November Minutes

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.