October 2009 Meeting Highlights.

There were 34 members present on Tuesday evening.
The craft sale is at the Creighton Community Hall on November 7th. We will be raffling the Bargello quilt. We are also selling guild bookmarks, and star ornaments. Members can also sell their personal quilted items, but please be sure to mark your price on those items.

There will be a quilt retreat on November 21 and 22 at the Victoria Inn. Hours are Saturday from 9 AM to ???and on Sunday from 9AM to 4PM. Lunch and supper will be eaten at the hotel. Participants are to bring a snack item, a wrapped $5 notion, thread or a fat quarter, a quilting hint, info about their favorite blog, website, or online shop, and their own projects to work on.
There are more kits available for the October/November comfort block, Gentlemen’s Fancy with Prairie Points .

A reminder was given to be sure to use a scant ¼ “ seam when making maple leaf blocks for the Quilt of Valour. Kits are available.

Next Guild day – November 17 - there will be basting in the morning and practicing machine quilting in the afternoon. Members can bring their machines and practise on blankets for the SPCA, their Celtic Knot project, or guild quilts.

The December Christmas party was discussed. Yellow is the colour for the fat quarter exchange. We still need a volunteer to write the story. A draw will be made for the completed embellishment kits. Place mats will be received for Meals on Wheels. The appliqué flower quilt will be put into the silent auction. Donations for the auction can be brought next month for preview. Suggestions were needed as to where the coffee donation money should go.

For the April Quilt Show the theme for the 12 1/2” unfinished block is winter wear. Please use light weight fusible web and no embellishments. A challenge will be held with a baby quilt theme. More information will follow.

Sandra and Rae demonstrated the next block for our mystery wall hanging.


For your information here are an autumn and Christmas version of the next block.
The program for the evening was rulers. Members brought out their different rulers and discussed how to use them, or learned how to use them.


We accomplished a lot on the quilt comfort day and on Tuesday afternoon.

We finished the tops for the turtles. Now they are waiting to be taken home by a nice quilter and quilted.

We completed the top on our bird house quilt. Rae quilted our whacky popcile quilt

The top for the quilt on Comfort and Remberance is together.

Our maple leaf blocks came together to make a beautiful quilt for the Quilt of Valour, We still have more kits to make Maple leaf blocks. Each quilt takes 80 blocks, so feel free to make many blocks.

Lorie finished quilting the Bargello quilt for our Christmas raffle.

Show and Tell for October

Yvonne's Jelly roll quilt Marg's wall hanging from a kit. A special gift from New Zealand

Alta's lovely black and white quilt.

Lorie proudly displays her dimensional wall handing.

Rae's ragged quilt with the batting clipped.

September 2009 Meeting Highlights

Thirty members and one guest came out to the meeting on a very warm September 16th.

The SPCA sent a Thank You note for the cat and dog quilts. We had to cancel our afternoon quilting since the church was having a funeral. However we will continue to practice our machine quilting on more cat and dog quilts on the afternoon of the November meeting.

The Saskatoon Quilters's Guild Quilt Show is on October 23/24. The Northern Country Crafters Christmas sale is on November 7.in Creighton. We will be taking part in this sale. Two tables will be booked, and anyone with quilted items for sale will be able to sell them at the table.

Lorie is demonstrating our next comfort block. This features Prairie points, which was the program for the evening. Feel free to sign for and pick up a kit next meeting.
There will be a comfort day at the church on September 29th from 9 -4. We will be working on our quilts of Comfort and Remembrance and our quilts of Valour on that day. You can see some of the blocks on our design wall. Ray B was kind enough to cut out a large number of blocks to make more maple leaf squares for the Quilts of Valour. If you have any squares completed please send or bring them to the comfort day.

A quilting retreat will be held at the Victoria Inn on November 21.

The mystery quilt's first month's instructions were demonstrated by Sandra and Rae. It will be a 6 - 7 month project resulting in a wall hanging (33 x 46 1/2) It can be seasonal and/or scrappy.

Here is a photo of the first block. Tree and star placement can be creative.

For the October afternoon workshop Kathy will be teaching the Celtic Knot. A hand out of the materials needed was provided. Members are asked to have their designs drawn on the background fabric before the workshop. Kathy will be placing an order through A Great notion for the Steam A Seam 2 and the clover bias maker. Please let her know by the weekend. She also has some fat quarter batiks available for purchase.

The October evening program will be unique rulers and a refresher on paper piecing. Members are asked to bring any unique rulers they may have and the instructions on their use.

The Christmas party was discussed. Yellow is the colour for the fat quarter exchange. A volunteer is needed to write the story. The Christmas project is an embellishment project. Kits were handed out to use. Here is one way to use the kit.

Kathy finished quilting her mystery quilt

Sandra S displayed her church banner

Robin whipped up some eye glass cases

Nadine is making ragtime quilts

Lynn with her baby blanket

Lorie proudly displayed her Bargello quilt. She won the blocks from the quild, made a few more of her own. Kathy let her quilt it on her long arm. Lorie and Kathy with their prize winning wall hanging.

Eileen finished all her Chenille work.

Sandra displayed her Jelly roll quilt

Lorna finished her mystery.

Happy Quilting!

Change of Plans

Dear Members,

Unfortunately the United Church is having a funeral on Tuesday afternoon.
We will have to cancel machine quilting in the afternoon, but we will still be able to work quietly on other projects.
Please pass this information on to the other members