Hi everyone!!! This is a short blog as we had a very short meeting. Mostly it is a repeat of the last one with one addition. After the first of the year starting with the January workshop, we will be making walker caddies for the residents of our local nursing home. We've had a request for these badly needed caddies. Residents will be able to carry water bottles, books, glasses and whatever else they need throughout their day. It's difficult to use both hands on a walker and carry these things. Workshop date is January 30th (that seems a long way away). We have some fabric available but if you have anything you need to purge from your stash, it would be greatly appreciated. Fabric, flat batting and ties will be used in this project.
Here's the repeat:
We've decided that our next two regular meetings will also be workshops along with the October workshop so we have enough time to get these items finished. That would be the October 8th meeting, the October 24th workshop (please note the date change because of Halloween) and the November 12th meeting. Also at the November meeting we will be pricing items so all the tags will be the same. It will also be election of officers for 2016. If you would like to hold an office feel free to speak up. There is no workshop in November because of the Thanksgiving holiday.
December 10th will be our annual Christmas potluck and gift exchange starting at 6:00 p.m. at the church. Let us know by the November meeting what you plan on bringing for the potluck. Everything is open at this time. The gift exchange, if you want to participate, is either a notions gift with a limit of $20 or a homemade item. The gifts should be wrapped and will be placed under the tree, if there is one available. Names will be drawn and that person will pick a gift, the next name that is drawn has the option of either taking a new gift or taking the gift from another member until all the names are drawn. After the last name is drawn then we will open the package we have ended up with. Hope everyone enjoys this version of the gift exchange.
The first meeting of the new year will be on January 14th with the walker caddy workshop on January 30th. Here I'll interject our snow day plans. If the weather is looking nasty, we will make the decision whether to hold the meeting or cancel by 5:00 p.m. It will be posted here, on facebook, you will receive an e-mail from me and we will also make up a call list so nobody has to do all the calling. Sometimes it can be nasty in the morning and by evening everything is clear. Of course you have the option of not coming even though the meeting is still on. That is totally up to you.
2016 is the year for our quilt show. Tentative date is April 9th at the New London Alliance church. The public is invited to display quilts they have made and this year we are setting up categories. These will include, mini quilts, table toppers and/or runners, wall hangings up to 36", wall hangings up to 60", wearable, bed size quilts, crib quilts, holidays, antique quilts, unfinished tops, misc. such as purses, bags, pillows and our BOM challenge. The deadline for entries is March 1st so we may get tags with the quilt information printed. You can start letting us know what quilt you are going to display so we can get started on making the tags. We want them to be uniform with each other and easily read. Information needed is owner, who pieced, who quilted, machine or hand, year and name of quilt if available and who the pattern was by.
