Community Sew Day

Last week we held a Community Sew Day. Only a couple people showed up during the day and a few more in the evening. We are trying to make three different items this season. First was to make aprons for Tie One On Day - where we hope to provide around 40 aprons to the Women's Resource Center. The aprons will be accompanied by a loaf a bread from Great Harvest Bread Company. As of tonight, the 21st, we are just over half way to making our goal.
Second objective - make Christmas Stockings for CASA - in the past they have wanted a couple hundred stockings for kids in the local area. Stockings are made and donated and filled by local businesses and citizens.
And our final project this year is to help one of NCW Quilt Guild's round robins make 100 placemats for Mobile Meals in the Wenatchee Valley.
The placemats have been made. And as you can see from the photo of Carol (aka Frosty), with a generous donation from Bonnie's Fabric on Wheels at our local quilt show, we have a great supply of stockings. Carol spent all morning and then, all evening surging together the prequilted stockings. On Thursday, many of our Thimbleberrie Ladies took home stockings and fabric to put cuffs on the stockings. I don't think Carol will ever admit to knowing how to surge again - I believe she did over 70 stockings. Thank you Frosty.

So, now we just need to continue with the aprons.

Tonight we had our UFO club, with over a dozen women sewing and chatting. Both classrooms were full and everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves. Two ladies have been working on a cool purse for a couple months now. I heard they might finish it tonight but they didn't come back to show it off, so I am left guessing as to their status. Carol and I worked on aprons and a few others said they were working on aprons at home. Wilma lucked out today and found over 3 yards of her focus fabric for last year's BOM and spent the evening redesigning her settings and borders. Two ladies were knitting and crocheting scarves for a local donation.

What a great group of ladies in the area. A call goes out and people pull together to help. Aren't quilters great? If you have time to make an apron, simple or complex, please do and drop it at the Attic Window by mid-November. The aprons will be given out before Thanksgiving.