April Meeting

Well another successful Quilt Show has come and gone.  I think we can all give ourselves a well desired pat on the back for such a wonderful event.  If you are interested in purchasing a DVD of the show we are selling them for $5, please see Barb Harrower at the next meeting to order yours.
Big THANKS to Prairie Chicks for coming to the show to be our Merchant Mall.  What a beautiful display they set up and great fabric kits and bundles!

Here is a picture of our 20 Winterwear blocks.

The last month of the Mystery Project was revealed so here are Rae, Sandra and Lorna's Mystery quilts.

The program for the April meeting was the Quilt Show demonstrations by Lori, Audrey and Kathy.

During the afternoon workshop we completed a few quilt tops.

We had enough Sailboat comfort blocks turned in to make three quilt tops.  Here is one of the finished tops.

The last Magic Tile quilt top in our cupboard was completed.

Our new executive will be starting in May and I (Kathy) would like to personally thank all the member who have joined the executive and guild commitees. It is nice to see a mix of new and experienced volunteers working together to keep our guild the wonderful group that it is.  It is a place to share our passion for quilting and to develop great friendships. 

April's Show and Tell

We had a great Show and Tell especially considering we just had a Quilt Show.

Here is Rae with her beautiful appliqued sampler, or as her sister calls it the "Bunny" quilt. ( Thanks for sharing that great story Rae).  She is still working on the buttonhole hand stitching but once she is done I will really enjoy quilting this one. You know it will end up with a bunny on it somewhere!

Yvonne with her Bunny quilt and she did a great job free motion quilting leaves and flowers.

Maxine displaying her quilt top which was made with the woven rail fence pattern and direction jungle print fabric.  (...no bunnies but lots of cute jungle animals!)

Helen with her adorable Zoo Animal quilt...bunnies are in the second row from the botton on the right hand side.

Lorna with her cheerful baby quilt...it even has frogs and fish so we had an animal themed Show and Tell!

March Meeting

31 members came out on a lovely spring thaw evening.

The day was spend going over the quilt show plans and putting together a final Quilt of Comfort and Remberance top.

Our quilt for the Art show is ready. Kathy did a beautiful job of the quilting.
The baby challenge quilts should all be turned in to Kathy for judging. Good luck to all the entries.
Here are some of the winter wear unfinished blocks, the rest csn be turned into Evelyn on Thursday April 8, when you bring in your quilt show entries.

There is still an opening for a library person for a two year term.

Members are reminded to sign up for times to volunteer for the Quilt show and for the set up on Thursday. If you haven't signed up for something and you want to help on Thursday, just show up at the Community hall after lunch. No help will be refused for Friday or Saturday as well.

Here are some of the finished pinwheel blocks for the March and April comfort blocks.

Lorie and Kathy had a power point presentation, and a hands on demo at the meeting. The subject was tessellations.

The power point demo

Some items have been received for the Twoonie Parade and any other donations will be accepted during the quilt show setup time.
Members are asked to bring two dozen cookies each and kitchen helpers should bring their own tea towels.
Quilt racks are needed for the stage display. If you have one to lend the contact person is Audrey Neufeld.

Here are two of the Guild's comfort quilts.
The Turtle quilt
and the last bargello

Kathy proudly displaying her dyed fabric

Yvonne with her pinwheel quilt

and her Irish chain.

Jeannie's baby quiltRobin's heart quilt

Robin's table runner Marg's wall hanging

Lorie's finished sample round robin

Marg L's finished a celtic wall hanging using her own dyed fabric
Melba's lovely Pink quilt

Marg H's Bound to the Prairie quilt

Donna's Baby quilt

and Donna's very large mystery quilt

See you at the quilt show and

Happy Quilting!

March Meeting Reminder

The Quilt Show is fast approaching and here is a list of reminders for the March Meeting.
-Need Toonie Parade items - do not have to be a quilted item but please no fabric or kits, finished projects are great.
Check your schedules as we need lots of volunteers for:
- Quilt Show stations
- Set up on Thursday April 8
- Take Down on Sat April 10

Reminder we are receiving the quilts on Thursday April 8 from 10am to 1pm in the Community Hall.

-New executive - Still need library and more people for programs ( have a leader for that)
-Don't forget to bring your Baby Challenge quilt! Please fill out an entry form for you baby challenge quilt too.
-If your Winter Wear block is done you can bring that too or wait until the Show Set up day.
-Quilts Show forms should be turned in at the March Meeting but you do have until March 27 at the LATEST.
-Every member is asked to bring 2 dozen cookies to the show.
-Prairie Chicks are coming for our Merchant Mall so spread the word.