Culture Days

On Sept 24 and 25 we had a Quilting Station set up at the Creighton Sportex Rink as part of the Culture Days Art Show and Artist Demostrations.  Friday was for the school programming and I was surprised at the number of kids that did stop by and try to free motion.  We had small quilt sandwiches made up for anyone who wanted to give it a try and then we donate them to the local SPCA for cat quilts.

 As you can see it was VERY cold in that rink and I didn't take my jacket off until after lunch.

Here are some guild member entries in the Art Show that was taking place on the other end of the rink.

October Meeting Reminders

Just a reminder to all that our guild meeting day is Tuesday, October 19th. We will start our day at 9:00 a.m. and our meeting at 7:00 p.m. Come any time during the day or come just for the meeting. All of us are looking forward to seeing you on Tuesday. 

Morning: Personal projects and guild projects. If you plan to work on your own projects, please bring your machine.
Afternoon: “Get to Know Your Sewing Machine”. Bring your machine and your manual. Guild projects will continue for those who prefer to work on them.
Evening Program: Stash Mangagement—This will be a round table where we all get to share our ideas and methods of managing our fantastic stashes. Remember stashes are not just fabric, but thread and batting too. Bring your ideas, samples, pictures and anything you need to demonstrate your ideas.

Also remember:
Tuesday evening is the deadline for SPCA pet theme blocks. Blocks may be any size.
Return your Maple Leaf and Simple Pinwheel blocks for Quilts of Valour
Bring copies of the recipes for the cookies, cakes, muffins, dips and other treats that you have brought in the past to guild meetings or retreats, or are bringing to guild on Tuesday. Give these to Robin or Audrey and we will see they are compiled into a recipe book for the next quilt show. Let’s try to remember a copy of the recipe each time we bring treats to share.

Happy stitching,
Audrey

September 2010

36 member and 2 Guests where at the September 21 meeting.

Lorie and Kathy demonstrated the first month of the new Mystery quilt.


We had several ladies show their completed quilted bag from the August afternoon workshop



The Northern Country Crafters are having their craft show in the Creighton Community Hall on November 6th. The Guild will be renting 2 tables.

The guild is having their retreat on Nov 12 and 13th at the church.

Christmas Party items to remember included: the 8 1/2 inch Toy themed block, a blue fat quarter for the game, the scrap challenge (members make an item out of just their scraps and bring it to the party) and our Meals on Wheels place mats donation.

The Christmas party will be Wednesday December 15th.

The comfort block for September/October is displayed below. More kits are available for making maple leaf blocks for the Quilts of Valour.



A new project was introduced. An Alphabet quilt. This quilt will be entered in the next Juried Art Show. At the next meeting packets will be handed out with an alphabet letter and ideas for making 12 1/2 inch blocks. These blocks will be due in February.

The deadline for the blocks for the SPCA Raffle quilt is the October meeting so the quilt can be competed before Feb/March.


Comfort quilt to be completed and given to a young girl under going Chemo.

Members who bring cookies for the break are asked to bring a copy of the recipe. A cookbook of these recipes will be compiled to sell at the next quilt show.

The October program will be personal and guild quilting in the morning. Getting to know your sewing machine (bring your machine and manual) will be the afternoon activity. the evening topic will be stash management. (Bring your ideas to share of how you store your fabric)

Sandra and Audry with their quilts from the Bible group

Rae with her completed worm quilt

Marg's Attic Windows

and the other Marg's Stack and Whack

Eileen's Baby Quilt

Good bye till Christmas. Until then

Happy Quilting!

Culture Days

Just a note about entering your quilts into the Culture Days Art Show.   I was talking to the organizers and they informed me that only three people have entered quilts so they have extended the deadline on the forms to Sept 15. So if you were thinking about entering a quilt or just forgot, you still have time to enter.

Kathy

Primary Health Care Quilts

Here is a photo of our quilt hanging in the lobby of the Primary Health Care Centre

Cranapple Coffee Cake

Cranapple Coffee Cake

2 cups flour

1 1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp salt

1 cup Brown sugar packed

1/2 cup oil

2 eggs

1 1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce

1 cup coarsely grated red apple

1 cup halved fresh or frozen cranberries

Preheat oven to 350

Grease and flour a bundt pan.

Combine flour, baking, soda, cinnamon, baking powder and salt.

In a large bowl, beat applesauce, brown sugar, egg, and oil.

Beat in flour mixture until smooth. Fold in cranberries and apple

Bake 45 - 55 minutes.

Cool in pan on rack for about 10 minutes. Invert and place cake on rack to cool.

This recipes is submitted by Lorie S.