Friday, September 7, 2018

September 2018 Show and Share

Oopsie - forgot to go back and add the show and share pics to the meeting recap... oh well, let's give them their own post, shall we?




Looking forward to next month's show and share, see you then!
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Thursday, September 6, 2018

September 2018 Meeting Recap

Hello folks, here's your summary of what happened at the meeting for everyone who wasn’t able to attend (and to jog memories for those who did).


News/discussion/etc. from the meeting:
  • It’s that time of year: membership renewals are now due for 2018/2019
  • We had a brief overview of the latest newsletter from the Modern Quilt Guild 
  • We talked about the next sew-in on September 22 (must sign up by Thursday September 20th; if we don't have 4 people signed up by then we will cancel)
  • We talked about future demos and had a few volunteers on the following topics: improv ideas, foundation paper piecing, possibly letter appliqués, quilting with rulers, and low-immersion dye techniques. (And we’re always happy for more volunteers or requests, just let us know at the next meeting.)
  • We discussed doing some sort of a spring cleaning fabric swap or garage/car trunk sale, and there was a lot of enthusiasm about the idea. Probably we’ll do that in May when the weather is nicer.
  • We had some updates about the big moving sale for the Nanaimo Fabricland, though the new location probably won’t be known for another week or two. Lots of great bargains to be had, but the pickings were already getting slim even last week.
  • We had some info about the traditional Nanaimo guild’s upcoming quilt show in June: if you want to participate in the show you must be a member as of this month’s meeting, which is on September 19 in either the afternoon or evening. Check their website for location and time: http://www.islandquilters.ca/index.htm
  • We talked about a couple upcoming workshops that a couple of our members will be attending, so we’ll hear all about them next month. 
  • As always, we had show and share.
Challenges: 

None this month, but I’ll have a small one next month to be due in November.

We had the reveal of the first few playing card challenges tonight, and I posted the pics here:



If you’re still working on yours, no worries, just bring it when you can.

  
Next sew-in: September 22 at the Nanaimo North library on Hammond Bay Road, please sign up with Carly prior to the afternoon of Thursday September 20th, because if there aren’t at least 4 people signed up by then we will have to cancel the sew-in.

Donation quilt HSTs: As we discussed in previous meetings, we have an ongoing project to make half square triangles for quilts to be donated to kids in foster care. 

If you missed the specs on the HSTs: we’re going for a scrappy sort of look, but big and modern. Half square triangle blocks should be trimmed to 8.5 inches, with one side lighter and the other darker (relative is OK, like pink against white), and we also discussed having one side be a solid (or a subtle print that reads as a solid) and the other a print. The target age is the slightly older kids and teens, say 6-16, as there tends to already be a lot of donations aimed at the really little kids. Final quilt sizes will likely be lap size or twins, but for now, just keep feeding us HSTs and we’ll build the quilts later on. As this is an ongoing project, just make ‘em as you can and bring ‘em – great way to work through your stash.


Next meeting: Wednesday, October 3, 7pm as usual.

Upcoming workshops that may be of interest: 

Upcoming quilt shows:

Nothing on the Island in the next couple months, but:
And for 2019: 


I think that's about it - happy quilting and see you all in October!



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Monday, September 3, 2018


 Happy start of a new quilting season!  Our first meeting is on Wednesday September 5th at 7pm at our normal location.  (Christ community church 2221 Bowen Road, Nanaimo) Here is a quick run down of some of the items we will be covering:

  • Membership dues
  • Demo planning for the year – does anyone have anything they would like to learn?  Anyone from our group want to do a demo? Do you have any names & contacts of people that may want to come and do a demo?
  • Block of the month, we decided at the organizational meeting we would switch it up a bit this year; due to the intimate group we have we don’t want to overwhelm people with projects.  So we are going to switch between block of the month and challenges.  Christine is going to be in charge of block of the month and Pyra in charge of challenges.  If anyone has any suggestions for block of the month please feel free to email Christine directly. 
  • Block of the month will be September November February and April.  This month is going to be wedges as topography.  A couple other groups are doing them across Canada this month and I thought it would be fun to join in the fun.  There is a hashtag etc. so I will take care of that next month.  I will have a handout and some demo for everyone to see at the meeting
  • Sew ins here are the dates for them.  Carly will be the contact for the sew in days and will go over quickly what we agreed on for cancelations etc. so they run smoothly this year.

September 22

November 24

January 26

March 23

May 25

 

  • Victoria MQG is holding a workshop on September 21 it is called Sparkle – Stacey Day is the teacher.  If you are interested go to their web site mqgvictoria.com and check out the picture you can register on line there and pay.  Looks like a fun one to participate in.
Hope to see you all there!

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