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Big Bag Workshop

3/9/2018

 
On Tuesday March 6th 10 eager quilters arrived at Glad Tidings Pentecostal Church, where Johanne Vajda instructed us on how to construct a "Big Bag".  This bag will be excellent to convey large quilts to "Show and Tell", or a large amount of stuff to a workshop or retreat.

Pockets for either side of the bag were constructed prior to Tuesday. By the time most of us left our bags were virtually complete. That is MY kind of workshop. Johanne provided handles and bottoms for those of us that required them.

The variety of fabrics, colours and textures was very wide. Hopefully members will be able to inspect them at our next Show and Tell.

​-- Chris Gordon
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February 2018 Meeting Highlights

3/7/2018

 
Our learning activity night was our chance to learn some new hand sewing techniques for embellishing our quilts. With 4 new techniques offered - wool applique, 3D pinwheels, hand stitches for embellishing crazy patch quilts, and hexagons, we had a chance to learn 2 at this meeting and we'll learn the other 2 at the May meeting, providing ample time to learn each new technique.

We wasted no time in getting down to work!
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Half of us learned wool applique and hand stitches for crazy patch quilts.
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Wool Applique
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Hand Stitches for Embellishing Crazy Patch Quilts
And the other half learned 3D pinwheels and hexagons.
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3D Pinwheels
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Hexagons
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Instructors Mary DeVries, Brenda McLeod, Joanna Vlaming, along with Brigid Whitnall and Donna Sheaves (who stepped up at the last minute in place of an ailing Chris Gordon) did a great job teaching us.

It was a big month for preemie quilt donations - 17 beautiful new little quilts.

And we heard a touching thank you from a grateful mom whose premature daughter received a quilt in the fall of 2016. We enjoyed the photos of her daughter as a newborn covered by the quilt and another as a one year old sitting on her quilt!

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