Hi and Happy Valentines to all you sweet ladies of the club, Boy
yesterday was fun!! Show & Tell, Happy 92nd Birthday to Ruth
Campbell, discussion around PJ's, you ladies sure know how to be social
sewers!!
Again - we want demos - Bev Minnerly -
please write up your ear warmers and let's get that demo on calendar;
Linda Parr and Nancy Cartlidge - I'm not kidding both you ladies need to
demonstrate the fun&done stuff you've been sharing and learning,
and Ellen Hein - Demo any/all of those wonderful ideas and techniques
you have going. I've just called out 4 ladies here... but this list
could be expanded to each and every single one of you sweethearts... I'm
not going to quit on you... I want you all to take your turn because as
demonstrated yesterday with the discussion around the demo table just
about PJ bottoms and related ideas - each of you have good - great! -
input!!! Our club is for sharing and learning basic to advanced... it
all counts and it all is interesting.
There are
a whole bunch of 15/16 boys and 15/16 girls PJ bottoms started - we
customized the pattern pieces to make the lengths "capri" to maximize
the number of PJ's we'd be able to make out of the $190 fabric on hand,
and I thru in a beautiful rose print for girls and a (not as pretty)
plaid print for boys. Ladies got the fabrics divided off the bolts,
folded in the way to go with the Tween pattern pieces, cut the PJ sets
and Ellen and I were sergiing the sets so ladies could take home and
finish. Maryann finished up one demo PJ bottoms for us that Ellen
serged before the meeting started. I really like the "double" insertion
method of elastic waistline that Ellen showed us using 1/4 in wide
elastic!!!! Ladies we'll share this more with you in additional demos.
It is a very useful idea that can be used in other ways besides just as
waistline application. Thank you all for you help... and thank you to
all the ladies who took home PJ bottoms to finish. Once we have the
first "stack", we'll pair up with Tee Shirts and then do the creativity
with all of those to make the PJ sets that were so well received by the
Girl Scout group in December!!
Reminder: Busy Hands Happy Hearts is holding a Craft Sale at their club meeting - Monday Feb. 22 - Coconut Grove - 12 Noon to 3 PM
Next Saturday
- Pillowcase Dresses - these are fun - quick, fancy - and we can make
some for the shelters close by here in the surrounding counties, let
alone any of you who have granddaughters and nieces who would love these
cuties for sure. Got any pillowcases cluttering your closets that
could be used... please bring them with you. We've got plenty of laces
and yarns to embellish the dresses already. They do use biased
binding... that comes in handy and so do ribbons, especially grossgrain
about 1 inch wide. Janey Westra is sharing her expertise with us and
this will be a fun demo to watch.
Talk about
pillowcases - I shared the tutorial found on the internet this past week
of shorts for boys/girls made from - Pillowcases!!! No kidding... so
I'm attaching the pdf that I made copy/edit the internet tutorial.
We'll be looking at this first hand in coming weeks, along with the
shorts for boys/girls (called Britches) using old/new Tee Shirts!! FYI,
my daughter-in-laws love these things for PJ bottoms!!
Pinterest...
yes a demo is in the works... Actually there are several You Tube and
other video tutorials out there on the WWW that clearly explain and
demonstrate the wonders of Pinterest. I'm even considering making a
Pinterest Board for FFAC. Don't want us to get too sophisticated
because we have this email and we have our blog... and we have our
wonderful weekly meetings in the beautiful rec center SeaBreeze...
that's a lot of fun already!! Sew, thanks for your feedback and
enthusiasm as always!!
Feb. 27
- Lunch & Learn - and thanks to Linda Parr for securing a new
supply of paper products, we'll be having none of the issues of eating
soups with forks or small plates only like last month. As always, no
RSVPs required, and it's a pot luck fare... don't want to make anything
special... that's all okay... just come... pick up ice tea, or grapes,
we always have plenty.
Show & Tell:
I
started it off this month with the 4 receiving blankets out of flannel
for my future granddaughter and two small pillows - blue puppy and pink
rabbit. And I shared the awesome, truly amazing, sonogram pictures from
this week... it is never a cliche to me to say each one is a God's
miracle... and to see this darling, living, beautiful girl growing each
moment in the womb and already see her facial features is nothing short
of miraculous. Praise God!
JoAnn Colin -
charity quilt and pillow - adorable and fleece!!! Yes, our queen of
fleece did it again!! And the pillow is really adorable that
compliments this little quilt - please be sure to look on the blog for
it.
Ruth Campbell - Happy 92nd Young Birthday
Lady! shared the 4 cat hammocks she made during the week. Ruth had a
couple of friends with her this week, the wife of Pastor of her church
and another lady from the church. Ruth wanted to share (and show off)
her fun sewing club with the ladies and the ladies wanted to come and
share a wonderful birthday time with her. Best yet... the two ladies
were very impressed with our club!!
Nancy
Cartlidge - Beautiful Easter fabrics table runner made with the fun and
done idea of quilt as you go and finished with nicely mitered self
binding.
Linda Parr - Valentines table runner
made just the right size for their table. And we enjoyed very sweet
memory of Helen Foxx as Linda shared the beautiful little wedding ring
quilt made by her wonderful Mom. My goodness it is so easy to remember
Helen coming in the room with her classic smile, and especially on near
holidays she'd wear her favorite MaryJane shoes with festive socks to
mark the special day. Linda says that she sleeps every night under the
quilt and that is sure loving comfort. RIP dear lady Helen.
Bev
Minnerly - 2 bag totes (and I gotta say Grey & Pink make an awesome
combination!), and ear warmers for her grandsons - these were made with
scraps of fleece, pieced together and then constructed to be the useful
head bands that kids prefer to wear these days. Actually, I gotta say
that I'm interested in fashioning one for myself for those chillier
nights down at the squares. It's been pretty windy lately and I think
one of those would come in handy.
Lu Karatzas
- Hearts and sayings - and Family Quilt in Progress - nicely coming
along. Beautiful plethora of hearts with little pockets for just the
right sayings. And Lu shared her extra little saying cards with all of
us, including one of my very favorite quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson, "
What lie behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared
to what lies within us." This quote was posted on both 4 yearbook pages
for my sons, both their high school graduations, Scott's US Coast Guard
Academy yearbook and Cory's US Naval Academy yearbook. Lu shared her
favorite saying by Anonymous, "A friend is someone who reaches for your
hand and touches your heart." Lu definitely fits that description for
all of us this week! Thank you, Lu, for sharing your heart and
friendship. And thank you for substituting picture taking Show &
Tell for Lois Rose who was away attending an embroidery workshop (uh oh -
going to see a lot from that... !!)
Back to UFO's this week...
All of you take care, have a fun week, and as always, God bless,
*´¨)
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(¸.·´ (¸.·' Micki MacCumbee
Club Leader, Fabric Fun Arts & Crafts
Mary
Ann Berlin - shared The Wave Purse - this one is terrific pattern from
Lazy Girl and the stacks of PJ pants completed by she and Ellen Hein - I
believe it was 38 in all!!!!
