Club Notes - February 2, 2022

 

Thanks to Mic Pickard for running the meeting this week and sending me these notes and photos.

At this week's meeting of Sewing N More, thirteen of us met to share our latest projects from home and to tackle the two sorting & measuring projects for our piles of fabric.  We had two visitors:  Cinda Habenschuss and Kathryn Jeter.  Cinda was unable to stay for the entire meeting but hopes to return on February 16 to check out joining us in the future.  Kathryn has visited before with Brenda and since she is a part-time resident, will check in with Lois about her future plans to attend and get on the email list.

As usual, it was a busy and productive time as follows:

Show and Tell:

 

 

 

 

Mary Ellen showed two quilt tops she finished

and another one of her great tote bags she designs from square from our stash. 

 

Ceal showed two finished quilt tops

 

 and three fabulous applique squares she enhanced with beautiful hand quilting to really highlight the amazing applique work done on the squares.  She has already made two of the squares into very unique tote bags and will finish the third one for our next meeting.

 

 

Audrey and her daughter Lynne decided to design an embroidery project to finish her kissing fish mug rugs.  She now has the design saved and can finish it with a beautiful satin stitch that she was unable to accomplish with her sewing machine.

 

 

 

 

Kathryn brought along her table runner project that is still in process 

 

and a wonderful Valentines’ quilt she is still putting together---it currently has an undesignated destination, but will probably be for her daughter.

 

 

Ellen tackled her house full of fleece pieces over the last few weeks and has banged out a new batch of fabulous fleece blankets for the next request that comes in---and she hopes to empty the stash of fleece so her space is more manageable.

  She also finished her kissing fish mug rugs.

 

Bev made 2 fidget walker bags with lots of different attachments to pull and touch.

 

 

Donna finished her kissing fish project and gifted them as “pets” to a minimalist friend so that he will now have pets 😊

 

 She also finished a quilt top of squares the group designed at the last meeting.

 

 

 

 

 

Sorting & Measuring Project:

Thanks to all of you, we were able to measure all the fabric that has been set aside for the Sheriff’s Youth Ranch curtain project.  It is all marked and ready to be shared according to the needs for other cabins, with the Girls Cabin selection completed and awaiting further information to begin construction. 

We also sorted through 6 containers of fabric and condensed them down to 4 that can be easily stored & transported to each meeting by Mic.  I’m sure we will see a lot of the larger pieces coming back to meetings in the future as pillowcases and other projects.

Have a great week everyone.

Mic Pickard

Club Notes - January 19, 2022

We had another fun afternoon, with 18 ladies attending.

 I reminded everyone about the Marketplace at Rohan Jan 28-29.  The info is attached.

I also talked about the Sheriff's Youth Ranch request for curtains. I went through some of our large pieces of fabric and selected some that I thought might work.  Mic took it home to measure and see what might work to make the curtains.  I currently have 4 volunteers from Sewing N More and 3 from Allamanda Quilters to work on this easy project. The girl's cabin has 7 windows, so I'm thinking of claiming that one to start.  If anyone else would like to work on this project, let me know and maybe we can pick additional cabins.

Last week I matched up a bunch of pillowcase sets and 30 came back completed today, along with 4 pillows.  I mentioned that I would like to use some of our charity fund to buy additional pillows for the ad litem kids and received unanimous approval for this expenditure.

Show and Tell:

 

Lorraine Manz finished a quilt, 

some tote bags.

and10 of the pillowcases I handed out.

Pat Pipa made Tote bags and a zipper bag.

 

 

 

 

 

Audrey Philips showed several embroidery pieces she finished.

Carolyn Grasso showed an apron she made.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bev Minnerly made a zipper bag.

 

 

 

 

 

Mary Ellen Boutin turned in a tote 

 

 

and another quilt top using another of the half-square triangle patterns.

 

 

 

 

Brenda Severa embroidered some towels

and sewed 10 of the pillowcases I handed out.

 

 

 

 

Ceal Pedersen made a quilt, quilted it, and gave it to Ellen for binding.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deb Chapman made 2 quilt tops

and some tote bags.

 

 

 

 

Liz Manzione  finished a fleece blanket, 

 

 

a travel tray and a bowl cozy..

 Ellen came with a stack of quilts that she finished the binding for.  

 

There was one by Carolyn, 

 

 

one by Ceal, 

 

 

 

 

one by MaryEllen, 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

two by Ellen,

four by me, 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 and one that was handed in to Allamanda anonymously. 

 

 

 

There was also one that I don't know who made, so if you did it let me know.
 

Charlotte couldn't be with us today but she sent me a photo of a quilt she made for her son.

I sewed the other 10 pillowcases, 

 

 

 

 

 

made 2 totes 

 

 

and a bunch of zipper bags.
 

Ellen sent me 2 photos after the meeting, of items she made for the SoZo kids, using fleece scraps.

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Today's demo was on how to make Kissing Fish Mug Rugs.  I will send the instructions in a separate email.

In addition to the mug rug project, several ladies sorted through the big blocks.  Mic took a bag of recent donations and the box of large fabric pieces home.

Mic is going to run the next (Feb 2nd) meeting since I will be away.  It will be a free sew week. Mic is going to bring back the box of large pieces from today plus the bins of large pieces she has at home,  The task for next week will be sorting these large pieces by color so they will be easy to select for projects. Mic may have some other things in store for Groundhog Day, but you will have to come to the meeting to find out.

Have a good 2 weeks of sewing.