Thursday, November 11, 2004 at the Log Cabin, 50 Spruce Avenue, Sherwood Park.

The library opens at 6:30 pm and the meeting starts at 7:00 pm.

Please bring:

·         6 ½” Fabric for the Square Draw.  Please bring a square of Christmas Print fabric. 

·         Pen and paper to take notes. A coffee mug or water bottle.

·         Loonies for the raffles.

·         Quilted Items for Show & Tell.  Get some Quibbits for draws!

·         Completed Block of the Month for display.

·         Bring for Program Activity:  Thread, hand sewing needle (for denim), scissors, thimble, 6 circles of denim (7 1/2" inches diameter), 4 squares of fabric measuring 5 ½ inches by 5 ½ inches square.

 

 

 

November Program:

The November meeting unfortunately falls on November 11 but we have a full program planned.

 

First, Marilyn Wilson will be bringing us her line of patterns. Marilyn is one of our members, but is currently working in Winnipeg. Her home is still in Sherwood Park so she considers the guild her "Home Guild".   During the past year Marilyn had designed and marketed a line of patterns.  If anyone was at the Chicken Coop in Mundare during the shop hop (with the quilt stores in our area) you would have seen her designs displayed. She is also hoping to have two additional designs completed to bring with her to the meeting where she is going to have a trunk show of all her designs and if anyone wishes, she will be selling the patterns to our members (only) at cost.

 

Secondly, Brenda Ambeault found this great pattern that uses old jeans. You could also use any fabric but by using old jeans it makes a great quilt for camping or picnicking (and don't we have the weather for that!).  We will break into smaller groups with a group leader showing us how to make this quilt.  This is going to be a "hands on" activity so you will need to bring the following:  Thread, hand sewing needle (for denim), scissors, thimble, 6 circles of denim (7 1/2"  in diameter), 4 squares of fabric measuring 5 ½ inches by 5 ½ inches square (this fabric will be your fabric that shows on the top of the quilt). The group leaders will show you how this "easy" quilt is put together while you baste it together.  You can then go home and make several for Christmas presents...

 

Program Update:

We have a terrific meeting planned for December.  As usual, we will be having a potluck and at the November meeting the Coffee Ladies, who have also agreed to organize the December food, will explain to you what you will need to bring for that.  The remainder of the program is going to be exceptional and I can promise you that you will love it!  You won't need anything for the remainder of the meeting, but your eyes and ears. Oh, of course we will always have the Show and Tell, so bring all your completed Christmas items!

 

The workshops are filling up!  To set a price for the workshops we have to take into account 1) the instructors fees, 2) the room rental and 3) the number of participants.  We base the price on a set number of participants and if we get more, obviously we have made a bit more money than we require. 

 

The "Free Motion Quilting" workshop on November 27 has been filled to the limit, so we are happy to offer a lunch with the workshop. Anyone that is taking this workshop, please don't bring your lunch as there will be a warm lunch supplied.  If you do not have your supply list for this workshop, please see Faye or call her at 662-3421.  I will take names on a waiting list for this workshop in case we get any cancellations.  

 

Update on availability of upcoming workshops through the Program Committee:

 

    Sheer Illusions - Jan 12 & 19 Cost $65. Workshop has room for a few more quilters.  This will be held at the Art Barn in Sherwood Park. This is a great class to stretch your "quilting brain" and shows you how to use thread sketching and layering of fabrics to make your masterpieces pop! A class sample will be on display at the November meeting.   

 

    Lotusland Designs - Feb 11 &12, 2005 Cost $45. Workshop is full and taking names for the waiting list. Check out  Affairs of the Heart by Lotusland Designs in the library or the website:  www.lotuslands.ab.ca

 

    Martha Cole Workshop - May 13/14  Cost $90 We will still take names for this workshop as we are now trying to combine with the Leduc guild so that we may have one workshop on Landscapes and one on Flowers. Space is limited though, so sign up fast.  Visit this website to see Martha's work:  www.mcintyregallery.com

 

~Faye Steinbach

 

November 13 – Ricki Tims Workout What: Let’s try our hand at some curves using Ricki Tims’ method or work on your own project Where: Festival Place When: 9am - 4pm - bring a bag lunch Cost: $10.00 Deadline for registration:  Maximum 20. Contact Sheena Schultz  sewpowerfull@telusplanet.net

November 27 - Free Motion Machine Quilting Workshop by Denise Hoag What: Still struggling with free-motion machine quilting? Familiarity breeds content in this class as you learn about design choices, try different techniques, and explore your machine's potential. Students will go home with samples they have made of the different techniques. Where: Wye Community Hall (193, 52352 Hwy 21, Wye Road) When: 9:30 - 4:30 Lunch provided Cost: $30.00 (Supply list given upon registration) Deadline for registration: October 14 Guild Meeting. Maximum 18.  There is a waiting list in case of cancellations

 

January 12 & 19 - Sheer Illusions Workshop by Denise Hoag What: Fun and easy (cheating) applique come to life with thread sketching techniques as you sandwich all of your favorite treasures under a layer of silk, organza or tulle. Look for class sample at the November 11 guild meeting. Where: Ottewell Art Barn (590 Broadmoor Blvd) When: 2 Wednesdays 10am - 4pm Cost: $65 (Two day class, bring a bag lunch) Deadline for registration: December 9 Guild Meeting. Maximum 15.

February 11 & 12 - Lotusland Designs Workshop What: Applique (Hand or Machine TBA) Where: Ottewell Art Barn (590 Broadmoor Blvd) When: Friday Feb 11, 6:30 - 9pm & Saturday Feb 12, 10am-4pm. Cost: $45 (supply list available ASAP) Deadline for registration: November 30. Maximum 20.

 

February 26 - Quilt Beginning 101 by Quilters Dream What: Do you need a basic crash course on how to sandwich and quilt your completed top? Then this is the class for you. There will be two instructors from Quilter's Dream there to walk you through the steps. You will need to bring a small completed quilt top that is no bigger than a lap size and a crib size is preferable. Where: Festival Place When: 9am-4pm Cost: $25 (bring a bag lunch) Deadline for registration: January 13 Guild Meeting. Maximum 20.

 

May 13 & 14 - Martha Cole Flowered Fantasies Workshop What: Using actual flowers and/or photographs, mottled fabrics, paints, coloured pencils, free-motion applique and quilting techniques, participants will translate that beauty into realistic fabric images. This is primarily a workshop that focuses on the steps of the creative process and leads the participants through them. Where: Ottewell Art Barn (590 Broadmoor Blvd) When: 10am - 4pm (Friday & Saturday) Cost: $90 Deadline for registration: January 31. Maximum 20.

 

 

We would like to remind everyone who is participating in the guild block of the month to bring their completed block for display. We heard that some of you are finished the first block and would love to see them!  We are still working on the patterns for those who signed up last week but hope to be calling you by Thursday the 28^th.

 

 

Happy November birthday to:  Liz Curtis, Helen Evjen, Lina Fayoumi, Cherry Hollinshead,
Betty Perrin, Nancy Rohachuk, Brenda Sampson, Pam Sutherland, Isobel Wilson

 

2005 Sherwood Park Quilt Guild Retreat  - March 18, 19 & 20  Camp He Ho Ha
Contact: Karen Antler

Cost: $130. Deadline for members to reserve a spot with a deposit of $30 is December 31, 2004. After that deadline, registration will be open to non-members. Need at least 40 participants.

There are only 27 spots still available.

 

 

 

2004/2005 Q-DOs UFO days will now be known as QUILTERS DAY OUT (Q-DO) We are hoping to entice a lot of members to join us. We have plans for a number of fun projects! Cost: $10 (bring a bag lunch) The day will be set up a fun and relaxing day to sew along together and work on the same project or just come out sew your UFOs. Please pay UFO Coordinator Sheena Schultz as soon as you register. The registration list will be available at all guild meetings. For last minute entries, please contact Sheena. There needs to be at least 10 people registered or the UFO will be cancelled.  First come, first served!

 

November 13:  Festival Place. Work together on a Ricky Tims project or complete a UFO. Future Dates:   January 22 - Festival Place. March 12 - Sherwood Park Chamber of Commerce. April 16 - Festival Place

 

The Guild Library bought the following new books: 

• Petal Play by Joan Shay
• Petal by Petal  by Joan Shay
• Convergence Quilts by Ricky Tims
• More Nickel Quilts by Pat Speth

 

A complete list of all the library books and magazines is available at the Library table and on our website: www.geocities.com/cabin_quilters

 

 

 

2005 Bloomin’ In The Park Quilt Show Committee Report

Thank you to everyone at the October meeting for your sense of humor and for accepting the pictures of the raffle quilts!  We had a lot of fun with those pictures on Thanksgiving Monday and there were probably a few overdone turkeys while our families waited for us. We kept Casey, our young photographer, in stitches - could six Moms REALLY have this much fun!!?

 

The following Guild Members worked, or will be working on the raffle quilts in some way whether it was picking out the fabric, cutting the fabric, making the blocks, putting the tops together, or finishing the quilts: Brenda Ambeault, Joan Sabadash, Janet Harper, Carole Martins, Diann Podlubny, Paule Mihill, Mary-Jane Cousins, Jo McAuley, Cindy Hawck, Lorna Ball, Lisa Avis, Betty Kroeker, Anne Patton, Lynne Reynar, Cherry Hollinshead, Wendy Beller, Brenda McLeod, Lana Whatley, Cindy Morrison, Iris Olinek, Florence Krocker, Shelly Aman, Faye Steinbach, Isobel Wilson, Pam Sutherland, Shirley Leckie, Sherry Fallow,  Joyce Walters, Rossana Vojacek and Carol Larose.  The blocks all look terrific and your work is sincerely appreciated.

 

If you don’t know yet, we have asked Penny Barrett to be our “Feature Quilter” for the Show.  Penny won “Best of Show” in 2003 and she will have her own area to showcase some of her fabulous projects.  Lana Whatley is working on prize ribbons which will be unique to our Show and Shirley Millar is organizing the Guild Sale table. 

 

We hope there will be lots of this year’s Guild Mystery Quilts completed so we can display them all at the Show. 

 

Other than we hope you are working on your quilts to show-off in May 2005 (remember the labels and sleeves!!), that’s it for this update!  See you at the November meeting!   THANKS EVERYONE!! 

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Sherwood Park Quilt Guild – The Log Cabin Meeting Minutes

Thursday, October 14, 2004

Sherwood Park Community Hall,  Sherwood Park, Alberta

 

The regular meeting of the Sherwood Park Quilt Guild was called to order at 7:05 p.m. by Jo McAuley. Eighty-two members were in attendance.

 

1.      Jo McAuley welcomed returning members and new members (Doreen Mandziuk, Joyce Wilkins, Helen Evjen, Mary Schaap, Cheryl Rafuse and Lina Fayoumi).

 

2.      Joan Sabadash moved that the minutes of the previous meeting be adopted as read, Pam Sutherland seconded the motion. The minutes were unanimously approved.

 

3.      Announcements

a.      Jo thanked Nancy Rohachuk and the other members of the Guild who sent information on the different branches of the Canadian Cancer Society. Pam Sutherland suggested we limited our choices to those in Alberta. Sheena Schultz said last year’s donation went to Power of the Dream. The members voted to donate this year’s money to Compassion House.

 

4.      Program Committee

a.      Sheena announced that the Color Wash and Stained Glass classes were cancelled due to low enrollment. Phone Earthly Goods to register for Color Wash and J & J Quilting to register for Stained Glass.

b.      Sheena suggested that Festival Place (booked for Stained Glass) could now be used for a Ricki Tims DVD quilting class or UFO, if enough members register to cover the cost of the room.

c.      Faye Steinback said they are still looking for a volunteer to organize the pot luck supper. The Hospitality Directors, Maureen Martell, Linda Klem and Vickie Konkolus volunteered.

 

5.      Quilt Raffle

a.      Rosanna passed around three pictures and asked members to vote for one to be used in advertising.

b.      All quilt blocks were turned in. Sewers were: Brenda Ambeault, Joan Sabadash, Janet Harper, Carole Martins, Diann Podlubny, Paule Mihill, Mary-Jane Cousins, Jo McAuley, Cindy Hawck, Lorna Ball, Lisa Avis, Betty Kroeker, Lynne Reynar, Cherry Hollinshead, Mitzi Okura, Brenda McLeod, Lana Whatley, Cindy Morrison, Florence Kroeker, Shelly Aman and Faye Steinbach. Carol Larose volunteered to put the quilt together and Iris Olinek volunteered to sew on the binding. The Butterfly Stained Glass wall hanging was completed entirely by Rosanna Vojacek. The table runner blocks were completed by Joyce Walters and Carol Vaage; Isobel Wilson volunteered to put it together. 

c.      Machine Maintenance and Notions Demo. Marilyn McGillvary introduced Bev from Central Sewing. After providing hints on machine maintenance Bev introduced us to some of the new products that Central Sewing is carrying. She handed out coupons for 30% off items purchased before October 22. Tanya Olinek, Vice-president, thanked Bev for coming. Faye presented her with a small token of our appreciation.

 

6.      Show and Tell

The group was treated to a stunning array of members’ quilts.

 

7.      Draws

Mitzi Okura and Wendy Beller drew names and handed out the prizes.

 

8.      Adjournment

Tanya Olinek adjourned the meeting at 8:45 p.m. The next meeting will be at 7 p.m., November 11, 2004.

 

 

 

 

 

Remember to visit the Sherwood Park Quilt Guild Website at: www.geocities.com/cabin_quilters Please e-mail newsletter items to the Newsletter Editor, Doris Liebrecht at liebrechtd@inac.gc.ca  Newsletter deadline is the third Friday of each month.