Club Notes - March 3, 2021

 We were back in El Santiago this afternoon, in our winter room.  Ann Knoff brought some scraps for us and another lady I knew from the MEQ club gave us several boxes of "stuff", which several ladies sorted through.

I initially said I hadn't heard any status for Bev Minnerly, but I received and forwarded a note from her when I got home.

Two other announcements:

The first shop hop of the year has been announced.  The "Get Out of the House" shop hop runs from Friday, March 26, 2021 9 AM to Saturday, April 10, 2021 5 PM.   Info can be found at https://www.quiltinghub.com/Events/EventID/1179877.

Normally I would invite those who wanted to go on a day trip to the shops, but I'm still not ready for 5-6 ladies in an enclosed van for a day.   Maybe by summer we can get back to doing a fun road trip.

The other announcement I talked about is a fundraiser Suzie Casta concert, sponsored by the Acknowledging Acts of Kindness club.  The flier is attached to my email. Ray and I have our tickets, so if anyone would like to join us, let me know and I will get you tickets.

A few days ago I sent out a request for patriotic quilts and several ladies delivered, while some others took supplies this afternoon to make one.

Show and Tell

Pat Pipa came with a patriotic quilt top.

 

 

Mic Pickard showed her 2nd quilt made from fabric leftover from her 2020 pajama gifts.

 

Brenda Severa completed the quilt that Deb Chapman and Mary Ellen Boutin designed.

 

Ceal Pedersen stuffed and finished a bunch of toys that Mic Pickard cut out last week.

 

Ceal also responded to my patriotic quilt request with 3 completed quilts and a fleece blanket.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mary Ellen Boutin showed her very first pillowcase and thanked Eileen DiSanto for demystifying the instructions.

 

Pam Thompson took a stack of 5" squares and, using a "Wanda" design from a GE Quilt Designs demo on YouTube, made some pink quilt blocks.  She is working towards turning them into a quilt.

 

Jean Piccirillo showed the quilt top she laid out last week, now sewn together.  She still wants to add a border, so we haven't seen the last of this.

I made 2 more drawstring backpacks.   

 

I also finished 2 quilts.  Ellen Hein made the tops, I added borders, batting and backing, quilted them and added the binding.

 

  These 2 quilts are large enough to go to the Sheriff's Youth Ranch graduates.  Two down, 10 to go.  Thanks to Mic, I have backings for 4 more ironed and ready for pinning.

 

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We don't have a room next week so no meeting We will be back in the Beach Club room on March 17th (St Patrick's Day). 

Hope to see you then.

Club Notes - February 24, 2021

 We had our first meeting at Chatham Recreation center this afternoon and I was very pleased with the turnout.  There were 13 of us today, including one guest.  The room was set up with plenty of room between tables and everyone who brought a machine had easy access to a plug. The staff was very helpful and the only negative I heard was that the lightning wasn't great for close work

Last Saturday Ray and I delivered 27 dog beds to the Humane Society of Lake County.  We also dropped off 31 quilts, 22 pillowcases, 8 drawstring backpacks, and 8 zipper bags to the Shepherd's Lighthouse.

 

Show and Tell:

Pat Pipa completed a fidget walker bag 

 

and showed some baby items she crocheted for Busy Hands.

 

 

 

Eileen DiSanto showed a pillowcase she made.

She also finished a 2nd pillowcase during the afternoon.

Mic took the leftover fabric from the pajamas she made for family members for Christmas and created a throw quilt. 

 She is also making more masks for family members who have gone back to work and need more.

  Ellen showed 2 completed patriotic quilts.  The tops were both made by Judy Mayer, quilted by me, and binding by Ellen.

 These will both be given to Compassionate Care hospice tomorrow.   

Deb Chapman showed a quilt top she completed and handed it.

Mary Ellen Boutin showed a quilt top she completed and handed in.

Jean Piccirillo tried a different approach to using ties to make a tote bag.

 

We were happy to see Audrey Phillips at today's meeting.  She showed a quilt she is creating on her embroidery machine for her latest grandchild. 

 

 She also drew some stick figures representing a family and scanned them into her new embroidery machine.  She plans to add these embroidered figures to the bottom of the baby quilt.

I made another drawstring backpack 

 

and showed a Tiger quilt that I made from a kit my husband gave me for Christmas.

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During the rest of the afternoon I designed a quilt top and helped Jean design another one. I saw several other ladies select squares from the supplies I brought, so I expect some more quilt tops will come in over the next few weeks. 

We received the names of the 12 kids who will be graduating from the Sheriff's Youth Ranch in May.  Ellen has been working on the duffel bags for them and she said she has at least 10 completed.  We now need to finish 12 twin size quilts for them.  I had a couple of large quilts waiting to be quilted, so we are on our way, but we could use a few more.   I will keep you posted as the number of completed quilts goes up.  We will also give them pillowcases and zip bags.  We have some on hand, but could always use a few more.

Next week we will be back at El Santiago, in the Hula Lounge room.

I will send out a reminder a day or 2 before.   In the meantime, if you want me to bring any specific supplies next week, email me.  Also, if your COVID vaccine status has changed, please let me know this as well.  The percent of club members who have received at least 1 shot of the vaccine remains as 27%, to the best of my knowledge.

Hope to see you next week.

Club Notes - February 17, 2021

 

We had a very active group today.  There were 14 of us at today's meeting, the most we have seen in a year.    Over half (8) of the ladies present have received at least one vaccine shot.  I have heard from 16 of our members who have received the vaccine, which is about 28% of our membership and 52% of the ladies who came to most meetings before COVID.

If you have received the vaccine and haven't let me know yet, please drop me a note. 

Last week I asked if anyone knew what happened to Eileen Navikas.  I'm happy to report I received the answer that she has moved back to Pennsylvania to be near her family.

My other good news this week is that I have had a request for 8 twin quilts and 20 child quilts from Shepherd’s Lighthouse in Belleview.  I pulled a bunch of quilts out of storage after today's meeting.  Tomorrow I will look at them and wash the ones I believe will fit.  This depletes our store of twin quilts, so I am only checking the smaller ones for the best child quilts.  We will need 12 more twin quilts (minimum 55 x 72) to give to the Sheriff's Youth Ranch 2021 graduates in May.

We also have enough dog beds to make a delivery so I'm hoping to do that within a few days too.

Two of our members stopped in just for drop-offs and pickups.  Laura Tomich came in to pick up some pillowcase kits.  She thanked everyone for the get-well card. She is still undergoing extensive treatments and prayers are appreciated.

Carol Thurston came in to drop off a dog bed, fabric and batting and get some dog beds sleeves.

Show and Tell:

After the last meeting I had 22 pillowcase sets ready to be sewn. I gave them to Diana Gosselin and she returned them all completed a week later.

Eileen DiSanto turned in 2 pillowcases she finished.

 

 

 

 

 

 Jean Piccirillo made a tie tote, some pillowcases,

    

 

 

 

 and showed a piece she quilted.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Judy Mayer made 3 stuffed toys.

 

Ceal Pedersen showed the quilt top she made from ties in our stash.

 

 

Charlotte Cecillio made a couple of stuffed frogs.

 

 

 

Brenda Severa showed a bunch of UFO's that she finally completed - a basket, a table runner and a wall hanging.

 

 

 

 

 

 She also sewed a quilt top that was laid out 2 weeks ago (I believe by Deb Chapman and Mary Ellen Boutin).  Brenda spent the afternoon pinning it, using the pool noodle method.

 Mic Pickard showed a tie tote she made 

 

 

 and a towel she decorated.  Her daughter created the design in paint and Mic transferred it to printable fabric, which she then appliqued unto the towel.

 

 

Deb Chapman  finished 2 quilt blocks from the quilt block challenge I gave out last month.

Ellen Hein showed one of the duffle bags she has completed.

She also showed an alphabet quilt, which was the first quilt she ever made. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 She then showed 2 patriotic quilts that she finished the binding on.  Judy Mayer handed these 2 in at our December 16th meeting. I quilted them and gave them to Ellen to bind in January.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 She also worked on the binding of this quilt from our assembly line.

Lastly, she showed a quilt she is working on for her grandson.  This is a work in progress, which will be delivered before we get a chance to see the completed quilt.

 

 Bev Minnerly showed the 1st quilt she ever finished, 

some zipper bags, 2 towels she added the hanging sections to, and a pillowcase.

 

 

Diane Placek turned in a pillowcase.

 

I showed a small purse I made using Kristine Poor's Explorer Bag pattern.  I also made 7 draw-string backpacks, using up a bunch of home decor fabric, the skinny parts of men's ties, and blocks from our stash for pockets.

 

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Everyone got to work for the rest of the afternoon.  Ellen finished binding a couple of our assembly-line quilts.  Deb and Mary Ellen were busy designing another quilt top.  I saw Mic and Ceal taking ties apart, preparing them for another quilt.  Everyone else was working on various stuff, but I didn't get around to see what they were doing.  I'm sure we will see as things come back in.

I met with the El Santiago manager, Todd, to discuss the confusion regarding our room assignment for the 4th Wednesday of Jan, Feb & March.  It seems we are double-booked with the Boggy Creek Bear Ladies in the Hula lounge.  He suggested I talk to the lady in charge at Savannah, so I will go there sometime in the next 2 days.  I will let you know the result before our next scheduled meeting.

Lois Rose