Meeting Highlights for May 27th

Tuesday was a beautiful sunny day, and we were inside working on sunny fabric. These are the quilt tops we worked on during the day. That uses up all the sixteen patch blocks our members sewed and donated to the guild. The evening business portion of the meeting was spent reviewing our April quilt show and receiving reports from the various committees. We felt our show was an overall success. A big hand of applause to all the volunteers who worked so hard to make it a success.

In the photo below you will see our happy CQA Rosette Winners for Best Of Show. Alene with her hand quilted log cabin, and Adele with her lovely snowman quilt. Alene also won our Viewers Choice Award with her log cabin quilt.

The Round Robin showing is always very exciting. Our challenge was to either make the item a square or a rectangle. How do you think we did?


We have a new comfort square for the next two months. The pattern is available at Faktor's. We are making 6 1/2 inch friendship stars. Bright coloured stars with white and black or black and white background.

We are going to sell raffle tickets on our Canadianna Quilt for a couple of weeks during homecoming this June and July. We are not asking our members to take a book of tickets home, but if Marg phones you to come out and sell tickets on Main Street or at Extra Foods, please consider volunteering a couple hours of your time. We think the extra funds would be very nice to purchase fabric for our comfort quilts.

Happy Quilting!

Dreaming of Bears and Geese

The North Star Quilt Guild created a quilt that celebrates our northern roots and our close relationship with nature. The name of our quilt comes from the use of the traditional Bear Paw and Flying Geese blocks that form the quilt top. Guild members spent many hours piecing then ripping stitches then piecing again to get the design just right. The quilting designs represent our northern wilderness and the natural elements that surround us. Follow the bear as he moves through a day, as shown by the traveling sun and the dancing northern lights. Geese fly toward the woven center with winds swirling beside. In the outer border eagles soar and catch their prey that inhabit our northern lakes.

We hope you enjoy our interpretation of our northern community.

Highlights of the April 2008 Meeting

The meeting highlights are a little late this month, but I will try and cover what I remember.

We spent the day getting ready for the big quilt show. We got a quilt to the basting stage for the frame on the stage, and we partly assembled a quilt to show one in progress. Kathy had to watch the sewing crew that day, as we all wanted to continue on and complete the quilt top.

The meeting that evening covered every one's jobs for the quilt show.

The list of the new executive was presented as follows:

Past President Evelyn B
President - Lorna H
Vice President - Kathy S
Secretary, Eileen M
Treasurer - ?

Committee Chairs

Membership - Raye W and Yvonne H
Programs - Marg F and Lori S
Cookies - Robin M
Blog - Sandra D
Special Events - Rae B
Comfort Quilts - Marg H

Of course we presented the next level of our round robin. We were to emphasize the existing shape. What do you think? I think they all look just great.


' Here is our Past President Rae showing off her completed Past President's quilt.
This is a lovely photo of our 2008 Quilt of Comfort and Remembrance.

Here is an interesting link. The CQA has posted all of their Trend Tex competition quilts on line for the 2008 Quilt Conference in Newfoundland. Even if you are not interested in the conference, go to this link just to enjoy the 100 plus quilts.

http://www.canadianquilter.com/events/index_events_ttc2008.htm

Happy Quilting!

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