Virtual Meeting - May31, 2021

 Welcome back! We have a wonderful Show and Tell, today. The UFO piles must really be going down. In person shopping might soon be required for some of you and we are hoping that will soon become normal, again.

Barb Karim has our first quilt. This is so simple, but so wonderful.

Beth Marshall received this quilt from her paternal grandmother. It was the raffle quilt for her grandmother's Women's Institute group, and Grandma won the raffle!

It is on a Vilas bed that Beth also received from her grandparents. 

Carol McFee started this quilt in 1994, while watching the Winter Olympics from Lillehammer.

She hand quilted it, finishing it this year. I love what she called it!

Dianne Watchorn says she is keeping this quilt for herself. The pattern is "Bundle of Ten".

Dianne made this quilt for the grandson of a friend.

Doreen took inspiration from this picture her son took at Dead Horse State Park in Utah.

She turned it into a wall hanging.

Doreen made this wall hanging for a granddaughter who loves cats. She says she picked up the pattern from the give away table.

Jan Pound picked up the fabric and pattern for this wall hanging in Las Vegas in 2010.

She says she learned couching and using leather in applique making this. It was quilted by Krista.

Johanne knit this Powder Wrap Shawl in Maker's Savvy May Knit Along. It looks so cozy.

Joy asked her great nephew what colours he would like for a baby quilt. He replied that he wanted "mostly pink, with baby animals including a wolf". Awfully specific! The baby's last name will be Wolfe. Joy is enjoying doing some hand applique, outside on nice days.

Judy Case made this quilt from her scraps using Robert Kaufman's "Neighbourhood" pattern.

I made this shawl from some lovely yarn I received for Christmas from someone who knows what I like.  The pattern is called "Through the Witch's Garden". I used every bit of yarn I had to finish it.

Marilyn send this bright door.

The City has crystals on the steeples as lights.

Marion Roussie completed her version of "Over the River and Through the Woods". 

Marion changed the quote on the centre panel to something more appropriate to her daughter's family and this year.

MaryAnn says she bought the panel and coordinating fabric from Quilting Quarters, when it was still next to Your Independent in Almonte (she thinks is was about 12 years ago). She has decided it is time to finish it.

Nancy Wright's husband brought these fabric's back from a golfing trip in the Carolinas. I was a jelly roll, when jelly rolls were just a new "invention" It was in her favourite colours and it was doggy prints.

She pieced the back, and it was quilted by Krista.

Teddy, her dog, seems to have claimed it.

Pat Nyenhuis sent a picture of her half log cabin quilt she started at a workshop at Poole Creek a few years ago.

Pat finished a wheel chair quilt, that she calls Joseph's Coat of Many Colours. The belt is attached to loops and can be used to keep the quilt from falling off. 

In this picture, you can see how the belt is attached. The belt comes off so the quilt can be washed.

This was an excellent UFO. Thanks to everyone who sent pictures. Remember, if you want to see a picture closer, you can click on it to see a larger version.

Next Show and Tell is June 14.

Virtual Meeting - May 10, 2021

 The snow and the rain have made some dark and dreary days lately. Today, I dove into my fabric stash and pulled out the loudest, wildest fabric I had. I plan to use some of it to create something lovely and bright. My goal is to have it done by next show and tell, which will be May 31. Anybody else want to sew something bright?

We have a great collections of family quilts today. Some are new, some not so new, but all are lovely symbols of love.

Our first quilt is the "All God's Critters" quilt, which Doreen made for her grandson. It is being shown by her granddaughter!

Doreen made this wall hanging, called "The Dress" for one of her granddaughters.

Janice Pound says that this quilt was made by her mother-in-law, Una Pound, in 1967. The pattern is Centennial rose and it was featured in Chatelaine Magazine. Janice tells us that the quilt is entirely hand done. The  crewel cushion and the cross stitched pansies in the picture were also done by Una.

This yellow quilt was made by Janice's grandmother. for Janice's wedding in 1966. Her grandmother's goal was to make a wedding quilt for each of her grandchildren, but unfortunately her health declined before she could do that.

Jeannie Barkin made this quilt for her granddaughter. She tells us her granddaughter's bedroom walls are that same hot pink.

Jeannie made this Tetris quilt for her son. That looks like a lot of piecing.

 

I went to the retreat at NavCan just before my grandson was born. My goal was to make a baby quilt, that weekend.

It was all done except the hand sewing of the binding by the time I left Cornwall.

This quilt was on my UFO pile until my daughter-in -law told me that "everybody" had a quilt, except her.  I pulled it out, fixed the part that was bothering me, sent it off to Krista to be quilted, and now she has the biggest quilt in the family.

Liz, our hard working president, pieced this Sleepy Fox wall hanging at the CQA conference in 2018. she recently quilted it, using Melissa Marginet's Edge to Edge technique. This is the Sunrise motif.

 Liz made the 3D tumbling blocks quilt for her best friend's daughter, who had her second little girl on April 28. Again, she used Melissa Marginet's Edge to Edge technique to quilt it.

MaryAnn made this maple leaf quilt for her family.

Nicole made this quilt for her grandson, born 3 weeks ago. She hopes that by summer, she will be able to cuddle him. I think we all hope that, too.

Pat Nyenhuis made this quilt, in Canadiana fabrics and neutrals, for her great niece, who was Head Page in the Senate. Her great niece is holding it, in the Senate Chamber.

Well, nothing says "I love you" quite like a quilt, does it? 

Our next Show and Tell is May 31. 

Kate