November Meeting

The Sassies met on Thursday, November 8, at Mozelle's home.  Susan and Meg were hostesses for this month. Everyone was present except for Diane Purcell. Susan led the meeting in place of Diane. After a short business meeting, the group worked on making a sewing accessory/fabric container. In October, Susan brought several of these containers to show us, and also directed everyone interested in making one to bring two squares of fabric, one a focus fabric and the second square to coordinate with the first. The squares could be any size, but Susan suggested they not be smaller than 10 inches because if they were smaller, the container would be hard to sew on.

Here is a picture of three containers that Susan brought so we would know what the finished product would look like.

Meg provided the batting for everyone. Here she is cutting batting for Debbie while Susan explains what to do next. Lola and Diane B are reading the instructions provided by Susan.

Sylvia is trimming the corners of her fabric squares/batting sandwich prior to flipping it right side out.

Linda is flipping her fabric sandwich right side out through the small opening left in one side.

After the fabric sandwich is right side out, diagonal lines are marked from corner to corner. Essie is marking her fabric sandwich in this photo.

Completed Containers

Marcia is wearing hers and Sheila is wearing the one previously made by Mozelle for Sheila's birthday party.



Dollie has some but not all of her corners sewn together.

Cyndi is holding her accesory box, which is partly sewn together and partly pinned together.

This is Debbie's finished container.

 Diane B holding up her fabric container.

Mary Ann finished her accessory box and is going to embellish it with orange ribbon. 

Essie looks happy with her container.

                                    
And so does Joyce!

 Linda's container has a very contemporary look.

Sheila is showing her container.

Sheila showing, rather than wearing, the container made by Mozelle.

BIRTHDAYS IN NOVEMBER--SHEILA, MEG, AND LOLA

Sheila opening her birthday goodies!

 Lola is sitting behind Mozelle. She's opening the yellow basket of birthday goodies.

Meg opening the orange basket of birthday fabrics and cards.



SHOW AND TELL

Marcia made this parasol quilt. It looks like a vintage quilt, doesn't it?

Marcia paper-pieced this halloween witch. Paper piecing is a great way to get those really sharp pointed angles on the hat and chin. This is reportedly Mozelle's favorite technique, next to making yoyo's.

Marcia called this a "spiderweb" quilt because each octagon is made by piecing 8 different wedges of fabric, giving the illusion of concentric lines, like a spiderweb.

This is the back of the spiderweb quilt. Two strips of black and white jack-o-lanterns were sewn to a central black strip.

Marcia shows off her gadget/tool bucket. She made the fabric liner with lots of pockets from a commercial pattern. The liner goes over a 5 gallon bucket, so it can hold lots of things. Not sure why Marcia looks like she's got a black eye in this photo; it must have been the lighting!

Dollie brought 3 table runners for show and tell, each in a differnt fabric. These were made from the pattern that we all worked on last month.

You can't see Joyce, but she's behind this really cute penquin quilt she made. The yellow frame and the striped fabric really set off the black-white-yellow of the penguin fabric.

Essie made a really large trip around the world quilt. Wish I could have gotten a pic of this from further away so that the whole pattern could be better seen.

 Mary Ann finished her table runner from last month.

And so did Sheila. The brown back looks great against that blue of the central fabric.

 And Sheila made matching place mats.

Susan brought this table runner to show; she made quite a few of these as Christmas gifts, and told us how she had picked the snowflakes as embellishments and later found out the holes in the snowflakes were so small that she had to sew them on with a fine beading needle.

This is a baby quilt that Susan made.

 This complicated looking quilt has only four different blocks in it, according to Susan. The pattern emerges from the arrangement depending on how the blocks are rotated.

 Sylvia finished her "op art" table runner with pops of color from rick rack! It's really eye-catching! Sitting on the table is Sylvia's blue fabric container.