OPEN HOUSE, etc.

Hi Everyone:

Another successful meeting on Tuesday.
We discussed our Open House on
October 5th and made final plans.
Hopefully we'll meet some new quilters
and see some old friends!!!

Barbara has just finished a show with
2 other artists and brought us a couple
of her smaller quilts to show us.

The first one is her thoughts on
Montreal in the summer!!







Next, in memory of Lac Megantic.
Very moving.








And last, well, of course, babies!!









Here's Allison with a sample of
Folded Japanese Patchwork.
The backing square is larger
than the front square, and is
folded over the sewn down.
Get it?  Well, a little confusing, but
beautiful!!!  Wasn't made by our
Guild though.  Too bad!









Anna has issued the Guild a challenge
to come up with a quilt based on triangles
by the end of the year!  Here she's showing
us an example of what can be done -
"Broken Dishes".

Rita - problem solving and
the next quilt being made for
a co-workers baby.  Once
again - LUCKY CO WORKERS!!








Mary's MYSTERY QUILT!!!
Yeah, only one year later!!
Hey, who am I to talk, some
people, who shall remain
nameless, NEVER finished!!
Congrats Mary!!!

Our donation to the
Quilts of Valour.
Beautiful!!  Pieced by
guild members, machine
quilted by Sandra and
bound my Mary.  Great
job everyone!!!  One
more to go .....

And a HUGE BRAVO!!! to Charlotte -
we are finally getting to see one of
her pieces.  Pretty fantastic!!  Now
to the machine quilting.  Also her
first attempt.  Brave soul!!!
Congratulations Charlotte.
Looking forward to the next
one.




That's all for now folks.
Remember everyone,
Saturday, October 5th
is our Open House at the
church in our regular room.
Please come and spend
some time with us.  If you're
no longer a member, we
would love to see you.

Sandra

BACK FROM RETREAT!! -

Well, we're back from another hugely successful retreat -
needing a little sleep probably, but wonderfully satisfied
 with all the work we accomplished!!!!
 I'll give you a little "Show and Tell" of our weekend.

 Anna has issued a "challenge" to make a quilt (small) using triangles in some fashion. Here she is hard at work preparing all sorts of samples to inspire us!!













  Next, Rita, our super-producer,is making a quilt  "Wedding Quilt" for a co-worker who's getting married soon. Don't we all wish we worked with       a co-worker like that!!!








Here's a small portion of that quilt. Beautiful, eh?!!! Of course, we all know Rita will be finished, by, let's see,  10:00??!!

Marilyn, our import from Sudbury,  wants me to note that she is actually working on something
traditional - if you can call working with Kaffe Fasset fabrics - traditional!

 Of course, Marilyn does a gazillion other things, one of which is dying fabric.  So she and Allison gave us two different techniques dying fabric.  Fascinating!!!

This is the fabric in the fridge.













And this is the result!  Fabulous!!!!








                       




Mary shows off the quilt she is working on from a
 Sheila Wintle class she took. We won't tell you when
 the class was, but suffice to say "better late than never"!!






And here's the finished project.  WOW!!!  Good
job, Mary!!


















Linda was working on a quilt for her husband.
Modern Maze is a gorgeous quilt using all grays,
blacks and whites. And that shot of RED!  I think he'll be very happy!!!








Mary's working on a quilt of her own design              for her grand-daughter who is a hockey  fanatic!!!  Mary is actually hand quilting this one.  That's a lot of work!!  

                                         




Allison is VERY happy with her project - paper piecing,
morphing oregami birds!?!?  You have to ask Allison.
Allison moves to the beat of her own drum, you can
tell by the little red wires hanging out of her ears!! :)













Here's Sandra working on a quilt using fabric
she bought about 10 years ago for a workshop
and never used - well, not all of it anyway.  She
finally found a pattern that she thinks suits the
crazy fabric.







And here's that crazy fabric!!  Pretty bright!!

France working hard on Wagon Wheels.
 For her husband, maybe, if he's lucky!!










                                                                                   
                                                                                         And finally, two very important times of the day - tea time :) and food time!!!

It was a great weekend and everyone seemed to have a super time. Good friends, good camaraderie and good quilting!!! What more can you ask for!!! Can't wait for next year!

 Sandra

2013 PROGRAMME

Hi Everyone:

Glad to see Mary is right on the ball and has posted already!!!

I thought I just give a run down of all the dates planned until 2014. It's going to be a very exciting busy start to our year.

Sept. 24  -   We will be busy preparting for our Open House which you read about in Mary's blog.  There'll be lots going on for people to check out!!!.

Oct. 5    -    Open House

Oct. 15   -  Audrey will be giving a Folded Star demo and workshop.Hopefully we can make a bunch of these table protectors to be sold at our quilt show.

Oct. 19    -   CQQ Annual Meeting

Oct. 29     -   Paper Cloth demo and workshop by Barbara Sweeney. New and exciting!!!

Nov. 19    -   Diane Shink will be giving us a workshop - "Crazy Hankies".Sounds like fun. Gather up any old handies you might have.

Dec.    --- Date to be settled - Xmas Pot Luck Supper.

Lots and lots of activities - hopefully will lead to lots and lots of new quilts!!!:)

Sandra

Back For Another Season

We had our first meeting of the season last night. There was a good turn out with 12 quilters, which is almost all our members. We discussed all things about the coming year. We have been shrinking the last few years and so a priority is new members. We are having an Open House October 5, 2013 from 10 -2 PM  at Montreal West United Church with quilters working and talking and kits for visitors to try their hand at quilting. We are hoping for some interest.

Barbara and Linda worked hard all summer setting up a program and dates are filled until April. All members will be in charge of an evening with a demonstration, workshop or a discussion about quilting.

We are going to our retreat this weekend at Ermitage St Croix and I for one can't wait.

Anna already had our year's challenge ready for us; so think "Triangles". You have time as it is not due until the closing dinner in June.

There were lots of show and tell items. People had been busy during the summer.

 France finished a quilt top started at a retreat three years ago with out enough fabric for the binding and so will show us half binding later in the year.

Sandra machine quilted our second Quilt for Valour.

Linda had almost finished her Sheila Wintle paper pieced Hearts! In green and upside down they become trees.

Mary finally finished her "Circles" from the Bethany Garner Workshop in 2011. 

 Triangles cut and flipped

More Sashiko

Allison was busy all summer doing many projects and techniques.  She also showed an impasto painting she made at a workshop.

Stenciling and painting on fabric
Bordered with suiting fabric

Jae learned paper piecing with Sandra during the summer and she is a great student! Beautiful daffodils all machine quilted and if that wasn't enough she also pieced and finished another quilt. Nice bright colours and some fabric she got from Rita.

France had another quilt top ready to practice machine quilting

France made a pair of hot pads Audrey will teach us how to make a similar but different one at our meeting October 15

Anna had her fabric Bingo card ready to play.