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April 2019 Meeting Highlights

5/16/2019

 
With only a couple of days to go before our quilt show, there was a lot of excitement in the air at our April 2019 guild meeting.
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Guest Speaker - Roslyn Hanes
Our guest speaker was Roslyn Hanes, a self-taught quilter who lives in Kingston Ontario. She is a member of the Kingston Heirloom Quilter's where she claims she learned to do things properly.  Ros also belongs to Limestone Quilters and the Cataraqui Guild of Needle Art. Pictorial quilts and abstract quilts are among Roslyn's favourites.  She excels at both piecing and appliqué, although she prefers the latter.  Her quilts are often embellished with hand embroidery. In 1990, Ros designed a quilt for the 50th anniversary of Nursing at Queen's University.  It is now part of the quilt collection at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre.  Ros is a very community minded individual who coaches high school field hockey, plays soccer and is involved in bringing back prison farms amongst other things.

This was Ros' first ever publicaly presented trunk show and her quilting journey has been simply amazing. Read on to find out the significance of the magazines she's holding in this photo.

Ros started her fabric art projects in the mid 1970s while living in the university city of Cambridge, UK where her husband was studying. From a Cambridge banner to quilts often inspired by nursery rhymes or children's stories, she was very creative in finding fabrics at affordable prices, and self-taught from books. Her simplistic, primitive, whimsical style emerged in her quilts.
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Three Little Kittens
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By 1980 Ros and her husband were living in Australia where Ros continued to be inspired by her environment and made this hand quilted piece that depicted local rock engravings. It was so popular that instructions were published in a magazine and a picture of the quilt was on the cover!
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Ros' delightful baby block quilt also was pictured on a magazine cover, 

By the mid 80s Ros and her husband had moved to Kingston and Ros had joined the Kingston Quilters where she made this treasure map challenge quilt.

Ros' preference for diamond shpaed pieces are often featured in her quilts.

Ros was very much leading edge with her quilting designs and techniques and we were entertained and inspired by her interesting story and her beautiful creative quilts. 

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Draws
​Our meeting wrapped up with our draws and some very happy winners!

Block of the month: Patti Moore and Mary DeVries
Guess the number of pages in the library book:  Liz Carroll
50-50 draw:  Ann Hunter
Gift Basket: Dona Lamoureux
Door Prizes: Pam Ross, Anne Cruickshank, Kathy Foster, Betty Rehbein, Cathy Russell, Blanche Leclair, Liz Carroll, Rennie Hickey, Bonnie Parker, Emma Russell

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