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This Charity workshop evening on Wednesday November 23rd was a huge success, both in the camaraderie and the amount of work that was done by the 33 attendees. It was a very active and busy hands on meeting making Christmas gift bags and placemats, and preparing materials for these and other guild Charity projects. We enjoyed meeting and talking to people we hadn’t talked to before or for a long time, including our 2 brand new members, Lucy and Nadine who were attending their first meeting. Marilyn and her set up crew had many work stations clearly labeled and ready for us to quickly get started on various activities from cutting fabric for Christmas gift bags and placemats, sewing gift bags and placemats, attaching bindings to placemats, attaching the drawstrings to the gift bags, assembling kits to make fidget quilts, cutting batting for preemie and other Charity quilts, and ironing, ironing and more ironing in the kitchen!                 A number of completed Charity items were brought to the meeting.  Fidget quilt  Fidget quilt  Preemie quilts  Drawstring gift bags  Placemats Thanks to all who participated in this big work evening. And an extra thank you to those who took home works-in-progress to finish off for our Christmas donations. Show and Tell We took a break for Show and Tell. Photos here  New! Rulers in the Library Gwen introduced an initiative to add rulers to our Library collection - all donations are welcome. Workshop And Gwen also started registration for a tote bag workshop in May that she has kindly volunteered to organize. Details here.  Draws
The meeting wrapped up with draws and some happy winners! Guess the Number of Pages in the book - Lucy Gift Basket - Allison 50-50 Draw of $35 - Debbie Door Prizes $20 gift certificates from Textile Traditions - Vickie and Allison Our first Sew Day in a very long time was held on Thursday November 17, 2022 and was enjoyed by 15 members of our guild. The venue was the very pleasant hall at Bethel St Andrew's United Church in Fitrzoy Harbour that offered plenty of space to spread out, and bright natural light flooding in through the windows. A fun day of sewing with fellow guild members! Attendees brought their sewing machine, tools, project(s) and lunch. Coffee and tea were provided and there was no charge to participate. They had great fun working away at various projects in the company of fellow guild members.        Several attendees took Gwen up on her offer of an optional mini workshop to make a fabric cover for a notebook - an excellent idea for Christmas presents or a gift at any time. They arrived with the fabric all cut and ready to go.  Gwen       Notebook samples made by Gwen A big thank you to Nancy for arranging for our free use of the church hall, to Vickie for organizing the Sew Day, and to Gwen for teaching her popular notebook cover project.
It was great to get together on October 26th for our second in person guild meeting of this guild season. The meeting was attended by 33 guild members and one guest. Program The meeting featured demonstrations of 5 different types of appliqué to help us learn new techniques, or to brush up on some we may not have used in a while. Unlike other types of workshops we have had in the past, there was no need to bring any supplies. Instead we watched the demonstrations and hopefully learned from them and were inspired to take on an appliqué project. The excellent demonstrations were given by 5 of our talented guild member volunteers who also provided samples of their own stunning appliqué work and answered our many questions. Rennie showed us wool appliqué.   Allison showed us the starch method and wowed us with her light box.   Christine showed us the interface and turn method and her hand appliqué technique.  Joanna showed us raw edge appliqué which we could examine on her various sample pieces.   Brenda showed us the needleturn method which we could examine on her beautiful quilts. Thank you to all of our appliqué instructors for your excellent demonstrations and for sharing your knowledge with us. Your efforts, including the preparation for the evening, were very much appreciated. 2021-2022 BOM Challenge Our last year's 2021-2022 Block of the Month program wrapped up with a display of 6 quilts and voting for our favourite.   Emma and Gwen were the respective winners of the 1st and 2nd place gift certificates from Sew Inspired.  1st Emma  2nd Gwen See the BOM Challenge Blog post for more information about this BOM program, and close up photos of all of the quilts. Show and Tell Show and Tell was started off with a fun and creative seasonal piece by new member Wendy! It's such a treat to be seeing our members' stunning creations and hear their stories in person again. See the Show and Tell page for photos of all of the show and tell projects.  Charity Donations  Preemie quilts  Drawstring gift bags Block of the Month & Mystery Quilt Mary and Emma brought along samples of the 2 October Blocks of the Month. See the Block of the Month page for details of this year's Half Square Triangle BOM program and instructions for these and all of the blocks. And see the Mystery Quilt page for instructions and details for this intriguing project. Sew Day Vickie announced an upcoming Sew Day for Thursday November 17 and sign up sheets were provided for the 15 available spaces. Details are here Draws
The meeting finished up with draws and some happy winners! Guess the Number of Pages in the book - Emma R Gift Basket - Debbie C 50-50 Draw of $35 - Mary C-P Door Prizes $20 gift certificates from Textile Traditions - Jo P and Mary deV |
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