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The next meeting of the London Friendship Quilters Guild will be held Thursday, April 10th, 2014 at 7.00 PM at St George’s Church on Dundas St       Our Speaker for the Meeting is Jacquie Gering from Kansas City.  Her lecture is titled “Quilting Modern, Honouring Tradition. To learn more about Jacquie, click here to go to […]

Anne Lyons wasn’t kidding when she named her March 29th workshop “Quilting Tips, Tricks and Other Stuff”.  It was a day packed with information on useful tools, storage ideas and dollar store finds.  She taught several ways to make flying geese and half square triangles, introduced paper piecing and demonstrated a disappearing four patch and

  Last Thursday’s Meeting was filled with Information and Inspiration.President Micki let us know that guild members have stepped forward to fill all of the Executive Positions except for Vice President (and possibly Newsletter) for the 2014/15 Guild year.  She also told us that the committee formed to revise the Constitution has finished the revision and

At the March meeting, Jill Buckley, “Quilt Artist Extraordinaire” was a guest.  Guild members who had participated in Jill’s Workshop, “Embellished Wool Applique”, brought in their projects to show her.  Some of the projects were finished and some were still works in progress, but all were beautiful  and it was great to see them.  

At our March Meeting Charlene showed us a sample of  the London Roads Quilt Block.  All members of the guild are being asked to make 1 of these blocks.  The blocks will be assembled into a quilt that will be made for our Quilt Show in October. Here is the link for the instructions for the

There are still seats available on our bus trip to Quilt Canada in St Catharines on Saturday June 14, 2014, and we welcome friends from outside our guild to join us. This is an opportunity to see the best in Canadian quilting and should be a wonderful experience. The fee of $75 includes the cost of

The next meeting of the London Friendship Quilters Guild will be held Thursday, March 13th, 2014 at 7.00 PM at St George’s Church on Dundas St     Two of our own guild members are going to be the stars of this meeting.  Carol Vandenberg and Ruth McLeod are going to be presenting trunk shows of

We received this email about openings for an upcoming workshop. NEW FOR 2014: Quilt Workshop Friday June 20, 2014  “Easy-Peasy Curves” A Top-Stitch Curved Piecing Workshop for Quilters Hilary Rice          M. E. Studios        www.MEStudios.ca You will be amazed at how simple it is to create with curves using this technique.  No more sewing only straight lines! 

There was another fun and productive LFQG Sew-in-Day on Feb 22, 2014.  Lorna and her Program Committee have been doing a fantastic job organizing these sewing days.  There was a lot accomplished by everyone who was there.  It is inspiring to see the work of other quilters, to get great hints on how to do different

Last Thursday’s Meeting turned out to be a great one for our Community Outreach Program.  Guild members were very generous in donating quilting supplies to be sold and then in buying “quilty stuff’” that that others had brought in.  The total amount raised was $431.00.  To read our Community Outreach Coordinator Edith’s reaction to this,