President’s Message
A Smashing Success!
It’s a fact. Our Quilt Show was a huge success. Thanks to all of you who shared your quilts and/or volunteered over the 3 days of the show. Special thanks to the show chairs Mary Light and Leah Mitchell, and members of the show committee who clocked many, many volunteer hours behind the scenes. Congratulations to all the winners of the Magic of Cloth Challenge and the Viewer’s Choice awards. Bravo!
Welcome to our new members. We’re now a group of 132, with room for only 3 more quilters, due to facility constraints. Watch the newsletter for activities, participate in “Quilting by Association” Saturdays, and community project work bees. Get involved in order to meet and make new friends. The success of our Guild depends on participation.
Your program committee has been working hard, and has interesting speakers lined up for many of our meetings. Look elsewhere in the newsletter for particulars.
Holiday plans are in the making, gifts are in the planning. Share your quilting talents with family and friends. Include an ornament for the Guild exchange, a reversible placemat for Meals on Wheels and perhaps a small quilt for an African child. The church will be open at 1:30 on meeting days in order to work on these projects.
In December we’ll enjoy the annual finger food and dessert potluck supplied by those whose last names begin with A to M. If you’ve an N to Z surname, please bring donations for the food bank. They’d particularly like juice boxes, individual fruit or pudding cups for kid’s lunches, canned fruits and vegetables, as well as toiletries such as tooth paste and hand soap. Our ongoing collection of journals for Family Transition Place replaces Christmas donations for that organization. Participate in a raffle for Heather Stewart’s “Birthday” table top quilt, with proceeds to Meals on Wheels. One day’s meals for Shelburne and Orangeville Meals on Wheels cost $225. Place spare loonies and twonies in the collection jar on the registration table.
Join in the holiday spirit of sharing and giving.
Judl Sullivan
2008 Program
Feb's meeting is devoted to making a Community Houses Quilt(s). We will be making houses from scrap fabric but we need fabric which is 10 x 5 inches for the roofs.
People participating in the afternoon Sewing Blitz with Penny
making Cuddle Quilts (let's make Family Day a real celebration by making Quilts for the Community ...should be a great turnout!) , these people are asked to bring their sewing machines, irons, sewing and cutting materials to the evening meeting. For the rest of the members, in the evening meeting we will be making house blocks so bring your imagination and creativity and make an outstanding block for the quilt(s). The Program Sewing Box has thread, needles, beads and scissors for hand-piecing. In addition we will be making the appliqué leaves, hearts, hands and bias vines using freezer paper.
We need tapered mini-irons for pressing small appliqué pieces onto freezer paper So be prepared to cut out lots of pieces...well maybe a few per table will turn into lots! This is really going to be a fun evening, many hands make light work.
Display: Hunter's Star ;In honour of Valentine's Day: Quilts from the
Heart - let's see quilts you have made for a loved one!