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Christmas 2020 Charity Donations

12/31/2020

 
For a number of years our guild has donated quilted placemats and fabric gift bags to local charities for Christmas, and this year despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this tradition continued.

Placemats feature seasonal holiday fabric on one side, and something interesting on the other so they can be used all year round. 

We donated 46 placemats for Arnprior Area' Meals on Wheels, which Jane (pictured below at left) delivered to the Arnprior-Braeside-McNab Seniors at Home Program.​
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​Our guild members of West Ottawa Community made 18 placemats, and they were donated to the Western Ottawa Community Resource Centre for their local meals on wheels.  
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​Our guild members also contributed 100 fabric string bags!  The ladies filling the bags at the Roman Catholic Church Parish Hall in Arnprior were very happy to receive them! They had all the supplies lying on the tables waiting to fill them.  Once these bags were filled they were donated to the 
Arnprior and District Food Bank . 

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Thanks for all the charity sewing and the spirit of giving!  This helps make a few more lives enriched in our communities.

November 2020 Meeting Highlights

12/4/2020

 
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Now that we have settled in to our new Zoom meeting experience, we were very happy to welcome Bonnie Rankin as our guest speaker at our November 2020 guild meeting. 

Bonnie is a past president of the Canadian Quilters' Association (CQA) and a very creative and accomplished quilter. The first part of her presentation was a trunk show. And once again we were thrilled to get an excellent close up look that Zoom provides, at Bonnie's beautiful quilts. 

Bonnie comes from a family of quilters that included her quilting father. Bonnie loves trying new techniques and she enjoys working with a wide variety of fabrics including wool and flannel. Her show included applique, paper piecing, and curved piecing. And she's used needle punch felting to create landscapes.

A small sample of the quilts Bonnie showed us are pictured below.

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Round robin quilt with curved pieced hearts
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The second portion of Bonnie's presentation was about the CQA. She gave us an interesting overview of the various activities and her experience as president. She encouraged us all to check out the CQA web site 
  • for activities that are open to everyone such as the Trend Tex Challenge,
  • to sign up for the free monthly general newsletter (at the bottom of the Home page), 
  • to see photos of entries in the annual national juried show at Quilt Canada,
  • and to consider becoming an individual CQA member.

Our quilt guild is a long time guild member of the CQA.

​The meeting ended with draws for a $10 gift certificate at The PickleDish Quilt Shop in Carleton Place and the lucky winners were Diane A, Barb deV, and Gwen P. The Library gift package went to Eleanor K.

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