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May 2019 Meeting Highlights

5/31/2019

 
After our exciting quilt show at the end of April we bounced back with lots of energy at our May meeting. And what a treat our Programs team had in store for us. Instead of one guest we had 4, all members of the Kanata Quilt Guild who each shared their quilts and their interesting and amusing  quilting stories with us. 
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Kanata Guild Trunk Show

Our first inter-guild Show-and-Tell was a huge success.
The four visiting presenters from the Kanata Quilt Guild were introduced by our guild's Past President, Brigid Whitnall, who is the current president of the Kanata Quilt Guild.
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First up was Beth who included 2 slab block quilts reminiscent of our past contributions to the Canadian Quilters' Association (CQA) for quilts for Ronald McDonald House Charities, in celebration of Canada's 150th birthday. Beth sells patterns and her lovely nature and geography themed quilts on her Etsy web site. She left us with the thought that "value is more important than colour."

The first quilt that Beth showed was the Kanata Guild group quilt for their concurrent show at Quilt Canada.  It was made by many members of the guild specifically for Quilt Canada in Ottawa, and it's the first quilt in the gallery below.

Click/tap an image in the image gallery to see it in full.
Then Lynn showed us her lovely quilts which included  a shop hop quilt, and a mystery quilt in "the ugliest fabric in the world" (her words!)  Lynn's Duck quilt is a David Taylor appliqué pattern.  She has taken many of his workshops and made many of his patterns.
Debbie was unable to attend our meeting but she generously sent along her stunning quilts for Lynn to show us - a row-by-row farm themed quilt, a round robin quilt with multiple borders, and a French General star block quilt.
Judy was up next and blew us away with her 19th century patterns with vintage and Civil War fabrics of beautiful needle turned hand applique and hand quilting. Her hexagon quilts were interesting too - many of us were reminded of the fun we had learning how to make hexie blocks at a guild activity several years ago.
This amazing trunk show was finished up by Leslie, the "colour lady". Leslie's travels, her work around the world with aboriginal peoples, and her interest in endangered species was in evidence in her quilts. Her animal sampler quilt was a President's Challenge.

Kanata Guild Trunk Show

DrawsAnd as usual our meeting wrapped up with our draws and some happy winners!

50-50 draw:  Liz Carroll
Gift Basket: Katrina Kahn
Door Prizes: Dawn M, Geraldine L, Gwen P, Mary M, Lynn J, Amanda V, Betty R, Joan M, Nancy H, Rennie H, Pam R

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