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!