September 2009 Meeting Highlights

Thirty members and one guest came out to the meeting on a very warm September 16th.

The SPCA sent a Thank You note for the cat and dog quilts. We had to cancel our afternoon quilting since the church was having a funeral. However we will continue to practice our machine quilting on more cat and dog quilts on the afternoon of the November meeting.

The Saskatoon Quilters's Guild Quilt Show is on October 23/24. The Northern Country Crafters Christmas sale is on November 7.in Creighton. We will be taking part in this sale. Two tables will be booked, and anyone with quilted items for sale will be able to sell them at the table.

Lorie is demonstrating our next comfort block. This features Prairie points, which was the program for the evening. Feel free to sign for and pick up a kit next meeting.
There will be a comfort day at the church on September 29th from 9 -4. We will be working on our quilts of Comfort and Remembrance and our quilts of Valour on that day. You can see some of the blocks on our design wall. Ray B was kind enough to cut out a large number of blocks to make more maple leaf squares for the Quilts of Valour. If you have any squares completed please send or bring them to the comfort day.

A quilting retreat will be held at the Victoria Inn on November 21.

The mystery quilt's first month's instructions were demonstrated by Sandra and Rae. It will be a 6 - 7 month project resulting in a wall hanging (33 x 46 1/2) It can be seasonal and/or scrappy.

Here is a photo of the first block. Tree and star placement can be creative.

For the October afternoon workshop Kathy will be teaching the Celtic Knot. A hand out of the materials needed was provided. Members are asked to have their designs drawn on the background fabric before the workshop. Kathy will be placing an order through A Great notion for the Steam A Seam 2 and the clover bias maker. Please let her know by the weekend. She also has some fat quarter batiks available for purchase.

The October evening program will be unique rulers and a refresher on paper piecing. Members are asked to bring any unique rulers they may have and the instructions on their use.

The Christmas party was discussed. Yellow is the colour for the fat quarter exchange. A volunteer is needed to write the story. The Christmas project is an embellishment project. Kits were handed out to use. Here is one way to use the kit.

Kathy finished quilting her mystery quilt

Sandra S displayed her church banner

Robin whipped up some eye glass cases

Nadine is making ragtime quilts

Lynn with her baby blanket

Lorie proudly displayed her Bargello quilt. She won the blocks from the quild, made a few more of her own. Kathy let her quilt it on her long arm. Lorie and Kathy with their prize winning wall hanging.

Eileen finished all her Chenille work.

Sandra displayed her Jelly roll quilt

Lorna finished her mystery.

Happy Quilting!

Change of Plans

Dear Members,

Unfortunately the United Church is having a funeral on Tuesday afternoon.
We will have to cancel machine quilting in the afternoon, but we will still be able to work quietly on other projects.
Please pass this information on to the other members

August 2009 Meeting

We had 25 members and 2 quests turn out for our meeting on Wednesday evening.

Robin demonstrated the Split leaves with assistance from Marg Lyle.


We are ready to start on the Comfort and Remembrance blocks, so if any of the members have any of the kits out, please complete them and return to the next meeting.
We have patterns available for the maple leafs for the quilts of Valour and the presidents blocks. As seen in the photo below.
If members choose they can bring a bright fat quarter to the next afternoon in September and work in groups to complete the president's block.


For the September 15th guild day, there will be basting in the AM and practicing machine quilting in the afternoon. Members are to bring their own machines and flannel quilt sandwiches to use to practice machine quilting in making small quilts for the SPCA. The cat size is 20 x 20 and the dog size is 36 x 38.

The bird house quilt will be our raffle quilt for the spring quilt show, and one of the Bargello quilts will be used as a raffle quilt for the November Craft show.
We will be donating a quilt to the Teen challenge program in Denare Beach.

A comfort quilt day will be held on September 29 if the church is available, and a tentative date for the Quilt retreat is either November 14th or 21st.


These are some of the quilt tops we were working on during the day, at out meeting. We had a nice turn out of members and we really got a lot done.

Here are the blue popcicles put together in a wonky format.

The blue and pink popcicles, just need borders


The turtle blocks have gone together into two nice tops, they also just need borders

The two pointless wonder quilt tops are all completed. Just have to be basted for quilting.