June Meeting Highlights

We are back from Quilt Canada 2008, "Quilting on the Edge". Details to follow at the July Meeting.

The round robins were completed at the June meeting. You can see they turned out very nice, and I am sure more people will want to participate the next time the club decides to do it once again. Participants were asked to have their project completed for showing at the Christmas party.

We now have a link to the photos of the quilt show. Barb did a very nice job. Thank you Barb for taking the time to load all those photos onto the net.
http://www.flickr.com/gp/26587815@N04/80h6o8

I hear the "Marg Show" was very entertaining. Some ladies even said they could give the "Lorie and Kathy Show" some competition. Good to hear, we all enjoy the demo and the entertainment. The two Margs demonstrated "stake and whack".

An invitation was received from the Manitoba Arts Network to show our quilt, “Dreaming of Bears and Geese”, at the 6th Rural and Northern Art Show to be held in Winnipeg at The Bay downtown during the month of July. This quilt placed 1st in Fibre Arts-Quilting at the Northern Juried Art Show held in The Pas in May.

The Alphabet letter blocks need to be handed in so that the quilts can be put together.
3 star blocks are needed to complete the star quilt. If any of our members have those blocks at home please turn them in to the next meeting.

A DVD of Quilt Show picture is available from Lynn at a cost of $5.

Canadiana Quilt raffle: tickets to be sold last two weekends of June at Eddie’s and Extra Foods. There are still some openings available and also for during Main Street Days (June 27/28) that people can sign up for. Contact Marg for any further information.

Here are some photos of the show and tell at the meeting.


Happy Quilting!

Juried Art Show

Rae has returned for the Northern Juried Art Show in The Pas. This is her comment on our quilt entry:

FIRST PLACE IN FIBRE ARTS AND A CHEQUE FOR $100.00. WOW
Way to go, great news.

Happy Quilting!

Meeting Highlights for May 27th

Tuesday was a beautiful sunny day, and we were inside working on sunny fabric. These are the quilt tops we worked on during the day. That uses up all the sixteen patch blocks our members sewed and donated to the guild. The evening business portion of the meeting was spent reviewing our April quilt show and receiving reports from the various committees. We felt our show was an overall success. A big hand of applause to all the volunteers who worked so hard to make it a success.

In the photo below you will see our happy CQA Rosette Winners for Best Of Show. Alene with her hand quilted log cabin, and Adele with her lovely snowman quilt. Alene also won our Viewers Choice Award with her log cabin quilt.

The Round Robin showing is always very exciting. Our challenge was to either make the item a square or a rectangle. How do you think we did?


We have a new comfort square for the next two months. The pattern is available at Faktor's. We are making 6 1/2 inch friendship stars. Bright coloured stars with white and black or black and white background.

We are going to sell raffle tickets on our Canadianna Quilt for a couple of weeks during homecoming this June and July. We are not asking our members to take a book of tickets home, but if Marg phones you to come out and sell tickets on Main Street or at Extra Foods, please consider volunteering a couple hours of your time. We think the extra funds would be very nice to purchase fabric for our comfort quilts.

Happy Quilting!

Dreaming of Bears and Geese

The North Star Quilt Guild created a quilt that celebrates our northern roots and our close relationship with nature. The name of our quilt comes from the use of the traditional Bear Paw and Flying Geese blocks that form the quilt top. Guild members spent many hours piecing then ripping stitches then piecing again to get the design just right. The quilting designs represent our northern wilderness and the natural elements that surround us. Follow the bear as he moves through a day, as shown by the traveling sun and the dancing northern lights. Geese fly toward the woven center with winds swirling beside. In the outer border eagles soar and catch their prey that inhabit our northern lakes.

We hope you enjoy our interpretation of our northern community.

Highlights of the April 2008 Meeting

The meeting highlights are a little late this month, but I will try and cover what I remember.

We spent the day getting ready for the big quilt show. We got a quilt to the basting stage for the frame on the stage, and we partly assembled a quilt to show one in progress. Kathy had to watch the sewing crew that day, as we all wanted to continue on and complete the quilt top.

The meeting that evening covered every one's jobs for the quilt show.

The list of the new executive was presented as follows:

Past President Evelyn B
President - Lorna H
Vice President - Kathy S
Secretary, Eileen M
Treasurer - ?

Committee Chairs

Membership - Raye W and Yvonne H
Programs - Marg F and Lori S
Cookies - Robin M
Blog - Sandra D
Special Events - Rae B
Comfort Quilts - Marg H

Of course we presented the next level of our round robin. We were to emphasize the existing shape. What do you think? I think they all look just great.


' Here is our Past President Rae showing off her completed Past President's quilt.
This is a lovely photo of our 2008 Quilt of Comfort and Remembrance.

Here is an interesting link. The CQA has posted all of their Trend Tex competition quilts on line for the 2008 Quilt Conference in Newfoundland. Even if you are not interested in the conference, go to this link just to enjoy the 100 plus quilts.

http://www.canadianquilter.com/events/index_events_ttc2008.htm

Happy Quilting!

Highlights of March 2008 Meeting

We had another productive day working on quilts. The ladies completed the paper pieced star top, as well as stretching and pinning. The transportation blocks have been put together. Just have to baste and quilt that one.

The business meeting was spent reviewing the requirement for the quilt show in April. If you want to volunteer for a job, don't be shy, there are lots of jobs. Kathy is still taking entries for quilts. Pick up your entry form, or drop off your forms at Faktors.

Just one more thing about the show. Don't forget about the star block competition. We will be having a viewers choice on the favorite star block.

The round robin was a great success, with all the participants getting another surprise this month.





Here are a couple of the show and tells we had on Tuesday evening. With the great number of quilted items we have seen from our members this winter, we should have a lot of entries for the quilt show.

We received a letter from the family of Corporal Jordan Anderson thanking us for the quilt of Comfort and Remembrance. To see our quilt go here :

http://ccrquilts.ca/2007%20pages/36.htm

Also see all the quilts here : http://ccrquilts.ca/2007quilts.htm

Just a short blog this month as I am in Humbolt cheering on our Bombers, and have not had too much time.

Until next month

Happy Quilting! and Go Bombers Go!