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Oakville Quilters Guild January/February 2012 Volume 18 – Issue 3 Next Meetings: Venue :

19 January, 2012 & 16 February, 2012 – 7.30 pm Central Baptist Church, 340 Rebecca Street, Oakville

From the Coordinator As I’m writing this, I’m in the final stages of getting ready for Christmas. I’ve made a new set of stockings for everyone, Gavin’s present is made and I have fabric pulled to make portrait ornaments of all my nieces and nephews (this was my crazy idea that might actually be done for Christmas). Sure, my Christmas cards haven’t been sent and there are some big plans for cooking for our various family get-togethers, but things are on track for a very relaxing holiday with my family. Now, when you’re reading this, it will be the New Year, and I hope everyone had a marvellous holiday. 2012 is going to bring all sort of excitement for the Guild with some amazing speakers in both January and February, as well as the final push for our Quilt Show in May. I still haven’t quite decided what quilts I’m going to put in the show, and I still have one that needs quilting, so we’ll see how much I can get done before the spring. Finally, please remember that we’re doing our second Food Drive at the February meeting to help with the need in between Christmas and Easter. See you soon! Melissa

Mailing Address: Oakville Quilters Guild P.O. Box 20003 – 520 Kerr Street, Oakville ON L6K 3Y7 www.oakvillequiltersguild.ca

Planning Committee: Coordinator Block of the Month Cards/Flowers

Historian Library Membership (Directory) Newsletter Outreach

Melissa Bieman

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Elizabeth Green Joanne Forsythe Ursula Thomson Pat Edwards Patti Phillips Mary Jane Vallbacka Janice Ghent Dawne Rudman Dinah Ross

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Rosemary Clouse

Program Social Telephone Treasurer Website Workshops

Heather Dryden Trudy Nicholls Sharon Diotte Margaret Burnett Chris Evans Anita Blomberg Sara Turner Mary McAuliffe Melissa Bieman Vacant Vacant

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Program January 19, 2012 We have invited Sandy Simmelink from Burlington to be our guest speaker. Sandy has won several awards for her handworkmanship and she teaches for guilds all over Ontario. She specializes in traditional and contemporary styles of quilting, i.e. needle-turn appliqué, 3-D elements, freemotion and embellishment. February 16, 2012 Dwayne Wanner, fibre artist & quilter, will be presenting at our Guild. He is a member of the Halton Quilters’ Guild and is very actively involved in quilting, exhibiting his works of art, speaking and teaching his method of creating art quilts. Margaret & Sharon

Social

50-50 The November 50/50 draw winner was Aurea Biebly who took home $57.50.

Anita and I would like to thank all the ladies who brought in treats for our November meeting. It was a wonderful assortment of goodies that all enjoyed immensely.

Directory

There are only 4 people signed up to bring in treats for the January meeting, so if you would like to contribute, please contact either Anita or myself.

Please update your directory with a new email for Peg Coleman [email protected] Please add the following returning member to your directory: Pat Dewar 565 Fourth Line, Oakville ON L6L 5A9 Phone: 905 845-3340 Janice

Anita and I have been doing the social program for a few years now and both of us think that it is time for us to step down. If you are interested in doing this role, please let either one of us know. We will continue to do this until the June meeting and no further.

Chris & Anita

Sentimental Reasons The 2012 Sentimental Reasons Quilt Show is fast approaching and there is a lot to get excited about! We are looking forward to having a spectacular display of the amazing talent that abounds in this guild. Your quilts will be hanging with those of your friends and will be so admired by all of our visitors. We encourage all of you to submit at least one quilt for the show. Every single one of you is talented and creative and your hard work needs to be shared with others. Don't ever think that your work is not good enough to display. That is simply not true! We should all be proud of our achievements and want to share them with our fellow quilters, family, friends and the community at large. To help you get those quilts even closer to completion, we are having another UFO day at the Oakville Museum on Saturday, February 18th, 2012 from 9.30am-3pm. Cost is $5. Bring your mug and lunch. Please sign up at the January meeting. It is always a really fun day and you do get a lot achieved in the cheerful company of your fellow quilters. Thanks to everyone who has made coasters for the show. Your generosity is overwhelming. We are close to our goal of 1 000, so thank you for helping us achieve that so quickly. Susan and Bev Quilt Show Co-Chairs Those members of the Guild that have quilt-related businesses, e.g., long arm quilting, will be able to leave their business cards on a table in the lobby for people to take home with them. We do ask that you refrain from distributing your cards to visitors in the show. Bev

Tombola We have received fourteen wonderful, varied donations for the Tombola, with a few more promised, but we need at least twenty or more. Please let Ursula know if you area doing an item and if you don’t have time to sew, remember, a basket with sewing/gardening/fabric/notions is also a good choice! Or perhaps you’d like to get together with some friends for a group donation. Many thanks! Ursula

Registration With this newsletter, you will find a quilt show entry form. Please make any additional copies that you’ll need. The forms are due at the MARCH meeting. With the form, you will need to attach a colour photo (which will be returned to you) of your quilt. By March, your quilt MUST BE A FINISHED TOP INCLUDING BORDERS. Please also make sure you measure your quilts accurately as well. If you have any questions or would like to receive the Word document, please contact Melissa at (905) 827-5612.

Block of the Month 2009/10 When we did the BOM for 2009/2010 our project was a small wall hanging called "Wish Upon A Star". I think it would be really great to have them all hanging together at the 2012 show and hope that those of you who participated will be happy to enter yours. If you gave it away, do please ask to borrow it back for a few days. Please mark your entries "BOM 09/10" so that the hanging committee know to put them all together. Thanks to those who did complete this project and we all look forward to seeing them together again. Julia

Quilt Show Executive

recommendations from the executive and fellow guild members.

Susan Semeczko Bev Andersen Kim Kernohan Ruth Brown

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Janet Rhind Julia Curitz Dawne Rudman Gayle Shermet Melissa Bieman

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We email the requested guest speaker, enquiring about her/his availability, specifics regarding the type of presentation she/he would offer, e.g. trunk show, slides using PowerPoint presentation, including mileage.

Diane Wolder Ursula Thomson Mary McAuliffe Patricia Dear

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Co-Chairs Demonstrations Kitchen Members Boutique Merchants' Mall Prizes Publicity Registration Quilt Show Hanger Tombola Treasurer Volunteers

What We Do This is the second in the series - this month it is the Program Team that will be featured. Sharon and I currently serve at your Program Team. Having two people share the duties works out very well. Mainly our responsibilities are to seek out prospective interesting guest speakers, who specialize in a specific area of quilting (artistic quilts, applique, scrap quilts, quilting techniques, etc.) and connect with them via email or telephone to request their presentation at one of our guild meetings. We do this a few months in advance of a decided guild meeting date. We have resources to aid us in researching guest speakers. Newsletters of local guilds are an excellent source of information; Canadian Quilting Association magazines (available in our library) give us current information on quilting experts as well. There website is also another way of discovering contemporary quilt professionals, who are listed by province. There are also the local quilt shops and

We need to stay within our annual budget in order to accommodate 5-6 out-of-town guest speakers each guild year. On the night of the meeting Sharon and I arrive at the guild venue at about 6.30 p.m. (1/2 hour before the members arrive) to assist our guest speaker in setting up for the presentation. After the business part of the meeting has finished, we go up to the podium and introduce the guest speaker, giving a short blurb on her/his background. For the non-guest speaker meeting, i.e. September, November, March and June, we organize something different for the evening, as we see fit. For example, this past September we had a Grantham Books and this resulted in an enjoyable socializing evening for our members as well as offering the opportunity to purchase very reasonably priced quilting books. Both Sharon and I will be stepping down from Program as at June 2012. We will ensure that the program for each following guild meeting is covered up to the end of 2012. Margaret & Sharon

Name Badges Please remember to wear your name badge at meetings. You may know who you are, but there are others in the room that would like to put a name to a face.

Getting to Know You Dawne Rudman Dawne has been sewing for a long time, since she was five years old. She went to a private school in South Africa and each year, from grade one to eight, she had to sew, knit or embroider something, and each year it got more complicated. When Dawne made her first ‘patchwork’ top in her early twenties while living in Durban, she didn’t even know there was such a thing as patchwork and quilting. However, she had lots of fabric scraps since she made all her own clothes, winter and summer, casual to ball gowns. (Yes, she did go to balls, about two a year!) She sewed together a top for her bed with all sorts of fabrics, shapes and colours. It was really bright and she loved it. When a piece wore out it was no problem, she simply sewed another one on top of it! The ‘top’ had no batting and no backing but was just perfect for a winter night in Durban! As for proper ‘quilting’, she started in her midthirties in Johannesburg. Quilting and patchwork had become popular in South Africa at that time and her sister rallied some of her friends – and Dawne! – and gave them ‘quilting’ lessons. What Dawne enjoys most about quilting is definitely the fabric -everything about fabric. She is a fabricaholic! She claims to have more fabric than she can ever use in her lifetime but still keeps buying...She can count on one hand the number of times she’s come out of a fabric/quilt store without buying something. When she buys fabric, she seldom has a quilt in mind, she just loves everything about it – the feel (she often finds herself ‘stroking’ the fabric!) the colours, the designs, even the smell! Fabric just talks to her – “buy me!” – and she can’t resist. The first quilt Dawne ever made was a log cabin, which she still has. She is planning to enter a log cabin in our upcoming quilt show but this one is a far cry from her first traditional one. Traditional blocks are still in her repertoire but they are often in non-traditional fabrics and colours. Over the years, Dawne has become more adventurous, making her own designs and ‘art’ quilts as well, something she enjoys very much. She no longer quilts by hand since there were, and still are, so many

quilts in her head and she realized that if she wanted to get a quilt finished and move on to the next one, the only way to get them done was to quilt by machine. Does she have a favourite quilt? A hard question, since when she finishes one, that one becomes a favourite – until the next completed one! When she gives a quilt away, she doesn’t think of it as ‘hers’ anymore, it has gone to a new home. Of course, there are always some that have literally stayed with her and those are, and probably always will be, favourites. Her advice to a new quilter is not to get discouraged if you make a mistake. Keep going! If you can’t work out what you are doing wrong, ask. Quilters are very generous and happy to help out and explain how to make it right. Dawne admits she still makes mistakes and she has been quilting for thirty years.

Melissa Bieman Melissa never met her grandmother, who was a quilter. Her mother always thought that she and her sister should learn how to quilt, but the girls were busy and ignored her all through high school. Then, in 2004, Melissa became ill and had to stay home. In a fit of boredom, she started the nine patch her Mom always wanted her to make. Following a class together at Kitchener textiles to improve their basic skills – or, as Melissa puts it, ‘so that we knew what we were doing’, she was hooked! Cutting and piecing are Melissa’s favourite aspects of quilting. She started making miniatures for our 2004 quilt show, but now seems to be planning larger quilts, such as lap quilts. She’s trying to make a dent in her stash, which, she says, seems to be growing all the time! Now there is a lady we can all relate to! Her favourite quilt so far is a diamond quilt which is ALMOST finished (she’s a little busy right now with her baby, Gavin...) and she’s hoping to have it finished for the show in May 2012. She started it during her trip to Japan and it has been sewn on during many more travels. Her advice for a new quilter: Nothing is too hard for you, all you need is patience and a good seam ripper!

Ursula

Book Reviews

Food Drive

Rectangle Pizzazz Fast, Fun & Finished in a Day By Judy Sisneros

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the November Food Drive. We had a trunk full of food and $80.00 in cash, which went to the Food Bank. Anita

The quilts in this book are made from rectangles, with an emphasis on fabric choices. By using easy designs and fast strip piecing, the author says these quilts can be put together in a day – perfect for the busy person with little time on their hands. There are designs for five quilts, two of which have directions for a number of sizes. A number of these quilts use large-scale prints and are especially good for the fabrics you don’t want to cut. There are also seven pages of Gallery pictures showing a variety of ideas for each of the designs.

Two From One Jelly Roll Quilts By Pam and Nicky Lintott Question: What is a Jelly Roll? Answer: A Jelly Roll is a roll of forty fabrics cut in 2-1/2” wide strips across the width of the fabric. There are 18 patterns inn this book and two quilts can be made from each Jelly Roll. The designs are quick to make and from the guidelines given, it’s easy to make them into larger bed quilts. Illustrated step-by-step directions are given for each quilt. If you prefer to use fabrics from you stash, there are directions for what you will need instead of a Jelly Roll.

We will be holding a Food Drive at our February meeting. Your contributions of nonperishable items would be greatly appreciated. Here is a list of items most needed: v Canned Fruit & Juice v Canned Vegetables & Pasta v Dry Pasta & Pasta Sauce v Canned Stews & Meats v Canned Tuna & Salmon v Canned whole Potatoes, Tomatoes v Cooking Oil, Rice, Condiments v Dried or Canned Beans v Canned Hearty Soups v Saltine soda Crackers v Instant Coffee & Tea (not herbal) v Powdered Milk, Sugar v Cereal v Peanut Butter, Jam, Honey v Baby Formula, Diapers v Toothpaste, Soap, Toilet Paper v Laundry Powder Monetary donations are welcome as they provide vouchers redeemable at local grocery stores for milk and fresh fruit. Anita will have her car parked at the front doors with the trunk open for the donations

Layer Cake, Jelly Roll and Charm Quilts By Pam & Nicky Lintott

Webs & Blogs

Question: What is a Layer Cake? Answer: A Layer Cake is a stack of forty fabrics 10” square. A Layer Cake contains the same amount of fabric as a Jelly Roll. This book, by the same authors as the book in the previous review, contains 17 quilt designs, using Jelly Rolls, Layer Cakes or Charm Packs. There are also a couple of patterns that use a combination of these pre-cut fabric bundles. There are lots of ideas to make quilts from pre-cut collections, with little or not waste. The book is well illustrated, with step-by-step instructions and with projects for all abilities.

Library

Dawne J

Of interest, you may like to take a look at the blogs of another of our members: Dorothy Baker http://dorothybakerdesigns.blogspot.com/

The new casters have been bought for the library cart and we hope to have them installed before the January meeting. Please remember to bring back all those books you borrowed over the Christmas holiday season. Pat E

Outreach First of all, I would like to thank everyone who has contributed so generously to our output of quilts for the past year. In addition to the regular and occasional attendees at the monthly Outreach sewing sessions we are very grateful to members at large who also help with hand or machine sewing, sandwiching quilts, donating materials, delivering quilts, etc. We have recently donated quilts to Ian Anderson House, Meals on Wheels, The Salvation Army, Hope Place, Healthy Babies/Healthy Children, the Parent/Child Centre, Kerr Street Ministries and St. Paul’s United Church.

The Digital version of the newsletter has a photograph of the Staff at the Oakville Child Care Center were thrilled with this year’s contributions of quilts and bears. Unfortunately the photo does not print well and has been removed from the printed version. Already we have the beginning of a new batch of quilts for this year, although they are mostly in the form of tops at the moment, awaiting backs and quilting. We hope to hold a machine quilting session sometime in the New Year and Outreach quilts will also be featured at the March General Meeting’s Walkabout, so that newer members can get some guidelines and hopefully inspiration for making Outreach quilts.

Meanwhile, as always, we are happy to see anyone who would like to join us for the morning on the second Tuesday of each month at St. Paul’s United Church on Rebecca Street, just net to the YMCA. Dinah

Our Guild is a Fragrance Free Zone

Block of the Month If you have been participating every month you are now halfway done! If you are a little behind - well, you have four more months to catch up. The January block is one of my favourites and is called "Mountain Majesties". The February block is the largest one in the program at 12", and is called "Herringbone". Instructions to combine the blocks into a sampler will be given in April or May, so that completed projects may be displayed at the June potluck. The finished sampler will be approx. 40" x 50" without borders. Elizabeth

Privacy Policy The Oakville Quilters' Guild does not use its database of names and addresses for any purpose other than official Guild business. Nor does it pass on these details to any other organization or person. Anyone wanting to advertise or promote their services, shows or products can do so through our Bulletin Board. The Bulletin Board is available each meeting at the back of the hall next to the Block of the Month information.

Newsletter

Events The deadline for submissions for the March/April 2012 newsletter is: Thursday February 16, 2011. Contact: Dawne Rudman Phone: 905 844-6524 [email protected]

Call for Entry Common Thread International World of Threads Festival 2012 Deadline: January 31, 2012 Contact: Dawne Rudman http://worldofthreadsfestival.com/ CQA National Juried Show Deadline: February 24, 2012 Contact: Gayle Szmurlo Website: http://canadianquilter.com/

Building Warmth: A Log Cabin Exhibit At Wellington County Museum, Fergus, Ontario September 10, 2011 – March 25, 2012 0536 Wellington Rd. 18, RR #1 Fergus, ON Admission: by donation Contact: Amy Dunlop Phone: 519 846-0916 X 5232 Email: [email protected] The Fabric of Our Lives 2012 Trent Valley QG, Trenton April 21 – 22, 2012 Contact: Colleen Elliott Phone: 613 398-0377 Email: [email protected] Website: http://trentvalleyquiltersguild.com Quilts Kingston 2012 Royal Kingston Curling Club 120 Day’s Road, Kingston June 8-10, 2012 Contact: Ann Oastler Email: [email protected] Etobicoke Quilter Guild Quilt Fever 2012 56 Neilson Park Drive, Etobicoke Mar 30 – Apr 1, 2012 Contact: Donna Boksa Phone: 905 792-7632

For the Beauty of the Earth

Deadline:

March 26, 2012.

Contact: Elizabeth Sherlock Phone: 604 898-1635 Email: [email protected] The Barnswallow Quilt Show Deadline: May 3, 2012 Contact: Jean Motheral Phone: 204 822-9973 Fruits of Our Labour Quilt Competition Deadline: August 3, 2012 Contact: Gladys Pennacchietti Phone: 519 376-1437

Change of Information Please notify Janice Ghent of any change of information Phone: 905 844-2831 Email: [email protected]

Bring to the next meeting Jan

Feb Guild name badge and Guild pin. Library Books. $$$$ for the 50/50 draw. Your mug and bottle of Water. Your contribution to the Food Bank Your Block of the Month. Items for Bring ‘n Brag.