Hi Everyone:

Well, as you know yesterday was the AGM of the CQQ. It was a great day to be indoors talking anything quilt or quilt related. It was cold, rainy and windy, in general - miserable. Saw an incredible rainbow on the way home - you could see it almost end to end!! Beautiful!! (no pics unfortunately, couldn't stop the car on the bridge).

But I do have pics of the group of us that went hard at work making the block for the CQQ quilt. This quilt will be raffled off at the AGM in 2013. Great reason to attend the meeting!! You can't see her, but in there anyway is Marilyn (now known as Serafina). It was great to see her again and hear about all her new ventures and adventures. Always fun to see Marilyn, oops, Serafina!!
















The next shot is of our group showing off all
our community service projects. Good job ladies.
So many of the guilds had community projects
to show and they are fabulous, from quilts of
valour for our soldiers, bags with blankets for
cancer patients, pillows for breast cancer patients,
the list goes on and on. What a caring bunch quilters are!!



And this is the picture of some of the group from Bethany's class and their results. I think you'll agree - beautiful work!!



Many thanks to the Lachute guild who did a wonderful job. We had plenty of hot coffee and tea to greet us in the morning and huge amounts of sweets. Also four vendors with plenty for everyone. Hard not to spend some money!!

Hopefully, next year we have even a larger group. It's a fun day and it's great to see other quilters we've met over the years and don't get to see that often.

Sandra

Tuesday's Guild Meeting

Hi Everyone:
A quick update on what's happening. Two main topics tonight - the CQQ AGM and Jennifer's Trunk Show. I guess about 8 - 10 of us will be heading up to Lachute with our "circle" or "design" quilts from our workshop. We won the bursury last year to be used for a teacher, so we have to show our 'stuff'.


We will be bringing our Christmas placemats for
Meals on Wheels and our Mom quilts for
Elizabeth House, one of which is pictured below.

Sure can't be sad looking at this quilt!!



Next order of business was the Trunk Show on October 18th, put on by Jennifer of Picket Fence in Brockville. She will also be bringing some goodies for us to buy!!! Needless to say we are all looking forward to that evening!!



This is our inhouse artist - Audrey! And boy, is she good. When she's not producing fabulous quilts, she does some incredible art. Here is a small sketch she whipped up. Pretty impressive, eh!! Very talented lady.







Now Show and Tell.










This is our new member Rita.
There's simply no stopping her.
We are all going to be playing
'catch up' to this young quilter

On our left is Julia with her wonky stars all made out of scrap fabric. Really pretty!!

And on the right is Mary, with her very creative "circles" design from our workshop with Bethany Garner. Beautiful!!!

Well, I guess you're all up-to-date now. We're all looking forward to our next meeting and Trunk Show with Jennifer. Hopefully some of our friends from the "Co-Op Quilters" will be with us. Entrance fee is non-perishable food for the food bank. See you then!!!



Sandra

Tip for Today!

For those of you that don't get "The Quilt Show", here is an excellent tip from Sharon Pederson!!

When you are using a book to make a quilt, take the book to somewhere like Bureau en Gros and have them 'coil bind' the book. This will allow the book to lie flat. Also, at the same time you can insert some 'pocket' pages, or plastic envelopes, to hold all your miscellaneous notes, etc.

Great idea!!

Sandra