If you are not too "hung over" from watching the results of the election, we'll hope to see you tomorrow in the Fiber Room at the Lyndon House--9:30 AM. We have lots of things that we can do to get some more quilts made and donated before Christmas.
See you tomorrow. Remember that we will NOT meet on Wednesday of next week, but we'll meet on that Friday--it's the third Friday of the month. Ellen
November 2, 2012
We
did some sorting of blocks to get ready to make a group of
disappearing nine patch quilts. We also have some quilts that
could be bound. We will meet as usual next Wednesday, 9:30 in
the Fiber Room at the Lyndon House, but the following Wednesday,
November 14, there is a Guild workshop planned for the room, so we
will NOT meet on November 14, but we decided that since Friday,
November 16 is the third Friday in the month and we usually gather to
work on UFOs or anything that suits your fancy, we will meet on
Friday, November 16 at about 9:30 in the Fiber Room. Bring
something that you need to work on, or you can work on items for the
Charity group.
Ellen
Ellen
October
30, 2012
See
you tomorrow in the Fiber Room at the Lyndon House. Come ready
to cut, sew, straighten and enjoy the conversation.
See you there about 9:30 AM.
Ellen
See you there about 9:30 AM.
Ellen
October
23, 2012
It's
that time again. I have to attend another meeting, so I won't
be there to "check up on you gals." By now, you know
the drill. Cut what needs cutting; iron what needs ironing, and
sew what needs sewing! Be sure and leave the room neatly
organized. Last week I forgot that there was going to be a
group doing some soy dying, and I had left some disappearing nine
patch blocks lying out on a table. I guess this week, you can
see if you can find them and also find the others that have not
gotten to that stage. We had originally set our enough blocks
to make one quilt. I'll see you next week, same time, same
place. Another Ellen just may show up. I met her at the
Gwinnett Sewing expo last Thursday, and I have put her on our mailing
list, and she knows the meeting time and place, and she just may join
our guild. I believe she lives in Watkinsville, but don't hold
me to that thought--I have a bad case of CRS disease!!
Ellen
Ellen
October
20, 2012
Nancy,
Martha and I showed up on Friday at the Lyndon House for our UFO
day. Martha, God bless her, continues to cut blocks out of our
scrap fabric--without complaining!!! Nancy had a beautiful
Christmas disappearing nine patch (but in black, beige, and gold!!!)
that she was working on. She also brought a darling table
runner that was a Happy Birthday celebration. She put
alternating bright colored prairie points around all sides. I
brought a 95" square quilt that I had promised to the gals from
Elbert County Schools for a raffle to raise money to send all 5th
graders to Washington, DC in the spring. I needed to sew the
sleeve on the back. We left (whoops, because there was a soy
dye workshop this morning in the Fiber Room that we had forgotten)
some of our disappearing nine patch blocks arranged on one (only one)
of the tables. I imagine they could easily move them if they
need the room.
Next Wednesday, October 24, we hope you see you all back in full force. We are still cutting blocks from scraps, but we have started sewing them together into disappearing nine patch designs to begin a stash of "older" quilts to give to Santa for a Senior. Other blocks that we find to be juvenile, we will do the same for our "kid" quilts. Since we have completed our rush for Sandy Creek items that we sell so we can buy supplies that are not donated, be will concentrate on our "real" purpose--to make charity items for local needs.
See you on Wednesday--9:30 until. . . . . . If you bring your sewing machine, you can sew; if not, don't feel left out, we'll have something you can do to speed the assembly line process that we use to get quilts out.
Ellen
Next Wednesday, October 24, we hope you see you all back in full force. We are still cutting blocks from scraps, but we have started sewing them together into disappearing nine patch designs to begin a stash of "older" quilts to give to Santa for a Senior. Other blocks that we find to be juvenile, we will do the same for our "kid" quilts. Since we have completed our rush for Sandy Creek items that we sell so we can buy supplies that are not donated, be will concentrate on our "real" purpose--to make charity items for local needs.
See you on Wednesday--9:30 until. . . . . . If you bring your sewing machine, you can sew; if not, don't feel left out, we'll have something you can do to speed the assembly line process that we use to get quilts out.
Ellen
October
17, 2012
We
had a small group today--about half a dozen, but we got some work
done. We sorted through all the items left for sale and donated
many of them. Martha cut squares, Phyllis worked on a kit,
Nancy arranged some of our 4 1/2' blocks by color and I sewed them
together. Frances ironed the blocks, and Jan picked out
stitching on several blocks that were not uniform in size.
We've got a good start on two quilts using the disappearing nine
patch pattern. Three of us, Nancy, Martha and I said that we
were able to return on Friday (3rd Friday--UFO day) to sew. If
you have time, come and join us. We'll either be doing our own
thing or finishing those quilts we started today.
Ellen
Ellen
October
10, 2012
We
had a good group of gals today. We got things ready for several
of us to "demonstrate" quilting tomorrow at the Lyndon
House's Harvest Festival. I'm sure that we'll be busy. We
got two quilts ready to be quilted (got to purchase fabric for the
backing for one of them), and I brought them home. We arranged
the room ready for an influx of students, parents, and visitors.
Martha and Kathy cut blocks and Barbie and I sorted and put our
blocks into storage. Judy took several blocks home with her.
She plans to add appropriate matching fabrics and create two Hop
Scotch quilts. She's traveling for the next two weeks.
Happy quilting!
Ellen
Happy quilting!
Ellen
October
9, 2012
I'm
late getting out this reminder (I was at the Guild Meeting tonight).
We had a pretty successful day at Sandy Creek on Saturday!
Terri bear is planning to offer for sale our left overs on Thursday
at the Harvest Days at the Lyndon House. Several of us plan to
be in the Fiber Room working on quilting projects for community
members who want to see what quilting is all about. We'll have
our usual meeting tomorrow from about 9:30 until 12ish. Come
and get in on the fun.
Ellen
Ellen
October
2, 2012
We
just got back from our trip to Wash. DC. I'll be at the Bee
tomorrow. I didn't get all the quilts quilted, but I am home
now, so they will be getting done soon. I got a call from mary
Myles (Sandy Creek). She said that it has become too
complicated for her to get name tags for us, and she asked if
we would be willing to pay the $2 per person entry fee, and when you
get to the booth, she will have supplied us with an envelope of cash
to reimburse those whose name is on the list. I told her that
would be fine and that most of the attendees would be at the bee
tomorrow. See you tomorrow.
Ellen
Ellen
September
26, 2012
Today
we had about a dozen ladies who dribbled in at various times.
In addition, we had a guest who had spoken with Phyllis about writing
an article for a magazine that has a target audience of fourteen
counties that surround Athens with Jasper County being the most
western county and Oglethorpe the most eastern. She wants to
feature quilting, and she probably experienced a long learning curve
today because she started with zero knowledge of the craft. She
asked a lot of questions about not only our guild but others in the
area. She wants photos to accompany her article, and one that
we will definitely give her is one of our Opportunity Quilt.
She took a bunch of notes, even looked at--and then purchased--a
couple of our Sandy Creek quilts. She plans to do some research
on quilting, in general, and then plans to revisit us next week when
she is at the Lyndon House already for her garden club. While
the interviewing was going on, we trimmed quilts that had been
quilted, measured and priced items for Sandy Creek, matched backings
with quilt tops that came in, cut blocks from scraps, and added
scraps to our latest Dog bag.
Next week will be our final opportunity to finish up anything that we planned to do for Sandy Creek which will be Saturday, October 6, from 10 AM until 6 PM.
See you next week. Same time (9:30 or so); same place (Fiber Room).
I am sending Terri Jarrett some $$ from our early sales.
Ellen
Next week will be our final opportunity to finish up anything that we planned to do for Sandy Creek which will be Saturday, October 6, from 10 AM until 6 PM.
See you next week. Same time (9:30 or so); same place (Fiber Room).
I am sending Terri Jarrett some $$ from our early sales.
Ellen
September
21, 2012
A
BIG Thank You to all the worker bees that showed up today (our normal
personal UFO day) to work on organizing the items that we will take
to the Fall Festival at Sandy Creek on Saturday, October 6. We
got all the quilts measured, priced and inventoried. We also
came close to finishing EVERYTHING. Nancy Bruce took 4 wall
hangings to put sleeves on when she and Frances L. go on a mini
vacation. Several ladies took quilts to put bindings on (then
they will be measured and priced). We were beginning to be
"brain dead" as noon appeared (maybe we were just hungry),
so we decided to put ALL the unfinished items in a large plastic
bin. Those items barely covered the bottom of the bin. We
vowed to finish them up next Wednesday at our usual meeting time.
I have about 6 kid quilts left to quilt, and I hope to get them
done. I thought I only had to finish the flower girl's dress to
complete all MY part in the wedding preparations, but my
granddaughter came over today to see if I could do a few things to
the dress that she is wearing. I spent all afternoon making
loops for hooks (and eyes) and I spent a good bit of time making
tucks along the back of the dress so that it would lay flat against
her back. Then we found out that the lady who had altered the
dress had not sewed part of it together correctly, so that got done
also. Now all I have to do for Sarah is shorten the ruffled
slip that she bought at David's bridal so it won't peek out from
under the dress. In addition, there is the remaking of the
upper part around the waist since it is high-waisted and is fitted
elastic above the waist. The elastic needs to be made more
narrow since the dress dips to the waist in the back, and the zipper
needs to be reinstalled. That was way more than you wanted to
read, but by writing it, it is giving me courage to attempt something
that I've never experienced.
Make plans to attend the Bee next Wednesday. We'll finish up with our Sandy Creek items and then get down to making some new quilts with some of our new pattern ideas.
See you then.
Ellen
Make plans to attend the Bee next Wednesday. We'll finish up with our Sandy Creek items and then get down to making some new quilts with some of our new pattern ideas.
See you then.
Ellen
September
19, 2012
The
Worker Bees came in today with lots of items finished for our trip to
Sandy Creek Nature Center for their annual Fall Festival. We
plan to return to the Fiber room on Friday of this week to begin the
process of pricing and listing all the items that we have for sale
and display. We've got a nice bunch of ladies who have agreed
to go to the festival and demonstrate quilting and answer questions
about what we do and how we do it. So, if you have "nothing
to do" this Friday, why not join us sometime after nine AM;
we'll stay until . . . . . We still have lots of finishing up
to do, and I have been busy quilting all this afternoon. I plan
to work at home all day tomorrow with wedding stuff, quilting for the
Fall Festival and putting a sleeve on a quilt that I made for
Presbyterian Homes for their silent auction. See you Friday, if
you can come.
Ellen
Ellen
September
17, 2012
This
Wednesday for the Charity Bee, why not bring your machine (if
possible) and let's all work on sewing up something that we could
offer for sale at Sandy Creek. For Example: I bought some
fabric at Mary Jo's last week that is 18 potholder-sized cartoons of
that "bitchy" lady that usually has a coffee cup in her
hand and gives you her opinion--straight from the shoulder.
My alzheimer's is catching up with me--I can't remember her name, but somehow, Sybil pops into my head. Those who don't sew can be "gofers" for the rest of us.
Ditto for this Friday--which is UFO day (3rd Friday of the month). Bring a sewing machine so we can make something.
Ellen
My alzheimer's is catching up with me--I can't remember her name, but somehow, Sybil pops into my head. Those who don't sew can be "gofers" for the rest of us.
Ditto for this Friday--which is UFO day (3rd Friday of the month). Bring a sewing machine so we can make something.
Ellen
September
12, 2012
Today
there is a workshop in our Bee hive. But next week, we'll be
back to the hive working on new creations. Our stash has been
newly reorganized (almost complete), and we will be busy working on
items for Sandy Creek and new kits. We've decided that we might
begin to concentrate on Scrappy quilts in order to use up lots of our
smaller pieces. No need to cut kits from bolts of fabric if a
scrappy look will work. That way we can "bite into"
our growing stash of smaller pieces. Save the larger pieces for
backing fabrics.
Also, bear in mind that Friday, Sept. 21 is the third Friday when we often gather in the Bee hive to work on our own projects. We'll finalize just who will be showing up on that day when we meet next Wednesday.
Also remember that Saturday, Sept. 6 is Sandy Creek day. if you are able to work our book during the 10 - 6 hours, you get free admission to the event. Work awhile, and then spend some time visiting the booths and always enjoying the fellowship of quilters there.
Ellen
Also, bear in mind that Friday, Sept. 21 is the third Friday when we often gather in the Bee hive to work on our own projects. We'll finalize just who will be showing up on that day when we meet next Wednesday.
Also remember that Saturday, Sept. 6 is Sandy Creek day. if you are able to work our book during the 10 - 6 hours, you get free admission to the event. Work awhile, and then spend some time visiting the booths and always enjoying the fellowship of quilters there.
Ellen
September
5, 2012
There
was a big hustle and bustle today at the Bee. Phyllis brought
in a quilt ready to be quilted. Sylvia brought in two Christmas
vests for Sandy Creek, and I brought in the Halloween vest I started
last week. Judy Cole was back from the wild west, and she may
think she shouldn't have come back. She was immediately given
several tasks to do; the first was to match the quilt kits that she
had cut out previously and the instructions had been removed from
them. She had no trouble getting the two things together
again. Sylvia worked on a new quilt that she had started, but
the rest of us jumped into sorting and rearranging AGAIN!!
Kathy Burkes, Vicki Bauer and I jumped right into the unorganized
mess!!! It seems like we are always doing that. It's just
that we found zip lock bags with parts of quilts, other bags with
fabrics in them, bags with contents stashed into some of the bins,
etc., etc. We decided to relabel all the big bins. One
has fat quarters in it. One has batiks in it. One has
pieces larger than fat quarters. One has Florals, and three
have juvenile fabrics. We also stored all the blocks that we
have been cutting from the one bin that has scraps that need to be
cut into blocks. We decided that we are going to work on quilts
that will be primarily scrappy--from either the smaller pieces of
fabrics that we have or the blocks that we have cut, and use our
solids to go with the scrappy pieces. We all felt GREAT after
scurrying around so much today. We left the room in PERFECT
shape for the workshop that will be held there next week, so, please
remember that the Charity Bee will have a week of vacation.
Maybe by the time we get back to our usual Bee meeting, we'll be so
fired up that we'll get tons of work done. It should be easier
to make quilts from the bins that we have organized.
Ellen
August
30, 2012
Try
this one out!!!
Something
else to do with squares!!!!! After Teri's d-9patch this would be fun,
too!
~~N.
August
29, 2012
We
had a good day today with a handful of ladies present. Kathy
cut blocks out of our stash of scraps, and Ellen struggled with
lining the halloween vest that she had taken home last week. I
think we finally figured it out, but not the "easy" way
that the new patterns show. Oh well. Sometimes you just
feel stupid!!! Sylvia brought in some more "cuties"
that we will offer for sale at Sandy Creek on Saturday, Oct. 6.
Jodie and Madelyn came today and gave us a copy of the entire
workshop programs for the year. Now if I can just get them all
entered on the calendar!! Our stack of quilts continues to
grow, slowly because we can't seem to interest very many guild
members to make one for us.
Come and join us
next week. We'll always have something that you can help us
with.
Ellen
August
22, 2012
Today
there were about 10 who were at the Bee. Lola has had an
accident and broke her heel, and then Le'Ann came in toward the end
of the meeting with a cast on her leg!!! Another broken bone!
Le'Ann took (rather her husband and daughter carried) a huge stack of
scraps and a mat, rotary cutter and ruler home with her so she could
work while sitting down. What a trouper!!! The rest of us
either cut blocks from scraps or ironed or straightened up.
Mary Ann Cox cut out the blocks for a quilt like the one using a new
SIMPLE pattern that I had brought in. I started that one and
brought home the remainder to finish it at home. Terri Bear was
busy showing us two new blocks (to some of us) that we can use in
making quick, but effective quilts. One, her favorite, the
disappearing nine-patch, and the second one I don't know what it is
called, but it is made of 5 patches all the same size, and you sew it
together using three seams, but the front side looks like a
four-patch with a smaller block "on point" in the middle of
the four-patch. You probably can't visualize what it looks like
from my description, but it is nice. Terri says the lady who
"invented" it sews the edges of the center patch by rolling
the four edges to mimic the cathedral window look. Seeing is
believing!!! Julie brought in a table runner that she is doing
for Sandy Creek. Phyllis took home a bunch of cute halloween
blocks to put 3 each into about 6 door hangings. By the way,
Phyllis, we found the missing block; it has green borders on it.
Frances L took it home to remove the borders; you can get it next
week. Sylvia bought in two grocery bags of cute Christmas tree
ornaments for Sandy Creek. Oh, I brought in Vicki's "broken"
mangle. She told me that if Stuart couldn't fix it--just junk
it. Stuart grew up on a farm where as soon as the Christmas
presents had been opened, he and his brother went outside to the junk
pile to see what they could make. Needless to say, both are
engineers. Must be nice to KNOW at about age 10 what you are
going to do with your life!!! And, of course, it now heats and
even steams--and as evidence of that, when I put it on the counter, I
tipped it "just so," and it soaked my t-shirt!!
Sylvia offered to iron it dry for me.
About 10 quilts have
been finished in the last week, and Jan took the last one that needed
binding. We have stacked them (SH-h!! Don't tell anyone
because we don't want our hard work to "walk out" the door)
to decide next week where their permanent homes will be--Project
Safe, Prevent Child Abuse, Loren Smith Cancer Center, or to Sandy
Creek for possible sale (anything that doesn't sell gets donated as
soon as the Harvest Festival is over).
Gosh, we just have
so much fun planning and doing for Charity items!! Come and
join the fun!!
August
21, 2012
See
you tomorrow for the regular meeting of the Charity Bee. We
always have plenty that we can do when we meet. We might want
to concentrate on Sandy Creek which will be October 6. Our
stash of items that we can offer for sale is growing slowly.
This will be a good way to use up small pieces of fabrics that we
have--not enough to do a quilt, but too big to cut into blocks.
See you in the AM.
Ellen
August
13, 2012
I
may be able to get to the meeting on Wednesday--late. Stuart
and I have doctor appointments in Lawrenceville at 9 and 9:30.
I'm going down in a few to work on the quilts I brought home last
week. If I get them finished tonight, I'll drop them off with
Nancy when I'm out running errands tomorrow morning. We still
have blocks to cut out from the bin of scraps, and we now can get
serious about items to take to Sandy Creek as well as quilt kits to
be handed out at the Guild Meetings.
Hopefully, I'll see
you on Wednesday, but if not, you know what to do.
Ellen
August
8, 2012
I
just got an e-mail from Frances Arnold. She knows that the
Fiber Frenzy group is meeting this Friday in the Fiber room. I
was feeling so bad this morning that I failed to check with the
"powers that be" at the Lyndon House to make sure that the
room was available. Can we postpone the Friday sew-in until
next week, and on Wednesday we can check to see which Fridays are
available for sewing. I feel a little like Vicki; we had new
fabric to get organized, quilt tops to find backings for, scraps to
cut into blocks, so none of us really had time to let our creative
juices get moving. I've been wanting to do more sewing, and a
few more Fridays at the Lyndon House would be fun if we could meet as
a small and often varying group to work on quilt tops for so many of
the charitable opportunities that we find in our community. So,
this is an announcement that we WILL NOT be meeting at the Lyndon
House this friday, but we'll try to schedule other Fridays as
openings occur.
Maybe we can find
some time at home this Friday so that when we come together next
Wednesday, we'll have some show and tell.
OH!! New
News!! Joan Garland, one of our newer guild members has a long
arm, and she VOLUNTEERED to help with the charity Quilting. I
brought an entire bolt of Warm and Natural to the Lyndon House today,
and we put it in her car. Joan and I split the quilt tops that
had been completed, and she indicated that even though she can't
always make the Wednesday morning Bee, she will be glad to take quilt
tops along with backings) home from the Guild Meetings. Now we
should really be able to turn out the charity items. I had been
keeping up fairly well since I caught up from that big pile that grew
while my ankle was broken. Joan and I each took four quilts
home because several of you gals have been busy!!!
See you next week.
Ellen
August
6, 2012
See
you on Wednesday to work on quilt kits, bindings and getting rid of
that bin of scraps!! I hope to have the label ready to go on
the Opportunity Quilt, but it depends on how the lettering fits that
is in my Embroidery machine. I usually use the letting in the
Bernina software and save the design to be stitched out on the
BabyLock embroidery machine. The sizing of the letters is just
about infinite going either direction--large or small with the
Bernina software, but the lettering built into the Baby Lock is
Small, Medium and Large--that's it. Pam is using my PC that has
the software on it while her PC is being repaired since I don't need
that PC very often--my first choice for the internet. Vicki
plans to bring her laptop that has an older version of EQ on it, and
we will muddle through a few designs with what I know about the
program. There is LOTS more that I need to learn in order to be
efficient with it, but I manage to get some designs done for us to
use.
See you on wednesday
at 9:30 AM.
Ellen
August
4, 2012
I'll
see you next Wednesday, same time, same place (9:30 in the Fiber Room
at the Lyndon House). I'm sure that you got LOTS done while I
was gone. I got lots of reading done, so it was a mini
vacation.
I got the form for
the Sandy Creek (N. GA Folk Festival) which I promptly filled out,
and it is now in the mail. The date is October 6 (ANOTHER
conflict for me--my granddaughter is getting married). I trust
that those of you who can go will have a good time--we always do.
Lots of music, food, conversation and even things to purchase!!!
We have got our stash started on items that we will be taking to
sell. Nancy has made a "ton" of really flashy luggage
tags--a great way to identify your luggage on the luggage carousel!
We will probably spend every meeting until then getting ready for
that event. We take threaded needles in a pincushion so
kids and adults can hand sew blocks together. We also take
black and white diagrams of quilt blocks and crayons so kids can
color a block. We'd better get some new crayons; some of those
from last year melted together. We also need to take a stack of
cards to hand out about our meeting date and location. And,
last but not least, we'll take some items to sell. We usually
do well enough to replenish some of our much needed "reads as
solids" fabrics to go with fabrics that have been donated.
See you on
Wednesday--ready and raring to go!!
Ellen
July
30, 2012
Just
a reminder about the Charity bee this Wednesday. We are making
progress on the big bin of scraps that need to her cut into blocks.
Last week we had a GREAT attendance for the Bee and we got several
large bags of fabric donations from the Loren Smith Cancer Center put
organized and put away. Now we can get down to the job of producing
more quilt kits. I have been creating some new designs in
EQ7 and next week, I'll bring in the notebook so we can try out some
new patterns. As we try out the new patterns, be aware that we
need to proof most of them since they have been adapted from larger
patterns to fit the size we need. Joan took a kit recently, and
reported to me via e-mail that corrections need to be made.
Those corrections have been done. Joan has also volunteered to
quilt some of our charity quilts on her long arm (I think that the
calvary has just arrived to help out the worker Bees!! Thanks,
Joan, for your offer. We'll take you up on it.
Hope you'll show up
on Wednesday even though I will still be in Dallas, TX in a hotel
that is actually 3 hotels joined together with their three lobbies.
Seems like we have to walk miles to get anywhere we need to go!!
We are not going outside since it is HOT, HOT, Hot!!! The
nearest restaurants to the hotel are 2 1/2 miles away, so we are
eating all our meals inside.
Ellen
July
23, 2012
We
plan to meet this Wednesday--same time--same place. Nancy and
Frances have gone (Tuesday) to get some more fabric that we might be
able to use. Nancy has received the Opportunity Quilt from Mary
Beth. It is BIG!!! If Nancy doesn't have the binding on
it by Wednesday, I guess each of us could grab a needle and thread
and sew about a foot each. Hope to see a big crowd for the
photographing of the Opportunity Quilt. Maybe it will be done
then. See you early.
Ellen
July
16, 2012
We're back to
"normal" now. We will meet this Wednesday to continue
the "usual." That is making blocks out of that bin
that seems never to get empty, make quilt kits, and put bindings on
quilts already quilted. We didn't have much success at the
guild meeting getting our quilts "adopted." so we may
need to put the bindings on ourselves. Come ready to work;
there's always something to do in addition to visiting with other
quilters. We even had JAN LEONARD back with us last week--fresh
from knee replacement surgery!!!! She showed us her 5 week old
scar--can't believe she's up and "dancing" around on that
new knee so quickly!
Nancy got the
FINISHED top for the opportunity quilt to Mary Beth for quilting.
It should be ready in about two weeks--then binding and the label.
We're waiting anxiously to see that quilt finished!!! It has
been pretty intense!! TONS of half square triangles with
required use of the design wall to get things together correctly.
Then there was the appliqued borders that had to be designed from
scratch by Jeanne Lindberg since the borders with the quilt pattern
just didn't seem to be "just right." Thanks to her
committee, the finished quilt looks beautiful. Next comes the
selling of the tickets. I know that members of the Charity Bee
will be first in line for those tickets!
We're in luck!
Friday of this week is also the 3rd Friday of the month. UFO
Friday!! Come and bring your unfinished projects and work all
day where everything you need is readily available--a huge design
wall; plenty of irons and ironing boards and even some FeH2O bottles
supplied by Vicki Bauer. You will also find large tables that
can be pushed together to allow you to pin your quilt ready for
quilting. Lots of cutting mats, rulers and rotary cutters are
available for the big center table that is the perfect height for
cutting.
See you Wednesday or
Friday--or even both.
Ellen
June
28, 2012
We
had a good day yesterday. I brought two new quilt tops (one
from Frances Lang's granddaughter and one from Julie) home to quilt.
Several (Julie, Martha, Silvia) cut blocks from our bin of "scraps."
Lola worked on preemie quilts. Frances A cut the border strips
to go on the opportunity quilt and Nancy began the task of getting
them affixed. Nancy also cut out a bunch of quilted luggage
tags for Sandy Creek. Pam used my computer and drew up three
new quilt patterns in EQ7. If you want to watch/learn how to
use it, I plan to bring the computer back each Wednesday that we meet
during the summer. Maybe we'll get those printed out soon.
Seems like I, like everyone else, am running from one task to another
with the feeling that there are not enough hours in the day to get
the things done that I "need" to do. much of it is
probably self imposed work that I don't really have to do, but. . .
. We finished filling another doggie pillow and I brought it
home to close up.
ATTENTION!!!
Since next Wednesday is July 4, we decided that if you don't have
family plans for the day, you can just sew at home without coming to
the Lyndon House. In fact, they MAY be closed. I didn't
check.
In case you are
interested, Barry, from Atlanta Sewing Center will be at the Lyndon
House this Saturday to service sewing machines. I will be there
with him (I'm bringing something to work on), and he will stay until
he finishes the machines that come in OR 5 PM.
Happy sewing!!
Ellen
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