November Meeting Highlights

Christmas Stockings

Colourful Christmas stockings

​We reached our ambitious goal of making 250 Christmas stockings  for the Arnprior and District Food Bank! The stockings will be stuffed and distributed with the Christmas parcels.

Volunteer Joan Kelly of the CWL (Catholic Women's League) accepted the stockings on behalf of the food bank. 

Joan Kelly, left with guild president Brigid.

CQA Big Quilt Bee

​Pieces of the Canada 150 fabrics were distributed for making the slab blocks for the Canadian Quilters' Associations Big Quilt Bee quilts for Ronald McDonald Houses across Canada. This project is in celebration of Canada's 150th birthday in 2017. 

Refer to the CQA web site for more information, including photos of sample blocks and instructions for the blocks using a “slab block pattern” compliments of Cheryl Arkison. 

Nancy Jossinet Trunk Show

Our guest speaker Nancy Jossinet thoroughly entertained and inspired us wtih her story of her quilting journey, her lovely quilts, her many tips, and her parting words "Follow your journey, try new things, decide what makes you happy". A self confessed "tool person", with a passion for applique, Nancy has tried many different techniques "Some I liked and some I never tried again".

Nancy's trunk show featured her quilts over the years and included a number of Christmas pieces, including the whimsical Santa pictured here, traditional quilts, a block-of-the-month quilt depicting the history of Lanark County where she lives, and a unique 3 panel Japanese lady quilt.
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Here are some of the quilts Nancy included in her trunk show. Click on a photo to enlarge it. ​

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