Raffle Quilt Progress

A mini work bee today and the center of our raffle quilt is starting to take shape!

Online Classes for Quilting

Here are two great resources that our members may find fun and helpful.  Since we don't have a store in town offering classes this is a great option.

Craftsy is a website offering many different kinds of classes.  This is listing of their quilting classes.  I took the "Machine Quilting Negative Space" by Angela Walters.  The great thing is that you can watch the videos when it is convenient for you and leave comments and ask questions.  The class never expires so you can go back and reference it whenever you want.  I bought my class on sale and felt it was money well spent.  They also offer a free block of the month.  I haven't personally checked it out, but it might be just what you are looking for.

Annie's is another website offering crafting classes.  Their list isn't as extensive yet, but it may be of interest as well.  Their quilting classes can be found here.  The "Learn to Machine Quilt" one seems like a great one for people wanting to keep improving on their free motion skills.You can watch a course preview and a video introduction of the teacher to get a better idea of what it will be like.

If you know of any other resources you would like to share please let me know.

Hope you are getting some quilting time in this weekend.

Lori

November Meeting Highlights

We had a wonderful group of ladies out for the November meeting.  Gloria led the evening while Dawn was in Houston schmoozing with famous quilters. 

Our current comfort block is the split leaf block.  So far we have 15 pairs returned and they are looking wonderful.  Patterns are still available from Lori if you need one.

The UFO Day and Art Quilt Workshop is being held on November 24.  The location has been moved to the Ochre River Hall, as there is more than enough light and plugins for a large group.

The Christmas meeting will take place on December 6th.  You need to bring the following to join in the fun:

1. A Potholder for the exchange. The theme is your choice.  Please bring it wrapped.
2. A 100% cotton fat quarter of fabric for the exchange.  Please make sure it is wrapped.
3. Appetizer or dainties to share. Remember when you share they are calorie free :)

All of our meeting days will also be daytime UFO days.  Karen or Cindy will have the room open at 9:00 a.m.  This will begin on December 6th.

Karen showed some of the Alzheimer's quilts that have been completed by a few members of the guild.  A couple of kits were still needing to be completed. Thank you to those who volunteered to help finish them.

There were only three items for show and tell today. 

Pat made a neat quilting tote bag perfect for UFO days:

Bev perfected her paper piecing with the Christmas wall hanging.  The bias binding was the perfect touch.

I brought this purple diamond quilt, made from a jelly roll and a half.  It has no corners as I ran out of strips!

Gloria brought some of her favorite tools from her sewing room for the evenings program.

Until next time happy quilting!

Lori

UFO Day - Ochre River

Bring your UFOs to the Ochre River Hall on Saturday, October 27 (approx 10am)
There is LOTS of room and we have the space for the whole day. Everyone welcome to join in!

October 2012 Show & Tell

Here is the parade of Show and Tell from the October 2012 Meeting.

Gloria's cute dog & hydrant quilt.

Karen P's cheerful Bali Pop quilt.

Karen P's quilt with Minky backing and no batting.

Nina and Pat's joint effort.  I didn't get a close up of the lovely hand quilting :(

Sandra's Turning Twenty.

Sandra and her cute Christmas wall hanging.

Bev's Nine Patch from the blocks she won at the guild.  Very creative setting.  Looks so different than our donation quilt.

Cheri's Halloween topper.  Look at the cute pumpkin quilting.

Karen M.'s cute wall hangings.

Thanks to everyone for helping out and holding your quilts away from the table!  It really helps get better pictures and allows everyone to see.  If any of you like taking pictures and would like to help out with this task just let me know!  I hope I didn't miss anyone, sometime I get distracted looking at the quilts and I forget to take the pictures!

See you on Saturday at the UFO Day!

Lori

October 2012 Meeting Highlights

There were 27 enthusiastic ladies in attendance at our October meeting.

 The meeting began with the donation of the "Ocean Serenade" quilt to the St Paul's Ladies Auxiliary Executive.  The quilt will be used in a fundraising raffle.  The ladies were thrilled to receive the quilt.  Thank you to Karen P. for the quilting and Gloria N for the label and for the many hands that pieced a block or helped to assemble the quilt top.  A beautiful result from a team effort.

 Our next UFO day is this Saturday October 13th at the WAC.  Hope to see many people out for a fun day of sewing, laughter and learning.  Upcoming UFO days are: October 27 (Ochre River) and November 24th (WAC).

Five Artist's trading cards were returned for the "What's in Your Heart?" Quilting Arts Magazine Challenge.  Dawn will send them away.  We look forward to see what is received in return!

We had 22 pairs of ice-cream cone blocks turned in.  They lucky winner of the draw for half of the blocks was Pat Milburn.

Our new block is the Split Leaf block to be made in Autumn colors.  Please contact Lori if you require the pattern or have any questions.

The new Challenge kits for 2012/2013 were sold at the meeting.  All 24 kits were snatched up.  These are the fabrics for this year.  The challenge was issued for everyone to try something new to them.  Can't wait to see all the completed projects in May.

Dawn P.  gave a thread painting demonstration.  Don't forget that Dawn still has a couple of spots left in her Art quilt workshop happening Nov.24.  Our last blog post contains all the info you need.

I will post all the wonderful Show and Tell in a separate post.

Fused Art Quilt workshop

Due to popular demand for the Fused Art Quilt workshop we are holding  on November 24, I have ordered additional McKenna Ryan Home Tweet Home kits, I currently have TWO left.  If you are interested in taking part let me know ASAP. (Cost is $27.30 /kit)

Other items you will need for the workshop include: 

• Sewing Machine (ability to drop feed dogs preferred)
• Approx. 1 metre of Fusible Web (Steam-a-seam 2 or Lite Steam-a-seam work best. Available at Fabricland, Fabriculous(Swan River) & Kickass (Plumas) or other fabric/quilt shops, the Walmaart stuff is too thick)
• Selection of top stitching and bobbin threads to match the fabric collection in your kit.
• Fabric scissors & sharp paper scissors, the pieces we will be cutting are small so small scissors are recommended.
• Sharpie Pen (fine point black)
• Fabric of choice for backing
• 10" X 10" low loft batting
• Teflon Pressing sheet. Similar to this item available at Kickass Country Store