Guild Day, Tuesday, January 20, 2026

 Welcome to a new year everyone! Last year was busy, but I am sure this year will be just as busy if not more so. There were seventeen members present throughout the day working on various projects, some pin basting, some assembling blocks into flimsies and another group planning our next raffle quilt!

                                                  Judy was busy hand stitching a binding. 

                        June is pin basting a princess quilt that will make some little girl very happy!

             Lorna and Sandra are pinning the blocks so they can be assembled for our next Quilt of Valour.

       Thanks to Sandra’s stitching aided by Lorna’s pinning, the flimsy for the QOV was completed.

On to the next assembly job, the Arkansas Crossroads blocks, or as we prefer to call them, the Manitoba Crossroads blocks, waiting to be joined into another flimsy. This block pattern is an excellent one to use up scraps, and we all have lots of those!

Tada! Thanks to Sandra’s high speed stitching, another flimsy is complete. Thank you for the photography, Rae!

Laurie, one of our new quilters, used the day to complete her flimsy from the Learn to Quilt classes. Beautiful work Laurie, and your fabric selection is stunning!

                                 Evelyn took the opportunity to work on some English paper piecing.

We were able to pin baste four quilts and readied another with batting and backing for longarming. The larger quilts are fairly difficult to quilt on a domestic machine especially for anything more involved than straight line quilting.

Comfort Quilts:

                          The Owl quilt is one that Helen donated to us for the comfort quilt bucket.

                     This is the other quilt donated by Helen. Thank you so much for your generosity!

                                       Evelyn pieced this one and Sandra S. did the quilting.

                                                              Lynn stitched this one.

                               I’m sorry, I don’t know who deserves the credit for this lovely quilt.

     

                          Rae and Sandra assembled and stitched this on one of their work bee days. 

We now have ten quilts in our comfort quilt buckets and it is only the first month of the year! Fantastic work everyone! Can you imagine what we will have by November?

Quilts for Wildfire:

Audrey reported that with the help from many generous and caring quilters we have been able to take 163 quilts to the Denare Beach village office for distribution. We currently have three large flimsies to complete as well as two more from Zoey.

                                         Number 1, the lovely blue stars by Zoey.

                                              Number 2, peach and brown, also by Zoey.

As well we received a very generous monetary donation from Sandra D’s cousin to help in our efforts, thank you very much!

These lovely quilted jackets were also donated for us to use as we saw fit in our relief efforts. The girls had fun modeling them for us!

Show and Tell:

I went through my stash and found a variety of outdoorsy fabrics that would work in the Mahjong pattern to make a new quilt for our bed. It depicts fly fishing, camping, hunting, and all the outdoor things we enjoyed in our younger days. 

Judy had picked these fabrics from Aunty Marg’s stash to make this lovely quilt. The fabrics are so soft and spring like.

Lynn put her quilting skills in warp speed to complete this 1600 piece quilt in record time so she could take it along to Japan when they visit their son. Amazing work, Lynn, beautifully done!

Susan has had this placemat project on the back burner for a time, but now it is finished and they are beautiful! They will be lovely on a spring time table or even a winter one for a pop of colour!

Zoey’s owls and leaves are complete and ready for a bed. The colours are perfect, especially in that piano key border. 

  This is Zoey’s version of the Butter Tarts quilt that we made for our fall raffle. It’s amazing how a change in colour and fabric pattern can change the look of a quilt.

Cindy purchased the kit for this winter table runner from Mami’s in Duck Lake when she was on evacuation from our wildfires.

When Sandra was in China in the nineties, she found these treasures in a market. The colourful hanging is reversible.

These are the twelve Chinese zodiacs from their calendar. One has to marvel at the intricacies of the handwork.

Rae stitched this lovely quilt for her daughter-in-law who loves light neutral colours. The quilting shows up spectacularly. She is sure to love it!

Beverly was given some fabric and was told to make something for the guild. She enlisted Patty’s help in designing a pattern and this is the result! Very well done ladies! The green-bordered squares in the offset arrangement add an interesting touch.

                           Beverley then pieced the backing and practiced her straight line quilting. 

At our next guild day, we will bring our personal machines, as if it were a UFO day, and work at completing as many quilts as possible that are in our flimsy bucket. We are falling behind on our completions as tops are being finished very quickly. It will be an opportunity for us to hone our quilting and binding skills!

We finished the evening with the membership draw which was won by Lorna.

Happy quilting, 

Gladys