April 2009 Meeting

We had quit a few enthusiastic members show up on Tuesday morning. Some of our snow birds returned home, myself included. There was a lot of show and tell that morning.
Some of us had our mystery blocks all completed, so we layed them out in various ways, to decide which combination worked with the different colours.
Then we got to work. We pieced together a country style quilt with the paper pieced tree blocks our members made a while ago.

39 members and 3 quests turned out for the evening meeting.
We have a new book in the library called Stack'n Whack Ipedia.

Our program for the evening was piecing the Tumbling block. Demonstrations were done by Marg F
Members are asked to return Comfort and Remberance blocks. A quilt will be started once enough blocks are back. As you can see we have been receiving some, but we need 18 to make a quilt.

The turtle blocks are also turning out very nicely. Please remember to bring yours to the next meeting.

The bird house blocks are due in June. A reminder not to use fusing on these blocks. Here are some of the blocks that have already been turned into the Guild. There should be some ideas there to get you started.

The 15 kid's travel bags that were received in March have been passed onto Family Services. More bags are welcome, with the pattern available from the Guild.

Here is Marg F with her completed Northwoods quilt.

Here is some of the show and tell from the April meeting.

Orla showed us her wall hanging. Lots of hand applique by Orla and I believe Kathy did the quilting. This is the flip flop quilt Cheryl was working on at the retreat. All finished.

Kathy finished quilting Lorna's Thimbleberry quilt. Lovely. Marg F. also showed her lovely Thimbleberry quilt.

Donna proudly displays her first quilt. Beautiful work Donna, all hand quilted. We saw it for three retreats, now we are looking forward to seeing her next hand quilted retreat project.

Robin is holding up only one of her many show and tells for the evening.

Here is how Rae put her mystery block together.


Marg is pleased with her design

Michelle had a whole different idea

And Lori just followed the instructions.

Nice quilt tops ladies.

Till next month Happy Quilting!

The Retreat

The quilting retreat held at the Victoria Inn on April 18th and 19th was a great success.
A total of 17 member showed up to work on various projects
There were quite a few ladies working on their mystery quilt blocks. Robin brought her fabulous hot pepper jelly, and she worked on a paper piecing project all weekend.

Kathy was working on a Bali precut curves kit, while Gail paper pieced trees.

More mystery blocks being pieced together.

There was a flannel quilt and and interesting bubble applique quilt going together here.

There was lots of visiting on Sunday. A great weekend!

Retreat

Retreat time again.

It will be held at the Victoria Inn room 101 on Saturday April 18 from 9am to about 9pm and on Sunday April 19 from 9am to 3pm.
Bring your sewing machine, extention cord, sewing kits and your quilting projects to work on. We will have one ironing board and iron, two cutting mats and cutters, one 8" x24" ruler and one 6"x24" ruler.
Don't forget your Floral/spring themed fat quater, two copies of a cookie/goodie recipe, your coffee mug and half a dozen cookies or appetizers for us to nibble on.
What would a retreat be without a treat.....just a re. :)

See you there.

March Meeting

We had a very nice turn out for our meeting, and a lot of people brought there machine for the afternoon quilting workshop. Over 20 cat quilts were made and thanks to all that participated and to those that took home some quilt to serge the edges. I"m sure the SPCA will be very happy with them.
Our retreat at the Victoria Inn, room 101, is set for April 18 and 19. Please bring your sewing machines, extention cords, a floral/spring fat quater for the exchange, two copies of a cookie recipe for the recipe exchange, a half dozen goodies for us to nibble on and of coarse a quilting project to work on.

We discussed the Quilts of Valour project and made a motion to donate our maple leaf quilt that was finished last fall to the project. I have contacted the organizer and she will be sending me inforation on where to send it. Their website is www.automatedquill.com/QoV

We had a fanastic show and tell. Here is Blanches Bow Tie quilt with the blocks that she had won a few years ago. It is hand quilted and the Bow Ties are sashed with attic windows!


Here is Adele's Northwoods quilt that she also hand quilted.

Lori made a banner for her church, i'm sure they are going to love it.

We had a great response for the kids bags for Family Services...way to go ladies!

Our program for the evening was curved piecing and everyone got to sit down and try one. Our new comfort block has curved piecing, it is a cute turtle block that will make a great kids quilt. The guild provided the background fabric and members use their own fabric for the turtles. I have posted pictures of the three i made on my blog if you where not there to see them.

The complete block for our Mystery quilt project was revealed at the meeting and next month you will get the border instructions. We are all looking forward to seeing how everyone's turned out.

Have a great month quilting!

March Meeting Reminder

March 17 is our next meeting and i just want to remind you that we will be having a machine quilting lesson in the afternoon from 1 to 5pm. So if your interested in practicing your quilting we will have small cat and dog quilts for everyone to work on. Bring your sewing machine, extention tables, extention cord, basic sewing kit ( scissors, bobbins, etc), thread that you normally quilt with, and most importantly your walking foot and darning foot. If you have Machingers gloves bring those, i have two pair and the guild had a pair if you have never tried them. Also some paper and a pen for taking notes and for practicing drawing designs before you try them on the quilt.

My plan is to show you how to baste the small quilt on a table, then play with the tension on your machines using your walking foot and darning foot and then start quilting. I think the main goal of the afternoon will be to learn how to adjust tension on your machines ( different threads and feet need different tension) and to get your stitches even when freemotioning. The guild does have pounce and stencils if your feel like trying to follow a design too.



I wanted to add this photo on the last posting but i could only post 5 pictures. So here is what we do after the meetings when we are cleaning up. A few months ago Sandra had told us the story of the quilt her daughters made with fabric from her high school grad dress and we asked her to bring the dress. She brought it to the February meeting and i just had to try it on...see how my sweater matches the binding!! This is such a great picture of Sandra!

See you all at the meeting!