WEQuilters at the CQQ Annual Meeting

On Saturday, October 18, 2014, seven of our members drove to Rawdon for the CQQ AGM. We had a good guild presence as we had won two bursaries last year and were showing the results of our workshop and community project. We had to leave home at 7:30 so we were all ready for the coffee and breads prepared by the Rawdon Guild when we arrived. We were soon working on our mystery blocks. We had to bring two five inch squares of either blue or pink flowered material and were each given four small white squares to sew onto the corners. Many people were finished their squares before the instructions were given. 

The meeting began, changes to the by-laws were approved and all the executive positions were filled.  None of us volunteered. The CQQ now has it's first male president. Denis Justin Lajoie from Art Sous La Quilt Guild in the Outaouais put his name in for president and as there were no other nominations he was acclaimed! At coffee and lunch time we sold some of our Raffle Quilt tickets. A good start to our show. Charlotte was the best sales person.

Charlotte, Mary T, Linda, Roz, Rita and Sandra having lunch.

Mary T, Linda, Roz, Rita and Mary S with our new president, Denis Justin Lajoie in the back left.

 These are some of the mystery blocks, blue and pink being assembled. We will see if they make two quilts, one of each colour.

 This is the mystery quilt made two years ago and won by Vendor Phyllis Moody.

 We proudly displayed our banner.

 There were over 150 members at the meeting including a few men and three vendors.

Here are some of our Elaine Quehl quilts. They were displayed during the meeting and then we held them up and explained our work towards the end of the meeting. They were very well received especially Audrey's water lilies.

Here are some of our preemie quilts on display. We also held these up and marched them through the room.

There were only a few member's show and tell so the meeting wrapped up at 3 PM and we were back in Montreal in good time just after 4PM until we hit St Jacques West!

Preemie Quilts

 At our last meeting we were showing off our Preemie Quilts and our projects from our Elaine Quehl workshop on Free Form Curves and Liberated Applique. Charlotte finished her preemie quilt and Jae and Priscilla were trying to get a good look at the front. We will take these quilts to the CQQ Annual Meeting in Rawdon to show how we used the bursaries we won last year.

Jae was busy again and made a number of pincushions. She is ready for the pincushion exchange with Loose Threads and also has some to sell in the boutique at our quilt show May 2-3 2015.

We were really happy to see Priscilla, an interested new member. She has recently become interested in quilting and came with some of her work, beautifully made mug rugs.

We hadn't seen Audrey yet this year but she came and showed us she hasn't been just sitting around. Not only does she quilt beautifully but she paints lovely watercolours. 

These are Audrey's Liberated Appliques inspired by Elaine Quehl's workshop; Sun Flower, Tulips and Water Lilies. 

These are a series of watercolours Audrey painted over the summer. We were very glad to see you Audrey and hope to see you again soon.

Here are three quilt tops that Mary S. quilted and bound but it was Rita who did all the piecing. Rita was using up scraps from some of the many, many baby quilts she has made. 

  Mary T. and Rita with two more of Rita's preemie quilts. 

Our meeting finished with Barbara  talking about our show challenge, Dimentional Quilting. She brought a book with ideas and hopes everyone becomes inspired and creates a free standing gem. Its easy, all it need to be is three layers with quilting and be 3 D. She can't wait to see what we all come up with and neither can we!