New Location for Crafty Weasels Sew Days

There is some great news for the Crafty Weasels.

We put out the intent at the beginning of the year to find the right location that we can meet monthly in a large room. Well several started helping (thanks Megan) and putting things into the right direction. Lisa Melton Cook called me and told me that she would find a place for us and not stop until she did. Well, after lots of phone calls, and not getting the response we needed, she had great news, and we had a place to look over and see if it worked for us.

Long story shorter – it is Chambrel at Roswell. The facility is beautiful, elegant, and they are excited to have us there. It is truly all that we were envisioning.

March 2014 Sew Day

We all had a great time at your home! Your fuzzies are definitely adorable! Lisa brought a wonderful chicken salad, and had veggie side, and rice crispy squares for dessert.

Attendees:

Morgan

Jewelz

Sue

Karen

Lisa

Amereta

Florence

We were a small group but we really hit the ground running – we all arrived early, and put is a great days work.

Completed:

10 – FN Sets

1 – FN Sleepsack

8 – Regular Sets

2 – Regular Sleepsacks

1 – Regular Hammie

2 – PennyButton Hammies

6 – Braided Toys brought by Lisa

Thanks everyone for coming and making it a really good day!

Florence

February 2014 Sew Day

Just wanted to thank everyone for making it to sew day yesterday. We had a nice turnout, and lots of fun!

Pam came and brought Santa Fe Chili for us, she wasn’t able to stay, but she had purchased, and cut sets of bedding for us to sew, and also brought some extra material for us to cut later.

People that attended:

Margaret

Karen

Sue

Morgan

Caitlyn

Pam

Lisa

Amereta

MaryAnn

Florence

We have a nice amount of things in progress, and we completed:

2- FN Sets

1-FN Hammie

1-FN Sleepsack

5 Reg Sets

1 Reg Hammie

2 Reg Sleepsacks

Our next sew day will be March 8th. Morgan has generally volunteered to host, so I’m looking forward to another good turnout.

Florence

January 2014 Sew Day

I wanted to thank everyone for coming and making this event happen at the beginning of this year. Jewelz came over Friday night to help me get everything organized which was a very good thing. Meliah did a great job as usual with the Chicken Totilla Soup, and the chicken salad. She made a wonderful veggie soup too. Everyone brought wonderful things to share, and we definitely enjoyed it all.

This past week Karen met up with Dawn and was giving wonderful bedding that Dawn had made. As usual, she totally over did herself.

Here is the count:

8 – FN Sets

4 - Regular Sets

4 – Reg Hammies

2 – Reg Sleepsacks

Karen was busy this last week too. She knew the shelter needed to have some things that would take extra time to cut, and put together, so she did it for us. It included:

8 – FN Tray Covers (one regular, one with the hole cut out)

12 – Ramp Covers

As a group, we got off to a slower start because we completed almost everything we had last month, and didn’t have enough things left in progress, so we don’t have a large amount this month, but we do have things in progress which means we can make up for it each month from now on. Here is our total:

4 – FN Sets

2 – FH Hammies

1 – FN Sleepsack

3 – Regular Sets

2 – Regular Sleepsacks

Attendees:

Jewelz

Karen

Wendy

Morgan

Meliah

Pam

Marie (New member)

Jennifer

MaryAnn

Thanks again to everyone for coming and continuing to help this group with the mission to help shelters with bedding.

Florence

December 2013 Sew Day

It was a small group, but we did kick it in gear and get a nice pile of stuff going for the shelters. Karen made a really great tasting ham, and her home was decorated beautifully for Christmas. Wish I had taken a picture of her special Christmas Tee – it had a Ferret Playpen around it to protect it. It was too cute!

Attendees:

Karen

Florence

Meliah

Jena

Bedding Completed:

10 FN sets

3 FN Hammies

2 Regular Sets

1 Reg Sleepsack

15 Pennybutton Hammies

5 Wonton Flowers

Thanks everyone for coming, and making an effort with the bad weather, and all the activities that were happening this month.

Florence

November 2013 Sew Day

Had a wonderful time at your new place … great setup, and lots of fun playing with your furkids. It was nice having the Thanksgiving theme for the lunch menu, and for once no dessert … but didn’t miss it until I started writing this message. Give Matt and extra hug for being so very helpful with getting everything into the car. He is a keeper!

Attendees:

Morgan

Florence

Karen

Amereta

Lisa

Jena

Mary Ann

Completed:

8 regular sets

1 – reg hammie

1- FN set

4 FN hammies

Next sew day will be at Karen’s in McDonough on our regularly scheduled 2nd Saturday. Hope to see everyone there!

Florence

October 2013 Sew Day

We really appreciate everyone that came today and made it a fun and busy day. Meliah made a wonderful Hawaiian Chicken, and everyone brought lots of good stuff to round it out to be a wonderful mid day meal.

Attendee:

Morgan

Jewelz

Karen

Nikki

Meliah

Jennifer

Mary Ann

Florence

We also had some unexpected guys join us … Chuck Bunnell (his Birthday was today), and BJ Kirk.

Bedding completed:

8 Ferret Nation Sets

1 FN hammie

1 WonTon Flower

4 Regular Sets

1 Reg Hammie

Total 27 pieces

Morgan will be hosting our next sew day, November 9th in Athens. Please mark your calendar so that we can really get some major bedding completed.

Thanks again,

Florence

NOTE: This was MY first sew day. I’ve been working on the website for the Weasels since early in the year, but had prior plans or work conflicting during every sew day. It was truly a lot of work, but it was amazing to meet so many new people with such huge generous hearts willing to put in so much effort to help out the shelters and loving fuzzy babies in them.

Crafty Weasels, you are incredible! – love, Nikki

September 2013 Sew Day

Thanks so much for sharing your home with us. We had a wonderful time — you and Benny were the perfect hosts, and the Spaghetti, and salad were perfect, and the the Angel Food Cake, Strawberries and Coffee Ice Cream made it absolutely complete!

Attendee:

Sue

Karen

Florence

Amereta

Morgan

Lisa

Jewelz

Dennis

Debbie

Jennifer

MaryAnn

We were working on more difficult things = more steps involved, so we completed:

16 PennyButton Hammies

8 Comfort Slings

I separate things into bags on Sunday, and we have lots of hammies and sleepsacks ready for the top and bottom sewing, so I know we are on our way to a very busy time.

Sew day will be at our home next time. The date will be the first Saturday or the month, making it October 5th. Please take note this is the “first Saturday.”

Thanks to everyone for coming and making it a fun sew day!

August 2013 Sew Day

Well, Linda already gave you the information about her coming to her first Crafty Weasel Sew Day and bringing her Skunkie, JJ. We were totally bowled over by him coming to visit us! Meliah over did herself with the Pulled Spiced Pork, and we had lots of toppings to go with it. We also celebrated Karen’s Birthday with a Big Chocolate cake.

Attendees:

Jewelz

Randy (did a great job bringing things in and taking to the car)

Sue (her MIL)

Morgan

Amereta

Lisa

Florence

Karen

Meliah

Linda

We worked at getting “odd” type of CW stuff sewn:

6 – Comfort Slings

12 – Pennybutton Hammies

8 – WonTon Flowers

3 – Tray Liners

We also got lots of things started to finish for next sew day, which will be held at Sue’s home. Hope to see you all there!

July 2013 Sew Day

Big THANKS for Karen for always being willing to host, and let us snuggle with her cute fuzzies!! We LOVE coming to your beautiful home ~~~

Meliah supplied a lunch that was fit for a king! it was Honey Sesame Chicken over rice, with a oriental salad, Sue brought drinks, Jennifer cold slaw, and I a blueberry crumb cake type.

Attendees (also see picture below)”

Karen

Sue

Florence

Dawn

Meliah

Jennifer

MaryAnne

What was completed:

15 – Regular Sets

1 – Reg Hammie

5 – FN Sets

1 – FN SS

Dawn put ties to 14 open hammies for Debbie. and she also brought:

8 – Regular Sets

3 - Hammies

3 – FN Sets

Meliah completed 6 Comfort Slings, and BJ made 19 toys

If I’ve forgotten anything please let me know. We missed several of our regulars: Lisa, Amereta, Morgan, Dyna, and Jewelz – but hope to be back up to full strength next month when we go to Jewelz for August 10th Sew Day in Douglasville.