The first 5 quilts were made from donated blocks given to us by White Elephant. We make excellent use of pretty much everything they give us and we enjoy figuring out a way to make them work.
These 9 quilts are ones the 5 Good Cheer women made. One of us chooses a pattern and passes out instructions, maybe some fabric, maybe not, and we all go make however many blocks we're told to. We bring them back in 2 weeks to our next meeting, the block originator takes them home, finishes the quilt and brings it back 2 weeks later. We take turns being the block person. These quilts were made over the summer.
Maggie was busy at her sewing machine and dropped off 4 pillowcases and 8 quilts! Thanks, Maggie!
If you've completed any items and want to get them out of the house, call one of the Good Cheer ladies and we'll take them off your hands. We're all in the directory.
The Good Cheer ladies were asked to come up with a program after the scheduled speaker canceled for the 2nd (!) time. We quickly put together a few things to do and things to watch, and got busy with preparations. We cut enough flannel for 20 quilts - which we took home and assembled - and ironed muslin to freezer paper for DIY quilt labels. The next Saturday we made 8 self binding flannel receiving blankets for a total of 28 quilts for guild members to tie during the meeting.
Karen Hart kindly agreed to demo her great wool embroidery method, and Leslie Sowden showed how Good Cheer does the majority of their quilt binding by bringing the back around to the front and making tidy mitered corners.
Along with quilts made by guild members Nora Wells and Karen Maher who each made one, and Escondido South who made 7, the GC ladies made 4 more - one of which was made from orphan blocks given to us by White Elephant, and twenty one flannel quilts got tied at the meeting. Pillowcases - Debra Dubs 1, Rita McFarland 7, Barb Michalec 1, GC ladies 12.
Grand total dropped off to Interfaith - 34 quilts and 21pillowcases!
