Winter 2025 Guild Meetings

We opted again this year to hold our 3 winter guild meetings remotely via Zoom.  These meetings featured excellent guest presentations.

Thank you Lucy for securing such compelling and informative speakers for us.

January

Cyndi McChesney

​Our guest speaker at our January 22nd Zoom meeting was Cyndi McChesney of Cedar Ridge Quilting with her Panel Palooza presentation.

"In this informative and entertaining trunk show I'll show you how to take that panel you fell in love with and turn it into something truly unique. You'll experience my good, bad and AH HA moments as I learned how to work with the different styles of panels and how adding interesting block treatments and borders and filling those pesky open spaces with patchwork or applique results in a truly special quilt or unexpected project."

And show us she did! Lots of examples of how to creatively use different types of panels in all aspects of our quilts.

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​Our guild librarian, Jacquie has since added Cyndi's book Playful Panel Quilts to our guild library.

February

​Our guest speaker at our February 19th Zoom meeting was Bonnie Rankin, a CQA/ACC Certified Quilt Judge, and the National Juried Show Coordinator for this year's Quilt Canada in Toronto in June 2025.

Bonnie Rankin

In her presentation Bonnie showed and discussed the winners of the 2024 National Juried Show, outlining what judges are seeing at all levels of quilt shows. She also pointed out the most common problems quilters encounter, and provided some tips on how to prevent them. A great presentation!
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​Photos of the award winning projects from Quilt Canada 2024 can be found here. ​Click/tap on a photo for details about the maker and the project.

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March

Our last Zoom winter meeting on March 26th was a fun sew night. From the comfort of our own home sewing spaces, we worked on making little  24"x 24" "Preemie" quilts for babies in the Ottawa Hospital's neonatal Special Care Nursery. It was a relaxed, social and productive evening with casual conversation as we worked away. Show and Tell was throughout the evening as members showed their completed preemies and quilt tops.