Comfort Covers Distribution UPDATED with pictures

 This week 15 care centers in Centre County will receive Comfort Covers made by all of you. 

IrisM and MargaretM were a great duo at counting all the items being delivered per facility. BeckyT helped get labeled tops into the correct piles around the room. I'm thinking there were more, but maybe they just worked really hard?

Drivers included BeckyS, MargaretM, IrisM, BarbZ, JillW, LindaU, DianeG, LeslieD, and LenoreC.

We collected 181 items, not including the 9 saved out for Toys for Tots in November. We saved back some walker bags but distributed 48 of them. 

We only had 3 fidget quilts, and one site had requested 4 of them. Anticipate a maker day in the summer to fidget! Feel free to play on your own. There are directions on the website, but basically a piece of fabric placemat size that wouldn't slide off someone's lap. Then add textures, things to move back and forth, keys, ruffles, lace, zippers, etc. High functioning can manipulate large buckles, large zippers, marble races. Lower functioning should focus on differences in texture: smooth, scratchy, furry, moveable, bumpy, crinkly (cereal bag or bubble wrap inside something). Your lace piece is only 7 " long, but you've saved it? Time to use it😉

Many thanks to all who made something. The next collection is in October.

IrisM 

LenoreC and BeckyT 

IrisM  

Lap quilts, bed toppers, crocheted afghans, walker bags, and adult dignity protectors 

BarbZ and BeckyT

BarbZ iron Comfort Cover labels

LenoreC, MargaretM, BeckyT

Schlow Library Sensory Crawl Panels UPDATED with pictures

 Elaine Bayly, gratefully received the Sensory Crawl Panels for the children's program for 6–15-month-olds. These blocks are each 20" x 20" and are designed to have babies and toddlers crawl on them to feel the smooth, rough, silky, bumpy, and lumpy textures.  

Centre Pieces members made these over the winter for donation to the library program.

Quilt in Public Day - March 22 - Schlow Library Community Room UPDATED with pictures

   Join us on Saturday, March 22, from 10-4 to learn about quilting and the Centre Pieces Quilt Guild.  There will be rotating demonstrations by Guild members during the day using a variety of machines (embroidery, feather weight, mini, "regular", an Accu-cutter, maybe a serger??) as well as hand work (applique, bindings, etc.)  Quilters love to talk about what they're working on and the fabric/thread/technique they like best to use.  We look forward to meeting you!

Joyce D piecing a potato chip quilt

KarinB attaching binding

DianeG piecing a Comfort Covers quilt, LenoreC making shirt bibs, and CindyR assembling potato chip blocks

CarrieF binding her quilt made for the Centre County Library - Bellefonte fundraiser

Debbie Barrick getting ready to quilt her machine-embroidered design

Lenore C creating a dignity protector bib from a man’s shirt for Comfort Covers.  English Paper Piecing in the foreground.

BeckyT, LenoreC, and KarinB working on piecing blocks, making shirt bibs, and attaching binding.

LenoreC demonstrating four-patch construction

PeggyT guiding her machine embroidery

DianeG beginning a quilt for Comfort Covers

AnnR attaching binding and BeckyT trimming blocks

CindyR piecing a potato chip quilt

LeslieD sewing name tags for guild meeting visitors

In case you missed the label share

 This is the link to our Zoom recorded meeting about making labels for our quilts. 

https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/hRP5Ri737NIUrouVkci4x0IxWTy7nmWi7Ul5FQJrTfM3xma6bmcxaq-Mxr9LCXwT.zNa-_v8PBHXcUKpn

Passcode: 6W%Awn8@ 

Wednesday Daytime Meeting - March 19 - Pin Cushion Share

     Join us at Pine Hall Lutheran Church on College Avenue in State College at 1 PM for our Wednesday meeting.  

    Bring your favorite pin cushion - inherited, made, purchased, or given.  There is also an opportunity to make a pincushion.  DianeG will bring her AccuQuilt machine to cut out pincushions; bring fabrics of choice. More details on the workshop website page.

Pin Cushion Pattern 

Materials 

1 piece of fabric approx 14 in by 4 in 

2 pieces of fabric 5 in by 5 in 

1 piece of wool, felt, or fabric backed by a fusible 

            5 in by 5 in for applique (Some wool will be available at the meeting.) 

Ground walnut shells can be used for the “stuffing.” Some will be available at the meeting .

The finished pin cushion is 3in by 2 in by 3 in 

The Accuquilt die will be used to cut one long rectangle for the sides, two squares for the top and bottom. The wool or felt will be cut into a spool of thread and a sewing machine for applique.

Sewing instructions: Applique the sewing machine and spool to the top and bottom. Buttons or other embellishments can be added. Right sides together, sew the short ends of the long rectangle together, ¼ in seam. There are notches in the long rectangle. The sides of the squares match the notches with a ¼ in allowance for the seam. Right sides together, sew the top to the rectangle. Sew the bottom to the rectangle. The seam should be centered on one of the sides of the pincushion top/bottom so that the corners will line up. Leave a one inch opening along one of the seams to fill the pincushion. Turn the pincushion right sides out. Fill. Sew the seam closed with a ladder stitch.

Tuesday Evening Meeting - March 11 - Quilt Labels

     Join us for our final ZOOM meeting of the winter.  Social time starts at 6:30 with the meeting starting at 7PM.  Watch for the Sunday reminder email with the ZOOM link.

    This month we will be sharing our quilt labels.  How do you label your quilts?  What information do you include and why?  Do you do machine embroidery and add hand lettering? Totally machine embroidered? Hand embroidered? Premade labels and if so, what kind. Subtopics for hand-written labels might include any favorite writing tools for fabric that last and won't wash out, any tricks to writing on fabrics, etc. Any methods of attaching labels you like, turned-edge applique, iron-on or triangular labels sewn in the corner with two sides turned under the  binding and any tips around that. This is a member share with a short Power Point presentation. If you have a sample you can hold up to the camera, that's a bonus.

Quilt in Public Day - March 22nd - Schlow Library

     Guild members, sign up with Lenore if you are willing to stitch in public.  Times run from 10AM to 4PM, so if you can come for an hour (or two) and stitch some blocks, put on a binding, baste a quilt, make a walker bag or dignity protector, you may inspire someone to get started on their project and maybe join the guild!  

    Interested in quilting?  Stop by and talk to the stitchers in the Schlow Community Room from 10 - 4.  Quilters love to talk about what they are working on!