It’s time for the new quilting year with the London Friendship Quilt Guild! Hard to believe the summer is over already and since September started on a Thursday, it is the 2nd Thursday of the month THIS week already. Don’t miss this exciting first meeting of the year!!!
St. George’s Presbyterian Church,
1475 Dundas St. London, ON
(just east of Hale St on the south side of Dundas).
Speaker is Glenda Spencer of Stone Cottage Crafts in Craighurst, ON
Glenda Spencer will be presenting a trunk show and will bring some of her mystery medallion quilts that we hope to participate in this year. We look forward to our first speaker for the 2011/2012 quilting year. The photo above shows a quilt made from a previous year’s mystery block of the month. Check out her website by clicking on her name above. If you are on face book, there is also a link on her webpage to join her page there.
The Executive and the Program Committee have been hard at work during the summer putting together a varied program for the new year. Thank you to all members who have sent in ideas and suggestions for the new year and possibly into the next year :-). All ideas are welcome!
Pillowcases – The pillowcase project was a lot of fun last year. Penny and the Community Outreach Committee will collect any pillowcases you feel inspired to make and distribute them with the Kid’s Quilts.
The Library will be open. Visit the library for new inspiration!
Healthy goodies and juice will be served for our first meeting of the season.
Notion of the month: bring along a unique pincushion you have. We will place them on a table for a group photo. You will earn an extra raffle ticket for bringing your notion of the month.
Medallion Mystery Program: Sign up for this fun program! Cost is $25.00. This will be a six part monthly project and is called “Stars for my Friends”. Participants will make a 12 1/2″ unfinished block of their choice and will receive the pattern and fabric requirements for a border around this 12″ block for six months. It is similar to a round robin, but you make your own quilt. Glenda will show some of her past projects at the meeting to give us ideas. You can delve into your stash and use up lots of scraps or the local quilt shops would be happy to help you choose totally new fabrics for your project :-). Sign ups are at the September meeting and will run October, November, January, February, March and April.
Bring change for draw tickets for fat quarters, etc. and your guild name tag which will earn you a ticket as well.
Last, but not least, don’t forget your SHOW AND TELL!
(deadline for next newsletter submissions is September 30th)