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February 2017 Meeting InspirationMeetings

February 2017 Meeting

Luck was with us, the weather co-operated and we had another wonderful turnout for our February meeting. Now let's hope we can get one more in March! Don't forget our March 6 meeting is an afternoon meeting at 1pm. The hall opens at 12:30. Renowned New Brunswick fibre artist Kathy Tidswell will be with us, you can see her work…
Guild Blogger
8 February 2017
Ronald McDonald House Block Party – Canada’s Big Quilt Bee CommunityEventsGood DeedsInspiration

Ronald McDonald House Block Party – Canada’s Big Quilt Bee

Twenty members of our guild gathered at the hall yesterday to make slab blocks for the CQA quilt project to make quilts (1,000) for Ronald McDonald Houses across Canada. This is a project to celebrate Canada's 150th birthday and each block has a piece of commemorative fabric in it. These are some of the fabrics... Many of us took pieces…
Guild Blogger
11 January 2017
Making Do CommunityInspiration

Making Do

Making Do is the title of a small exhibition of quilts at the Ross Farm Museum. It was curated by our very own Polly Greene. All the quilts were made sometime between 1800-1920. Most of the quilts Polly chose were very utilitarian, they were made to keep someone warm. Several of the quilts were made with homespun woolen fabrics and…
Guild Blogger
2 July 2016
Celtic Knot Workshop InspirationWorkshops

Celtic Knot Workshop

Many thanks to Linda Finley and Pam Wells who taught a Celtic Knot workshop. And many thanks to Mary L who took the pictures, my new official assistant! Apparently Pam is showing them how to cheat! Beth "This is sooo boring!" Sandy E making a lot of bias strips. Lynda with her very neat coil of bias. How the pattern…
Guild Blogger
21 February 2016
Cuddle Quilt Day 2016 CommunityCuddle QuiltsInspiration

Cuddle Quilt Day 2016

The Friday storm couldn't stop us! We filled the hall with quilters and friends for our 23rd annual Cuddle Quilt Day. By the end of the day over 100 quilts of various sizes were quilted or tied, ready to be donated to several local charities. We would like to acknowledge and thank Avonport Discount Fabrics, Lynn's Quilting Studio and Suttles…
Guild Blogger
5 February 2016
Kaffe Fassett Lecture Inspiration

Kaffe Fassett Lecture

Jackie adjusts Kaffe's microphone. Almost 60 members of our Guild, along with other quilters and friends from the Mariners Quilt Guild (Dartmouth) and the Mayflower Quilt Guild came together at Saint Mary's University to hear Kaffe Fassett present his lecture  "Glorious Colour" and glorious it was! Many thanks to those who brought their quilts to display in the lecture theatre,…
Guild Blogger
21 July 2014
May 2014 Meeting InspirationMeetingsMembers

May 2014 Meeting

Linda Naugler's piece using hand and machine stitching and techniques she learned from an online course by  Carol Ann Waugh  Where to start? One word to describe the May meeting - colourful? Maybe - exciting? Maybe - inspiring? How about all three? Between show and tell and Tina's trunk show it was quite the evening. Tina Belding brought a wonderful…
Guild Blogger
6 May 2014