Club Notes - July 24th

 There were 15 of us at today’s meeting.  Donna Rissman came with a tray of brownies to belatedly celebrate my birthday. She always remembers, since her birthday is 2 days after mine.  The brownies were scrumptious!

 

Show and Tell: 

Diane Saculla turned in a baby quilt she made.

Carolyn Grasso showed some toys she made and turned over to Ceal for face painting.

Pat Pipa made 2 leaf potholders.

Louise Stem made 2 pillowcases.

Ceal Pedersen turned in a bag full of critters that she painted the faces on.  

She painted “USA” on the side of the rockets 

and gave eyes to the strange 2-sided dog that we found in one of our donations.

Bev Minnerly made a dog bed and 6 pillowcases.

Eileen DiSanto made 8 snowball blocks and 3 pillowcases.

I made 4 butterfly potholders 

and 2 pillows. Both pillows are 2-sided.  I found the fabric panels for these on ineedfabric.com. For those interested, they offer a choice of size on most of their panels. 

 

We spent the rest of the afternoon selecting fabric and sewing as usual.  I brought the red, white and blue 5” squares, some miscellaneous fabric pieces, and some of our fabric in large yards.

For anyone interested in working with some of these supplies, here is what we currently can keep in the closet:

3.5” squares

Some fiber fill

Dryer sheets and fabric strips \

A box of baby fabric

Wrap N Zap and some batting

Freezer Paper

Patterns for toys and most of the projects we have demoed in the past

Ribbon, zippers, metal tape for snap bags, etc.

Some other small items I can’t remember at the moment.

 

I keep other size squares (4.5,5,6.5,8.5 & 10.5) , more fabric scraps, more fiber fill, insul-bright and batting scraps at home,  I can bring any of these upon request. 

Next week will be a free sew again.  I will send out a list of the projects we have shown in the past again.  If anyone wants a repeat of any of these projects, let me know.

 

Lois

Club Notes - July 17, 2024

There were 13 of us at today’s meeting. I brought a variety of supplies and Mic brought several bins of fabric for everyone to select for our projects.

Show and Tell: 

Mic Pickard was busy this week.  She got to play with her new Scan N Cut to cut fun shapes for a new yard flag, making some out of reflective material. 

Then she went to work making items for a friend and her dog in an assisted living facility, She made a scarf, harness, 

and a walker cady to hold the dog’s treats, etc.

Pat Pipa made some leaf potholders and some snowball blocks.

Deb Chapman finished quilt square number 4 in her current challenge, in 2 sizes, and some snowball blocks.

Louise Stem made 2 pillowcases, 

some snowball blocks, 

and 10 snap bags.

Bev Minnerly made a bear, 

a dog bed, 

and a stack of doll bodies.

Anne Knoff handed in a quilt top with backing for me to quilt.

Eileen DiSanto made a bunch of snowball blocks.

There was a runner that was found in a donation that had the binding half on and I finished it for our sale.

Then I took the dryer sheet blocks that have been turned in over the past few months, combined them in sets of 16 blocks and added some borders to make several Mommy-Baby play mats for the new Mom’s at Leesburg hospital.

 

We spent the rest of the afternoon selecting fabric and sewing as usual.  The skies were getting quite dark, so I was happy to pack up early.  Thanks again to those who stayed to help.  I got lucky, the heavy rain began soon after I got home. It’s supposed to rain all week, but, hopefully next week will be better. Hope to see you then.

Club Notes - July 10, 2024

There were 10 of us at today’s meeting, plus 2 guests.

 

Show and Tell: 

 Laura Tomich came with a stack of pillowcases, receiving blankets, and burp clothes. She thanked those who cut the fabric for her, since she has trouble cutting but still wants to contribute by sewing.

Bev Minnerly showed doll clothes she is making for Dolls From the Heart. She also showed the doll bodies that she is sewing together.

Louise Stem made 2 pillowcases and a set of microwave bowls.

Pat Pipa made some leaf potholders and knitted 2 infant hats.

Deb Chapman finished a patriotic table runner, 

quilt square number 3 in her current challenge, in 2 sizes, 

and a zipper bag for her cosmetics.

 

I finished the 2 snap bags I started in the demo a few weeks ago.

One of our donations included a teddy bear with no face so I added an embroidered face.  

Then I made 4 table runners, 2 from fabric leftover from pillowcases and 2 using the music blocks I found.

After show and tell I showed how to make the snowball block. .  I brought the red and blue 5” squares and a bunch of little white squares for today’s “snowball” block challenge.  This is a simple pattern, but for anyone curious, here is a link to a tutorial:  https:/www.scrapish.com/snowball-quilt-block.html.   I challenged everyone to take a few 5” squares and 4 of the little white squares for each 5" square.  I’m hoping that enough snowball blocks come back to make a quilt.  If there are extras I might make a table runner, placemats, or other items.

The white squares I cut ahead went fast, so I spent the afternoon cutting more.   I will bring more next week.

 

Hope to see you next week.

Club Notes - July 3, 2024

 Thanks to Mic for running this week's meeting on short notice.  I kept hoping I would make it, but this cold has really hit me hard.  No, I do not have COVID, I tested negative. It is just a bad cold.  Hopefully, I will be back next week.

Here are the notes Mic sent me:

We had 8 members and one visitor at the meeting.  The visitor’s name is Reggie and she said she would be back next week to join in.

A woman (Florabelle Lichty) dropped a large donation sometime before our meeting and Eric had it all laid out on two tables.  Everyone went through the lot and found items they could use.  I dropped the rest off at Goodwill.  I did set aside a WONDERFUL quilting binder for you that includes plastic templates for each pattern piece!!! 

Show & Tell

Pat Pipa made a tote out of two 9 patch blocks and finished two additional purple 9 patch blocks

Deb Chapman made a patriotic table runner for her home that her husband requested

Mic made placemats from the 9 patch blocks she took home two weeks ago and embroidered napkins that were donated to Busy Hands with some turkeys for her son-in law for Thanksgiving.

Mic has received a large donation and is having an open house for everyone to go through all the fabric at her house from 10 to 12 on Saturday 7-13 and from 12 to 2:00 on Sunday 7-14. There’s 3 bins of beautiful quilting cotton plus lots of tools & supplies.  Her address and phone number are in my email.

That's all for now.  Hope to see you next week.