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.
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.
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