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March 2021 Meeting Highlights

4/6/2021

 
At our March meeting we welcomed another very interesting guest speaker. This month we were treated to a presentation by the very talented Jackie White who joined us from her rural home on Manitoulin Island. Jackie describes herself as "a designer, quilter, pattern creator and lover of all things handmade". 

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Jackie White
Jackie's quilts are mainly modern quilts and they're fun! Lots of bright colours and often featuring circles in the design or polka dot fabrics. Many of her designs are simple yet stunning. For example, in her one block quilts simply rotating some of the blocks creates a very impressive effect.

A number of Jackie's designs have been published in magazines including Quilter's World and Canadian Quilter, the CQA magazine. 
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Several of Jackie's designs are featured in books published by Martingale, including this one in their I Love Log Cabins book.
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Jackie enjoys creating fun and simple designs for youth to make.
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​And she likes incorporating different fabrics including denim, and embellishments such as felt, one half of a zipper for a flower stem or along the edge of the quilt, rick rack, and one quilt featured many flattened bottle caps with a button sewed in the middle of each one! She also enjoys 3D designs

Jackie showed us a number of her smaller works where she really showcases her creativity, something that she feels is important for all of us for our physical and mental health, especially in these pandemic times. And she showed us photos of her pieces that have been in national juried shows.
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In conjunction with the CQA, Jackie has designed some very successful quilt alongs (QAL) to promote quilting across Canada. 
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​52 Blocks in 52 Weeks was a very successful QALin 2019. Our guild member Elizabeth Couture participated in that one and she sent along a photo of one of her quilts for Show and Tell. From Elizabeth "We couldn’t wait for Tuesday mornings for the week’s design. Of course, by the time we got it, the East Coasters had already produced finished blocks! We quilted one of each block in our chosen colour scheme and one each using Christmas scraps. I made 3 lap quilts with the results." 
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One of Elizabeth's "52 Blocks in 52 Weeks" quilts
And our  guild member Sue Hodgins participated in Jackie's recent Cov-recome  quilt along - here's Sue's finished quilt. Sue is on our Program committee and she's been lining up our guest speakers.
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Sue's "Cov-ercome" quilt
Jackie's latest quilt along, Just Breathe, started in February. Patterns for all of Jackie's quilt alongs and other designs can be purchased from her web site shop.
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For more information about Jackie and photos of her quilts, see her:
  • Web site   jackiewhitequilts.com
  • Instagram @jackiewhitequilts
  • Facebook Jackie White Quilts
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Thank you to everyone who provided photos and interesting stories of their work for Show and Tell.  This commissioned quilt made by Vickie and Emma.
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Photos of all of the quilts are on the Show and Tell page.

As usual, our meeting finsihed up with prize draws. The Library prize was won by Allison K. And the $10 gift Sew Inspired certificates went to Jane W, Betty R, and Diane A. Congratulations to the lucky winners!

by Janet Brownlee, Communications

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