Arnprior & District Quilters' Guild Newsletter - December 2024
President's Message
I am extremely excited to announce that our Co-President, Joyce Murray has returned from the wild west and will be staying home for a while.
We are looking forward to the Christmas gathering on Wednesday. Please search your stash for a gift for a game we will be playing. There are no rules as to what value the gift is to be. Just something that you purchased, but wonder WHY. I know that everyone is feeling a little stressed about Christmas, so let's just have a fun evening.
On behalf of the entire executive, I want to wish everyone a safe and Merry Christmas.....and Happy Quilting
-- Anne Cruickshank (and Joyce Murray), Co-Presidents
We are looking forward to the Christmas gathering on Wednesday. Please search your stash for a gift for a game we will be playing. There are no rules as to what value the gift is to be. Just something that you purchased, but wonder WHY. I know that everyone is feeling a little stressed about Christmas, so let's just have a fun evening.
On behalf of the entire executive, I want to wish everyone a safe and Merry Christmas.....and Happy Quilting
-- Anne Cruickshank (and Joyce Murray), Co-Presidents
Anne and guest speaker Joan O'Malley at our November meeting
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December Guild Meeting
When? We hope you'll join us on Wednesday December 11 for our Holiday Potluck Party meeting. The meeting begins at 7 PM with doors opening at 6:30 PM Where? 257 John Street, Arnprior Ontario (Christian Education Centre) Parking is available on the nearby streets. Please do not park in the adjacent church parking lot. Win! The meeting will feature draws for door prizes, and a Guess-the-Number of Pages book sponsored by our Library. Tickets will be sold for draws of a basket of quilting goodies, and 50-50. And you can win fat quarters and Blocks of the Month (if you participate in these optional activities.) Bring
Visitors We welcome visitors to our meetings for a $5 fee payable in cash at the door. |
December Meeting Program
This will be a fun social evening at our traditional December Christmas/Holiday pot luck meeting.
We're asking members with surnames beginning with the letters M-Z to bring a dish to share at the potluck. It can be a main course item, appetizer, or dessert - anything you'd like to bring. To help members with dietary sensitivities, please include a list of ingredients for your dish to indicate any contents containing gluten (flour), lactose (dairy products), nuts etc.
This will be a fun social evening at our traditional December Christmas/Holiday pot luck meeting.
We're asking members with surnames beginning with the letters M-Z to bring a dish to share at the potluck. It can be a main course item, appetizer, or dessert - anything you'd like to bring. To help members with dietary sensitivities, please include a list of ingredients for your dish to indicate any contents containing gluten (flour), lactose (dairy products), nuts etc.
Quilter's Recycling Table
Our Quilter's Recycling Table will be available again in this month! This is an effective way to engage in sustainable quilting practices by bringing or taking items to the Guild’s Quilter’s Recycle Table. It’s a win for everyone! A reminder that if the item you brought is not picked up, you are responsible for taking it back home with you.
Our Quilter's Recycling Table will be available again in this month! This is an effective way to engage in sustainable quilting practices by bringing or taking items to the Guild’s Quilter’s Recycle Table. It’s a win for everyone! A reminder that if the item you brought is not picked up, you are responsible for taking it back home with you.
-- Lucy Shorey, Programs
Block of the Month
Scrappy Christmas Sparkle blocks
Do bring along your Scrappy Christmas Sparkle Blocks of the Month to the meeting, and enter a draw to win the blocks.
There's still time to make this block. The instructions are available from our Block of the Month page.
Thank you Debbie for this fun Christmas-themed block.
The December block has been chosen by Martha and will be on display at the meeting.
-- Janet Brownlee, BOM Co-ordinator
Upcoming Guild Events
Sew Day
Grab your tea or coffee and join your fellow ADQG members on Sunday December 15 for our second virtual sew day from the comfort of your own sewing room! It's on from 10:00am to 4:00pm. You can join anytime throughout the day, and stay for as long or as little as you like. Registration not required. You can find the Zoom link in the December Meeting Reminder email message.
Hope to see you online!
There will be additional virtual sew days throughout the year. Stay tuned to the newsletter and guild Facebook page for announcements of future sew days.
-- Lucy Shorey, ADQG programs
Grab your tea or coffee and join your fellow ADQG members on Sunday December 15 for our second virtual sew day from the comfort of your own sewing room! It's on from 10:00am to 4:00pm. You can join anytime throughout the day, and stay for as long or as little as you like. Registration not required. You can find the Zoom link in the December Meeting Reminder email message.
Hope to see you online!
There will be additional virtual sew days throughout the year. Stay tuned to the newsletter and guild Facebook page for announcements of future sew days.
-- Lucy Shorey, ADQG programs
Invitation to a Meeting of the Quilt Guild of Renfrew and Area
We recently received this generous invitation.
We recently received this generous invitation.
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We, the Quilt Guild of Renfrew and Area, would like to invite you to attend our Tuesday January 14th meeting. We start our meeting at 1pm at the Horton Community Center but you are welcome to come any time after 12 noon. Phyllis Moody from Mad Moody Quilting Fabrics from Pincourt, Quebec will be our special guest. She will demonstrate some of her favourite quilting tools and have a Pop-up Shop. We will also have some of our members doing different demos.
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The Horton Community Center is located at 1005 Castleford Road just outside of Renfrew.
A number of us attended one of their guild meetings last winter and it was a lot of fun. You can see photos and read about that visit in the March 2024 newsletter.
A number of us attended one of their guild meetings last winter and it was a lot of fun. You can see photos and read about that visit in the March 2024 newsletter.
January 22 2025 Guild Meeting
via Zoom
Guest: Cindy McChesney of Cedar Ridge Quilting
Title: Panel Palooza
“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 appliqué results in a truly special quilt or unexpected project.”
via Zoom
Guest: Cindy McChesney of Cedar Ridge Quilting
Title: Panel Palooza
“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 appliqué results in a truly special quilt or unexpected project.”
Winter Retreat
The date for the next retreat is January 27 to January 31, 2025. Members can sign up at the December meeting or online.
See the Retreats page for more information and for the online signup. Dates of later retreats are also listed there.
-- Sue Hodgins, Retreats coordinator
The date for the next retreat is January 27 to January 31, 2025. Members can sign up at the December meeting or online.
See the Retreats page for more information and for the online signup. Dates of later retreats are also listed there.
-- Sue Hodgins, Retreats coordinator
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Guild Meetings
November Guild Meeting
Our November meeting featured a very special guest, 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. Here are a few photos of this very fun evening with Joan.
A quilt gifted to Joan
Here's an excellent article from the Ottawa Citizen which includes much of the information that Joan shared with us.
Editor's Note: There will (eventually) be a Blog post with more photos and information about the November meeting. December is a very busy time!!!
Inspired by the 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 November meeting. Well done Ruth!
At Show and Tell Anne showed us this cute quilt for her grandson that she told us about in the November newsletter:
"...I also completed one for my grandson. It took me two quilt retreats to complete, but it is now done and on his bed at my house. My grandson loves quilts from Grandma. He just got a tent for his room and told me that he needs Grandma to make him a new “blanket”. (he is 3) My heart is full…."
"...I also completed one for my grandson. It took me two quilt retreats to complete, but it is now done and on his bed at my house. My grandson loves quilts from Grandma. He just got a tent for his room and told me that he needs Grandma to make him a new “blanket”. (he is 3) My heart is full…."
You can see photos of all of the Show and Tell projects here.
Check out our Blog for posts (and lots of pics) about these recent guild meetings.
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Charity
This stunning panel quilt top was dropped off for our Charity initiatives and shown by our Charity co-ordinator Marilyn at our November meeting Show and Tell. We would love to know which very creative guild member made it!
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CQA Activities
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.
You can monitor the evolving plans for Quilt Canada 2025 here.
The Canadian Quilters' Association is very active on social media and you can follow along on Facebook or Instagram.
Dates are June 18-21 2025. More info on our website here.
Browse the CQA Events Calendar for information about quilting events across Canada by province, territory, or date.
Click/tap on a photo for details about the maker and the project.
You can monitor the evolving plans for Quilt Canada 2025 here.
The Canadian Quilters' Association is very active on social media and you can follow along on Facebook or Instagram.
Dates are June 18-21 2025. More info on our website here.
Browse the CQA Events Calendar for information about quilting events across Canada by province, territory, or date.
Are you interested in this bus trip to Quilt Canada next June?
Upcoming Quilt Shows
I try to track down any upcoming shows in Eastern Ontario, and when requested, I publish information about shows that are further afield.
Here's a list of the upcoming shows that I'm aware of.
Here's a list of the upcoming shows that I'm aware of.
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Mississauga ON |
June 18-21 |
Canadian Quilters Association Quilt Canada |
See the Upcoming Quilt Shows page on our website for detailed information about the shows listed above.
Tips:
Tips:
- You can find the up-to-date quilt show information at any time on our web site More... --> Resources --> Upcoming Quilt Shows
- If you know of any upcoming local shows that are not listed on our web site, please let us know so we can share that information with all of our guild members. We are often asked by quilt guilds from both near and far to advertise their shows and we are always happy to do that.
- Browse the CQA Events Calendar for information about quilting events across Canada by province, territory, or date.
ADQG Leadership Team 2024-2025
Co-Presidents: Anne Cruickshank & Joyce Murray
Charity: Marilyn Erskine charity@arnpriordistrictquiltersguild.com
Treasurer: Sandy Beach treasurer@arnpriordistrictquiltersguild.com
Programs: Lucy Shorey programs@arnpriordistrictquiltersguild.com
Membership: Martha Palmer membership@arnpriordistrictquiltersguild.com
Library: Jacquie Lavictoire
Communications: Janet Brownlee arnpriorquilters@gmail.com
**** The Secretary position remains unfilled and we continue to look for a volunteer.
Key Volunteers
Photographer: Emma Russell
Social Media: Tina Matte
Raffle Ticket Sales: Liz Gray & Jan Smith
Programs team: Brenda Kellar, Sue Hodgins
Co-Presidents: Anne Cruickshank & Joyce Murray
Charity: Marilyn Erskine charity@arnpriordistrictquiltersguild.com
Treasurer: Sandy Beach treasurer@arnpriordistrictquiltersguild.com
Programs: Lucy Shorey programs@arnpriordistrictquiltersguild.com
Membership: Martha Palmer membership@arnpriordistrictquiltersguild.com
Library: Jacquie Lavictoire
Communications: Janet Brownlee arnpriorquilters@gmail.com
**** The Secretary position remains unfilled and we continue to look for a volunteer.
Key Volunteers
Photographer: Emma Russell
Social Media: Tina Matte
Raffle Ticket Sales: Liz Gray & Jan Smith
Programs team: Brenda Kellar, Sue Hodgins
Communications
Guild Facebook Group
Have you joined our guild members-only Facebook Group yet? If not you are missing out on all the fun. This is a great way to get to know your fellow guild members, to ask questions, learn a new block, a new tip or trick. Last year we saw some lovely photos of the Block of the Month quilts being assembled and finished off, and much more.
Thank you Tina for monitoring and facilitating the activity in this group to provide this wonderful guild initiative!
Hope to see you in our Facebook group soon. Click/tap here to join the group.
Thank you Tina for monitoring and facilitating the activity in this group to provide this wonderful guild initiative!
Hope to see you in our Facebook group soon. Click/tap here to join the group.
Advertisers
Thank you to our newsletter advertisers! Your support funds our Communications budget which includes the hosting of this web site. We are very grateful for this financial support. Our advertisers for this year are:
- Bytowne Threads
- Happy Wife Quilting in Carleton Place ON
- Paisleys Quilt Shop near Carp ON
- Quilters Curve quilt shop in Combermere ON
- Sew Inspired quilt shop in Arnprior ON
- Watergirl Quilt Co quilt shop in Prescott ON
THANK YOU to Anne, Lucy, and Emma for their guild updates, photos, and other news this month.
-- Janet Brownlee, Communications & Newsletter Editor
-- Janet Brownlee, Communications & Newsletter Editor
Our next meeting is on January 22 2025 via Zoom
