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2022-2023 Challenges

5/19/2023

 
Our 3 "challenges" for this year wrapped up at our April 2023 guild meeting, with these projects all completed in time for our end of April Quilt Show. There was an amazing display of quilts and other items and we voted on our favourites with the winners awarded prizes.

This year we were given the opportunity to make the following guild-sponsored projects: 
  • A Block of the Month quilt
  • A Mystery Quilt
  • A challenge to making something, anything, from the leftover fabric from the Mystery Quilt.
All 3 projects were suitable for all skill levels.
Thank you and congratulations to everyone who took on these projects and a big shout out to the makers of the prize winning pieces.
Volunteers 
Emma Russell and Mary deVries did an awesome job of leading and coordinating these activities. Thank you both!

Block of the Month
This year's Block of the Month (BOM) featured 12 blocks, each finishing at 12", and each block was made from sixteen 3½” Half Square Triangles (HSTs). We made two blocks each month, with instructions for the first two being posted in August and the last two in January.
Emma and Mary brought their sample blocks to the fall in-person guild meetings. While they both used a single colour scheme - Mary's were blue, and Emma's were fall orange shades, we were encouraged to choose our own colours and use a single colour scheme like they did, or to vary our colours from block to block.
Participants assembled the blocks into the design of their choice along with borders, additional blocks, or background fabric.
​Photos of the blocks and the instructions are available here. 
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The winners were:
1st  Allison Kubiseski
2nd  Brenda Davidson-Payer
3rd  Mary Moss


Here are the prize winning quilts.
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1st Allison Kubiseski
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2nd Brenda Davidson-Payer
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3rd Mary Moss
Mystery Quilt
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Mystery Quilts
The instructions for the blocks were made available in 3 parts from September through November 2022 and in December the mystery was revealed in the assembly instructions. This was a lovely pattern that made up at 36" square.
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The winners were:
1st  Debbie Cauvier
2nd  Joanna Vlaming
3rd  Elizabeth Couture


​Here are the prize winning quilts.
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1st Debbie Cauvier
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2nd Joanna Vlaming
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3rd Elizabeth Couture
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Mystery Quilt Scrap Challenge
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Mystery Quilt Scrap Challenge projects

This challenge was a follow-on to the Mystery Quilt project and it was to:
"Use the scraps from your Mystery Quilt project to make something else such as a table runner or a table topper or anything of your choice."
The scraps included a number of leftover triangles and these are visible in the resulting projects.

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The winners were:
1st  Jacquie Lavictoire
2nd  Sue Hodgins
3rd  Mary DeVries


Here are the prize winning quilts.
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1st Jacquie Lavictoire
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2nd Sue Hodgins
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3rd Mary DeVries

2022 Block of the Month Challenge

10/31/2022

 
We wrapped up our 2021-2022 Block of the Month / Challenge at our October 2022 in person meeting.

This Block of the Month (BOM) was a celebration of our guild's 20th anniversary and consisted of blocks from the past years' blocks of the month. Each month our BOM coordinators Johanne and Amanda spun a wheel on our Zoom screens to select a block for that month from a large selection of past blocks. And then they reached into the pile of blocks they had made, and showed us that month's winning block. This BOM evolved into a challenge to see how creative our guild members could be to make these random blocks, of differing sizes, and incorporate them into a quilt. There were no restrictions on the fabric used in these quilts.
The results were amazing!
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The prizes (gift certificates to Sew Inspired) were awarded based on viewers' choice voting and the winners were:
1st Emma Russell
2nd Gwen Pennings

The voting resulted in a tie for second place and Emma was asked to choose the piece of paper with the tie-breaking quilt number.
Once again our guild members inspired and impressed us with their creativity in fabric and colour selections, placement of the blocks, and their impressive piecing and finishing skills. 
​Well done!
Here are the winning quilts.
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1st Emma Russell
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2nd Gwen Pennings

2022 Challenges in the Park

6/29/2022

 
Finally we were able to submit, and see some challenge quilts again! The last time was in September 2020 and now, almost 2 Covid years later, we were back in the park in Arnprior for our June meeting which included the wrap up of the Covid Challenge and the President's Challenge.

Challenges are projects with a particular theme where guild members can showcase their creativity and imagination. Typically issued in September at the beginning of each guild year, challenges are open to all members.  Prizes are awarded based on "viewer's choice" voting results.

Covid Challenge

The Covid challenge was issued by then Programs lead Joyce in September 2020 and with no opportunity to physically get together in our 2020-2021 guild year, the challenge was extended for another year by this year's Program lead Brigid.

The challenge was to:

"Make something completely from scraps.  No shopping allowed.  It doesn`t actually have to be scraps, as long as you used up material you had on hand."

​Winners!

1st:   Rennie Hickey
2nd:  Mary DeVries

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1st Rennie Hickey
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2nd Mary DeVries

President's Challenge

Guild president Vickie's challenge this year was to: 

Create a quilt using the Drunkard's Path units. The Drunkard's Path is a traditional block that features curved piecing. And for fun, add a bit of emerald green to commemorate our guild’s 20th anniversary.
  1. All entries must include multiple Drunkard's Path units.
  2. Must use some of the color emerald green. The color is to be easily identified on the front face of the quilt. Use as much or as little as you like.
  3. All entries are to measure more than 24" square.
  4. No clothing, bags, or accessories. Quilt is to be completed, quilted, and bound. Quilt must have a top, batting, back, quilting and completed binding.
 
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The History of the Drunkard's Path Block


​Winners!

1st:   Allison Kubiseski
2nd:  Emma Russell

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1st Allison Kubiseski
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2nd Emma Russell

2020 Challenges in the Park

9/21/2020

 
Here we are 6 months into the Covid-19 pandemic that led to a lengthy suspension of last year's guild meetings, and we had been unable to see the results of the 2020 challenges. So we held an informal outdoor get together at Arnprior's riverside Robert Simpson Park on September 16th on  a sunny, warm, and very windy late afternoon. 

We arrived masked, with our lawn chairs, and most importantly the Challenge projects. 
And we were all - approximately 40 of us - delighted to see our fellow guild members after such a long break, and to be greeted by Penny handing out our 2020-2021 membership cards.

Joyce and her Program team of Anne, Jacquie, and Sue were ready with clotheslines suspended in the gazebo for hanging the quilts. And our guild photographer Emma was ready with her camera to capture those beautiful quilts blowing in the wind.
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Challenges are projects with a particular theme where guild members can showcase their creativity and imagination. Issued at the beginning of each quilt year, challenges are open to all members.  Prizes are awarded based on "viewer's choice" voting results. ​

Black and White Challenge

​Participating guild members signed up at the September 2019 meeting and were placed in groups. They made 9 1/2" unfinished blocks with black and white fabric, one for each member of their group. The blocks were then distributed to their group at the December meeting and each participant went home with 10-12 black and white blocks. From these blocks and one or two other colours/fabrics of their choice they made a quilt or other item. 

Winners

1st:   Anne Cruickshank
2nd:  Joanna Vlaming and Mary DeVries
3rd:  Sue Hodgins
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1st Anne Cruickshank
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2nd from left Joanna Vlaming and Mary DeVries
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3rd Sue Hodgins

President's Challenge

Participating members brought one metre of a fabric of their choice to the October meeting, and then were given back a bag of assorted fabric pieces at the November meeting, to use with the addition of up to any two other solid colours to make a quilt or other item.

Winners

1st:   Margaret Fisher
2nd:  Susan Wimperis
3rd:   Elizabeth Couture
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1st Margaret Fisher
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2nd Susan Wimperis
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President Frank
Charity

Vickie and Jane had a table in the gazebo where they were handing out the white background fabric squares for the  new Pick Up Sticks block for the Charity quilts, fabric for the Christmas gift bags, and bags of items to make fidget quilts for people with Alzheimer's. Marilyn collected 35 more premie quilts.

2019 Challenges

4/15/2019

 
Challenges are projects with a particular theme where guild members can showcase their creativity and imagination. Issued at the beginning of each quilt year, challenges are open to all members.

All members are encouraged to try at least one of the challenges each year. 
Due at the March 2019 meeting, guild members voted for their favourite quilt in each challenge, and prizes were awarded based on the "viewer's choice" voting results. Guild members were encouraged to display their quilts at the April 2019 quilt show.


Silhouette Challenge
  • Small Project: wall hanging, framed piece, pillow cover, runner etc.
  • Pieced and quilted background with a dark silhouette in front
  • Could be a landscape, cityscape, still life, or whatever interpretation you have
Winners
1st:  Tie - Mary DeVries & Joanna Vlaming 
3rd:  Shirley Fedoruk


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From Left: Mary DeVries, Joanna Vlaming
UFO Challenge
This project completes an Unfinished Object – any quilting projects you have that are unfinished!!
A before picture of where your project is at present must be included with your entry
This challenge has 2 objectives:
  • encourage you to finish projects
  • fill up our April quilt show

Winners

1st:   Shirley Fedoruk
2nd:  Emma Russell
3rd:  Tie - Gwen Pennings &  Rennie Hickey
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From left: Gwen Pennings, Shirley Fedoruk, Emma Russell, Rennie Hickey
President's Challenge - Shining Star Preemie Quilt
  • Make a preemie quilt that includes at least one star block, and one or more pieced borders.
  • The finished size is 24" (unfinished 24").
  • Batting and backing will be provided.
  • There are many books in our library as well as inspirations found online that could be used.
  • Quilts to be donated along with the other preemie quilts

Winners

1st:   Anne Cruickshank
2nd:  Eleanor Kenny
3rd:  Janet Brownlee 
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From left: Eleanor Kenny, Janet Brownlee, Anne Cruickshank
Quilt Show Challenge - Modern Quilt
This is the project for our April 2019 quilt show. It can be any project that exhibits modern quilting style - a quilt, wall hanging, runner, table topper, pillow, bag, etc.

​Refer to this description of a modern quilt on The Modern Quilt Guild web site.
More characteristics of a modern quilt:
  • Negative space included
  • exaggerated patterns, simplistic in design
  • strong colours
  • asymmetrical designs
  • straight line, echo, and graphic quilting
Refer also to the meeting highlights of our May 2017 meeting where our guest Laura Piggott spoke on Modern Quilting.

​Winners

1st:   Anne Cruickshank
2nd:  Mary deVries
3rd:  Jackie Lavictoire 


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From left: Anne Cruickshank, Mary DeVries, Jackie Lavictoire

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