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Kim Diehl’s

Simple Whatnots Club

 

   Every month club members will receive an exclusive club project pattern sheet and a kit to complete the quilt and binding for $30 each month. Kim will also share sewing tips, recipes, crafty things and ideas for decorating with quilts.

  Club will meet the first Tuesday every month beginning January 6 at 1 p.m. Sandy Bessingpass will be the club facilitator. Cost to sign up for 6 months, January through June, is $10 and kits will be $30 payable each month as they are ready. Space is limited to 15 members, sign up soon.

 

Christmas Tree Napkins Instructions
The website for the Christmas Tree napkins is:http://www.nancyzieman.com/blog/sewing-2/how-to-sew-simple-christmas-tree-napkins/​

The website that Mary told you about, showing the caserole carrier is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFiI5M3-At0#t=96​
This one doesn't use the D rings, if you want it to look like Mary's,  instead of putting the loop on the opposite corners of the carrier, you can attach D rings.

Block of the Month meets tomorrow, Dcecmber 12 at 10:00 a.m.  and Saturday, Dec. 13. at 9:30. There is no Friday afternoon meeting.

Civil War Club

Registration is now being taken for the continuation of the Civil War Club, The Blue and the Gray. Six new projects will be completed from the book Blue and Gray by Country Threads. The club meets the third Tuesday from 1:00 - 2:30. Cost is $35.00 for the year, no kits are provided, all the projects are scrappy and give you a chance to use your stash and collections of civil war fabrics.

Directions for the Tea Towel that Mary showed everyone at the last BOM are as follows:
Cut novelty strip (width is up to you, 4 or 5" works best), press under 1/4" at top and bottom.
Cut accent strip into 3" squares (6 or 7 should go across the towel) Fold each square in half diagonally, press and fold diagonally again, creating prairie points, press.
Interlock the prairie points so the bottom of the points are about 2" apart and 3" from the bottom of the towel.  Baste in place along the top or use Elmer's School Glue.
Fold edges of novelty strip on each end to fit the width of towel. Place strip over prairie points covering about 1/2" and stitch around all four sides.

The website for the apron she did is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alq0B2KZ-ME
It has two parts and both can be accessed from this site.

The 2014-15 BOM is underway. There is approximately 50 people signed up. Mary Hintzman did a demo on how to dress up a Tea Towel and use another Tea Towel to make an apron. Either one of these or both would make great hostess gifts, teacher, neighbor gifts.
Our goal is to have more demos as the program progresses. If anyone has an idea they would like to share, please feel free.

New Block of the Month
Starting the 2014-15 BOM this week. We have 50 kits and patterns spoken for at the present time. We will be happy to order more patterns and cut more kits for anyone that still wants to join in. Our pattern is very different from quilts the past two years.