Hi Everyone:

We had a great meeting on Tuesday night!! Mary, shown below, gave us a demo on making "Hot Dog" pillow cases. Yup, you read right, Hot Dog. A really nifty idea. The border and trim are done in such a way as to have no exposed seams!! The side and bottom seams are finished with French seams. Great lesson!! I am sure all our boudoirs are going to be sporting jazzy new pillowcases shortly. Thanks Mary!!

Here's Diane with her 'almost finished' quilt. This was a challenge issued by Great lakes Seaway Trail 1812 Bicentennial Quilt Show Museum. This is a Canadian interpretation of a 'cot to coffin' quilt circa 1812. British Frame style design based on Copp quilt at the Smithsonian.

This is Rita's new quilt.

These are definitly not
Rita's usual colours

but they sure are WOW

colours and we all think they're

great!!

This last one is Barbara's. She not

feeling great about it,

but she certainly got overruled,

'cause we think it's fabulous!!!

So that's about it for now, but stay tuned, more is sure to come.

Sandra

Hi:

Sorry I'm a little tardy this week!!

Tuesday night was all about "Tips 'n' Tricks". Julia was there to give us some advice on choosing our fabrics for our Mystery Quilt and next meeting she'll have our second clue. That should help us a lot !?!?!

I talked about Lance, my new favourite sewing machine servicer (?) who picks up and delivers - can't beat that!!

Pam and Allison attended a Postcard workshop held by Loose Threads and had a great time and produced some great postcards!

Anna talked about her recent trip to Ottawa and

her visit to the Running Stitch.

She showed us her signed (by the owner) copy of

Quilt Sampler. Quite a coop!!

Diane is on to her new

project and is showing

the center panel,

and also her latest

baby quilt.

Here's Julia with her latest. Some of the fabrics

picked up at one of our fabric exchanges - how lucky!!

And finally Mary with her paper piecing project and some great ideas on how to make it easier.

Well, that's about it for now. Next meeting Feb. 21. See you then!!

Sandra

Keen Bunch of Quilters

Hi Everyone:

Last night a keen bunch of quilters weathered the 'storm' and made it to the meeting. Allison and Barbara have been working hard putting together a pile of fabrics and a pattern for our next raffle quilt. We have almost 2 1/2 years to work on this - good thing too as we need over 200 squares!!! Allison had prepared the backing fabric and everyone was busy cutting fabric into strips. Now the work at home starts!

There was a small Show and Tell, but mostly everyone had brought only working supplies.

I finally finished

the scrappy, strippy quilt
for one of the moms at Elizabeth House.
That's 3 that members have finished now
and are ready to be delivered.
They were great fun to put
together and so easy!!

I also managed to finish
the work I started in the Fall at Bethany

Garner's "Creative Design
in Patchwork" workshop. I think,
maybe, possibly, I got my big toe
poking out of the 'box'!! It was
lots of fun and more work than I
thought. It's kinda hard not
cutting straight, not matching
seams and corners!

And here's Allison, who NEVER has problems getting out of the box! You can't see it, but her beautiful Sashiko has buttons and is beaded. Beautiful!!!

And, Mary, with her gorgeousl quilting!!

So I guess that about covers last night's meeting. For me it's the first time back since before Christmas and it was wonderful to see everyone!!!! It's great fun when we're all working on a common project!!! Don't forget the meeting is next week, Feb. 7th. See you then!!

Sandra