Saturday, August 17 was the regular meeting of ASG Quilters, and this meeting was special because Barbara Coonce thought it would be fun to have a baked potato bar for lunch. Members brought their favorite potato toppers to share, and Barbara provided the potatoes all snuggled in their foil jackets and baked in a crock pot. That was a new one for me, but apparently those in the know have been preparing their party potatoes this way for a while. I think I may have to get a crock pot. Of course, I will wait for BabyLock to come out with a computerized crock pot so I can buy it at San Bernardino Sew/Vac with my 15% ASG discount.

It was interesting how many members brought out their projects saying, "I haven't done a thing with it since the last meeting!" This shows how important sewing with friends is for project completion. Barbara Coonce was working on her paper-piecing project and Margaret finally got to see expert paper-piecing in action. 

We had two visitors--Darcy and Julia--and I hope to see them again in September. I'm pretty sure that I will see Darcy again, because she is my sister and I know where she lives.

Since I am the only reporter, I couldn't see everything that was going on, but I know that Barbara Cortez sewed ALL of the rows on her Northern Lights quilt--even while carrying on a conversation with Sunny who was busy cutting up T-shirts to make a quilt for another beloved grand-daughter. Since Sunny has four grand-daughters, I am sure that she will be our chapter's expert on T-shirt quilts whether she likes it or not. Gina was crocheting, Rosalie finished her monkey quilt--it was handwork which always takes forever--and Earline got some computer tips from Suzanne. See? You can do whatever you want at ASG Quilters and get support and encouragement.

Denise was trying to find out more information on quilt-as-you go techniques, and Jenny and I said that we would be able to give her more information  and examples at the next meeting. That is code for “We’re going to ask Janet,” but if anyone else has some samples of quilt-as-you go we would love to see them.