June 29 Chapter Sew-in

June 29 was the date for this year's chapter sew-in.  If you couldn't make it, we're sorry we missed you but here is a quick re-cap and some photos to fill you in on the fun.

Approximately 20 members and 2 non-members enjoyed a full day of sewing, learning, lunching, and all-around wonderful socializing at the Powelton Club in Newburgh. Their continental breakfast featured delicious pastries, fruit, and beverages providing us with lots of energy to start.  Luncheon was a scrumptions full-course dinner finished by brownies, cookies and fruit after our presentation. This is the second time we've been hosted at the Powelton, and they do a wonderful job catering to our food and space requirements.  

Lots of room to spread out with separate cutting and pressing areas

 Everyone brought their own projects to work on and some even completed them.  

 

Kathy E. made this cute reusable sandwich wrap.

The lining is washable and saves you from using plastic bags.

Isobel finished her quilt-of-the month club. Yeh!

Kathy completed a Linus quilt top

Between luncheon and dessert, Terry Perri gave a short presentation on making strip-pieced rugs.  She shared some of the various techniques for strip sizes, batting or no batting, tools she likes to use, and stitching details to help those who were planning to try this out. What you don't realize until hearing her talk, is that this technique can be used for making more than just rugs.  Things like table runners, tote bags, placemats, zippy bags......Check out some samples below:

Terry's presentation and showing her roll of pre-cut batting strip.

The rug "slice".

Rugs and place mats

Rug slice and placemats

Charity Chics June Meeting

June found the Charity Chics making medium-size tote bags for a local church's food pantry.  With advance planning, Sue pre-cut 30-40 bags, allowing Florence (the day's project leader) to organize and direct all of the worker bees as soon as they arrived.  Nylon webbing was used for the handles. We completed 20 of the bags before the end of day.  The remaining bags will be finished at a later time. With the "no more plastic shopping bags" law soon to go into effect, we may receive requests for more of these in the future from different agencies. 

Show & tell:

Florence completed this t-shirt quilt top for her granddaughter.   Great job!

Check out this easy styled giftcard holder made by Flo

Kathy E. finished this lovely wool scarf for herself.

Mary was busy using quilt blocks from a past sew-in to make zippy bags for the shelter ladies.  One block was used for each side and the bags were lined with left over stash pieces.

Front

Back

Flo has been super busy!  Snap bags, eyeglass bags, and pot holders.

June Sew-phisti-cuts Meeting

The June Sew-phisti-cuts meeting was one of sharing.  Various small projects that members have made (either recently or in the past) were presented as options for this year's community service project.  We plan to work on items of our own choice at home and will consolidate them together later in the year for distribution to local family shelters.  The focus will be on items that would be appreciated at the holiday time by female clients.  

From top, clockwise:  zippy bags, shoulder bag, snap bags, chiffon and keyhole scarves, mini-zippy bags in different shapes, knit or crocheted cowl neck wraps, fleece hat, mini-purses

Peggy Norton is collecting the directions for as many of these items as are possible.  She will supply them upon request as they are available.

Show & Tell

  

Peggy made herself a white t-shirt and decided to decorate it with some self-covered buttons.  She "fussy cut" the button covers from interesting Asian-style prints and varied the button sizes for additional interest.  Great idea!

Peggy's paper-pieced cat blocks

Maura had always wanted to make a purse with the metal frame and closure.   She recently found this cute pattern in a kit and decided to try it out.  Success! and not hard too do at all.

 Pat's most recent baby quilt in a simple block and strip pattern.

These are Pat's most recent purses.  This style could also be used for our community service project selections.

Connie recently finished this Judy Niemeyer quilt top

Connie's Judy Niemeyer retreat quilt - awesome!!

Connie's Vintage Print Quilt for a retiring friend

Closeup of Connie's vintage  print

quilt