May 2016 Meeting

The Bees met at the usual place on May 31 with Dawn, Margi, Helen, Linda, Rita, and Randi attending.

Next Meeting

*** Tuesday, June 27 ***

Queen Bee: Peggy

Food: Helen - main dish;  Linda - salad;  Margie - beverage

Business Meeting

The Carson Valley Quilt Guild quilt show is on June 4 and 5 at the Douglas County Community Center, 1329 Waterloo in Gardnerville. Admission is $10.00 for one day, $15.00 for two days, or $20.00 for one day plus lecture with David Taylor. Linda gave us a bio on him, and he sounds interesting.

Fidget Quilts are appropriate for folks with dementia. They are made with textured fabrics and other materials that provide tactile stimulation to restless, "fidgety" fingers. For some people, opening and closing things like buttons and zippers is a soothing activity. More information and ideas can be found at Michelle Bilyeu's *With Hearts and Hands* website. Quilt size should be 36 x 36, and we are not setting a date for them to be finished.

Margie was Queen Bee, and the topic was UFOs. Margie opened a box of squares she was in the process of making for her sister for the sweat shirt jacket Peggy taught us to make several years ago. Rita will finish it. 

Linda brought a book called the "Goodbye Quilt." We talked about what defines a UFO from our perspective.

Helen has 64 blocks consisting of 1,200 small pieces. We are supporting her in finishing it!!! Randi is just taking a picture, but is not taking it on!

Here is the book it is made from.

Helen also has another UFO. Absolutely beautiful! She is purging and feeling great:)

Rita UFOed a bag full of tee shirts and handouts on creative ideas for refurbishing tees -- possibly great for a sleepover.

Margie UFOed 12-inch blocks that she is donating to the Troop 1101 for a Linus quilt. They are working on a Silver award and are starting a quilting club for teaching kids how to quilt. Both Randi and Rita are very happy!

Next month Helen and Linda have challenged each other to finish one project. Both will show their results. Good luck girls!!

Show and Tell

Randi shared little Helen's quilt. How lovely! The color and placement of the blocks are beautifully done.

We supported Randi on a quilt that she isn't happy with the placment and colors of the blocks. We offered suggestions and encouraged her to move on.

Minutes by Rita, photos by Randi.

April 2016 Meeting

The Bees met on April 27 at their usual gathering place. Randi, Peggy, Linda, Helen, Dawn, Tricia, and Margie were present. We missed you, Rita!

Dinner was tumbleweed soup from Randi, quinoa salad from Margie, and polenta cakes from Linda.

Next Meeting

*** May 31 (last Tuesday) ***

Queen Bee: Margie

Food: Dawn and Tricia

Business Meeting

Dawn was Queen Bee, and she introduced us to some fun adult coloring, which is in some ways reminiscent of zen doodling. Tricia is already into it and confirms that it's a creative, relaxing activity.

We then had fun looking through and cutting up the textured fabrics several of the Bees brought to the meeting for the Alzheimer's quilts.

Show & Tell

Randi showed the quilts made by Heaven and Little Helen. They completed the tops and Randi did the quilting.

Peggy and Tricia made quilts to donate to the May "baby shower" held by St. Gall's in Gardnerville for the benefit of the City of Refuge.

Peggy and Tricia made cute little roll-up cases with mesh zippered pockets on the inside and a clear plastic pocket on the outside. They are fun and easy to make, and come in very handy for makeup and other toiletries.

Peggy bought two "molas" on her recent trip to Panama. While the molas are beautiful and handmade by the indigenous Cuna women, the bags and clothing made from them that can be purchased in Panama were of poor quality, so Peggy decided it would be better to buy just the molas and make things ourselves. The stitching and designs are a combination of reverse applique and hand embroidery. 

Margie finished her memory box quilt and had it quilted with a dragonfly motif. Nice work, Margie!

Dawn made a donation quilt for a car show raffle at Crowley Lake. It's hard to see the car fabric in the shadow box square (click on the image to enlarge it).

Tip: Notice the "faux" mitered corner. It's a half square triangle cornerstone that looks like a mitered corner. Very clever!

Helen shared a crazy Christmas tree quilt top that she says she has never liked. She said she's going to make it into a closet baffle for Ladd's trumpet practice.