Sunday, March 9, 2014

Quester raffle project

I am a member of the Sauk Trail #573 Questers.  Questers is an International Organization that is primarily women from around the country and we are an antique study group and we work to help preserve the past for the future.  We are also a social group.  Out chapter meets in our homes, rotating each month.  Our main project is ongoing and is to help our local historical park, Greenmead Historical Park, Livonia, MI (find it on facebook).  We raise money to help make improvements, through the years we have paid to have wood graining done on the moldings in one of the historical homes, pre-Civil war.  We are currently waiting for word on whether our application for a grant from the State of Michigan Questers has been granted, with this money we hope to pay for reupholstering several pieces of furniture in the main house of the village.
Each month our chapter has a small raffle to add to our coffers.  We have to have matching funds for our grant.  I won the raffle last month so it is my responsibility to bring the raffle item this month.  We raised $29 last month and that is about $10 over the norm due to the fact that it was an awesome prize, a scarf from Cambodia, a valentine mug, chocolates, a cloth bag, a valentine dish, and a bottle of Bailey's Irish Cream.
Now I have to have something ready by Wednesday.  Today I made a satin "ditty bag" with off white satin that I had bought years ago to make a wedding dress for my daughter and an antique doily.  I just love the bag and I am sure my friends will also but what can I put with it?  I found a small tin with a lid in the kitchen cabinet and filled it with some of my home made sea salt caramels and I put that in the bag but I need to come up with some thing else. I have a bottle of wine someone left here at Christmas, I may put that in the bag, I could add a couple of wine glasses. I have two more days to think.
Today I decided to let the house work go and spend the day in the sewing room.  I sewed a blanket that my sons mother in law started for the boys,  we will give that to them from both of us.  I made the "ditty bag" (I think it will make a good laundry bag for travel.) I made three more little aprons to put on my Etsy site (SisterSusiesStuff), I made a carry-all for a friend using the fabric left from the pillows that came with our couch and more of the satin and a picture of the Michigan map that has her deceased husbands sailboat on the front. (I can't wait to see her so I can give it to her.) and then I took some chair cushion covers that another friend had given to me and more of the satin and made a bag for that friend.  The chair cushions were just the cloth covers and when I took them apart I found that they had not been sewn but were hot glued!!  Too funny, I didn't know anyone did that.
I have collected a good amount of used blue jeans now and will start a new quilt soon.  The last one I made was a a scrap quilt with the frayed edges on one side, not sure I like that, I may tear it apart.

Thinking about taking the  squares apart and then put a channel of denim between the squares, I have washed it twice since this picture and it has shredded some but I still don't like it.  Too much work to just have it sit in a closet.  I think it will make a great blanket for football games.
Here is the "ditty bag", I will make more for my Etsy site

The blanket for my grandsons from his other "Nonny" and I

One of the sweet little aprons I made today, I just love this vintage cherry fabric.

Time to rest, I hope your day was a success also.

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