John Willard is as colourful and vibrant as his quilts! 69 years young, he began quilting in 1975, armed with sewing knowledge from his days designing costumes and sets for theatre and window displays. In his 40 minute slide presentation, he showed us how he could make a fabulous dress out of piece of cloth […]
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Our guest speaker is John Willard, an artist who started his career in display and theatre design (costumes and sets). An avid collector of antique quilts he soon moved into textile arts, his purpose, he says, “is to make something beautiful- something that will make somebody happy and someday that will outlive me.” He will
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* with my apologies for the delay in posting, I was unable to scan these treasures until today. Watch your mailboxes, one of these may end up at your door.
Barb A. of Babs n Jas Designs has generously offered to hold a free workshop on March 15, on how to make this delightful table topper. She promises that it easy to make and you will be able to make one for yourself and one as a donation to the CQA. You must pre-register for
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You could feel the tension rise in the final round of Bingo. The occasional “ah” of disappointment, “yes!” when there was a match, giggles of nervousness as we tried to fill the whole card for the final round! Quilt Bingo was great fun! We played 5 rounds: Vertical, Horizontal, Diagonal, X, and then finally full
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Happy New Year! I hope everyone got something quilty for Christmas! A new year always brings on the resolutions! Cleaning out the “resource centre”, reducing your stash, finishing those UFO’s, getting those crafty Christmas presents done before Christmas, for a change, learn something new, donate to charity! Well the LFQG is here to help! The
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These are the selection posted to the guild mailbox this month. These are beautiful and very much fun. Click back through our earlier blogposts for more.
For the January meeting, we will be holding a Quilt Guild Bingo! The idea was originally published in September/October 2006 Fons and Porter. Each member is asked to make a fabric bingo card and use buttons as markers. The tickets will be called out, ie “Under the blue row, paisley.” If you have such a
Study this fabric ladies! Dream about it! Make drawings! Scan it into your EQ! Free associate! Think Fish! Welcome to this year’s guild challenge. At our December meeting we gave away a fat quarter of Laurel Burch’s Ocean Songs fabric. Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to use all or some of
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It was a great turn out, despite the weather! There was a lot of calories on the snack table; we had more than enough treats, that’s for sure!Thank you ladies! We started the evening off with our usual Show and Share, with Chrismas as our theme. Beautiful quilts and wallhangings! Cynthia interrupted the evening several
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