Merry Christmas!

On December 12, 2018, we will be having our Annual Christmas Party as part of our monthly meeting.  This year, we voted to have a pizza party, and I love pizza, so I, for one, am looking forward to this!  Various members are also bringing salad and deserts, so there will be plenty to eat!  Yum!  I had been planning on doing one of my yummy deserts, too, but yesterday, I discovered my oven is on the blink--it won't turn on at all! So, unless I bring something from the store...

We also do a Yankee Swap, which is a blast.  We put a $20 limit on the item, which has to be quilt related and wrapped up prettily.  The way we run it is everyone who brings a gift gets a number.  We go in order.  They then get to either keep what they picked from the gift table or trade it for something someone already picked.  After everyone has picked, the first person who chose gets to trade, if she so desires.  Sometimes, there are some hot trades going on, let me tell you!

Our meeting in November was fun as we had a special presenter, Louise Pankiewicz.  She is a certified Quilt-in-a-Day instructor and she brought a number of her quilts and presented us with a trunk show of them.  She also brought patterns, tools, etc and we had a fun time in the mini-store.  She also informed us she would be hosting a Retreat at the Hampton Inn in Coventry soon.  3 days of sewing, chatting, sharing and learning.  Sounds like a fun time!

We also had a Sewing Bee on November 17.  This is not a Bee in the old sense where everyone sits around a framed quilt and quilts the layers together.  Everyone brings their own supplies and works on their own projects.  The fun comes from sharing what we are working on and getting help.  For example, after I sewed a couple of strips together, we determined they needed to be in a different order and a couple of the other ladies actually took a couple of the strips away to 'frog' them for me.  This is what a community does.  They help each other.

So...

Wednesday, December 12, is our next meeting.  Come hungry.  Bring your own drink.  Bring a desert, if you like.  Don't forget your Yankee Swap gift.  The Fat Quarter theme of the month is "Silver Bells."