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June 2018 Meeting Highlights

6/30/2018

Here we are at our last meeting of the 2017-2018 guild season! It's our annual summer potluck dinner meeting and the day the challenges are due.

As always, there was a large selection of delicious hot and cold main course dishes and many yummy desserts to choose from.

Out came our large collection of quilted placemats and the noise volume picked up as we enjoyed visiting with friends over dinner.

The challenges this year were:

Recycled denim challenge - Make any quilted article from recycled denim. 25% of the project must be DENIM
Carrier/Container/Tote/Bag Challenge - An article that holds something. It has to include piecing and quilting of some sort and can be any size or shape.
President's Challenge - Design a project inspired by a page in a non quilting related magazine or book. Make a quilted project that relates to something on that page. Include the page from the magazine and a short write-up of how the item is related.

Members voted for the winner of each challenge.
And the winners are....

Recycled Denim Challenge, from left
1st Mary DeVries
2nd Emma Russell
3rd Patti Moore

Container Challenge, from left
1st Chris Gordon
2nd Julie Carroll
3rd Vickie MacNabb

President's Challenge, from left
1st Rennie Hickey
2nd Vickie MacNabb
3rd Mary DeVries

It's been a great guild year - have a wonderful summer, happy quilting (hopefully on projects that will be on display at our April 2019 quilt show), and we look forward to seeing you in September.

Quilt Canada 2018 Congratulations

6/20/2018

Congratulations to our guild member Rennie Hickey whose beautiful little quilt was juried into the 2018 CQA/ACC National Juried Show in the Miniature category.

Rennie's Miniature

Here are photos of the Quilt Canada 2018 award winning quilts.

Update: Auction Quilt for Arnprior Hospital

6/15/2018

This stunning quilt raised $1,250 for equipment purchases for the Arnprior & District Memorial Hospital at the Arnprior Regional Health Foundation’s recent annual "Knight in the Maritimes" dinner. Pam Ross, the delighted purchaser, is pictured at the dinner with her new quilt which was displayed on the stage throughout the evening.

Many guild members have contributed to this project from its design, fabric selection, making the individual blocks, assembling the top, quilting it on the long arm, and attaching the binding.

The completed quilt

Completed quilt top

Backing fabric and thread!

Almost done!

Mystery Quilt Tops

6/13/2018

Guild members were targeting completion of their mystery quilt tops for our May meeting and what a treat it was to see 17 beautiful tops of the All About Town row quilt. And at least one quilt was completed.

Quilters received 4 sets of instructions, each for one or 2 rows, with the final set revealing the overall layout, and instructions for sashing and the decorative pieced borders. Fabric choices were made by each quilter.

The next step is to complete our quilts in time to display them at our quilt show in 2019.
And that includes any quilt tops which were still works in progress in May!

Here are some close up photos of the quilt tops.

June 2018 Meeting Highlights

Quilt Canada 2018 Congratulations

Update: Auction Quilt for Arnprior Hospital

Mystery Quilt Tops

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