Our first Cottonmill Quilt Guild Meeting was held yesterday and was very well attended with about 70 members there including 4 new members. Joan Baldwin held the meeting and Show and Tell as always, was a hit.
Barb Elliott, CMQG's our Community Projects person, asked Stephanie Seymour from York Care Centre to come and address the Guild.
Stephanie is the Manager of Activation and Volunteer Services at the Centre. One of the things that some members of our Guild has been doing is making Activity Mats for Alzheimers patients. Stephanie explained their role and how well appreciated they have been. Often fidgety, patients use the various parts of the mats to keep their hands busy. It was an enlightening talk. Following is a picture of an example of a 24 x 20 inch lap mat.
Margie Clouston, of the Workshop committee talked about various activities coming up, the next being the construction of this bound Goody Bag:
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| Goody goody Binding Kit |
Please have your pieces cut for next month's meeting if you are going to make this cute carrier. The full directions are available at
http://lellaboutique.blogspot.ca/2015/07/goody-goody-binding-kit.html
Joan talked about the quilt made by a small number of CMQG members over the summer to be auctioned at the Alzheimers Gala Dinner in October. Why do you think? Beautiful isn't it?
Show and Tell finished off the meeting part of our day and then members went into the board room for a lesson in English paper piecing of grandmother's flower garden.
SHOW AND TELL
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| Barb E's "stack and whack" for Victoria quilts |
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| with a matching storage bag |
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| Barb's BOM |
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| Connie F's baby quilt (front) |
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| and back! |
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| Connie made this Row on Row |
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| and Connie's 2nd Row on Row |
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| Many in Connie's Thursday group will make this stunning bag from yesteryear,:-) |
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| Connie's Oh Canada Quilt from gail Mitchell's Ville class |
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| Connie F and her zipper cosmetic bag |
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| Lisette F's runner with first "go" at free motion |
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| Lisette's second great job at free motion |
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| Othello's scare crow wall hanging |
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| Othello's TeeShirt quilt made for her daughter... |
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| with tee shirts... |
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| of meaning!! |
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| Pauline L's quilt as you go flower garden |
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| Pauline L's Texas Star |
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| closeup of Pauline's stars |
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| Joyce holding Leigh M's log cabin pillow |
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| Sandra L's BOM with... |
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| ...beautiful hand quilting |
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| Jennifer S's runner from demo'd technique |
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| Jennifer made 3 quilts with... |
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| ONE jelly role and a few extras |
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| Karen Drew's jelly role race |
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| and Karen's relaxing large quilt...look at those flying geese! |
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| Myrna T's comfort quilt |
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| Bertha M's pinwheel quilt. |
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| lots of ways to put pinwheels together Bertha says. |
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| Just look at those points! |
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| Joyce showing her "stripes" quilt |
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| with her domestic machine's machine quilting |
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| LOVELY back Joyce. |
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| Joyce's chevron... |
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| with fabulous quilting! |
GREAT Show and Tell, eh?
One more thing to add to S&T are my EYE Spy's that I made for my granddaughter and grand nephew this summer...and neither were available for S&T as they were/are being used!!
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| A little young, but, "I spy with my little eye"... |
Joan will be leading a class on her sweet PJ doll (pattern by gerri Richards of Rothesay) during the November local retreat for CMQG. Did you notice her dollies in some of the photos? Even her husband Joan says, noticed and likes these cuties ! So...how can I resist?
See you all NEXT time!
in the meantime-
HAPPY quilting,
Kathy
