Monster Workshop

Last Sunday we had a blast!

Michelle showed us her wounderfull Moster quilt, that she made last year.
She create her own monster and we learned how to applique.

here some of the ones we made...

Monster Madness Sunday June 1st

Hello all! I am looking forward to holding a Monster Madness Applique Workshop this Sunday June 1st. During the workshop you will be able to make one square. At the end of the workshop you will have only one square, but you can take it home and use it as part of a quilt, a pillow, a bag, a wall hanging, or anything else you can dream up! I will bring the following:

• Instructions and 1 monster pattern (an original) for each participant.
• 1 piece of white Background fabric for each person and a bunch of scrap fabric.
• HeatnBond Lite
• two ironng boards and one iron
• my sewing machine
• various colored threads and some yarn and other random materials for embelishments.
• one cutting matt, rulers, rotary cutter, and scissors
• I will also bring examples of some other patterns and books which you are welcome to use during the workshop if you are not interested in making a monster square.

If you are able to bring any of the following it would be great: sewing maching, thread, scrap fabric, scissors, iron, ironing board, and any other items you think would be good for embelishing your square.

If anyone has any questions before hand feel free to email me!

Michelle Daniels

michelledaniels@gmail.com

Apron workshop

This past Sunday was the first session of the Apron workshops and at my place! I was lucky enough to have everybody around to my house and to start an exciting new workshop. Gladys showed us how to make them and it looks like must have made many in this life because she is an expert!

Teri came late but cached up to all of us, at least me!

Claudia and Cata used my living room as cutting area. My apartment is not too big, but cozy, right?

Yanina doing some finishing touches.

Pilar and I were blown away by the super overlock machine that Gladys owns. We just loved it! Actually Claudia was in line too and we did the finishing in all our aprons, we want a machine like that!!!

And Pilar with her gator apron, she is the latest acquisition by the University of Florida:)

We will have more on this workshop on Sunday morning, looking forward to see the finish products!

Card workshop

Workshop’s Calendar Updated 4/8 x Marci

We are very happy to invite to who wants to come to our free workshops, we provide the materials and of course good food and good chatting.
In most of the workshop there are 10-12 spots available. So, please contact us if you want to enroll in one of them.

Already done:
2/10 >Teri >Handmade Quilting

2/17 and 2/24 > Carmen .> Bag making.

3/16 > Tere > Cover booklets.

*Thanks to you the pioneers!


Coming workshops:

3/23 > Carolina > Scrapbook cards > Please bring 20 theme pictures. Thanks Caro!

4/6 > Pilar > Fabrics cards> Thanks Pilar It was GREAT

HERE The Followings:

4/13 > Gladys > Apron Making

4/20 and 27 > Marci > Doll Marathon.

5/4 > OPEN

5/11 > Mother's day> No workshops today

5/18> Michelle > Applique's Techniques


and....MORE TO COME>>

Workshop # 2: fabric cover notebooks

This Sunday at Minerva's circle we had a pleasant surprise, Amisha, who used to live here and is a part of our group, came by while she is spending some vacations in Florida. It was great to see her again and to have a nice chat with her while sewing and making new projects. She also got her presents from her secret Santa, Teri. A nice bag and a nice bowl among other nice things.

One of our new members, Tere, was so kind on Sunday to show us how to make a beautiful fabric cover to a plain looking notebook. such a nice present and so easy to make! and also it required very few and inexpensive material. Thank you so much Tere! We enjoyed it a lot, and I gave mine to my mother in law and made her happy.
Here are the pictures of all of us with our notebooks.

Here are the pictures of all of us with our notebooks.

And this is how they looked. I am looking forward to learn some new things, this was so much fun!

Fantasy Party

I celebrated my birthday with Minerva's circle.
I decided to have a different birthday party and I enjoyed too much with my Minerva's friends.
We also played some games, very fun games!!!
We had a great afternoon two Sundays ago.
We ate delicious food (I promised you some recipes .!!), and we had some prizes for the winner and the loser in the games.
Was a unforgettable Birthday!

They are guessing the pocket smell

Very focused like an exam!!

Birthday cake!

Wokshop day 2 and counting

Today was our second meeting at our bag workshop. It was a nice afternoon as usual and the girls are really enjoying making these bags. I think we all learn in the process and this can help us in the future when we start making some different things. Many of them struggle and then get through it, and I know, because I have been there before, how satisfying it is to have your final piece, something that looks simple, but actually has so much work behind. These women are making amazing and creative bags, and I am looking forward to the final product, we will take pictures and show them soon, I think next Sunday will be our final day for the bags. Then we will start with aprons...
Some images here so you can see how concentrated they all were. I was running around like a butterfly, I was thinking there should have been a fixed camera with a shot per minute and you could have seen me flying around here and there around the room, stopping a couple of time to send someone to times out...

New workshop series!

Minerva's circle free bag workshop coming up!

When: Sunday February 10th from 4-6 pm at Corry Village commons room

What are we teaching? How to make a bag!

Materials will be provided but if you have two favorite fabrics you would like to use, bring 1/2 a yard of each

We will be using sewing machines. So if you have a sewing machine you bring it too! Otherwise bring just yourself :)

There are only 15 seats available, hurry up and make reservations with Carmen.

More workshops coming up!

New members, new classes, new energy

Last week it was a very busy day at Minerva's Circle.
Lots of us showed up and there were all kinds of activities going on, knitting, Teri teaching hand quilting, hair dressing (yes, I cut Yanina's hair), old projects (yes, my very old quilt from 2005), new members (welcome Saraswate), good students, and modeling (that was Luca who likes to try all quilts on). It was overall a busy and fun day with a lot of projects in mind and a lot of good times ahead of us. Some pictures down here: