November Meeting Highlights

It was a snowy November day but that didn`t prevent the 26 members and 2 guests from attended the meeting.

We had a great day on November 5 at both craft sales. The winner of our Snowman Quilt was guild member Wanda Sproxton.

We held a Quilt Show Meeting and most of the jobs have been filled.  It was decided that the next theme for our 12 1/2" block contest for the show is going to be Insects. The Twoonie Parade is going to be organized a bit differently this time. We will have 10 baskets with different themes and Marg Lyle and Cathy Dyck will be coordinating this part of the show. Members can get together in groups and pick a theme to donate items to create a basket and let Marg know what theme you have picked and who has donated to the basket.

Plans for our Recipe book are going well and Maxine would like all the recipes sent to her by January 31, 2012.

We will be participating in the Cranberry Portage Craft Show on Dec 3 and selling quilted items and tickets on our Bargello quilt.

Here are the 14 quilts we are donating to the Elk's Christmas Hampers.

Guild's Show and Tell.

The President`s Block for Kathy was demonstrated by Audrey.  The guild provides the batik background fabric and members are asked to provide the 6 different batik scraps for the rest of the block. When four of these blocks are put together they make a Scrappy Jewel Box block.

Now for an excellent Member`s Show and Tell.   From big projects to small, we love them all.

October 2011 Meetings Highlights

We had a total of 35 members come out to our October meeting.

Some of our members completed and returned the Old Italian square.  As you can see they are a very interesting square.  If you haven't completed yours yet, don't worry you can return it completed for the November meeting.

 Marg demonstrated the final stage of the paper bag quilt.

 The afternoon and evening demonstration included the use of the x Block ruler.  The members were putting these lessons to use by constructing the black and white quilt below.

 The afternoon sewers completed the star quilt top

 While these  Three new comfort quilts came back from our member quilted and bound

A reminder was given about the dates when we will be selling tickets for our raffle quilts.

(On Saturday November 5^th we will be selling tickets on our Bargello quilt at the Flin Flon Craft sale as well as selling tickets on our Snowman quilt at the Creighton Craft show.  If you have any items that you would like to sell at the Creighton sale please let Kathy know so we can arrange to have them at the table.  We have all the volunteers we need for the Creighton table but we need a few more for the Bargello table. )

A Quilt Show meeting will be held at 5pm at our November Guild Day. (If you have signed up for a job or would like to still help we hope you can make it.  We will be going over the jobs that need to be done, block contest theme, challenge ideas, so if you have any ideas you would like to share or questions about the job you signed up for please come.)

We had a large show and tell for the evening as well. So get your tea and sit back and enjoy all the hard  and creative work from our members.

Happy Quilting!


Sandra

Fall Retreat

It was a beautiful fall weekend for our retreat, we even had the doors open so we could enjoy the fresh air while we sewed.  We had a record number turn out but still plenty of room for everyone. A total of 28 member joined us for the pot luck supper which was delicious as always.

Here are the project members where working on or finished!

I had to comment on this next picture. Barb, our guild photographer, just bought her first sewing machine and started her first quilting project. Great to see you in front of a sewing machine and the camera Barb!!

On Saturday October 1 we held an Open House as part of the Culture Days activities in our town.  We had about 35 visitors drop by to see what we were working on.  Here are pictures of our display in the main lobby that welcomed in our visitors.