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September 2021 Meeting Highlights

9/29/2021

 
We kicked off our new guild year on Wednesday September 22 with an exciting, information packed meeting full of inspirational ideas, and guild news. What a wonderful welcome back to returning guild members and a welcome for several new members!
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Guest Speaker Lise Bélanger
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Our guest speaker, Lise Bélanger, wowed us with her beautiful custom art quilts and her stories about their design and creation.
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Lise certainly delivered on her promotion of her presentation:
'Everyone is creative; you just have to listen to your creativity. This lecture introduces you to my competition quilts, my creative process, and the techniques I use to create them. What is most important to me is to show you how it is possible to relax into the creative process, what I call making space, getting inspired and trusting yourself. You will see that I don't have all the answers when I start a project, and that's often best."
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Lise's quilting journey began as a child (her grandmother had a fabric store), then she moved on to sewing costumes, designing a line of children's clothing, and then to  learning the techniques to make textile art paintings. Two years later she won first prize in the CQA Trend-Tex Challenge.  From there she has never looked back with many more awards, including the 2012 and 2013 Trend-Tex Challenges, and some truly beautiful works of art.

She included photos of many or her works, and some very interesting details of her creative process in designing and constructing them in her presentation to us. Her two key principles are that she always thinks she can do a project and that she can easily let go and wait for inspiration when she doesn't know what to do next.


Interesting tidbits:
  • She uses raw edge appliqué
  • She watches hockey (les Canadiens de Montréal) while she's designing
  • Use paint the colour of the background to avoid working with tiny pieces of fabric. For example, black paint to create a butterfly.
  • Use what you have on hand and innovate with it. Example: linen fabric
  • She dyes her own fabric to get exactly what she wants and she uses many creative methods.
  • Her work includes a lot of different animals
  • She has fun with whimsical elements in her art. For example, a key around an owl's neck, and a crown on a frog's head in her  "Once Upon a Time" national and international winning art quilt

Lise is a very engaging, funny, encouraging, and inspirational speaker, and a tremendously talented artist who has created some beautiful and unique pieces of fabric art.

There is much more information from Lise and an extensive photo gallery of her creations for you to check out on her web site. 
 http://en.libexpression.com

Lise kindly brought along 2 packages of her art cards, which are going to lucky draw winners Annet and Betty.

20th Anniversary

To kick off the 20th anniversary year of our guild, current guild member Katrina Kahn shared her memories of the enthusiasm and excitement of that first ever guild meeting on September 26, 2001. What lovely stories about the tight knit group of quilters who got this guild started. Thank you Katrina!

Programs

Brigid and her Program team kicked off a number of programs for us.

Two workshops are planned (via Zoom):
  • Mini Maker Case in November by guild member Johanne V
  • Introduction to Walking Foot Designs in January 2022 by our December guest speaker Melissa Marginet 
Refer to the Workshops page for details.

This year's Block-of-the-Month will feature a revisiting of some blocks from the past 20 years. BOM co-ordinator Amanda chose several blocks and spun the wheel to choose the September block! It landed on the "Slice of Life" block from 2014-2015. Members are encouraged to make all of the blocks in the fabrics and colours of their choice and either keep them or hand them in at the end of the year for future guild Charity projects.

Refer to the Block-of-the-Month page for instructions and a photo of the September block.

Brigid also mentioned that the Summer Scrap Quilt Challenge projects will be on display at Sew Inspired in the near future.  

Charity

​Tina delivered 111 placemats to the new Grove Nursing Home in Arnprior the earlier in the day of the meeting. What an amazing contribution from our guild.
Tina also described the charity projects we'll be undertaking this year.

President's Challenge

​Vickie provided more details on her "Drunkard's Path" President's Challenge which you can read about on the web site Challenges page.

Thank you to all of the members who shared their latest projects with us - pictures are on the Show-and-Tell page.

Our meeting wrapped up with the prize draws.  The Library prize was won by new member Shirley Coleman, and the $10 door prize gift certificates for Watergirl Quilt Co in Prescott were won by Rennie, Vickie and Katrina.

​-- Janet Brownlee, Communications

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