GENERAL MEETING NOTES - 14 Sept 2015

GENERAL MEETING NOTES - 14Sept2015

Welcome back to Quilt Guild!

1. New Executive
Each gave stories of how they started their quilting careers.

President - Sheila Kimberley



President Elect - Sharon Quinton

Secretary - Gail Purnell

Treasurer - Betty Trudeau

2.  Old Business 
New Location
Our new meeting location is at the Tanner Seniors' Centre in the large room.

A huge thank you goes out to Alice Sheen for all her work securing our new location.

New Time
10:00AM

Fees
Guild Membership remains at $30.00/year.  

In addition, each Guild member (55 yrs and over) is required to pay the Seniors' Centre Membership of $10.00 unless they are already a Seniors' Centre Member.

This $10.00 fee should be submitted to the Guild for the Guild's year or you can still join the Seniors' group separately.  This membership to the Seniors' Centre should be paid to the Seniors' organization.

Sew Days
Our new location has secured us a sew day, beginning directly after the guild meeting, each month!

There will be a project for each Sew Day.  These projects are completely optional.  Feel free to bring your own projects to work on.

3.  New Business
All the decorations were prizes and gifts to hand out.

Birthday Girls
This year our birthdays will be celebrated by receiving a small gift. 
 
The ladies below celebrated their birthdays in August and September.  A price for receiving their gifts was a story of when & how each member began quilting.

 Linda Scott

 

 Barb Sheen

 

 Betty Trudeau

 

 Dawn Collins

 

 Janet Walton
 

4.  Notes & This Year's Challenge
a.  Sign up sheets for Demos, Tips, & Techniques and Sew Day volunteers was passed around the group. 

Very few names were added.  The executive encourages people to participate.  Volunteers are not required to be experienced quilters and there are many people you can ask for guidance.

b.  To encourage people to practice the techniques and demos shown each meeting it was put forward that a quilt will be made adding all the blocks demonstrated at each of the 10 guild meetings.  This will be our member Challenge.

c.  Guild members were asked if they would like to create projects for donation.  There was an excellent response.  Donation projects decided on were 36"x36" lap quilts & Christmas stockings.  Organizations to donate these quilts
to will be provided by next month's Guild Meeting.  Some organizations put forward as groups that might need donations were Women's Shelters, Hospitals, Extended Care homes.  Christmas Stockings were previously made and given to some of the First Nations children in need.

d.  A contact list will be made available to members at next month's meeting.

e.  Winners of two additional prizes were...
Barb Sheen, for being the first to pay for her Guild Membership.  She won a pattern for a 3D Quilt.

Ruby Quinton for being the first to arrive at today's Guild Meeting.  She won some fabric.

5.  Upcoming Events

Program     This year's program features quilter and designer, Julie Dess, a previous owner of a quilt shop and now is the manager of the Bernina shop in Helena. She is a very talented woman in all fields of Quilting.
     Please have one member of your Guild prepared to give a short report about some of your guilds activities during the past year. This exchange is a valuable source of program and project ideas for all of the attending guilds.
     Our Show and Tell program is what sets our party apart from the " normal " quilt shows. We invite each of our guests to bring a quilt of their own to show and tell us it's story. This is always the highlight of the party.
    And remember our silent auction table - bring your shopping list
    We look forward to seeing you on the ...

3rd of October in Cut Bank.

6.   Important Announcements
Due to Thanksgiving covering the 2nd Monday of the month, next month's Guild meeting will be on the 1st Monday of October.

 

5 October 2015

ST PATRICK'S DAY WALL HANGING -- Quilt Pattern Instructions

St. Patrick's Day Wall Hanging

Designed and permission to post provided by Betty Trudeau.

Close-up Below. 
(I don't know why the face and hand is so violently pink but there it is.  Sorry!)

Here are the instructions for cutting and creating the background, borders and binding.

                   Bind the quilt.

The applique is below.

 

Thank you Betty!

SHOW & SHINE -- 08 June 2015

This month, our last of the 2014/2015 year, we are completing a challenge to create projects with the fabric gathered during the fabric-tearing game at our Dec 2014 meeting. As a reminder I'll explain how we all acquired our fabrics. 

During this game we each started with a meter of fabric.  While sitting in a circle everyone passed the fabric around the circle until the music stopped.  Does this remind you of anything?  Once the music stopped we each halved whatever fabric we ended with.  One half was ours to keep the second half moved around the circle again until the music stopped once more.  We repeated these two steps until the fabric remaining was approximately 8" x 10".  With our stacks of  fabric, no two pieces the same size, we were challenged to make a project or projects using all the fabrics and bring them to the final meeting of the year.  Projects from the challenge were displayed separately but I've included them in the Show & Shine quilts below. 

Fabric from the December 2014 fabric-tearing game are referred to as "challenge fabrics", to single-out these projects.

Let's get started.....

We had 14 quilters showing 35 projects.  This is an impressive number of projects and a wonderful end to our year. 

1.  Gail Purnell...
     a.  started in the middle of this quilt and kept going round and round.  The middle 7 rounds include the challenge fabrics.  Gail won a prize for creating the largest project.

       b.   Gail was on a roll making another scrap quilt.  You'd never know it.  Just take a look at this wonderful quilt.

2.  Sharon Quinton...
made 8? different projects with her challenge fabric.  They include a bottle bag, small pillow, 2 pot holders, a microwave bowl holder and a tea cup decoration. What have I missed?  Sharon won the prize for the most projects made.  a. - f.

       g.  Sharon showed 4 projects in conjunction with her demonstration.  I've included them here but will provide all the detail and information in the demonstration post.  Circle of stars.  Quilt top only.      

      h.  Chevron Table Runner

       i.  Bed Quilt

  

           Quilt back.

       j.  Pillow

       k.  Chenille quilt.

            Quilt back.



3.  Betty Trudeau...

     a.  made this wonderful 3D butterfly applique table topper. The top part of the butterflies are made with some wonderful lace.  To use all the challenge fabric Betty also made a pot holder. 





     b.  Betty loves Christmas.  This quilt is called "Christmas in a Cabin".  It is the first time Betty has made the Log Cabin Block.  No problems making this block, right Betty? This is the quilt top only.

       Close-up

4.  Judy Salmon...

     a.  created a cloth bucket with her challenge fabric.  Judy wasn't sure what she would use it for and then remembered she was collecting salvage edges for another project so...this is her "salvage edge and binding bucket".

5.  Dawn Collins...

     a.  used the pattern that Sylvia Terry posted on the blog.  There were a couple of changes made: the triangles were only raw edge appliqued and the border contained triangles too.  This is only the quilt top.  Only 2 of the challenge fabrics were used.  Dawn designed another quilt to use the remainder of the challenge fabrics but didn't manage to get it done in time.  I guess that will be a Sept Show & Shine project.                                         

 6.  Corinne Allred...

     a. - b.  made another 2 Christmas Tree napkins to add to her collection and then she created some jean-fabric squares with different appliqued designs to use up the remainder of her challenge fabrics.  The squares are going to be used for her daughter's friends to sign. 

7.  Ruby Quinton...

     a. - c.  finished her projects in February and was the first to use all the challenge fabrics.  She made a wall hanging plus 2 pot holders.  Ruby won the prize for being the first to complete the challenge.  Sorry Ruby, I didn't manage to get a full picture of your projects.  When I receive the February pictures I'll switch this pic out.

8.  Sheila Kimberley...

     a.  made this wonderful beach bag with her challenge fabrics. This was a super idea.  Sheila made pockets for a book, sunglasses, sunscreen and just about anything else you might need at the beach.  The mesh pieces in her bag are actually made from window screen.  Sheila, you're ready for summer!

9.  Linda Scott...

     a.  used her challenge fabrics to create this wonderful cover for a disgustingly boring black binder.  With flowers added as a focal point this project is a real beauty.

10.  Gail Erickson...

       a. - b.  Made a pillowcase and ????? with her challenge fabrics.  Gail won a prize for being the last to finish her project.  (She made them yesterday!)  It was nice to see you at this last meeting.  We've missed you while you were away on your many trips this winter.  Sorry Gail, I missed taking a picture of your project.  You can see a bit of the pillow case behind Linda Scott's photo above.  If you can take a picture and send it to me I'll insert it.

 

       c.  Gail made this wonderful quilt top from her fabric scraps.  This quilt contains fabrics from the quilts she's made in the last 20 years!  The name of this quilt is a Disappearing 16-patch.  Each block is 12" x 12".  Gail is renowned for making very large quilts.

11.  Denise Skinner...

       a.  made this quilt for one of her granddaughters.  She is determined to make a quilt for each of her 19 grandchildren.  That's a huge project!  Denise is off to a wonderful start.  This is the first quilt Denise has shown at our Guild.

        b. This black, white and yellow quilt is an eye-catcher.  The colours really pop!  Many quilters have difficulty using bright yellow in their quilts. The black prints are more than a match for the yellows.  This quilt has wonderful balance.   Thank you for bringing your quilts for us to admire.

12.  Alice Sheen...



       a.  made a patriotic wall hanging.  Her Canadian flag has a 3D effect which is meant to make the flag look like it's fluttering.  It is very cute.

13. LaRea McKinnon...

      a.  made this many-pocketed purse.  It's going with her on the quilt tour she and Donna Prince are going on this summer.  You have many envious friends.   We'll all be waiting for wonderful stories and photos.

The outside of the purse has pockets as well.  LaRea looks very happy about this project.  Just look at that smile.

14.  Sylvia Pankhurst...

       a.  made this quilt with a combination of batiks and regular quilting fabric.  The fabric colours are so light and sunny looking.  Sylvia called this quilt "Tropical Dreams" and did free-motion quilting.  The palm trees were quilted on each of the large batik squares.  Sylvia, are you excited about summer finally arriving? 

Quilt back.  It looks like Sylvia didn't put any batting into her quilt.  Definitely a warm weather quilt.  I love this quilt.

 Quilt block close-up.

 

       

Keep on quilting...

 

 



SHOW & SHINE -- 11 May 2015

We had a wide range of projects shown this month.  There were 10 quilters showing 27 quilting projects!  What a haul.

1.  Ruby Quinton
     a.  Mexican Flower Applique Quilt. Front, back & close-up. Ruby has been very busy this month with three full-size quilts completed as well as 2 small projects!  I believe this quilt was hand-quilted.

     b. & c.  Hexagon Table Toppers  She made 2 on Sew Day. It is in browns directly under the 'Sew Day Fun' sign.  She used brown rick rack for the edge.

     d.  Black, white & red quilt. Front and back.  Hand quilted.

       e.  Pink, White and Green Floral Bed Quilt.  Front and close-up. Hand quilted.

2.  Barb Sheen
     a.  Vintage Square Crib Quilt (dark on light).  Quilt front and close-up.  All the pieces stitched onto the background are pinked by hand.

 

     b.  Vintage Square Crib Quilt light on dark.  Quilt front, close-up & back.

  

     c.  Vintage Circle Crib Quilt.  Quilt front and close-up. 

     c.  Paper pieced Feathered Star in batiks.  Heidi Sharp (l) and Christy Stewart (r) are holding Barb Sheen's quilt.  Christy said that this was as close as she was going to get to a quilt this difficult.   Barb told us that she's already started on another paper pieced quilt.  I can't wait till she brings that quilt for Show & Shine!

3.  Sylvia Terry

     a.  Hexagon Flower Quilt.  This is raw edge applique.  It was blanket stitched by hand by Sylvia.

     b.  Friendship Applique Quilt designed by Sylvia (l).  Each "person" is unique. Heidi Sharp (r) assisting.  Almost all of her quilts contain embroidery.

     c.  Twist & Turn Appliqued Quilt designed by Sylvia.  The pattern for this has been provided by Sylvia for posting on the blog.  See separate posting. Search for Twist & Turn Quilt.

       d.  Small applique wall hanging.  Quilt front and close-up. I believe this quilt is a designed and constructed by Sylvia.



4.  Dawn Collins
     a.  Applique Wall Hanging called "Catch & Release".  Front and close-up.  This is incomplete at the moment but will not be available for viewing once complete.  It is heading to her father for his 88th Birthday.

 

     b.  Hexagon Table Topper made on Sew Day.  Dawn's hexagon was made with upholstery fabric.  Of the three, Dawn's is the top right hexagon in gold, red, green, blue and tan.

5.  Betty Trudeau

     a.  Hexagon Table Topper made on Sew Day.  Betty didn't have enough repeats on her fabric to do all 6 pieces the same so she did 3 and 3 and alternated these pieces.  This turned out very nicely.  Betty's hexagon is the bottom right.  Betty used rick rack around the edge of her hexagon.

     b.  Mother's Day Applique Fancy Boot Wall Hanging  This wall hanging was designed by Betty.  I think she is making one for every month.

6.  Raeola Baker
     a.  Hexagon Table Topper made on Sew Day.  Raeola put extra large rick rack on the edges of her hexagon.

7.  Alice Sheen
     a.  Hexagon Table Topper made on Sew Day.  It is identical to Raeola's.  The only difference was Alice hadn't quite finished hers.  It will likely be done within a day or two.  Alice's hexagon is the bottom right.

8.  Donna Prince
     a.  Hexagon Table Topper made on Sew Day.  Donna's hexagon is the top left, made with Santas, snowmen & reindeer.

9.  Sheila Kimberley
     a. to e.  Hexagon Table Toppers  Sheila made quite a few of these as examples for us to see at the sew day but then she made a few more for the meeting.  These are on the table in front of her.

     b.  Applique Bunny Crib Quilt  It's strange how many applique projects were shown this month just when we had an applique demonstration.

10.  Heidi Sharp
       a.  Crib Quilt with the backing wrapping to front making the border and binding.  The recipients name is embroidered onto the quilt -- Gideon.

 

Keep on Quilting ...