February Clothesline Club

I have belonged to the "Clothesline Club" for three years now...ever since it began. The club is held at Quilts Etc. in Sandy and is taught by my friend Sandra Mack.
I just love her! She is such a good teacher and she brings so much fun and enthusiasm to the club. The quilt above and the quilt below are hers.

The format of the Clothesline Club was created by Darlene Zimmerman for quilt shops to teach about 1930's fabrics and patterns.

Darlene designs the patterns and fabrics to go with them herself and then sets up the club to go for a year.

Each year she changes it up with new fabrics and patterns but still sticks with the 1930's theme.

The patterns are free each month for members of the club.

Sandra stays one month ahead of us by showing the completed project for next month so that we can sign up for a kit (or 2 or 3 for over achievers!)...and then Sandra cuts the kits for us and we pick them up at next months meeting.

There are lots of prizes to be won through drawings each meeting.

Your name is entered in if you finish the project during that month, bring show and tell or arrive on time.

We each have our name written on a wooden clothespin that sits on the lip of an old cleaning bucket and as we arrive, we place our clothespin into the clothespin bag for the ontime drawing.

Sandra keeps track of who goes into the drawing for other prizes throughout the meeting.

The above quilt was last months project and several members finished thier quilts. So if you see a repeat of this quilt pattern in the rest of my show and tell, you will know why!

We like to bring things that have been in our family for show and tell and talk about our Mothers, Grandmothers and Great Grandmothers. Sandra teaches us a different history each month about the 1930's. That era in American history is such an interesting one and we all enjoy learning more about it every month.

Look at this amazing yo-yo quilt. I've never seen one set this way but I love it!

Okay...enough "tell"...it's time for the "show" part.

After we have show and tell, we always have a very nice luncheon that is put on by members of the club. We form groups of 3-4 and sign up for a month at the first of the year.

We all try to bring our best tried and true family dishes and a recipe for everyone.

We have so many good recipes by now that we have decided to compile a cookbook that we will sell and donate the proceedings to Rae Ann's charitable organization that she heads up every year.
We sure laugh alot there (and sometimes cry when telling family stories) but we always have a good time. I look forward to it every month.