March 4th Meeting Report

 We were so busy working on Tuesday I forgot to take any pictures so this will be a very short report.

There was a large group present, all of us had busy hands since this was a working meeting.  Sue and Adrienne continued working on bindings on Marybeth's and Joyce's baby quilts.

Joyce had her dining room set up assembly line style.  Sharon and Leng ironed, Betty, Nancy and Colleen cut squares, Joyce pieced the blocks and I pinned the blocks together for stitching.

We produced 16 blocks and need 7 more nine patches which will yield the 26 blocks still needed to complete the top.  We are cutting enough blocks to make two of these quilts.  If you want to do some cutting before the meeting the I Spy blocks should measure 5.5" square.  We will save any duplicates for future quilts.

We recently received a stash donation from Adrienne Beaton at the Heron's Nest.  Most of the fabrics, notions and craft supplies will be donated to Bases but there were some precut flannelette squares that we will make 4 rag quilts with and at least two of those will be donated back to Heron's Nest per Adrienne's request.  I made one from beginning to end in just a couple of days.  It was very easy and a great quilt for a beginner because it is very forgiving of wonky cutting and stitching.  This was my first flannelette rag quilt and probably my last but, thankfully Sharon, Nancy and Colleen volunteered to make the remaining three.  I was quite fearful that the loose fibres and lint would clog up my washing machine but that wasn't a problem at all.

I also kept three pieces of flannel from the donation which we will use for quilt backings.  Yesterday Project Linus called me about another fabric donation of flannelette and fleece, mostly in prints suitable for babies.  It isn't a huge amount so I will pick it up on Thursday or Friday next week and save any flannelettes we can use and take the fleece fabrics to Bases with the other donations.  Please let me know if anyone is interested in looking at the fleece.

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