Today is the first day of fall. Beautiful day - sun is shining and the temperature is in the mid 70s. I can smell autumn in the air even though the leaves have not started to change yet. Fall is always an exciting season. Fall is the beginning of our quilting group - The Midnight Stitchers, after taking the summer off. An appropriate name since we are the night owls - sewing at night after work.
We started up the Thursday night after Labor Day and will continue every Thursday, unless a holiday interferes, until next June when the days are long and hot and makes it hard to stay indoors. It was great to catch up with my quilting friends on their summer adventures and also to see what everyone is working on. Meet some of the Stitchers:
Jodi has been busy working on a fund raiser golf outing in memory of her son Jason who passed tragically about a year and a half ago. She is raising money to fund something good in his name -college scholarships. Last year she made a quilt as part of the fund raiser, but evidently didn't finish one for this year. Announcing the first night of quilting that she didn't accomplish this mission Shelly stepped up to the plate and donated a beautiful blue quilt with red hearts for the fund raiser. Bless Shelly's heart - she is always so giving. The ladies agreed that we would make a quilt as a group for next year's golf outing.
Crystal lost her mother in August. She has been busy using her mother's cotton dresses to make memory teddy bears for the grandchildren.
Eileen lost an infant grandson this past spring so she is working on small quilts (32" by 48") to donate to the hospital infant intensive care unit. And of course we will be putting a few together to help that cause.
Not all of our missions stem from a loss. Shelly's granddaughter just started preschool and requested a quilt for her newly decorated bedroom.
Well my mission is to work on UFOs. The first one I am going to finish is a bargello. Stay tuned for this adventure there is 24 yards worth.
