Notes From The April 17th Meeting

What a beautiful spring day to have our quilt meeting. We were even able to prop open the church door and enjoy the fresh air. Many of our traveling snow birds are returning home, we were happy to welcome them back with open arms.
Our day group pieced together two quilt tops. One was a log cabin, bear paw, with a saw tooth border, while the other top was a nine patch set on point. We were very pleased with both of these tops. The evening program taught use how to stretch quilts for basting. The ladies did a very nice job of showing us the basting or pinning on a wooden frame method, and the pinning on a table top, or floor method. Next month we will baste both of these in preparation for quilting.
We were reminded once again that the transportation block competition for June is just around the corner. So when you are out for your spring walks, look around for some inspiration.
Evelyn showed us a large selection of ideas for the goodies bags at the CQA in June 2008. We will have to decide what we would like to make very shortly.
Below you will see one of our active members receiving a comfort quilt. This is to wrap her in love and good wishes as she travels to Winnipeg for surgery and a treatment program of chemo or radiation.
We also presented this little star quilt to the church's "Time and Talent" program.
We received a nice assortment of square in square blocks for one of our next comfort quilt projects. We received 32 blocks and are hoping we will receive many more at our next meeting in May. The patterns are available at Faktors.
When we left the meeting last night we could hear the Geese flying overhead. What a great spring sound.
See you all in May!
Happy Spring and Happy Quilting!

Meeting Notice April 17, 2007

The Guild will be meeting at the United Church on Tuesday April 17. We will be at the church from 9AM to 9PM. Business meeting starts at 7PM sharp. Don't forget your square in a square blocks.
For the afternoon we will be assembling the Christmas nine patch blocks. We will be setting them on point, so if you are interested in this process please come out. We will probably find some other projects to keep us busy for the full day.
The evening program for Tuesday is basting. We will be basting a quilt on the frame, as well as pin basting on the table. Good basting is very important as it makes the quilting process so much easier. We will need many hands for the basting, so please don't leave after the show and tell. I know many of our members do not stay for the program, but instead leave right after the show and tell. There is always something new to learn in the program. I have been quilting for quite a few years, but there is seldom a program where I don't learn something new, even if it is not necessarily about the program. It is also another opportunity to enjoy the fellowship of your fellow quilters.
The two Rae's and Lorna sent a photo of their March shopping expedition to a beautiful quilt shop on Salt Spring Island, B.C. I see they all made a small purchase.

Hope to see you all on Tuesday. Happy Quilting!

A Review Of March 20 Meeting

Tuesday morning we started right into making 300 Half square triangles for a sawtooth border around a logcabin and bearspaw quilt we are trying to complete. Yvonne and Lorna are tearing the papers from some of the triangles. Many of the afternoon ladies wanted to know the name of the program we used for this project. The name of the program is Triangulations 2.0 Bear Paw Productions at www.bearpawproductions.com is the company that makes this CD. I am sure if you go see Faktors armed with this information, they can help you out.

We had a terrific show and tell that evening, with many of our members proudly displaying their beautiful quilts. Sorry I can't take photos of them all and place them in the blog. Here are a couple of the many, displayed that evening. Great work, keep it up.

Our comfort quilt square for the next two months will be a Square in a Square. Patterns can be picked up at Faktors. We are requesting that there be some black in the squares and that you use bright fabric and prints suitable for teens.

Faktors also has a new Thimbleberry block of the month starting in May. If you are interested please check the store for details.

Happy Quilting!

Meeting Notice March 20

The next Guild meeting will be held on Tuesday March 20th at the Northminster United Church. The day begins at 9 AM and the fun continues until 9 PM. The regular business meeting starts at 7 PM.

We will be continuing to work on the log cabin block of the month. We are still accepting any unwanted blocks from this kit from our members.

The evening program will include an embellishments demonstration from Evelyn. The next comfort quilt blocks will be square in a square. Don't forget to bring in last months Jar blocks. We are still continuing to accept boomer hats.

Pictured below is a photo of the double wedding ring block Lorie and Kathy submitted to the Quilter Magazine using the "Quest for the Cure" fabric collection.

And guess what happened? The magazine recieved 3600 entries and Kathy and Lorie were in the top 24. Here is a scan of the page from "The Quilter Magazine". Congratulations ladies!
I also heard they have something very interesting to show us on Tuesday evening.

See you on Tuesday evening, and Happy Quilting.

February 20th Meeting

We had a smaller turn out at the meeting. A lot of our members are away enjoying warmer vacations. Dale Hunt our CQA representative for Manitoba, sent us a package of little treats, so we had an extra five membership draws to give these prizes away. There were a lot of ladies out of town who had their name drawn. Too bad, you had to be there to win.

We had a lot of show and tell. Below you will see Helen G's new king size quilt. Mary designed and sewed it for Helen. She sent it to Jackie at Vintage quilting in Gladstone for long arm quiting. It is made all in satins, what a beautiful and unusual quilt. Lovely job ladies!. We have received an enthusiastic response to the Boomer hat project. Look at all the lovely baby hats. There are over 100 more hats on the table. Keep them coming!
Lorie and Kathy demonstrated binding. They also covered reversible bindings, and proved you can miter a corner using their method. There are still some handouts available, they can be picked up at Faktor's.

We spent the day working on the log cabin block of the month. Some members donated their finished squares. We are putting them together into quilts, wall hanging, and table runners. Anyone who has a log cabin square or two they don't want from that earlier block of the month, the quilt will find a home for it.

And finally this is a reminder, the unfinished square for the June meeting is transportation. The membership will vote on their favorite, and also a draw will be made for another prize, so you have 2 chances at winning a prize for your block. Let's get lots of squares on the board.

Until next time, happy quilting!

Meeting Notice and News

This posting has a little bit of everything. The next North Star Guild meeting will be held on February 20, at the United Church from 9Am - 9PM. We will be working on the Log Cabin squares in the afternoon. Any of our members looking for ways to put their log cabin block of the month together might be interested in coming out to get some different ideas. Also, we have received a couple of donations of log cabin blocks. If you are not interested in making a quilt or project out of all or some of your squares, the guild will gladly take them off your hands. Feel free to drop them of at Faktors before the next meeting and someone will bring them out for the afternoon comfort quilt workshop. (or sweatshop as Marg H calls it).

The evening program will be presented by Kathy and Lori and will cover bindings. They have 3 or 4 different binding methods.

Oh yes, and the photo, is Raye and Rae at Fanny Bay working on a hand quilting project with the ladies.

Looking forward to a great turn out on the 20th. Don't forget your paper pieced jars. Happy Quilting!

Boomer Caps

Here are some of the Boomer caps that were made by Rae's sister Bette and by Evelyn B.
The pattern to make these caps is available at Faktor's. Rae is taking these with her to B.C. where the Canadian Forces will take them to Afganistan. They are used to keep the small infants warm and reduce the mortality rate. I have enclosed a link to the explanation of the cap's name "Boomer Cap" http://www.capitalhealth.ca/NewsAndEvents/Features/2006/BoomerCaps.htm

Here is a link to the PDF for the pattern

http://www.savethechildren.org/campaigns/caps-to-the-capital/

The information on both the links is worth uploading and reading. If any of our members wish to make some of these hats, the Guild will see that they are sent away.