Sewing Day

We had two visitors for sewing day in July.

Charlotte brought her niece (whose name escapes me?) who finished stitching up an apron for her grandmother.

Joan is a friend of Helen's & Hanna's from their days at the Burlington Art Centre guild.


Here's an 'action shot'. No, we quilters don't move none too quick.

Helen finished assembling a top from blocks won at the Binbrook guild.





Our next sewing day will be Wednesday August 12th. 9:30 - 5:00, bring $5 and your lunch.

Sewing Day This Wednesday & Hand Quilting

We had a good crowd Monday night. Lois is Keeper of the Key. She was recovering after a week spent with her daughter and two grandsons. Hanna and Ann were both 'getting away from it all'. Dineke was just back from vacation in Meaford. She was catching up with Madeline who has recently retired. It seems she's taken up murdering carpenter ants in lieu of paid employment. Lorraine came by after her church meeting to work on her newly acquired hand quilting skills. Monica popped in to crack the whip. I was there to put in my hours and see some real live people.
Notice Monica showing off her tube of Udder Cream? She was trying to make a buck by selling squirts for $2. (ok, I'm just kidding - she wasn't really)

This Wednesday is our guild sewing day. Bring your stuff and $5 admission. Bring a friend if you like. And don't forget your lunch. You can pop over to the arena and do some hand quilting if you haven't done so yet. As you can see the quilt is shrinking fast - just like the Wicked Witch of the West!

Hand Quilting Bribe

Click on the picture to see the bounty I shared with the girls yesterday: fresh picked cherries. Tonight I will be bringing a cottage pudding with lemon sauce to share. Come with a little appetite - it serves 6. :-)

the Fair Quilt

C'mon out and help with the Fair quilt! Contact Monica for next week's hours - I will be quilting Monday and Tuesday evenings (if you're interested in the 'hornet' story).

The 'key-per' (Monica for next week) seems to bring nice cold water for us.

Hand Quilting on the Caledonia Fair Quilt

The quilt has been put up at the Fairgrounds and we've started quilting. Finally!
Sorry, Lorraine, I caught you with your eyes closed. Bad photography seems to be my claim to fame.

Lois is co-ordinating the schedule. Please contact her if you can help out. It's warm up in the quilting room, so wear cool clothes. Bring your own little scissors, needles (although some needles are available there too) and your personal quilting tools (thimble, pliers, needle puller, martini {oops, wrong blog}, whatever).

Some of the gals from the Fair Board came up to take a peek after their meeting last night. They were all impressed with the quilt and quite excited about the prospect of a finished beauty like this.

June 10 meeting

I appear to be the WORST photographer in the world. I'm sorry about that. Here are the winners of the Dirty Dozen Challenge.

1st - Anne







2nd - Ann







3rd - Mary







Hon. Mention - Lydia







Hon. Mention - Irene (our fearless leader)








We had an excellent pot luck supper to finish off the season - many thanks to all the cooks. We also had our huge lot of raffle draws. I won the crock pot! Thanks for your hard work all year long, Lydia.

For July and August we will get together for sewing only - no meeting. Cost per person will be $5 and we will meet on our normal day: 2nd Wednesday, from 9:30-ish 'till 5-ish. VISITORS ARE WELCOME (but it will cost you $5, too).

April Guild Meeting

Sewing with friends during the day is such a nice break.


Christine is working on a laptop cover.

Charlotte is working on her sample for tonight's Block of the Month. It looks like it might be applique. Ya think???




Bernadette's daughter Audrey joined us today. She was very kind when I teased her about being 'fresh meat'.






Lois is working on the quilt we're making for the Agricultural Fair Board. This quilt does not want to be made. It should be really easy to hand quilt - there are so many needle holes in it already from unsewing.



Here are the prizes for tonight's draw tickets. Lydia made the little Easter pincushions. How crafty is that gal?



SOME OF THE SHOW 'N SHARE

Here is an applique piece by Charlotte. You can see why she's doing the machine applique lesson tonight.







Monica's Snowman quilt. OK, we've had quite ENOUGH of winter, thankyou!

Yaaay, more placemats for Meals on Wheels.

And Bernadette's donation to the Quilts of Valour program. Thank you!







Charlotte was instructing on Machine Applique techniques.



Lydia was instructing on Hand Applique techniques.