August 2015 Meeting Highlights

The evening meeting had 23 members and 1 guest.  During the day a few members worked on the Apple Core quilt while eight members practiced their Free Motion skills in Kathy's class.

The Spring Tulip comfort quilt blocks are looking really good and will make a beautiful quilt.  You still have another month to work on your blocks.

A good selection of toddler/youth age flannels have been growing in our guild cupboard thanks to our generous members donating fabric. This spring members cut them into strips for me to take home and make Stitch and Flip quilts on my longarm.   The result is these four toddler comfort quilts.

The next UFO day, Saturday September 12th, has now be changed to a Workshop day and the project will be Baby Stitch and Flip quilts made on our domestic machines.   The fabric and batting will be supplied by the guild and member can either bring their machine for sewing or just come and help with the cutting and pressing.  The more hands the better!

It was announced that the theme for the Fat Quarter Exchange at our Christmas party will be 1930's Reproduction fabric.
Members are also reminded that we will be again collecting Placemats for Meals on Wheels at our Christmas party.

Shari Dyck from Road 17 N in Winkler as offered to send up some quilty goods with her employee Maryanne to our September meeting and set up a small store for us to shop at on guild day.   Then for our October 30th and 31st Retreat Shari will be joining us and setting up a small booth so we can shop her store again!  We are thrilled that Shari is willing to come all this way to join us!

The program for the evening was a YouTube video demonstrating a hand basting technique using boards and a table top. No need to crawl around on the floor.  Here are the videos.
Basting video Part 1   Basting video Part 2

Programs for the next few months are:
September - Biscuit Quilts demonstrated by Marg Faktor
October - English Paper Piecing ( EPP) demonstrated by Audrey Neufeld
November - Paper Piecing the Ice Cream Cone Block demonstrated by Kathy Schwartz

Show and Tell

Here was our special guest for the evening, he was so proud to show off the quilt he made with his grandma Helen!

 Happy Quilting!

Kathy

July 2015 Meeting Highlights

We had 19 members at our evening meeting for July, first one I have missed in a long time!    I heard during the day the guild members worked on the Apple Core blocks and that they got a good start on that quilt.  Also the Snow Ball blocks were put together into a quilt top so I'm anxious to see that one too.    I was able to quilt the Black and White quilt, seen above and Phyl is stitching on the binding.  I also quilted the Fancy Fox quilt that will be used as a day raffle at our next quilt show in April.

The new comfort block is called Spring Tulips and was demonstrated by Sheri. The guild is supplying the stem and background fabric, members supply the leaf and tulip fabric.

 
All the dates for the meetings, UFO days and October Retreat can be found on the blogs sidebar.  The next UFO day is August 15.

Free Motion Class in August

I have offered to teach a Free Motion Class during the afternoon of August 18th which is the meeting day.  I'll be sending out an email with all the information and if you are interested in taking the class please email me so I know there is interest.  schwartzk@mynetset.ca
Please bring your sewing machine, darning foot, thread and fabric ( fat quarter size)  for making quilt sandwiches for practicing on.  Also a pencil and note book for drawing or even better as a small white erase board or 12"x 18" piece of Plexiglas with dry erase pen for sketching designs on top of quilts.
I'll be helping those interesting in learning how to pin basting the quilt sandwiches in the morning and will have scraps of batting for members to use.
The class will start at 1pm and we will get right into quilting background designs and then work on border designs.

Show and Tell

Hope you are all enjoying these warm sunny days!

Kathy

June 2015 Meeting Highlights

Time to catch up on the blog posts now that I'm back from holidays!   There were 36 members and 1 guest present for our June meeting.  During the day we pieced together two Christmas Raffle quilts using the Perfect 10 pattern.

Audrey completed the wall hanging for the PCH.

The program for the evening was a binding refresher by Audrey.  After that Kathy showed a method on how NOT to cut bias binding and then the proper method on how to cut bias binding strips.

There are still two spots available for the Swan River Retreat in September and there is still time to sigh up!

Highway 10 Designs has a new table runner and place mat pattern called Detour.  Here are a few samples.

Show and Tell

Here are all the lovely project our guild members shared at the June meeting.

Robin and Nadine are still busy making kids quilts to donate to the Ronald McDonald House in Saskatoon.