President Micki A. was back from her winter vacation on the Bruce Peninsula and she chaired an interesting meeting. She informed us that several guild members have expressed an interest in becoming members of the executive for the quilting year 2015-16. The only position that no one has so far showed an interest in chairing is the […]
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London Friendship Quilters’ Guild received the following email from The Halton Quilters Guild. If any of our present members remember this Quilt and the part that LFQG played in it, we would love to hear about it.Still Friends – 25 years later! Your Guild was one of the 60 Quilt Guilds that took part in
The next meeting of the London Friendship Quilters Guild will be held Thursday, March 12th, 2015 at 7.00 PM at St George’s Church on Dundas St Our speaker for the evening is June Klassen. June is “Lifetime Member” of LFQG. She joined the guild in 1982. June will be presenting a Trunk Show of her work.
A group of LFQG members got together on Feb 28th to participate in the Amazing Scrap Challenge.Each participant was given a bag of poker chips and a Bingo Card Challenge Sheet. Each square of the Bingo Card had a different quilt themed challenge (eg-make a 9 patch, make a friendship star, make prairie points). We were also
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We received the following message from Thames Valley guild: The Thames Valley Quilters are having a workshop on Tuesday March 10th, 9:30to 4 pm.The technique is Tearless, Tearless Paper Piecing by Nancy Trowbridge.There are 2 spots available, and cost is $40 for the day.Please contact Susan Van Arkel at suvanar@hotmail.com if interested.
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It was a cold and windy night, but we still had a good turnout for our February Meeting. President Micki was away, so Lorna M very ably chaired the meeting. Lorna M being pensive Judy Balint from Cornerstone Quilts and More was the Merchant for the evening and she brought along many notions, gadgets and
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The next meeting of the London Friendship Quilters Guild will be held Thursday, February 12th, 2015 at 7.00 PM at St George’s Church on Dundas St Our February Guild Meeting is usually when we hold our Rummage Sale, but we have decided to change things up this year. The Rummage Sale will probably return next
On Jan 9th & 10th, two different groups of LFQG members got together with Deborah Beirnes for fun days of “Scrap Magic” We learned many new techniques to make scrappy blocks using our stash. These scrappy blocks can be turned into wonderful quilts. Some of the techniques used were strip piecing, different methods for making 1/2 square triangles, flipped corners (that made bonus 1/2
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Our first guild meeting of 2015 was filled with information, inspiration and the chance to purchase some quilting necessities.Our Merchant for the evening was Shirley Bobier from the Marsh Store in Coldstream. She had lots of quilting goodies for sale. She also told us about “Visit Your Local Quilt Shop Day” on Jan 24th, 2015.
The next meeting of the London Friendship Quilters Guild will be held Thursday, Jan 8th, 2015 at 7.00 PM at St George’s Church on Dundas St Our speaker for January is Deborah Beirnes and she will be showing us her “Scrap Magic Trunk Show.” Deborah will also be teaching her Scrap Magic workshops on Friday, January
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