Arnprior & District Quilters' Guild Newsletter - June 2021
President's Message
President's Message
Hello All!
So we've arrived at our last newsletter of the Quilt Guild year, which also means we are coming to the last meeting of the Quilt Guild year. And we are also at the end of our term in office for several of us on the executive.
I'd like to start out by giving a big thanks to all those who are leaving the executive after giving so much of their time and talents - Penny, Joyce, Paulette. I'd also like to give a big thanks to all those who are willing to continue on - Janet, Rennie, Vickie, Nancy. Also all those who are stepping up to help keep our Guild moving onwards - Brigid, Tina, Betty and Martha.
My two years have been an adventure - because 6 months in we had Covid come along and everything went sideways. But we discovered how to do Zoom meetings and have persevered. Many thanks to all of you who worked so hard to keep our Guild moving forward in spite of all the roadblocks that Covid and our governments have thrown in our path.
During the intervals between lockdowns Paulette and I have managed to visit a few quilt shops and keep on quilting. There is an expression I use at work all the time that describes my quilting "it's a journey not a destination". My quilt journey continues and will until I take my last breath.
Keep smiling! Keep quilting! Stay healthy!
-- Frank (the out-going President)
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Program Notes
Hello fellow quilters: This will be my last entry as we (Sue, Jackie, Anne & I) have been replaced by Brigid. She is off and running and I am sure she will do a wonderful job. We were going great guns, I thought, before Covid but I must admit lost much of our umph with no in person meetings. Anyway best wishes to Brigid – know you will do an awesome job. You’re not getting off without one more installment of our family challenge. We all are really enjoying our Quilt Chats every Sunday morning. What a great way it has proven to get together with family (me, my 3 sisters and my daughter, all quilters) and get plenty of quilting done. In my case I must admit I still have several projects to finish. Surely we will have a week of rain sometime soon. For June we are just trying to finish up projects. I surely hope everyone enjoyed Patti Carey last month as much as I did. Wasn’t she great. And this month we have Joan Statz of joansown creations. I include a full bio for her. Continued happy quilting. Hope to see you all soon. …….Joyce |
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June Meeting
Our June guild meeting is on Wednesday June 16 at 7 PM. We hope you'll join us on Zoom. Watch your email a day or 2 before the meeting for instructions for connecting to this meeting.
The meeting will feature guest speaker Joan Statz (Joan’s Own Creations), draws for "door" prizes, and a prize provided by Nancy on behalf of the Library team.
And there will be a draw for 2 free renewal memberships for next year! To qualify for the draw, you must have completed the 2 steps of your renewal registration by the end of the day on Tuesday, June 15th. Renewal registration is available to 2020-2021 guild members.
And do invite along a guest or two as we are waiving the guest fee for this meeting, and would love to have your friends and fellow quilters join us.
Our June guild meeting is on Wednesday June 16 at 7 PM. We hope you'll join us on Zoom. Watch your email a day or 2 before the meeting for instructions for connecting to this meeting.
The meeting will feature guest speaker Joan Statz (Joan’s Own Creations), draws for "door" prizes, and a prize provided by Nancy on behalf of the Library team.
And there will be a draw for 2 free renewal memberships for next year! To qualify for the draw, you must have completed the 2 steps of your renewal registration by the end of the day on Tuesday, June 15th. Renewal registration is available to 2020-2021 guild members.
- Submit the renewal form from the web site,
- Ensure that we have received your membership fee of $15.
And do invite along a guest or two as we are waiving the guest fee for this meeting, and would love to have your friends and fellow quilters join us.
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Guest Speaker Bio - Joan Statz
Joan started teaching in 1993 and has had a busy teaching schedule ever since. Joan typically travels extensively teaching in Canada and in the U.S. She has been a celebrity speaker and teacher at Sewing Shows in Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, Victoria and Vancouver. Joan has made many appearances on Linda McPhee’s ‘Sew Much Fun”, and Craftscapes, with Sue Warden. Joan’s appliqué patterns, called ‘Joan’s Own Creations’, have over 200 patterns and 5 books, that are sold worldwide. The first book, ’Everyday Heirloom, covers practical uses for beautiful Heirloom Sewing. The second book, ‘Cutwork Collection’, was written to fill a need for cutwork designs as well as techniques for creating cutwork with your sewing machine. Her third book ‘Building and Construction Methods for Appliqué’ covers all Joan’s tips and shortcuts for creating appliqué projects. Her 4th book is ‘Free Motion Quilting’ Second Edition which has over 180 quilting designs for free motion quilting, and her 5th book is 'Quilting with Color'. Joan has created a line of landscape fabrics designed by herself and Lorraine McAllister. The fabric line is called ‘Timberline’ produced by P&B Textiles. Joan has also won many contests for sewing and quilting. She won the first prize silver goblet at the Calgary Stampede in the all over sewing category for 1993, 1994, and 1995. In 1996 she won the Wild, Wild West contest for her jean jacket with the Calgary Skyline appliquéd on the back. Also in 1996 she won first place in Linda McGehee's Fiber Challenge with her ‘Moody Blues’ denim wall hanging. In 2000, she won first place for her appliquéd ‘shrinkle’ vest. Joan lives on an acreage in central Alberta with her husband Larry, and Charlie the Bernadoodle. |
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Show and Tell
We'd love to see what you've been working on at our Show & Tell. To share your work at the June meeting please send a photo of each item AND indicate if you would like to:
Feel free to send along multiple photos of a quilt if you want to also show the back, or a close up of the quilting, or any area of the quilt.
Please send the photos to the guild email account arnpriorquilters@gmail.com by 12 noon on Tuesday June 15.
The photos will later be added to the web site Show & Tell page (just like after an in person-meeting), unless you specifically request in the email message that the photo not be.
Thank you to ALL of you who have shown us your beautiful creations in previous months.
We'd love to see what you've been working on at our Show & Tell. To share your work at the June meeting please send a photo of each item AND indicate if you would like to:
- Tell us about it during the meeting (this is the best!) OR
- Submit a written description that we will read during the meeting - if you go for this option please include the description with the photo(s).
Feel free to send along multiple photos of a quilt if you want to also show the back, or a close up of the quilting, or any area of the quilt.
Please send the photos to the guild email account arnpriorquilters@gmail.com by 12 noon on Tuesday June 15.
The photos will later be added to the web site Show & Tell page (just like after an in person-meeting), unless you specifically request in the email message that the photo not be.
Thank you to ALL of you who have shown us your beautiful creations in previous months.
Charity
Here's to another great season of Charity work! Thank you all for all the charity sewing projects you have contributed!
Please don't forget if anyone wants to sew a quilt top of Pick Up Sticks blocks, sandwich a preexisting charity top, or quilt one over the summer just let Jane or me know. We can make it possible!
Congratulations to all! We have been able to meet our goal of 97 placemats for the Grove! Here are a couple of pretty pictures Jane sent.
Placemats for the new Grove Nursing Home
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Placemats for the new Grove Nursing Home
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Jane was also busy and delivered, on our Guild's behalf, one palliative quilt to the Arnprior Hospital, and two fidget quilts. Here are pictures of Josh, the charge nurse, accepting our donations.
Fidget quilts
Palliative quilt
So to recap our Charity 20-21 season donation we have made:
146 preemie quilts
100 draw-string bags
64 Christmas placemats
8 fidget/touch quilts
3 palliative quilts
59 Pick Up Sticks blocks for future charity quilts
97 placemats for our new community project
Wow this is fantastic! We should all be proud of our small but mighty guild!
146 preemie quilts
100 draw-string bags
64 Christmas placemats
8 fidget/touch quilts
3 palliative quilts
59 Pick Up Sticks blocks for future charity quilts
97 placemats for our new community project
Wow this is fantastic! We should all be proud of our small but mighty guild!
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Your Charity Team
Marilyn Erskine Jane Wickware Vickie MacNabb |
Little Preemie Quilts
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A Story of a Palliative Care Quilt
About a month ago I was asked to help a friend ‘s Mom who was dying in the Arnprior Hospital. She had a lovely quilt on her bed and her son was so happy that they gave her a Quilt. It had a label, it was made by the Quilting Guild in 2009. When she passed her son was overjoyed that he could take the Quilt home. A very touching story that I wanted to share with the Guild.
-- Lucy Voss
A Story of 3 Preemie Quilts
Back in mid-March I was thrilled when this email message and accompanying photo greeted me in the guild email InBox.
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Good morning! Hope everyone is safe during COVID-19. I wanted to reach out for a few reasons: First, to say thank you. I’m a bit late, but four and a half years ago our twins were born at the Ottawa Civic hospital. Charlie and Sophia were a bit early and spent some time in the NICU. They were each given a small quilted blanket to help keep them warm. It was such a nice gesture, and I was even more taken by surprise when I saw the stitching in the corner that said “Arnprior & District Quilters' Guild”. Some nice people from the town I grew up in had made blankets for my little boy and little girl. To this day, they sleep with them and cuddle with them. They still love their blankets, so thank you so much for making them. Second, we are expecting another baby girl in May. Everything is going fine so far, and we’re hoping delivery goes smoothly and we don’t visit the NICU again. However, I was hoping we could somehow get another small blanket from your organization. We would like to make a donation to help your group make blankets for other children as well. If this is a possibility, please let me know! Bryan S. |
This is a rather unusual request for our guild! While I was pretty sure that Vickie and her Charity group would authorize a guild preemie quilt I immediately decided that I would make one for this eagerly and lovingly awaited baby. Having immensely appreciated the excellent care our 2 oldest sons, who were both born prematurely, received in the NICU at CHEO back in the late 1970's, I jumped at the opportunity to help out with this request. I took a gamble that the ultrasound was accurately predicting the baby's gender, and I was thrilled to have the opportunity to make this preemie quilt and deliver it. And Bryan very generously made a donation to our Charity bank account to help us purchase supplies for future charity projects.
And it wasn't long until I learned that baby sister Olivia had arrived, that she and her family were all doing well. Here she is on her little quilt with the colourful balloon flannel backing.
And it wasn't long until I learned that baby sister Olivia had arrived, that she and her family were all doing well. Here she is on her little quilt with the colourful balloon flannel backing.
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-- Janet Brownlee
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Library News
June Library Draw Prize
With this heat and humidity, I’m sure many of you are “hiding” out in your sewing rooms. Mine is in the basement and so is quite cool; however, I seem to be having a crisis of what to make next. A small item or a larger challenge? I am glad that Brigid is having a Summer Challenge and I can’t wait to start!!
Last month I told you about the blog, The Geeky Bobbin, and I’d like to recommend it again as Bonnie talked about ¼ in. seams. I think we’ve all had times when a pieced square turns out a tad shy of the required measurement and the tips I’ve learned have really helped! In this blog post you’ll find 4 tips to help you with your machine set-up so you can have great ¼ in. seams!
Our prize this month has 4 magazine editions and 2 fat quarters (same fabric). I bought the fat quarters a while ago and didn’t find a place for them. I hope they will suit one of you!
Lucy and I hope you all have a wonderful summer full of quilting and outdoor fun!
-- Nancy (and Lucy)
Incoming Leadership Team
Our 2021-2023 leadership team is now complete after Brigid Whitnall volunteered to take on the key Programs leadership position. Thank you to Brigid and the other volunteers who have stepped up to help guide our guild for the next 2 years.
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Summer Scrap Challenge
I have scraps, they’re multiplying!! Did I just give you an ear worm, or am I the only one with John Travolta 70s song on the brain?
Join in on the summer challenge! Still some spots available, sign up by June 17th to be included.
Since this year has been like no other, your new Program team thought that we would offer up a summer scrap challenge that will keep you busy, actually, not that busy, but sewing over the summer and keep our charity group in quilts for the fall!
Here’s what’s going to happen:
1. Send an email to Brigid before June 17th to be included in the group. We currently have scraps for 28 kits. We can come up with more as needed.
2. Pick a background fabric from your stash (1.5 metres) and bring it along to our Zoom kick off meeting on June 28. You can add sashing fabric later as needed.
3. You will receive an envelope with further instructions and your scraps for the challenge (roughly 1.5-2 metres total fabric) before the virtual kick off meeting. No peaking!
4. On June 28th we will reveal the contents of our envelopes to each other, on Zoom, answer any questions and kick off the fun. That’s right, it’s a surprise! We’re going to open up our packages at the same time! Don’t worry, there should not be anything less than 1.5” in the envelope, and there will be pieces as big as a fat quarter.
You will have 8 weeks to complete a quilt of your choice! We hope that you will make a project to donate to our charity team, whether it be placemats, preemies or lap quilts.
It will be scary and fun all rolled up into one big challenge ... why only 8 weeks you ask? Well, we don’t want you to have another UFO, we want the scraps used up and it helps our charity folk get a head start to the year this fall.
How did we come up with the idea? Brigid just finished this challenge that was a Quilts of Valour fundraiser. We paid $10 for the scraps and had 6 weeks to finish. If you have a Pinterest Account, search Quilter on Fire, Brandy just posted photos of the 80 completed quilts. She’s our November speaker by the way.
Are you concerned that you are new to quilting? Don’t be, this could be your first quilt and we won’t leave you hanging.
At the end of August we will have a big reveal party - virtual, of course, photos will be sent in and we will see everyone’s quilts. Come September’s meeting, we’ll share with the rest of the guild and announce prize winners.
Join now! Open to all of our members, new and returning! If you would like to invite friends from outside the guild, talk to us ... we have a fantastic line up of speakers this fall, they could join for only $15. That’s less than dinner out!
-- Brigid Whitnall
Programs 2021-2022
With Covid precautions changing frequently, and at the time of starting to plan speakers, it was not clear what we might be allowed to do. So we’ve decided to make lemonade out of lemons and offer you a cross Canada tour of speakers for the first part of the 2021-2022 guild year.
Since we frequently have trouble meeting in January and February due to weather, we will have our first in person meeting, fingers crossed, in March 2022. Save your backs, we’ll be looking for folks to help set up the room, chairs, tables .. all that ... oh and coffee, we need refreshment folks for March!
So all you snowbirds, grab your iPads, even if you are traveling, as long as you have an internet connection, you can join the Zoom calls from anywhere! Some math may be required if you are in a different time zone.
For all our members who may have had difficulty joining us on zoom this year, if you would like tutorials on accessing Zoom, please reach out to us at arnpriorquilters@gmail.com and we will plan a date to get you up and running and comfortable with using Zoom. It’s really just as easy as clicking the link that comes in the email. You can even click it early, but it’s like trying to get into the church before the doors open, you just won’t get in yet and may have to wait a bit for the person with the key.
Retreats
I am happy to announce that Joanna Vlaming has agreed to continue on as our retreat coordinator. Joanna is going to stay in touch with Providence Point and see how life progresses with restrictions. We hope to be able to offer a retreat in the winter of 2022, but we won’t do so unless it’s safe. It could very well be a last minute event, so stay tuned. Now that we can e-transfer, it will make the payment portion easier.
Workshops and Sew Days
As I sat down to write this, Joyce Murray and I were talking about some of the challenges and sew nights they had planned for 2020 that never happened due to meeting cancellations. We will park those for now, as some will work better if we are in person, but a good bit of the work and planning is done, so stay tuned.
It takes a village to do all the program activities! I am looking for members who would like to coordinate some workshops, sew days and/or challenges. Other guilds are going ahead with these activities via Zoom and we could book some of our upcoming speakers for workshops, but the cost might be prohibitive if we don’t have the attendance. Please email me if you would like to assist with any of these activities. Don’t let the Zoom part of this scare you off... I do it for another guild and am happy to assist with that part of it.
Challenges Reveal
We know you’ve all been working hard at your various challenges, whether the Mystery Quilt (Block of the Month) or the Covid Challenge. We would like to give members who have not had a chance to finish these challenges an opportunity to catch up. We are going to wait until we can meet in person, likely February or March 2022 and at that time we will have a huge challenge reveal. While we are at it, if you have other past year challenges that need finishing, why not dig them out and as Karen Brown would say “Get it Done”! More information will be communicated during the year.
As I sat down to write this, Joyce Murray and I were talking about some of the challenges and sew nights they had planned for 2020 that never happened due to meeting cancellations. We will park those for now, as some will work better if we are in person, but a good bit of the work and planning is done, so stay tuned.
It takes a village to do all the program activities! I am looking for members who would like to coordinate some workshops, sew days and/or challenges. Other guilds are going ahead with these activities via Zoom and we could book some of our upcoming speakers for workshops, but the cost might be prohibitive if we don’t have the attendance. Please email me if you would like to assist with any of these activities. Don’t let the Zoom part of this scare you off... I do it for another guild and am happy to assist with that part of it.
Challenges Reveal
We know you’ve all been working hard at your various challenges, whether the Mystery Quilt (Block of the Month) or the Covid Challenge. We would like to give members who have not had a chance to finish these challenges an opportunity to catch up. We are going to wait until we can meet in person, likely February or March 2022 and at that time we will have a huge challenge reveal. While we are at it, if you have other past year challenges that need finishing, why not dig them out and as Karen Brown would say “Get it Done”! More information will be communicated during the year.
Monthly Speakers/ Activities Planned
I am thrilled to announce our line up for the upcoming year. Thanks to pre-work done by the outgoing team and my long list of who I would like to see ... more details to come in the September newsletter, but for now, feast your eyes on their websites.
September 22 - Lise Belanger, Trois-Pistoles, QC http://en.libexpression.com
In Lise’s words: Everyone is creative; you just have to listen to your creativity. This lecture introduces you to my competition quilts, my creative process, and the techniques I use to create them. What is most important to me is to show you how it is possible to relax into the creative process, what I call making space, getting inspired and trusting yourself. You will see that I don't have all the answers when I start a project, and that's often best.
October 27 - Cheryl Arkinson, http://www.cherylarkison.com
Quilter, writer, and mom. She writes and teaches on quilting, craft, creativity, food, and family. And it all comes from her dining room empire in her crowded, colourful house.
November 24- Brandy Maslowski, Summerland, BC https://www.quilteronfire.com
Brandy Maslowski is a serial quilter and fibre artist, and loves humans, hiking and tea. She brings more joy and less overwhelm to quilters as a speaker, teacher and world traveler.
December 15 - Melissa Marginet, Beausejour, MB http://melissamarginet.ca
Quilter, Author, Designer, Teacher. Join us for My Journey as a Quiltmaker: My creative journey from growing up next door to a creative and resourceful grandmother in rural Manitoba to how I became addicted to quilting and ending where I am now. A trunk show filled with quilts and stories.
January - Krista Hennebury http://poppyprintcreates.blogspot.com
A geologist by training but quilter by choice. I live, sew, walk, bake, take photos and love life in beautiful British Columbia.
February - Under construction and still working on it ... more information to come!!
March - Yippee!! Our first in person meeting in 2 years ... We’ll plan on tea and coffee, maybe some snacks. Won’t it be nice to see all of you in person. Let’s recap all our challenges and have one huge Show and Tell. If many of you have donated quilts and would still like to show them again, we’ll arrange a slide show as well as in person quilts. Of course, all this is assuming health protocols allow this.
... that’s it for now... stay tuned for more great news!!!
-- Brigid Whitnall
I am thrilled to announce our line up for the upcoming year. Thanks to pre-work done by the outgoing team and my long list of who I would like to see ... more details to come in the September newsletter, but for now, feast your eyes on their websites.
September 22 - Lise Belanger, Trois-Pistoles, QC http://en.libexpression.com
In Lise’s words: Everyone is creative; you just have to listen to your creativity. This lecture introduces you to my competition quilts, my creative process, and the techniques I use to create them. What is most important to me is to show you how it is possible to relax into the creative process, what I call making space, getting inspired and trusting yourself. You will see that I don't have all the answers when I start a project, and that's often best.
October 27 - Cheryl Arkinson, http://www.cherylarkison.com
Quilter, writer, and mom. She writes and teaches on quilting, craft, creativity, food, and family. And it all comes from her dining room empire in her crowded, colourful house.
November 24- Brandy Maslowski, Summerland, BC https://www.quilteronfire.com
Brandy Maslowski is a serial quilter and fibre artist, and loves humans, hiking and tea. She brings more joy and less overwhelm to quilters as a speaker, teacher and world traveler.
December 15 - Melissa Marginet, Beausejour, MB http://melissamarginet.ca
Quilter, Author, Designer, Teacher. Join us for My Journey as a Quiltmaker: My creative journey from growing up next door to a creative and resourceful grandmother in rural Manitoba to how I became addicted to quilting and ending where I am now. A trunk show filled with quilts and stories.
January - Krista Hennebury http://poppyprintcreates.blogspot.com
A geologist by training but quilter by choice. I live, sew, walk, bake, take photos and love life in beautiful British Columbia.
February - Under construction and still working on it ... more information to come!!
March - Yippee!! Our first in person meeting in 2 years ... We’ll plan on tea and coffee, maybe some snacks. Won’t it be nice to see all of you in person. Let’s recap all our challenges and have one huge Show and Tell. If many of you have donated quilts and would still like to show them again, we’ll arrange a slide show as well as in person quilts. Of course, all this is assuming health protocols allow this.
... that’s it for now... stay tuned for more great news!!!
-- Brigid Whitnall
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Get to Know Your Guild Member - Frank McCarron
In this month's Get to Know Your Guild Members feature, we're hearing from Frank McCarron our esteemed outgoing guild President.
Thank you Frank for steering us through the last 2 years, including the very challenging last 15 months.
Here Frank is answering questions submitted to him by our VP Vickie MacNabb, who is our incoming President.
We hope you are enjoying this feature to help us better connect with each other, especially while we are not meeting in person.
In this month's Get to Know Your Guild Members feature, we're hearing from Frank McCarron our esteemed outgoing guild President.
Thank you Frank for steering us through the last 2 years, including the very challenging last 15 months.
Here Frank is answering questions submitted to him by our VP Vickie MacNabb, who is our incoming President.
We hope you are enjoying this feature to help us better connect with each other, especially while we are not meeting in person.
Q: How long have you been making quilts? Would you describe your learning process?
A: On this coming October 18th Paulette and I will celebrate our 7th Quiltversary. We started by watching
Jenny Doan videos on YouTube. One of the early quilts we made was a pattern we had bought in a quilt
shop. We were ½ way through making it before we discovered it was for “advanced quilters”.
Q: Were there special people or circumstances that encouraged you to begin to quilt?
A: I am at least a 5th generation quilter, but the first male quilter in the family. I had never had a desire to
quilt because handwork isn’t for me, never has been, never will be. Then one day in Walmart in
Renfrew I was passing time while Paulette was looking at something in the craft aisle and I happened
to end up in front of the sewing machines and one of the sewing machines said it was for quilting. I had
never heard of quilting other than by hand. So we came home and watched YouTube and discovered
that it really was a real thing and on October 18th 2014 we bought our first sewing machine. We
splurged a tad on the first machine and hoped that our interest in quilting would last. Several sewing
machines (and a serger and an embroidery machine) later we are still loving quilting. We even have 5
antique machines for decor.
Q: How do you decide on the colors and fabrics that go into your quilts? Do you ever use the colors recommended on patterns that you buy or see in books?
A: I like colours of all sorts. My colour choices often are a reaction to previous quilts I’ve made. I made a
king-sized black and white quilt that was going to be a wedding present. I loved it. I still love it. But by
the time I was done making it I was so bored with black and white that my next quilt used all the
colours of the rainbow.
Currently I’m working on an “Emerald City” quilt in green (from a Bonnie Hunter pattern book). I love
it. But the quilt top is 3,800 pieces. So I’m sure that when I’m done I’ll be looking to do a quilt in a)
anything but green b) something with a few less pieces.
Q: Would you rather create your own pattern and color combinations or have a pattern to go by?
A: I’ve done both. I always say that I have to win the lotto and live a long time because I probably have
1,500 or so quilt ideas in my file that I would love to do. But, unless I win the lotto and live a long time
I won’t make a huge dent in that backlog of ideas.
Q: What part of the quilting process do you like the best? For example, piecing, appliquéing, hand quilting, machine quilting, etc.
Q: What part of the quilting process do you like the best? For example, piecing, appliquéing, hand quilting, machine quilting, etc.
A: I love the designing, the fabric acquisition, the piecing and I LOVE longarming. Paulette and I don’t
own a longarm (yet) but rent one from time to time when we need to. We have a box of quilt tops that
are ready to be quilted when either a) someone wants the quilt or b) we finally get our own longarm
(whichever comes first).
I’ve done a bit of applique, not my total cup of tea, but I see its uses.
The challenge I’m working on right now is mastering curved piecing, because the one quilt style that I
love immensely is Double Wedding Rings. I just bought a new template that simplifies/idiot-proofs the
curved piecing of them so we’ll see how that goes.
Q: Do you put quilt labels on all of your quilts?
A: No. Not yet. We keep saying we should and yet we haven’t got around to it yet. The road to heck is
paved with good intentions I guess.
Q: Do you keep all your quilts? If so, how do you use quilts in your home?
A: No. We’ve given some away. We’ve sold a few. The rest we have. Oddly enough we don’t use a quilt
on our bed (we’re too warm for anything other than a sheet).
Quilt Canada 2021
The Canadian Quilters' Association has announced a virtual event on June 16-19 to replace their usual in-person Quilt Canada 2021 conference.
And what better way to celebrate 40 years than to invite quilters from across the country to join in the online party.
Until June 15, for just a $10 (plus tax) entry fee you can view all the quilt shows and check out the 90+ vendors throughout the show.
You will also be able to enter the daily door prize draws with prizes totaling $40,000.
Please help support our National quilting organization.
Watch this page for more information or click/tap on the poster.
The Canadian Quilters' Association has announced a virtual event on June 16-19 to replace their usual in-person Quilt Canada 2021 conference.
And what better way to celebrate 40 years than to invite quilters from across the country to join in the online party.
Until June 15, for just a $10 (plus tax) entry fee you can view all the quilt shows and check out the 90+ vendors throughout the show.
You will also be able to enter the daily door prize draws with prizes totaling $40,000.
Please help support our National quilting organization.
Watch this page for more information or click/tap on the poster.
Advertisers
Thank you to our 2020-2021 advertisers! Your support funds our Communications budget which includes the hosting of this web site. We are very grateful for this financial support.
To our guild members, please support our advertisers. You can click/tap on any of the advertisements in this newsletter to access the vendor's web site. These vendors are also listed on the Links page. And do enjoy finally getting back to in person shopping this summer.
-- Janet Brownlee, Communications & Newsletter Editor
Thank You
A VERY BIG THANK YOU to to Frank, Joyce M, Vickie, Nancy, Lucy, and Brigid for for their guild updates and other news this month, and a special thank you to Frank for leading our guild for the past 2 years, and for participating in "Get to Know Your Guild Members".
-- Janet Brownlee, Communications & Newsletter Editor