Well, ladies, I’m not sure how Friday went, but I was there to see how much creativity was going on in the room on Saturday! Some really cute panels-into-quilts being worked on, and one member finishing her very first quilt! YAY!
The ladies that attended the first “Sewcial” ever, couldn’t stop talking about it! If you missed it, we hope to continue having these events, because they are fun and it’s a great way to get to know one another better. The Leadership Team provided soups, and everyone brought really good finger foods and desserts, yum. There were prizes given away, and a fun Pictionary-type game we played. I hope you’ll join us the next time!
The only agenda going into the meeting was simply to stir up interest in learning how to start quilting your own quilts. Hopefully, more to come in way of a small class or one-on-one learning in the months ahead.
And then…there was the quilt show! Oh. My. WORD! NINTEY-FIVE QUILTS! It was a good kind of overwhelm, and
thank you for all the folders of the quilts for helping with that
task. Our devotional was on the olden
days of flowered feed sacks and how nothing went to waste during that era. Isn’t that exactly what we do with everyone’s
donations that are not needed anymore and we take what God provides and NOTHING
GOES TO WASTE, from beautiful much-needed quilts, to book pillows, to dog beds!
LSI/Ellipsis - 26
Altar Cloths - 26
Agape - 19
Sleep in Heavenly Peace - 9
Door of Faith - 7
A Daycare - 7
Auction Quilt - 1
Part of why there were so many quilts is because we didn’t
turn any in during our September Retreat.
So we really were looking at September AND October’s bounty of
quilts. The quilts will be on the blog PHOTO page,
and you can go look for yourself at the amount of hard work that has been done
in the last two months.
I hope everyone felt as satisfied and fulfilled as I did, at the end of this month’s gathering. You all work so very hard, and the quilts are beautiful. And someone this winter will be kept warm and benefit from your generosity.
