December Craft

We filled our bellies with each other's delicious cooking at the year end Christmas Pot Luck Supper.

Then we had a short meeting and settled in to work on this year's wee project:

Charlotte came with all our supplies prepared.

This looks ridiculously simple.  But try explaining it to a room full of women.

What a studious group.

With a little bit of help I think everyone went home with a completed star ornament.  Here is a LINK to a YouTube video for the project.

NEXT MEETING:  WEDNESDAY JANUARY 9, 2019, 7 PM.
This will be an in-house trunk show by any members who can bring quilts they've made from items they have won at guild meetings - either through Block-Of-The-Month or the draw table or any other type of giveaway we've had.

November Speaker & December Pot Luck

We had Robin Bogaert as our guest speaker.  Great trunk show.  You can reach her through her website.

DECEMBER 12 Will be our Christmas pot luck supper.
We will eat at 6 pm, so please arrive early enough - with your contribution and your dishes & cutlery.
We're also collecting items for the women's shelter so bring those with you.  Sharon has generously volunteered to co-ordinate delivery.

October's Activities

We had so much fun... we made stilettos.  And fobs for our rotary cutters.

NOVEMBER 14 MEETING

Due to a booking conflict at the church, this meeting is being RELOCATED to the Mason's Hall on the north end of town.   We will not have our (optional) dinner this month.

Our Guest speaker will be Robin Bogaert from Waterloo.

September meeting

September is the meeting when we catch up on our summer activities over coffee and hear what the guild will be doing for the coming year.  There's always lots of Show & Share, especially when the summer was as hot & humid as 2018 - many of us hunker down in our sewing room and enjoy the comfort of air conditioning.

This year we will be swapping 2 1/2" strips and there's a new Block of the Month.  The meetings will be filled with hands-on activities or guest speakers.

OCTOBER 10
This will be a hands-on night.  If memory serves, we will be making stilettos.  All supplies will be provided.

Better Late Than Never - From The June Meeting & A NEW Season

We celebrate the end of our quilting season and the beginning of summer with a pot luck supper at our June meeting.  Here are some of the ladies waiting for the opportunity to sample some wonderful cooking.

One of our projects this past year was a quilt we made and donated to the Caledonia Agricultural Society.  This will be raffled off and the proceeds used for building renovations.

This is a leftover from a group project LAST year.  One of our members took it home and got it quilted, so it went in our pile earmarked for donation to a needy community member.

If you'd like to investigate quilting as a hobby, feel free to join us for our season-opening meeting.
WEDNESDAY SEPT. 12TH AT 7 PM.

Details, price & location in the sidebar.  Members have access to an extensive library of quilting and stitchery books.  And of course, access to many skilled members who are happy to lead newbies by the hand.

Chic Picnic Workshop

We had a lot of fun with Susan Forbes at our workshop yesterday.  I was very grateful for the experience Susan brought to us - I would never have figured out how to do some of the necessary trimming without her help.

Somebody's really happy to be here.

Hard at work.

Susan with perfect posture at the machine.

Some of the gals with completed blocks.

May meeting - Susan Forbes

Susan Forbes works and teaches at Creative Sisters Quilt Studio in Kitchener.  She brought a great trunk show which was heavily padded (heh heh) with curved piecing.
Susan will be returning to teach a workshop in June - Chic Picnic, using the Quick Curve Ruler.
You can reach Susan at sforbes @ gto.net (remove the spaces).

GUILD NEWS
A small team put in a great deal of effort to finalize our Constitution & Bylaws, and our Member Handbook.  Both documents are now included in the info bar at the top of the blog.  Excellent work ladies.  Thank you!

COMING UP ON JUNE 13TH

This will close out the current season and see us wish a grateful farewell to the executive members who worked so hard for the benefit of the guild over the past two years, and who will pass their batons to a new team.

• POT LUCK SUPPER - 6 pm.  Bring your food contribution and your own dishes/cutlery.
• DRAW FOR THE FAT QUARTERS - we've been collecting fat quarters all year from the members - each fat quarter got a draw ticket.  Someone will go home with lots of fabric.
• DRAW FOR THE $$ COLLECTED FOR UFO COMPLETIONS - this challenge may have been a bust. At this point there are only three entries of $5.00 each.

April Meeting with Leslie Prokop

Leslie Prokop, of JP's Quilt Studio came in an SUV loaded with fabric.  Notice that none of those ladies are empty-handed?

Leslie also brought along her husband-assistant to "man" (ahem) the cash register.

As her trunk show, Leslie presented many (!) antique quilts that had been made by her grandmother.  Some, like this, were utilitarian.

Others, like this, demonstrate Grandmother's skill and the reason why she was a multiple-award winning quilter.

Leslie also regaled us with some stories from the journals that had been written every day from the time her grandmother was eight years old.  Wow.  If your guild would like to contact Leslie, her email address is jpquiltstudio@ hotmail.com (take out the space).

May 9 Meeting

At the next meeting our guest will be Susan Forbes, whose focus is on quilts with curved piecing.  You will find Susan on Instagram as susanforbesquilts .

Don't forget:

• your Block of the Month
• your Fat Quarters for the June draw - some lucky winner is going to go home with a LOT of fat quarters!
• your completed UFO's for Show 'n Share, along with $5 if you want to join the draw for UFO-completers
• your Squares if you're in the fabric swap
• your coffee mug

March's Meeting

Sarah Yetman was a very interesting speaker who brought a large sampling of quilts.  HERE is a link to a newspaper article about her.

COMING UP ON APRIL 11th

Leslie Prokop from JP Studios will be giving us a trunk show and bringing her shop items for sale.  Bring some $$$
Don't forget your usual items like Show 'n Share, Block of the Month, fabric squares for the swap group, library books that need to be returned, and your coffee mug.

A No-Pic Post

So, yeah, our February meeting consisted of two teaching stations - one for paper piecing and one for scalloped borders.  Since I was leading the scalloped borders lesson there are no photos.  However, hopefully all our members were SO MOTIVATED that the March show 'n share will be filled with paper pieced quilts finished with scalloped borders. 😀

Wednesday March 14th
Trunk Show by Sarah Yetman from Brantford.  A CQA winner from the 2017 Quilt Canada show, and the provincial winner from OAAS 2017.

December & January meetings

Goodness knows where the time went, but I neglected to update the blog from our December meeting.  You're getting a two-fer in this post.

DECEMBER:
Our mission after filling our bellies with a pot luck supper was to make a felt Christmas ornament.

Many little felt squares strung on a heavy thread.

Our fearless leader of the project - just too darned happy for words. 😀

JANUARY
We were educated by Anita Zobens of Cotton Mill Threadworks on the subject of threads & quilting.

She brought a good supply of stock for us to shop from.  I started out the night with money in my wallet, but Anita went home with it in hers.  Heh, heh, heh.

We also had the showing of Challenge #1 - the Kleenex Box Challenge.

Ten members brought in completed quilts that were made using inspiration from a Kleenex box.  Sadly, I think a few quilts have turned into UFOs...hopefully we will see them in the coming months.

COMING UP IN FEBRUARY

• We will have two demo stations set up and they will run for a half hour each.  One will cover Paper Piecing and the other will cover Scalloped Borders.
• Signup will be open for Challenge #2 - Leftover Bits & UFOs.  Sign up and pay $5.00 for each project you register.  Completed projects have a June 2018 deadline.  Each completed project between February and June will get you one ballot.  We will be drawing for the amount paid into the pot.  If there is a substantial amount we'll draw more than one number and split the pot between the winners.