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!
