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Our November 27th meeting featured a very special guest and our first celebrity guest, Joan O'Malley. An excellent storyteller, Joan told us the fascinating story of how she stepped up at the last minute in 1965 to sew 3 prototypes of the Canadian maple leaf flag in mere hours.  Joan O'Malley  3 finalist flag designs Joan brought along a large assortment of scrapbooks of news clippings and other visuals, and even some gifts for us - little Canada flags and pins!  Here's an excellent article from the Ottawa Citizen (and other newspapers) which includes much of the information that Joan shared with us. She kept her story secret for 10 years.  The 50th anniversary of our maple leaf flag was celebrated widely in 2015. Joan was invited to Waterloo for various 50th anniversary celebrations, including the introduction of a new song, Canadian Flag Waver written by Steve Bergen, a teacher and choir director at Smithson Public School in Waterloo. The song was sung by the school's 29-member student choir. Read about that story here. Joan played the song for us on her tablet!  Joan played the song for us And here's a short news clip about the production of the song. Here's a short news clip about production of the song. You can listen to the song here. Joan was given this quilt in Waterloo.  A quilt gifted to Joan  And its touching label Joan's story was very warmly received by our guild.  Joan happily posed for selfies with us!  Thank you Joan for an amazing and entertaining story and a most enjoyable evening with us. Baby Quilts This month our members were invited to bring along baby quilts to decorate the hall and they were so inspiring and delightful.     Inspired by our guild's recent English Paper Piecing workshop, Ruth went home from that and worked diligently on her hexi table topper project that she showed us at the meeting. Well done Ruth!  Charity Projects  Little preemie quilts  Christmas placemat Charity co-ordinator Marilyn (pictured at right) showed us this stunning farm-themed panel quilt made by one of our guild members. It's gorgeous we would love to know who made it! This quilt will be donated to a charity recipient.  Activities Lucy announced a new challenge to us - to make our own nametag. In response to the rapidly increasing cost of the magnetic nametags, Lucy invited us all to design and make our own nametag to wear starting when we meet again in person at the April meeting.  Tins were ready for our Tinners participants to exchange.  Tinners This month's Fat Quarter Club colour was RED and the 44 FQ's brought in were split amongst winning participants Tina, Lucy S, Jo and Linda N.  Our quilters' recycling table is a continuing hit!  Quilters Recycling Table The 28 October Feather Leaf Blocks of the Month, were gorgeous and were won by participant Elizabeth C. Thank you Jacquie for a delightful scrappy fall-themed block.  October Feather Leaf blocks Debbie introduced her Scrappy Christmas Sparkle blocks this month - they'll be due at the December meeting. Thank you Debbie for this fun Christmas-themed block.  November Scrappy Christmas Sparkle blocks Brenda brought in samples of her Potato Chip block that will be our January Block of the Month. Since our January meeting will be via Zoom so this was our opportunity to see the blocks in person. Stay tuned for more information about making this block in January.  Show and Tell when we see the projects made by our talented guild members is always a highlight of our meetings. See photos of all of the projects we saw here.  Show and Tell quilt As usual the meeting wrapped up with our draws and some happy winners!
Library "Guess the number of pages" prize - Sandra P Gift Basket - Jan S 50-50 Draw - Elizabeth C took home $61 Door Prizes - Mary D and Sandra P And thank you to our talented photographer Emma for these great photos. -- Janet Brownlee |
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