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!

February 2008 Meeting News

About 8 or 10 enthusiastic quilters braved the cold February weather to quilt at the church at 9AM. We had our usual show and tell and then got straight to work.

We pieced the quilt of Comfort and Remembrance, basted the Dreaming of Bears and Geese quilt, and started on the paper pieced stars.

We are still looking for workers for the quilt show, so don't be shy, sign up for a job at the April meeting.

Also a reminder to turn in your raffle tickets, bring them to the retreat on Saturday, take them to Faktor's, or bring them to the March meeting.

How is everyones star block coming along...?

We had all kinds of great show and tell at the meeting. Too bad we couldn't show more of the members quilts on the blog. I hope lots of this lovely work will be appearing in the quilt show. The quilt entry sheets are available at Faktor's.

Our comfort quilt block for the next two months is a paper pieced pine tree. It should make a great boys quilt. Patterns are at Faktor's.

We are having terrific success with our Round Robin. It is really great to see those tins coming back to the meeting. Everyone brings in their tins, but no one talks about anything, until we are called to show them. Then it is like a little surprise every time someone stands up with their months round. You can see below how hard everyone worked and how great they look. Eileen in Mexico, can you find yours? Rae and Ray in B.C. ,bet you wish you had signed up...


Here is Lorie showing the next step in the Round Robin. Looks nice and simple or

you could make it fancy and complex, like Kathy's demo..

Marg showed us how to chenille. Then we all took home a small baby block to chenille and bring back. We will be able to make about three baby quilts when they all come back next month.

There is still some room left for members who want to come to the Victoria Inn quilting retreat on the weekend. Sign up at Faktor's, bring only 1/2 dozen cookies or a small square, your coffee mug, and of course your projects for the weekend. There is no charge for the weekend.

Until the weekend, keep warm and

Happy Quilting

February 2008 Meeting Notice

Our next guild meeting will be on February 19 at the United Church from 9Am to 9PM, with the business meeting commencing at 7PM

The program for the February meeting will be chenille letters, numbers and shapes for baby quilt. Marg Faktor will be demonstrating and we will have 'homework' kits for members to take home, complete and return to the next meeting. The homework kit makes one block for a baby quilt and contains a background square (with a design already traced on) and chenille strips for the applique design. We will be able to make 3 baby comfort quilts if all the kits are returned in March. There is a sample hanging at Faktors.

The plan for the afternoon is to baste the bear paw and geese quilt ( pin baste?) and to put together the next Canadian Comfort and Remembrance Quilt.

Our next quilting retreat is booked for February 23 and 24th. There are only openings for about 20 people. There is no charge to come to the retreat. Details will be available at the meeting Tuesday and you can sign up at Faktors before Tuesday.

See you Tuesday.

Happy Quilting

January Meeting Highlights

While the snow fell and wind blew yesterday afternoon, members of the guild were warm and cozy sewing on comfort quilts. The turn out was smaller than normal, but we made up for it in enthusiasm. We put borders on two quilts and basted a couple more. Now, we are looking for some machine quilters. If you are looking for quilts to practice your quilting skills, we would be very happy to past one over for quilting. You are doing a service for the community and practicing your skills.

The quilt show is coming up on April 18 and 19 this year. Get those UFO's out of the cupboard and finish some things for the show. We are also looking for volunteers for various jobs at the show. Also our unfinished square for the show this year is a star. Please make sure it is at least 12 1/2 inches square. It is nice to have 18 to 24 squares to make a nice big quilt. We are looking for lots of participation for this, since making a different kind of star blocks isn't a difficult theme, and we can never have too many stars.

We still have raffle tickets left for sale, so if you have sold all your tickets or haven't sold your required two books, please pick them up from our President, or at Faktor's.

The meals on wheels place mats were a great hit! The seniors were very pleased to have this treat and many sent Thank You notes to the guild this month. We would like to continue with this service. Make a place mat or two out of some of your orphan blocks and bring them to any of the meetings. If you have no orphan blocks, we will help you out, as we have a few on hand.


The weather and the Bomber game kept the turn out a lot smaller for the evening meeting.

The Challenge quilts came back and the winners were:

First place: Kathy S
Second place: Kathy D
Third place: Lorie S
Honourable Mention: Annette K (held for display by Marg F)

Congratulations ladies!
The first month of the Round Robin tins started last night. Below are all the participants holding up their own center square.
Here are two close up photos of the center squares. They are all so different.

Now this month we have to add a pieced border. I wonder what everyone will be doing? We will have to wait till next month to find out.

Until then
Happy Quilting!

More January Meeting Information

Kathy got the challenge quilts back so the guild will be presenting the awards for those at the meeting. Rose mentioned that she thinks we need a '"workshop on binding techniques" ,so Kathy thought she might go over the basics of bindings, and anything else the challenge participants have questions about after reading their critiques. There could be a good group discussion if people are willing to share there critiques.

The Cookie Tin Round Robins will be starting as well, so please remember to bring your tins if you are participating in the project.

Kathy and Lori also have a little "agree and disagree" project in mind for the meeting.

See You on Tuesday.
Happy Quilting!

Meeting Notice for January 15

Our next guild meeting will be Tuesday January 15th. We are at the church from 9AM to 9PM, with the business meeting starting at 7PM. Hope to see you there for all or some of the day.

This is a photo of our square in square quilt, finished over Christmas by Marg H. We have found a home for it already. It is going to a young woman who is just starting out on her own. More details will be available at the meeting. It really is a nice cheerful quilt.

We are also looking for more Maple Leaf blocks for our Quilt of Comfort and Remembrance for 2008. We would appreciate any blocks we can get in the months of January and February.

Here is a link to the pattern. If you are using the fusible web leaf, please consider downsizing the leaf about 2% so the points of the leaf fit to the seam, and not sewn into the seam. Iwill drop some of these adjusted patterns off at Faktors by Wednesday afternoon. If you are doing the pieced pattern, the link can be found here: http://ccrquilts.ca/downloadablock.htm

Our 2007 Maple leaf quilt went to the family of Corporal Jordan Anderson. Information on this young man is available here: http://www.herofund.ca/?cat=70

Happy Quilting!