AUGUST 2020 Newsletter is now available 
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NEXT MEETING 

Tuesday, August 25, 7:00 PM--via Zoom--  Link will be sent out via the listserv shortly before the meeting.  
​SHOW & TELL
This month we are having another fun “Zoom” Show - & - Tell planned: Show us your Summer quilts: quilts without batting, or light quilts you use in the summer. Also, if you have certain quilts that make you think of summer, even if it is winter, we'd like to see them.

PATTERNS FOR FACE MASKS

Face masks are simple to make from small pieces of fabric.  The patterns here will not provide complete protection from virus transmission, but they will remind you not to touch your face and provide some protection.  Masks are now required in New York State for anyone in the presence of someone 70 or older.
Make them for yourself, your family, your friends.  The first one on the list is the one requested by Cayuga Medical Center  They can be dropped off at Bartels Hall on the Cornell campus or at Aafke's house.

​Cayuga Medical's recommended pattern
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Similar patterns:
"Surgical-syle" pleated rectangle mask pattern 
This one is greatly improved with a dart or a piece of wire inserted over the nose to make it fit more snugly, although Cayuga Medical did not ask for that.
For this one, this video helps a lot

A pleated mask pattern with a pocket for a removable filter

A fitted face mask, very easy pattern  Thank you Quilters Corner for sending this one around.
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​A fitted mask with removable filter and its associated video
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Another video for a mask with removable filter pocket
​Measurements are metric, but you might find centimeters on one of your rulers.

Lori Benjamin, who is a hospice nurse in Florida now, recommends this one for health care personnel when nothing better is available or to cover their precious N95 masks.

Easy pattern for a surgical mask cover.
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WORKSHOPS IN 2020

Registration is now open for Cindy Grisdela's  "Artful Improv - Permission to Play" on Sept. 26-27, 2020.  She will present her lecture/trunk show, "Anatomy of an Improv Quilt", on Friday, Sept. 25, 2020.

More information can be found HERE.

UPCOMING MEETINGS

Tuesday, September 8, 7:00 PM, via Zoom - Janet Berlo
“Stitching and Writing the Self: Reading from a Memoir in Progress”

Friday, September 25, 7:00 PM, via Zoom - Cindy Griselda, "Anatomy of an Improv Quilt"

PATTERN FOR SEAT BELT PILLOW

Here is the pattern for the seat belt pillow.  The Cancer Resource Center would love to have us make these for cancer patients, so they can cushion their ports when they wear a seat belt.  The pillow is small and easy, and a great way of using fun scraps.