August 4, 2018 CO Get-together Part 1
We met, ten o'clock at Perkins on Saturday for our monthly meeting. We were glad to welcome a person who had not been there before, named April, a friend of Dorothy's. Dorothy was there too, along with Cheryl and Chris, Dianne, Janey and John.
April brought some samples of free motion quilting she is doing. Very nice work and we got some pictures. It was nice to meet her and we hope to see her again.
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Dorothy brought a VS2 machine that she wants to put a hand crank on and we looked at possibilities of doing so. It currently has a motor and is in an interesting snake skin case. It also has a smaller handwheel that was added. The motor is mounted with one screw through the kidney shaped rear inspection plate. It has a second screw under the motor into the pillar. But there is no motor boss, usually used for attaching handcranks. She also brought a sample of another hobby of hers - knitting - which was done with 00 needles.
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Cheryl wore a shirt that she made, a brilliant purple, with quilting across the yoke of the shirt. A picture of it is shown below.
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As we had planned, the rest of the meeting (after eating, of course) was devoted to the many books and magazines brought by everyone to pass around and browse through. We have snapshots of many of them, shown below. (Sorry, the different versions of "Singer Sewing Book" by Mary Brooks Pickens books didn't get pictures taken.)
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to be continued...