Jo's Little Women Club on Halloween Day!

Our Little Women's Club got off with a great start! We had a room full of wonderful women (some in costume!) and great food to go with it. We got to see all the new quilts Jo Morton has put together for us to make.
We had a challenge of a notebook cover from our last meeting and the ladies returned with some great finished books. Linda Sherman won the Jo Morton fat quarter bundle in our drawing - congratulations Linda! And Cherie Sherick won a quilt puzzle - congratulations Cherrie!

Little Women's Club

We had a meeting on Saturday of the Little Women's Club and what great fun we had! It was also Hop and Heritage Festival in Independence so parking was a issue but all the ladies made it anyway. We even got to see the parade from the shop windows! Everyone in the parade was waving to us as they passed by. Later we had a couple of ladies come in that said they were in the parade and wanted to stop right then and come in to shop! How fun!!

We are still waiting on the offical quilts from Jo Morton for Little Women's Club but we handed out a notebook cover pattern for all the ladies and they had fun picking out fabric squares to make the cover with. We even added a note pad and pencle for their books. Everyone had a great time visiting and getting to know each other. We also had a great show and tell - I think we have some very creative ladies in this group!

Good news from Jo Morton - she will launch Club #9 at the Huston Quilt Market in early October so we should have the supplies by our next meeting. I will post the new poster as soon as I get it for you all to see.

Our next meeting will be October 31st (Halloween Day!) and we are going to have fun with a finger food potluck along with the meeting. We will also offer sewing after the meeting in the afternoon if anyone is interested in staying for that. We will be showing some of Jo Morton's techniques at that time (bring your sewing machine if you want to stay and sew).

If you are still thinking of joining in the club - call and let us know - we would love to have you join in on all the fun with us. (503-837-0676)

Jo's Little Women Club news

Saturday we had a meeting of our Jo's Little Women Club at Ladies of Liberty Mercantile and we had six ladies attend with four new ladies! Some of our club members were out of town - canning - or had family to tend to and didn't make it this day. But it was great to make new friends and see old friends who love to sew with 19th Century reproduction Jo Morton fabrics!

The new club #9 isn't out yet but I gave the ladies a challenge to make Jo's Cabin Corners quilt from her book Yesterday's Charm. They were excited because it is small and a good challenge to get the light and dark fabrics in the right place! We had fun picking out fabric!
We had a great show and tell with our basket quilts that we just finished. We also had some other quilts to see - they are lovely (thank Sue - love the house quilt!). I had given the ladies a challenge at the last meeting to use their scraps on something quilted. We had a great little blue/white/yellow-green quilt from Sue to ooh at and I showed them a housewif I had made to keep your sewing needles and thread in (it is what a Civil War Solider would have taken to the battlefield with him to do his own mending).

I had another lady come into the shop later that day who is going to join us as well! Think about joining - we have so much fun and we learn a lot from each other as well.
Diane