Finally...A New Post

We are back to having our normal meetings at our normal time in our normal place, so....it's time I caught us up again.

In August we got settled into a new year of quilting fun. As always, it is good to get together as a group since during the summer months we can all scatter hither and yon. By September most of us are back at home and settling in for the fall/winter months. Our meetings are mostly planned for this year and we've got some fun times to look forward to. Our community service project this year will involve 2 local hospitals. One will be accepting small quilts for babies who pass away. These can be given to the parents to keep or to bury with their wee ones. The second hospital is asking for quilts ranging in size from large crib to large youth sizes. They will be given to children with serious illnesses or injuries to help comfort them. Alice will be collecting these and will even machine quilt them for us. How nice is that! As the year goes along, we will be bringing the tops (or finished quilts) in for Alice to take to the hospitals.

Our word for the year is applique. Ways to prep it, ways to do, and anything else we can think of to do with applique. Already we have seen Brenda and Fran show us how they prep their pieces for the applique work they do. And both of them do wonderful work! Soon other members will demonstrate ways to do their applique. Hopefully I will have pictures of that, too.

Below I will post some pictures from our August and September meetings. I hope you enjoy looking at them. Well....no...obviously blogger has other ideas and I'm not sure I can rearrange the pictures. So, instead I will say: ABOVE I posted some pictures.....lol!

Kim