Our last meeting brought fabric, sewing, and banana bread!
Unfortunately, I was not able to get any photos of the meeting before the most recent meeting, but I hope to possibly find some later.
Our club decided to make a handmade quilt for Project Linus
Its a truly special mission and we are honored to be making a quilt for a special child somewhere out there.
To learn some more about it, here is the Project Linus about page. http://www.projectlinus.org/about/
So the first meeting after new members, we all brought fabric and started cutting them and then sewed them into squares.
After that, the meeting was over, and so we ate some snacks, and went home.
And now, we were just back to meet and continue the quilt. Our wonderful new club President Abby D. sewed ALL the squares together! Thanks Abby!
All we had left to do, is yarn tie it together, a very interesting, if a bit tricky way to do it.
After our business meeting.... (Due to Orchestra Recitals and other events, only some of our members were able to attend)
And figuring out how to yarn tie quilts via YouTube... If your interested in watching the video, here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK20gl3Amvo Warning: Its a bit on the boring side!
After that, we got to the fun part. The actual sewing.
After figuring out how to get the needles through the fabric without impaling ourselves,
We got the hang of it!
And in the end, we were able to look like very professional seamstresses!
Of course... while we were busy dutifully sewing...
The moms were busy themselves discussing whatever moms talk about while their daughters sew quilts!
But in the end, it looked very nice.
It was a fun meeting, and unfortunately I didn't get a photo of the delicious banana bread the Dahl's made, and the juicy orange slices as well!
A thank you to our wonderful club members!
Hope to see you back on our next post... congratulating our new members!
Before I leave I will inform you all that we have a new club historian: me (Mariesa S.)! I will now be in charge of running the blog, and I hope to do a good job of it.
Also, stay tuned for a post congratulating our new club leaders from our first meeting! I wasn't able to get my hands on the photos yet, so hang in there until I can!
