Town & Country Quilters Guild Minutes November 12th 2014
Welcome at 19:00 - three new members, Amber, Laurie-, Ann. 31
attendees. Laurie-Ann & Amber were
here last month & came back!
Apologies for the late notice.
Each attendee was asked what her favourite charity was (for
donating quilts).
Ruth IWK
& Pins & Needles
Ginny - placemats for Meals on Wheels
May Lou - never done charity quilts
Debbie - IWK, placemats
Kim - Time for All things - Somerset School, an
Auburn family
Ann - Sunrise Quilters in Tatamagouche - burned
out families
Faye - meals on wheels, IWK, (Faye has also
donated lots of fabric for charity quilts)
Rosemary - Quilts
of Valour, IWK
Vanessa - kids she knows about, IWK, wants to do a
Q of Valour
Corrine - IWK, placemats, bibs,
Heather - Pins & Needles, Placemats, bibs,
IWK, breast cancer pillows
Amber - wants to start
Laurie Ann - knitted hats
Marie - placemats,
Eleanor - paints memory boxes
Dawna - placemats, Q of V, Habitat for Humanity,
IWK
Kate - placemats, wants to do Q of V
Dale - wants to do lap quilts for Alzheimer’s
patients
Cathy - Transitional Housing in Kentville,
Ruth - Pins & needles - Comfort Quilts, IWK,
hospital gift shop, Q of V, 18 quilts
going to IWK tomorrow
Ann - Montreal Shriners hospital, Q of V,
Kentville refuge
Janet -Q of V,
IWK, breast cancer people she knows, school kids in trauma, bibs, wheel
chair quilts, pillowcases for Chrysallis House,
Sharon - Pins & Needles comfort quilts, Q of V
with Fundy Quilters & Pins & Needles, bibs,
Ann - ditto to Sharon, one for a girl in Gaspereau
Joanne - Pins & Needles Comfort Quilts
Marg - placemats, Q of V here
Esther - bibs, Q of V, Pins & Needles, Grand
View Manor
Shelley - quilts in Pikes Peak Colorado, bears for
transition house in Halifax,
Linda - bib project, wants to make fiddle quilts
for Alzheimer's Society
Fiddle Quilts - different textures, things to
touch & find.
Show & Tell -
Joanne - 2 tree shirts made from width of fabric
strips,
Ann - Quilt top - layer cake
Ruth - Christmas blocks from years ago, Strip
quilt, quilt as you go, flannelette scraps, quilt as you go, 6 hour quilt,
quilt as you go
Cathy - Christmas tree skirts, woven fabric tree
skirt
Kate wall hangings - garden she made for her
mother
Laurie-Ann baby quilt, started years ago.
Amber - apron she made for her mother with fabric
from Frenchies
Rosemary Fox-DeAdder mug rugs quilt as you go,
crazy quilt from last year workshop hand quilted
Faye - pot holder from retreat, challenge Creative
Hands placemat, cubism pattern from McCalls 2010. hand quilted, stars in top,
fish in bottom.
Ginny - ufo from Berwick Retreat -
Ruth - quilted by Corrine - Sunday Morning Quilts
Improv Quilting
Helen 6 hour quilt as you go..
Corrine brought a number of purses to show.
Linda told us about Harmonic Convergence & Crazy Quilts with Embellishment at the Fibre Arts Festival in Amherst.
Items of Business:
Minutes: Brenda's name is Hulan. Kate organized the display,
not Linda. Kate would like feedback and suggestions for places to display it.
Treasurer's Report: Balance - $3926.41
Vanessa has some bills from Retreat.
It was suggested that money could be used for fabric for
charity quilts. Some fabric has been donated.
Ruth has it.
Do we want
to sponsor a prize for Quilt Canada in Lethbridge? Golden Thimble is $2000,
Silver Thimble $1000, Bronze $500.00. You can also donate less. March 31st 2015
is the deadline. $200 was donated last
time. Decision tabled until next meeting.
Lollygagging to Lethbridge - measure your
perimeters and put them in the sign up book.
Quilt Canada June 4th to 6th in Lethbridge. There
is a travelling show of quilts by award winners.
Best Friends Forever is the challenge theme.
An award for people who have made a significant
contribution to quilting.
Avonport Scholarship award for a young quilter. 2015 Pictou
Lodge Retreat. It covers the expenses while there - you have to be born between
1975 & 1996.
Mayflower Associate Membership - We need to send $35.00 and
our membership list. Ruth agreed to be the contact person. Vanessa moved that we renew our membership,
Rosemary seconded. Passed.
Mahone Bay Quilt Guild Nov 28th workshop, Sylvia Nailer had
some spaces.
Ruth and 3 others went to Paradise Quilters Tea.
Ruth - Library Report: 4 new books, Simply Stunning Woven
Quilts, Exploring Textile Arts, Felt With Love, Animal Parade. Bill is $58.78.
Kate Madeloso asked if there was a list of the books. Ruth is working on one.
Town & Country Quilt Guild in New Zealand link is on our
blog.
Eleanor told us that the quilting group at her church has
closed & the material has been donated to Woodville Baptist Church. They
are looking for tops to hand quilt. Contact Joan Sandford 902- 538-3520.
Vanessa asked what the plan is for the December 10th
meeting. 6 PM. Pot Luck. Bring your own cutlery, plates.
etc. Bring something for the Refuge in Kentville. Personal care items. Males
& females.
Panier des Arts Retreat - dice with left, right, centre.
Esther has the dice. If you want to play bring 3 fat quarters. Faye or Janet
will run the game.
Program Committee:
January is community quilts workshop
January meeting Ann & Leah will share some
things.
Corrine is doing the workshop on November 29th.
The signup sheet was passed around. 9 Am for 9:30.
Joanne - Round Robin: Groups of 5. Each person gets the rules &
a book to add to the quilt. It is kept anonymous. You can define what colours
go in it and what size. Each quilt comes in in a white pillowcase. At the next
meeting you bring in your quilt in a white pillowcase & take home a
different one. You need to be around
each month to participate.
Faye - brought some new notions and demonstrated them.
Bone Ash to clean your iron. There are 10 sheets in a
package. it is called Iron Clean
InvisiGrip - clear plastic to put on your ruler so it
doesn't slip. It also protects the numbers.
Self-threading needles - great for getting the tails in in
machine quilting.
Pill container - for sorting and storing needles
Little Genie Magic bobbin washer - teflon washer for your
bobbin. Ypu put it under your bobbin in the bobbin case.
Fonz & Porter Stiletto: 3 sided so it doesn't roll away.
Cutting Gizmo - for cutting apart speed quilting
3-way board - sandpaper, smooth side, flannel for marking,
layout, etc.
Rotating cutting board
Perfect Patchwork Templates - precision cutting with the
corners cut off
Point to point turner
Hold It precision stiletto
Seam fix - seam ripper - with an eraser that wipes off the
threads.
Ultimate seam ripper - a small rotary cutter.
Masking tape to record the settings on your machine - which
stitches, etc.
Make up brush from Dollar Store - for removing fibre from
machine.
A pin cushion on a finger - Faye brought a pattern for
everyone.
