Highlights From the September 16th Meeting

We had a nice turn out for the day, with the group completing a couple of quilt tops, basting some baby quilts and organizing our fabric.
We had a good productive day, with only one incident, which I will explain in a later blog, when there is more complete information available.

The general meeting saw 43 members arrive and no one brought a guest.

A new book "Quilt Block Leftovers" was added to our library. It is a book with ideas for all your orphan blocks.

We are going to set up a table at the Creighton Community hall on November 8th. The Guild will be renting two tables. Volunteers will be needed to sell tickets on the raffle quilt. This is also an opportunity for members to sell their own quilted items at the sale table.

Our Dreaming of Bears and Geese quilt took first place in quilting, at the Creighton Copper Fair on September 12/13. The quilt received a certificate, cheque, and a copper dripping. We now have prize money from the Northern Juried Art Show and the Creighton Copper Fair. The membership voted to spend this prize money on something for the club. We all approved the purchase of a 20 1/2 inch square ruler, a good coffee pot ( which will be used by us, but donated to the United Church), and the balance of our prize money will be used for expenses for the upcoming Retreat.

The retreat will be held on November 1st and 2nd in Room 101 at the Victoria Inn. Lunch and supper will be eaten in the dining room. Members will work on their own projects Saturday from 9 am until we have had enough, and on Sunday from 9 am until 4 pm. Space is limited so if you are interested sign up as soon as possible.

We are also looking into holding a Comfort Quilt day in October or November. Date to be announced later. This is a day when the club only works on comfort quilts for the guild.

Above is the completed quilt the club made and Kathy quilted for the adult literacy program. They will be holding a raffle, so look for the tickets or talk to Lorie, I think she will have a few available for sale.
Kathy and Lorie have lost it once again. They have mini pieced these beautiful squares from the new breast cancer fabric. They will be sending these blocks away in hopes of winning something in the contest. The blocks will go into quilts that are later used for fund raising for breast cancer research. Beautiful job ladies.
The group gathered around as Kathy demonstrated how to make a scalloped border for a quilt.

The Mystery quilt was demonstrated by Kathy and Lori. The first month is cutting instructions. Keeping organized in some manner is a great help, such as using labelled baggies for each set of pieces you cut. If you have Bali fabric or lots of dark blues or reds, you should consider washing your fabric first, and even using some retain in the wash water.

On the next quilting day which is October 21st at 1:30 PM, a quilt called Yellow Brick Road will be cut out and put together. Members are welcome to come out and see how it's done. Anyone who has a quilt made in this pattern is asked to bring it that day.

Here is the quilt Rae made for the Catholic Church bazar. It was made from a fat quarter collection.
We did have one guest, perhaps a future guild member. Behind our wee guest you can see the latest block of the month bow ties. They are going to make a really nice comfort quilt. Our new comfort block of the month for October/November is the "Disappearing Nine Patch". A star print and a blue material were given out. We are to add a third bright colour and make a 15 1/2 inch nine patch which will then be cut in 4 blocks, 3 for the guild and 1 for a lucky member. Fabric and patterns are available at Faktor's or the October meeting.

For October's program please bring your favorite quilting book or magazine to share with the rest of the members. A list will be compiled and given out to the members.

The fat quarter theme for the Christmas party will be any type of holiday fabric. It does not have to be Christmas fabric.

Our Christmas project will once again be place mats to be given to Meals on Wheels. It does not have to be a Christmas place mat or Christmas fabric.

As you can see, we were very busy in September and it looks like we have lots planned right up till December.

Happy Quilting!

Sandra

Meeting Notice September 16

This is a meeting notice for Tuesday September 16.

This is the last month to bring in the blue Bow tie blocks. Also we are going to start our first month of the mystry quilt. If you haven't bought you fabric and are interested in participating, now is the time to go to Faktors and take advantage of the great fabric sale.

Our Guild member Ira moved away in August. We didn't get to say good-bye to her. Her are some photos of her at work during our guild afternoons. We all wish her the very best in her new home.

Happy Quilting!

Meeting Minutes For August 2008

We had 32 members turn out for our meeting on a very warm August day.
We finished the top and basted the quilt to give to the Adult Learning Centre. Kathy has taken it away to do her magic quilting and we will have that all ready to go. We also put togwther another baby quilt and worked on a couple more tops. There weren’t many of us out for the day, but we were a productive group.


Our bow tie blocks for the next couple of months are really turning out nicely. If you have picked up some of the light yellow fabric to make a bow tie blocks please don’t forget to turn them in by the September meeting. It would be a great little project for a rainy day early this September.
In the bottom of the picture you will notice the lovely fabric. This is some of the material that has been purchased to participate in the Mystery quilt starting in September. If you have not purchased your fabric, and wish to participate in this fun club project, the material list is available at Faktor’s, along with some really great bargains on fabric. Don’t miss out on the ‘fun, remember what a great time we had with the Round Robin.
Recent purchases using the 25% discount from Faktor’s were displayed. These included 94 metres of fabric to complete current projects and for some future ones and other items such as thread, blades, etc.

Marg Faktor is making a bulk order of batting in September. Please return order forms to her by September 10.

As usual we had some show and tell :
Lynn’s colourful balloon quilt
Joyce’s Sunshine quilt.
Eileen’s Irish chain. This was only the top, Kathy is going to take it home and perform some more magic on it, before Eileen has to say good-bye. This is a lovely gift.

Lorie is holding a paper pieced humming bird block, which she made for the Saskatchewan Transplant Memorial Quilt.

Enjoy the last of our terrific summer weather and Happy Quilting!

Bears And Geese At The Bay

Eileen was in Winnipeg this weekend. She was good enough to hobble up to the Bay and take some photos. Looks pretty good! Thank you Eileen for going to that extra trouble, we all appreciate it.

North Star Quilt Guild Mystery Quilt 2008 - 2009

This eight part mystery can make a quilt of the following sizes:
Small (single) – 60” x 76”
Medium (double) - 76” x 92”
Large (Queen) – 92” x 108”

Fabrics -
Light - background; tone on tone recommended
Medium – focus fabric (choose this one first – pick one you love)
Dark #1 – this should be your darkest fabric
Dark #2 – Best if it is in the same color family as Dark #1 (make sure this fabric does not overpower your medium focus fabric)
Fabrics requirements include all blocks and borders!
Fabric
-------------Small --------------Medium -----------------------Large
Light -------2.2 m--------------- 3.2 m -------------------------4.4 m

Medium ----1.3 m ----------------1.7 m ------------------------2.4 m

Dark #1----- 0.7 m ---------------1.2 m------------------------ 1.5 m

Dark #2----- 1.5 m--------------- 1.9 m ------------------------2.5 m

(Consider purchasing enough fabric for binding from Dark #2.)
The first set of instructions will be demonstrated and handed out at the September 16th guild meeting. If you have the fabric purchased before then you will be all ready to go.

July 2008 Meeting Highlights

We had a small group of ladies show up for the all day quilting. We happily sewed on comfort quilts and club quilts while out side we had a summer storm. Nice day for sewing, but there a lot of nice sewing days this July. We should see some good show and tell this fall, if we keep getting all this rain.
We finished two quilt tops and took a good bite out of another before the day was done. A good days work.
Below you can see the final results for the friendships star blocks for June and July comfort quilt blocks. Sandra S was the lucky recipient of 57 friendship blocks. Looking forward to seeing that quilt Sandra.

We are still looking for three blocks. These blocks were from the baby chenniling project that the club handed out. We would like to have those blocks back, either finished or unfinished. Then we would be able to complete the two baby quilts that are missing the last blocks. If anyone knows where they are, could you please hand them into one of the other members, or bring them to Faktors, or to the meeting.
The raffle for the Canadian quilt was a very large success. Thank You to all the organizers and members who showed up and sold tickets.
The DVD's of the quilt show are still available at Faktors.

We will be having another retreat this fall at the Victoria Inn. The dates are Saturday and Sunday, November 1 and 2. Put that on your calender, we will be having sign up sheets at the September or October meeting.

The program for the evening was a presentation by The Twisted sisters, Rae, Sandra and Lorna gave a presentation and entertaining report on their activities at eh CQA Quilt Canada in St. John's, Newfoundland in June. It included a show and tell of several items that they had brought home with them, many of which they had won. Below is a sample of a hand sewn quilt at the presentation and now owned by Lorna.

Here are some of the ladies with their show and tell items.

Lynn with her lovely Inukshuk wall hanging.

Eileen with her completed sixteen patch square quilt. She even quilted it all by herself. Good Job.
Evelyn made a red hat wall hanging.
The club is going to run a mystery quilt starting in September. I have listed the details and requirements in its own title.

Happy Quilting!

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!