Members took a brown bag home in order to participate in the Brown Bag Challenge. If you did not get your brown bag and wish to participate, please see Janice D'Eon or Anne Mattie. Instructions are included with the brown bag.
Upcoming workshops:
Wednesday 29 January - Sewing Kit - teacher: Anne Mattie
Wednesday 12 February - Basic sewing and seminole piecing - teacher: Janice D'Eon
Saturday 8 March - Summer Garden folded fabric applique - teacher: Kate Anderson
Our February meeting is normally when we collect donations to a local charity. This year, it has been suggested that we donate to "Roots for Youth". Anyone who wishes may bring a cash donation to our February meeting and all donations will be forwarded to Roots for Youth. Receipts will be issued for donations of $20 or more. This donation is totally voluntary.
Register your UFOs with Shelley Tye. So far, you would have a great chance of winning the pot! Each item registered is $1. For each item completed by our June meeting, you have a chance to win the pot.
Quilt Canada will be held in Niagara, Ontario, in June this year. The area is well known for beautiful scenery, many lakes, the St Lawrence seaway, Niagara Falls and also for many wineries. Gift wine bags will be presented to the delegates. If you wish to contribute a wine bag, a pattern can be found on the Canadian Quilters' Association web site:
http://www.canadianquilter.com/pdf/quilt-canada-2014/WineGiftBags.pdf
If you make a bag, please bring it to our Guild meeting in March so all our wine bags can be sent in one parcel.
Our February meeting will see us holding a Strip Draw. Fabric strips should be 2 1/2 inches wide by the width of fabric, so roughly 2 1/2 inches by 40 inches. You can bring from 1 to 5 strips. For each strip that you bring, you will receive one ticket to win all the strips. Fabrics should be fall colours - no white, no Christmas colours - you get the picture! The winner of the draw will take home all the strips plus a pattern to use the strips.
Gloria Turnbull is our Quilt Show chairperson. She has issued two challenges:
Pin cushion challenge
Christmas tree ornament challenge
Every member is encouraged to make a pin cushion and a Christmas tree ornament and bring them to our May meeting and also, of course, to our Quilt Show on Saturday 31 May 2014.
See you at our February meeting on Wednesday 19 February.
THISTLE QUILT GUILD, Pictou County, Nova Scotia
Guild Dates for January 2014
Wednesday 8 January - 10 am to 5 pm - Sewing, with pot luck lunch from 12 to 1 pm
Wednesday 15 January - 1 pm to 5 pm - Sewing, pot luck supper 5 pm to 6 pm, Business Meeting at 7 pm
Wednesday 22 January - 10 am to 5 pm - Sewing, with pot luck lunch from 12 to 1 pm
Wednesday 29 January - 10 am to 4 pm - Workshop by Anne Mattie "Sewing Kit", includes seminole piecing and sharks teeth
At the Business Meeting, the first part of the Brown Bag Challenge will occur. You get to take a brown bag home.
Make sure to register your UFOs with Shelley Tye - if you did not finish them last year, sign them up again!
Sign up for the postcard exchange with Sheila Munro - always a fun, small project.
If the weather is iffy - use your common sense! If school is cancelled, so is quilting.
Wednesday 15 January - 1 pm to 5 pm - Sewing, pot luck supper 5 pm to 6 pm, Business Meeting at 7 pm
Wednesday 22 January - 10 am to 5 pm - Sewing, with pot luck lunch from 12 to 1 pm
Wednesday 29 January - 10 am to 4 pm - Workshop by Anne Mattie "Sewing Kit", includes seminole piecing and sharks teeth
At the Business Meeting, the first part of the Brown Bag Challenge will occur. You get to take a brown bag home.
Make sure to register your UFOs with Shelley Tye - if you did not finish them last year, sign them up again!
Sign up for the postcard exchange with Sheila Munro - always a fun, small project.
If the weather is iffy - use your common sense! If school is cancelled, so is quilting.
January 2014 Meeting
Our next meeting will be on Wednesday 15 January 2014.
PLEASE NOTE - the times for our sewing sessions have changed. On the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month, the sewing sessions will be from 10 am to 5 pm. For January, these will be Wednesday 8 January and Wednesday 22 January.
The day of our business meeting, sewing will be from 1 pm to 5 pm, with the meeting to follow at 7 pm.
A Brown Bag Challenge will begin in January. Pick up a brown bag in January. Return it to the meeting in February, with 3-4 pieces of fabric in it, fat quarters or more or less. The brown bags will be exchanged at the February meeting. Then you take someone else's brown bag home and create something for that person - a smaller item such as a table runner, wall hanging, place mat or ? The finished item is due for our May meeting - not before and not after!
Sheila Munro is organizing a postcard exchange with two guilds, one in New Zealand and one in Hawaii. The theme is "Where we live".
Upcoming workshops:
Wednesday 29 January, 10 am to 4 pm, Sewing kit, taught by Anne Mattie
Wednesday 12 February, 10 am to 4 pm, Basic sewing, emphasis on seminole piecing, taught by Janice d'Eon
PLEASE NOTE - the times for our sewing sessions have changed. On the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month, the sewing sessions will be from 10 am to 5 pm. For January, these will be Wednesday 8 January and Wednesday 22 January.
The day of our business meeting, sewing will be from 1 pm to 5 pm, with the meeting to follow at 7 pm.
A Brown Bag Challenge will begin in January. Pick up a brown bag in January. Return it to the meeting in February, with 3-4 pieces of fabric in it, fat quarters or more or less. The brown bags will be exchanged at the February meeting. Then you take someone else's brown bag home and create something for that person - a smaller item such as a table runner, wall hanging, place mat or ? The finished item is due for our May meeting - not before and not after!
Sheila Munro is organizing a postcard exchange with two guilds, one in New Zealand and one in Hawaii. The theme is "Where we live".
Upcoming workshops:
Wednesday 29 January, 10 am to 4 pm, Sewing kit, taught by Anne Mattie
Wednesday 12 February, 10 am to 4 pm, Basic sewing, emphasis on seminole piecing, taught by Janice d'Eon
Executive Committee
Our executives for 2013 to 2014 are:
President: Carol Francis
Vice President: Jane MacDonald
Secretary: Isabelle Mason
Treasurer: Eileen Betts
Lunch: Rita Baudoux
Library: Gerry Cameron
Fundraising: Joanne Kilcup / Shirley Aikens
Program: Anne Mattie
Phone/email: Jeanne Dorie
Workshops: Janice d'Eon / Gloria Turnbull
President: Carol Francis
Vice President: Jane MacDonald
Secretary: Isabelle Mason
Treasurer: Eileen Betts
Lunch: Rita Baudoux
Library: Gerry Cameron
Fundraising: Joanne Kilcup / Shirley Aikens
Program: Anne Mattie
Phone/email: Jeanne Dorie
Workshops: Janice d'Eon / Gloria Turnbull
December Meeting
Our December meeting will be on Wednesday 11 December. Christmas dinner will be at 5 pm. Heather Campbell is organizing who is bringing what, so please contact her if you wish to contribute.
The meeting will start at 7 pm and then there will be a gift exchange. To participate, please bring a gift (quilting related) with a value of no more than $10.00. Santa will hand out the gifts - this is always a fun event.
During the afternoon, work will continue on our guild quilt. Come and see how beautiful it is and help to work on it.
Sheila Munro is organizing a postcard exchange with TWO guilds - one in Hawaii and one in New Zealand. More details will be available at the December meeting.
Register your UFOs with Shelley Tye - and then get busy finishing them!
The meeting will start at 7 pm and then there will be a gift exchange. To participate, please bring a gift (quilting related) with a value of no more than $10.00. Santa will hand out the gifts - this is always a fun event.
During the afternoon, work will continue on our guild quilt. Come and see how beautiful it is and help to work on it.
Sheila Munro is organizing a postcard exchange with TWO guilds - one in Hawaii and one in New Zealand. More details will be available at the December meeting.
Register your UFOs with Shelley Tye - and then get busy finishing them!
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