​2022 membership cards and new member name tags are still available to be picked up.

Maribeth Dunkerley shared her quilt for her grandson. She used a pattern and material from Mt. Brydges. Karen Luo quilted it.

 ​Mary Aldworth has invited those members who are interested to participate in fabric exchange to produce SUNSHINE and SHADOWS QUILTS.
Using the same concept as a cookie exchange to make work lighter, members interested in making their own Sunshine and Shadows Scrap Quilt will cut and then exchange pieces needed to produce nine patch squares.
Participants will bring cut and share with others in the group
1. Three, 3” squares in three different medium and/or dark colors
2. Three, 3” in different light colors
3. Two 3 ¾ “ squares (one in a light coloured fabric and one in a dark coloured fabric.)
After multiple swaps at our monthly meetings, participants can produce the squares needed to construct their own SUNSHINE and SHADOWS quilt.
Interested members were invited to sign up. Details will be emailed to them.
Members not interested in making their own quilts are invited to donated 3” squares if they wish

​Mary shared a tip suggesting we can use a larger embroidery hoop to keep the material in all 3 layers taut when quilting a larger quilt, moving it to another place as required.
 
Linda Cox shared a tip for sorting our stash by getting different coloured baskets from the dollar store.

Marlene Dunlap and Trish Gamble want to thank everyone that cut squares for Eye Spy outreach kits. Also, for taking some kits to sew at home. The day was very successful. A special thank you to Yvette Glenn for helping outreach prior to all our meetings. Yvette shops for batting and stores fabric and she is on the program committee to. Busy lady.

​Marlene Dunlap also announced that at the next meeting a basket will be out again for items going to My Sister's Place that supports women who are homeless.

A wish list of things they are accepting can be located at: https://cmhamiddlesex.ca/about-cmha/msp/
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Fabrics were again offered for sale by outreach

Outreach Quilts were on display behind Mary Aldworth's demonstration.

​Bonnie Hall explained she put out forms for members to purchase jams and jellies to raise funds for The May Court Club of London that provides support for the nutrition programs for over 70 schools in London.

At our “Let’s Quilt Day” on Nov. 23rd, we can extend the meeting, accommodating twenty sewing machines at $3.00 each for the rest of the day to 4:00 pm.

Chloe Truman has been hand quilting for 40 years using the English paper piecing technique from the 1800s. This amazing work is all hand done.

Our first meeting for the 2022 - 2023 season! Thank you Carol Tracy for the photos.
​Executive
President – Deb Owens
Vice-President - Lynda Cox
Past President –Meribeth Dunkerley
Secretary – Mary Aldworth (no picture)
Treasurer – Susan McVittie

 ​Boy, the ladies are still finishing quilts for outreach!

If your clean scraps are too small to become part of your stash, Glen Gorman 226 600 0136 will take them off of your hands for a project he is working on for his son.

  Three more ready to go:

We arrived and signed in for our last meeting of the year.

​Marlene Dunlap and Trish Gamble lead the TVQG Outreach Program. Marlene let us know, this year the guild made:

1. 26 quilts for Anova (second stage housing helping new mothers, any size quilts from babies to lap size);
2. 12 quilts for YOU (youth opportunity unlimited, 30-bed housing helping young people for one year. Lap size quilts)
3. and 92 quilts for the Nashwaasnangong Indigenous day care for babies to six-year-old children.

Quilt kits are available at each meeting, as well as over the summer. For anyone interested please contact Marlene or Trish. Above are four examples.

​Libby Thorne and Barbara Smith have a huge job maintaining our library. It would be very much appreciated if all items out for any length of time, be returned. Please consider giving them a hand when our fall meetings start.

Deb Owen’s opened our very first Let’s Quilt Day in two years at the Westview Baptist Church, our new location. We had time to interact with one another, browse in the library and observe two demonstrations.

How to make half square triangles was shown to us by Marlene Dunlap. The easy angle ruler and companion angle ruler were used together. This method wastes nothing.
There are many videos on line to explain how to use the easy angle ruler, here are two:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll7yDcsbBDk
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSwJJVqGom

​Dorothy Maynard demonstrated how to weave with fabric strips.  This technique was inspired by watching a YouTube video showing women in Senegal weaving grass baskets. One-inch strips of fabric, cut on the straight grain, are pressed through the 1/2 inch Clover bias tape maker to ensure they are all exactly the same width and then the strips are pinned and woven onto the sticky side of fusible interfacing. She also demonstrated how to put the backing on to produce pillows, placemats, coasters, etc.