Hey
everyone!
Sorry I
haven’t updated the blog lately. Here’s
what is going on for the rest of this year and the start of 2019.
We have been
working on Hometown Holiday items at our workshops. So this month’s workshop on
October 27th will be the last for us to work on them as a group. If
you haven’t completed your items for donation you only have about 1 ½ months to
finish. If you don’t have anything to work on for HH, we have had a request for
a couple more quilts for Eastman Funeral Homes and that is another project we
can do as a group. They like the design of the ones we have been doing for Teen
Challenge but they need to be at least 85” x 120”. We have fabric available at
the church or you can piece some together from your own stash and then they can
be stitched together. We would need 20 sections of the 2 long strips with the
6.5” blocks in between for 1 quilt. Bring them to the meetings whenever you can.
As usual bring your sack lunch.
There is
talk of going to the Amish Country Quilt Shop Hop Oct. 31 – Nov. 3. If all the
shops are visited, it will take 2 days. Let Yvonne know if you would like to go
along.
November 8th
is our election of officers. If you would like to have an office please speak
up. There is also the position of facebook admin, blog coordinator and media
contact. We will also firm up our Christmas potluck and schedule for working at
Hometown Holidays.
No workshop
because of the Thanksgiving holiday.
December 1st
is Hometown Holidays. Set up time is 8:00 a.m. Doors open at 9:00 a.m. and it
runs until 2:00 p.m. (I think, will check on this). We will plan on schedules of
2 hour shifts including set up and pack up.
December 13th
is our Christmas potluck starting at 6:00 p.m. at the church. We will be having
games and it was suggested that we each bring a small wrapped gift for a prize.
So far we have this as a menu:
Pulled pork
sandwiches
Pasta Salad
Cheese Ball
Cheesy
potatoes
Trucker beans
Bring your
own table service and drink.
No workshop
for December, Merry Christmas!
January 10th
is our first meeting of the new year with new officers taking office Rachenea
is going to demonstrate the toothbrush technique. We will be making a hot pad
and stay tuned for a supply list.
January 26th
workshop project TBA.
If you would
like to do a demonstration, please let me know.
We talked
about doing a challenge this year. I have 2 in mind, the paint chip challenge
that we have done before or the one yard fabric challenge. For the one yard
fabric challenge we need at least 7 members participating.
We had one
show and tell from Racheana.
The above quilt circles were pieced by a friend of a friend of Racheana's. She was asked to put it together and quilt it. I think she did a fantastic job.
If I missed
anything let me know. Hope you can all make the last few meetings for this
year.
Chris