Negative Space Exercise                 
The April Guild meeting will have a Presentation about Negative Space and an Exercise to explore how to quilt the Negative Spaces on your quilt. We will look at designing a layout using Negative Space and then create a quilting plan for that Negative Space.  This is a fairly small exercise and could probably be completed in 1 ½ hours.  If time is an issue you could start during Guild and complete it at home.
If you want to participate in this exercise, please bring the following.
Supplies

• One 20” square quilt sandwich in either white or very light solid (top, batting, backing – could be same colour as top piece)
• One 6” (cut size 6 ½”) square simple pieced block (eg.: star, 9-patch, 4-patch, churn dash, any of the modern blocks at MQG reduced to 6”, etc.) – any colours or fabric choices that make you happy.
• Thread in the same colour as your 20” square top.
• Threads in the same colours as your pieced block (optional because you could use the same colour throughout).
• Erasable marking pens – 2 colours would be best so either 2 gel pens in different colours or a set of one water soluble (blue) and one disappearing (purple). I recommend NOT using a gel pen together with a water soluble pen.
• Pencils – maybe 2 or 3 colours.
• Regular pen – just for use on paper.
• Ruler – either 12” or 24”.
• Sewing machine with free-motion (FM) foot and walking foot (WF).
• Pins to secure your quilt sandwich – only need between 4 & 8 pins.
• Small cutting mat – minimal use so could easily be shared with others at your table – and a rotary cutter.
• Small quilt sandwiches – about 8” – 10” for practice.

 
During the Presentation you don’t have to take any notes.  You will get another Handout by email next week – probably Thursday – to print and bring.  It will be your notes and exercise instructions.
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We are thrilled to welcome Andrea Tsang- Jackson from 3rd Story Workshop to our guild in May!
On Friday May 10th Andrea will present a trunk show.  This is at 7pm at the Boyle Community Centre and tickets are still available.  TICKETS  

We also have 2 of Andrea's Map workshop spots all of a sudden available.  If you would like to learn how to make a map of SW Ontario and then start to work on your own map, please email the guild and we can save you a spot.  The fee is $85 with a $5 kit fee payable at the workshop.
Map Workshop- Saturday May 11, 2019 from 9-5 at the Boyle Community Centre.

EMAIL if you would like to attend the class. 

The trunk show and workshop will be fantastic, we hope to see you there!

We had a great turn-out this week - ~40 members!

Update on Guild business as well as Quiltcon from Kristyn and MQG update from Linda.
Trunk Show - Tickets still available for Andrea Tsang (May 10th) and Libs Elliot (Nov 8th). Purchase at meeting or on-line.
Next week - National Quilt Day (March 16th) will be an open Sew in Day in the small meeting room at Boyle CC.  (Full Capacity)
LMQG Retreat (Mar 22-24)  - Elmhurst Inn 

LMQG Quilt Show (Sept 7-8, 2019)
Northcott Challenge quilts are due at June meeting
Volunteers are needed for the show.
Registration forms to submit quilts for the show have been emailed out - submissions by July.

Upcoming Quilt Shows 
Thames Valley Quilt Show (Quilting in the Village) - May 3-4 2019-quilt-show.html
Oxford Quilters Guild (Pieces of Magic) - May 9-11  pieces-of-magic-quilt-show.html
Ailsa Craig Quilt and Fibre Arts Show (Quilts of Iceland) - May 21-26 ailsa-craig-quilt-fibre-arts-festival-presents-quilts-iceland-land-ice-lights
North Lambton Quilters Guild Show - June 27-29 
St Jacobs Quilt and Fibre Art Festival - May 21-25 Quilt & Fibre Art Festival 2019 BROCHURE Low-Res.pdf
Quilt Canada (Quilting goes Viral) - June 12-15  quilt-canada-2019

Tutorial Lesson (Kristyn)
Lots of great information on modernizing traditional quilt blocks.  
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Show and Tell
So inspiring to see the beautiful quilts made by our members!

What a crowd we had on Saturday!

Our members have been busy quilting and brought so many quilts to show--even some for our quilting challenge!

Aren't these quilts amazing? We certainly are a very talented group!

Kristyn led the Education Session and taught us all about Resizing Blocks and Alternate Grid Layout.  She came with a plethora of quilted pieces to illustrate her points. A great lesson.

A wonderful meeting!  Hope to see you next month!

Join us on Saturday at the Boyle Community Centre for our Monthly Meeting.  The doors open at Noon. Check in and browse our library until the meeting begins at 12:30 p.m. Bring along any new quilted items for our Show and Tell. And in our program learn about resizing blocks and alternate grid layouts.  If you are working on a project, stay and sew until 5:00 p.m.Hope to see you!

Just a few pictures from a very successful 5th Anniversary Open House on Saturday.
It was great to meet so many fellow Quilters along with LRC and HST games, cake and shopping!!
Thank you to Hyggeligt, Stache Fabric, The Stitcharie and LDH Scissors for being our vendors and enticing us with lovely fabric and notions. 
Thank you to everyone who helped organize this great event!

Here is the Championship round of the HST game led by Karen from the Toronto MQG- with the winner being ROSA!
Congratulations Rosa!

And we also had some delicious quilting themed cakes to help us celebrate.

Here are the results to our quizzes we had on the walls at the open house.  You can see the preferences of local quilters from which kind of fabric they like to buy, to if they pre-wash that fabric, and which kind of quilt designs they like to make as well as what they listen to / watch while quilting.  This was a fun game and interesting to see how your own results compare with the others!

With such a fun 5th Anniversary kick off meeting, we can't wait to see what the rest of 2019 brings for our guild.  

The Quilt Kitchen Ltd., located at 301 Main Street South in Exeter, Ontario will provide quilting items such as fabrics, notions, patterns, books etc, along with a variety of workshops and classes; combined with a selection of kitchen accessories.  Our vision and mission statements explain the principals of the shop.  

VISION STATEMENT: 
To be the premier provider of top-quality products, services and education for modern quilters.

​There will be an emphasis on being eco friendly in the store.  We will attempt to eliminate plastic use in the store...no plastic bags, no plastic water bottles etc.  We will be continuing to source a variety of eco friendly kitchen items that are made in Canada.

Our fabrics will include a large selection of Kona Cottons, fabrics from designers such as  Tula Pink ~ Pinkerville, Zen Chic ~A Day in Paris, Jen Kingwell ~ Remix, Gingiber ~Merriment, Jennifer Sampou ~ Winter Shimmer, Libs Elliott ~ Tattooed North, Guicy Guice ~ Quantum, just to name a few. 

Our kitchen items will include a selection of gadgets such as spatulas, measuring tools, whisks, cutting boards and other fun items for the kitchen.  We are also going to carry a selection of linen Tea Towels and some eco friendly food wrap.  

Here are some photos of the upcoming workshops to be offered at The Quilt Kitchen: Bakers Dozen, Our Song and Elephant Abstractions.

And just look at this fabric that will be filling the shelves at The Quilt Kitchen very very soon!
Gorgeous solids, Tattooed North, A Day in Paris and Pinkerville.

Please welcome Tammy from The Quilt Kitchen as our newest blog sponsor!