, using donated fabric pieces.

Ellen Hein was back with us this week between travels.  She worked on the binding for a Dora the Explorer baby quilt all during the meeting and handed it in at the end of the afternoon.

 

The rest of the afternoon went as always.  I cut pieces for 3 more purses I hope to finish over the next week.  Everyone browsed through the fabric I brought and took some, so I hope to see the results soon.

Hope to see you all next week.