October Meeting was Terrific Fun!

Wow!  What a night!

After our business meeting, we went over to the Wilkinson Mill where the curator took us up to the museum storage room and showed us some of the Mill's collection of antique sewing machines and attendent pieces like needle displays, thread displays, postcards from the middle 1800's, dress patterns from Butterick and Domestic from Victorian times, etc.  Some of the machines had been made as early as 1855--and they still work!  It was interesting to see how the manufacturers not only made a useful device, they also paid a lot of attention to the aesthetics of the machine and how it would look in the home.  Some of the machines and their treadles were absolutely beautiful!  Thank you, Andy, for a wonderful experience!

After we got back, we snacked our way through the wonderful treats brought by our refreshment hosts and had a chance to see projects being worked on by various members, had a short lesson in how to become writers on this blog and had the drawings for the doorprizes.  We had an astounding 23 Block-of-the-Month donations.  Brenda thinks this is the most we've ever had.

We finally called an end to everything after 9:00--and people didn't even want to leave then!

Everyone had a terrific time.  If I can ever figure out how to put the pictures on Picasa or Flickr, I will and will link them.