Hats

Helen and Jodi hosted our last meeting at their house. And let me just say . . . It's hard to drag all your quilting stuff out but I am so glad that all of you do to come to my house everyweek. The hats we made were super simple and most of us made two. Most of them will be donated to patients with Cancer. Makes me feel good.

Our next meeting will be at my house and actually the two meetings following that also and we will be making a carpenter's star quilt! If you don't have the pattern you will need to get one from me or Helen. The meeting for July 6th will be UFOs and the 13th we are planning a trip to the Melting Pot. We will NOT be quilting (shocker!) but eating! Let me know how this date works out for you. Also, upcoming: thread catcher for our sewing machines and ironing board covers!

the bears

I first made the Simiplicity 7552 bear with my son. He was giving a gift to a girlfriend and wanted to know if we could make something for her out of one of his shirts (that was her favorite shirt). It was adorable.





Our Monday night group made bears but all of us used material. Surprisingly it only takes 5/8 of yard of material. It's a nice sized bear.





We will not be meeting next week due to the memorial day holiday. But will meet on the 1st of June. JUNE!!!! June already. We will probably work on UFOs. Seems we all have alot of unfinished projects to catch up on.

FQ bags

FQ bags are so versatile. We had so much fun making pleats and pockets and curves into our bags. I love how fast they are too. If you weren't able to attend the meeting, just get out your fat quarter and start cutting - seriously, I think you can finish one in an hour and the second and third and fourth ones just go faster.

Next week: Sewing Machine Covers!! These are mainly just a dust cover. We will sandwich two pieces of fabric between batting and quilt that piece, then bind the edges and add four ties and it will be ready to throw over your machine.

JOEY

Embellished towels and UFOs

At our last meeting we embellished towels and worked on UFOs (isn't that what the title says?!) Anyways, it was a fun meeting in that we had a little more time to chat. Usually we are so busy sewing that you can't talk so that was nice. I like the UFO idea and I may incorporate it into our meetings once a month. I am working on the schedule for May/June. The next meeting we are making FQs purses. I made one but have a few more FQs to make a couple at the next meeting.

Potholders, potholders, potholders

We made many different variations of potholders. Who would have thought there could be so many different sizes of potholders that would be so useful. We made : itsy-bitsy ones that you use for getting hot plates/bowls out of the microwave, smallish ones for getting a baked potatoe out of the microwave, heart shaped ones, and casserole sized ones. Please excuse the pic - my camera battery was dead (excuses, excuses, excuses - I know!)

Next week: embellished towels and UFOs.

JOEY

Paper Piecing

Thanks to Danielle we were able to get about half way through a paperpiecing block. I like that you are able to get very precise, sharp points. Danielle has other paperpiecing blocks printed if anyone is interested. Please visit here to see pictures.

We will be making potholders on April 20th. Hope to see you there.

JOEY

Lounge Pants

We made lounge pants from Amy Butler's "In Stitches" book. They go together so quick and most of used thrifted sheets so they are super economical. The serger is great for constructing the pants. Some used a serger for the first time! We learned how to insert elastic at the waist with the use of the serger (see first three photos). I would buy a serger for that reason alone.