Outreach Program
A total of 17 pillowcases came in today. Childcan have enough pillowcases for now.
101 pillowcases were made in total.
15 new Outreach quilts came in today. Over 203 will be delivered.
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Evelyn Evers from Sombra, Ontario presented a trunk show. Yvette talked about last Monday’s full day workshop on curved rulers by Joan Hilhorst. Thank you, Yvette for your photos! Outreach ProgramMarlene Dunlap gave a summary of the Outreach Program. A total of 17 pillowcases came in today. Childcan have enough pillowcases for now. 101 pillowcases were made in total. 15 new Outreach quilts came in today. Over 203 will be delivered. Show and Share Don't forget to bring a treat for our June social. We'll have a silent auction for donated kits.
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Lots of activity going on at Let's Quilt Day. Books to sign out and magazines to purchase. Visiting and stitching. Some stayed for the remainder of the day. Thank you Jette-Ray Collins for the following pictures and comments: Debbie Wyatt with three Victoria quilts. Gwen McCall’s quilt Chloe pinning her big quilt. Marlene Dunlop’s quilt for a friend. Lisa with Missouri Star, sewing on her Featherweight machine from 1943… Jette-Ray Collins's quilt.
Ninety members attended today's meeting to hear "the quilting biker", Linda McLaren describe her amazing quilts including the quilting Linda did on each. Outreach ProgramMarlene Dunlap provided a summary of where the Outreach is; 26 quilts and 19 pillow cases came in today. Year-to-date 186 quilts and 49 pillow cases have been received by the Outreach team. Wow! Show and ShareKelley Richardson demonstrated two techniques for binding quilt blocks together. 12 members practiced on their own blocks to much success. A fun afternoon!
Camilla Bignell provided a marvellous demonstration today, walking us through each step of creating and embellishing a Crazy Quilted Bag. Below are her instructions attached as a pdf.
Chloe Truman, hand stitched the top of her Hugs and kisses quilt, pinning it today to prepare for hand quilting. Outreach Program QuiltsThank you to Gail Kreek for taking the pictures and writing up the notes here. On a beautiful sunny but still cool wintry morning, 75 members and 3 guests attended the February meeting of the Thames Valley Quilters Guild. Our guest presenter, Paul Taylor, began the meeting with a video entitled “How a Sewing Machine Works.” The video demonstrated an excellent see-through animation of a sewing machine as it forms stitches and feeds fabric. Paul talked about thread tension, needle timing and feed timing, hoping to make sewing machines and their inner workings less mysterious and more approachable. He then showed a series of slides, “Stories from the Service Trenches,” demonstrating the difficulties he has seen when servicing machines. Many of these problems were lint related, and underlined the importance of cleaning the feed dogs and bobbin area on a regular basis. Paul describes himself as a freelance sewing machine technician. He has a background in electronics and began this area of work in 2016 in a shop in Burlington and now works out of his home. Paul’s wife, Leann Goodall was also present and is the current president of the Halton Quilters Guild. His company website is: www.sewtec.ca. His presentation was very informative and he was able to answer many questions. There are two pictures of Paul, he made the quilt he is showing. The last picture under "Show and Share" was made by Paul's wife. Show and ShareMarlene Dunlop did a wonderful demonstration on how to use the easy angle triangle and companion rulers. Outreach Program QuiltsProjectsDale Box finished piecing the squares for her group share Sunshine and Shadows quilt. Karen Luo did some hand sewing on her project. LibraryLots of books to borrow and these for sale! After the meeting, the Executive met. One of the results was that starting at our next "Let's Quilt Day" we will all be responsible for bringing our own refreshments and snacks. There were two coffee stations and a separate snack station at this meeting, resulting in fewer folks in a lineup and a safer egress in the case of an emergency. Ann Lyons from Stache Fabrics & Notions presented a trunk show. OutreachThe yellow quilt below is an example of a kit Marlene gave away today. The sashing is cut 2 inches and sewn on each side of the eye spy quilt, then the rows are joined with a strip of sashing. Show & ShareThank you Jette Collins for taking the photos today! Books and puzzles for sale: Display of quilts: The custodian is quilting as well, now. Members Show and Share: Wow, what a great table of options!
Marilyn Speight is hand sewing her Lori Smith patterned project and plans on hand quilting, as well. Christine Van Dyk is designing the blocks for each calendar month. When hand sewing her folk art, Christine also prefers to hand quilt her work. Here are January and March. Dale Box worked on another set of her "Bowl Pillows". Linda Cox uses a website with excellent prices for Gutermann thread, zippers, needles etc: wawak.com. Sherry Milne is a new member in our club, as well as a fairly new quilter. She is making placemats to perfect her quilting skills. Irene Philip is new to our guild but has been quilting for over 22 years. We found Meribeth Dunkerley currently calling this one "her cursing quilt". Wilma Jansen is another long time quilter (25 years) who has recently joined our guild. Marlene Dunlap is working on her music themed quilt. Outreach ProgramTwo more quilts came in today for the Outreach Program.
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