Our meeting schedule has been set for 2025. Here are the dates for you to add to your calendars. The dates will always be posted on the sidebar of this blog for you as well.
7pm
Meetings
January 14
February 11
March 11
April 8
May 13
June 10
July 8
August 12
September 9
October 14
November 11
December 9
Sewing
Days
January 15, 16
February 19, 20
March 19, 20
April 16, 17
May 21, 22
June 18, 19
July 16, 17
August 20, 21
September 17, 18
October 15, 16
November 19, 20
December 17, 18
The month of October is busy for many people so our luncheon will be on Friday, November 1. We will be at Kitchen 33 at 12:30. Bring your quilts and tops for a little show and tell. Please let Brenda know by Wednesday, October 30, if you can attend. A text, phone call, or voicemail will be fine. Come and share some laughter and fun. See you there!
Reminder: We will not have a meeting on October 8
November 12 will be our Silent Auction Trash to Treasure program. Tidy up your sewing room and bring "goodies" to donate - all money goes towards supplies for quilts for veterans.
A digital scale is my new quilting tool - it was in my kitchen! Hope this information helps you in counting quilt pieces.
I thought it would be fun to make a very scrappy veteran quilt that would be a project that would take me longer to make.
These two blocks make an interesting design, so I started cutting pieces for 9 inch blocks. The quilt will be 45 x 54, so I’ll add borders. Two color quilts are so much faster with strip piecing, cutting multiple layers at a time, etc., but I wanted the “scrappy” look – the more the better, right? That means getting out a lot of fabrics and only cutting several pieces of each one – pressing, cutting, refolding, putting away, repeat, repeat, repeat.
Okay, so now I have stacks of each shape. Have I cut enough? The quilt uses a total of 630 pieces and I don’t want to do all that counting so I came up with a new tool to do the work for me. That new quilting tool is a digital scale from the kitchen.
Here's what I did: weigh 10 pieces. 10 pieces weigh 8 grams
I can stop cutting now and start sewing, because I have enough for TWO quilts!
UPDATE: Quilt #3 has been added!
Thank you to everyone who made blocks with red centers. . .the blocks just keeping coming and now I'm working on quilt #5 with red centers. Here's a review of the easy block with a 2-1/2" center. (see July 8 post for more information)
The first quilt is finished. I decided to set it on-point so I trimmed the blocks to 7-1/2" - Here is the quilt and the directions for blocks on point to make a veteran size quilt.
While we were at sewing this weekend we discovered that there is a conflict at the Montpelier Center with our October meeting. Since Trash to Treasure is probably our most important meeting for raising funds for the veterans quilts, we decided to move Trash to Treasure to November and to cancel the October meeting.
We will have October Sewing days on the 16th and 17th, as scheduled. If you have quilt tops or quilts to deliver in October, you can drop off at sewing days or wait until the November meeting.
If you want to do something on October 8th, you can still go the the Montpelier Center and enjoy some musical entertainment.
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An update on the request for quilts to display at Verena on the Glen. I currently have the quilts that were on display at the Montpelier Center so have offered those for the 2-hour exhibit at Verena. That will be October 10. Brenda may also have another opportunity to show off our quilts at another senior living center in the area. The quilts will be included in our December delivery to the VA, but in the meantime we can use them to bring some happiness to others.
The rainy/cloudy weather didn't stop us from loading up our cars and sewing for 2 days at the Montpelier Center. There were lots of quilts in progress and a few completed projects!
When we finished sewing on Wednesday the veteran quilts were taken down and they will be shared at Verena at the Glen (retirement community) and also at Morningside Care facility before their final destination at the V.A. Hospital in Richmond. It's great to share our quilts with others. Thanks to Brenda for taking these sewing day pictures.
