We had a good turnout for yesterday's meeting at the Boyle Community Centre.  

We have some fun summer events that you are welcome to join. Our Stitch in the Park (With movies and Food Trucks) is being held on July 24.  We meet at 6 near the Bandshell.  Bring some handwork (sewing knitting etc) and a friend!

On July 27 at The Marsh Store, we are holding a pop up picnic. Bring a snack to share, some handwork and feel free to bring a friend. 

At our August Meeting we will be having a Fabric Collage Workshop.  Please bring  a small selection of fabric and fusible.

At our September Meeting we will feature demos of tips and tricks as well as demonstrating favourite notions. Also in September we are having a GARAGE SALE.  Please bring along any surplus fabric you have at home, priced. We will have our sale at the end of our meeting and the proceeds will go to our Limberlost program.

Fall Quilt Show.  We still need Volunteers to help with the various tasks for our Quilt Show at Grosvenor Lodge.  Please sign up online or at our next meeting.  There are lots of different jobs!

Charity Quilt for QuiltCon.  Squares are available for pickup and will be done in pairs (one to sew and one to embroider). All instructions provided. Completed squares are due in September.  

We concluded our meeting with a circuit of Border workshops by Linda M, Shirley C and Kristyn M. Each station demonstrated different styles and aspects of borders including mitred corners, measuring, resizing and including a flange. Great instruction.

As usual, we had a stellar demonstration of our quilter's talents. 

Meeting Recap
Linda McLaren is looking for speakers for the Border Workshop on July 13.  Let her know if you can demonstrate a technique or two.

• Mitred corners, resizing, adding a flange ....

​September Demo - Tips and Tricks. Additional speakers (short talk 3-5 min per tip) needed.

2019 Quilt Show
Northcott Challenge quilts are due - any outstanding ones should be submitted to Kristyn.  
We need more volunteers to help out with setup and takedown, ticket table, ironing quilts at the show etc.  Let Linda McLaren know if you can help out or sign-up on the LMQG Face Book page.
There are a number of spaces available for smaller quilts less than 30" square or 20" square.  Let Jan Dudek know if you have some smaller quilts that you would like to submit.

Charity Quilt - 2020 Quilt Con
Jan presented a few design options for our charity quilt for next years Quilt Con.  Lots of great ideas presented - it should be fun to pool everyone's talent. Due date - October!!

Paper Piecing
Linda and Brenda did a great workshop on the different methods of Foundation Paper Piecing.
​Workshop notes have been sent out by e-mail.

Summer Meetings
Stitch in the Park (Movie and Food Truck Nights!!)
June 27th, July 24th , August 21st
Meet at 6 pm near the bandshell - guests welcome.

Pop-Up Picnic July 27th
The Marsh Store

Show & Tell
A few Anna Tsang-Jackson map quilts already finished by our members - very speedy!
More of the challenge quilts ........and some of the beautiful finished quilts by our members.
​
​

We have some pretty talented members!

Here is Linda with her juried quilt called Windswept Sparks.  The Quilting Biker is Linda's blog and you can read more about her quilt.

And Lisa had this quilt juried into the show.

Lisa also won 2nd place in the Textile Translations category of her Andalusia in Grey Scale quilt. 

And Kristyn won 2nd place in the Modern category for her Leap Of Faith quilt. 

To view the other winning quilts click on this link > NJS WINNING QUILTS

Congratulations to everyone that entered their quilt, to those that were juried in and to the winners!

Have you ever wanted to try foundation paper piecing?
Have you tried it and no matter what you always get the piece upside down and backwards?
Want to brush up on your foundation paper piecing skills?
Well this is the meeting for you!
Come join us Saturday June 8th at 12 noon as Linda and Brenda explain this precise technique.

Guests welcome, hope to see everyone there!

The night before Andrea gave a very informative trunk show (see previous post)

The next day our members jumped right in making maps of SW Ontario.  Andrea started with explaining her map technique and the steps to make a map, as well as the supplies needed. 

The first step was to cut out the land sections. 

And then fusing the land to the water background.

Once your land was in place- making careful attention to include all the tiny islands, the green park areas were fused.  One of our members lives near the Pinery Provincial Park- can you see that in one of the photos?

Then the next step is the topographical quilting.  The students had the option to quilt the highways they wanted as well as the option to include certain personal landmarks to make their maps more interesting.

Here Andrea explained how to quilt around shapes and along the land edges and water shores.  Then how to quilt the different "depths" of the water keeping close attention to how the water flowed from lake to lake. 

Here are the almost finished maps from the class, we hope to see a few finished map quilts at the June Show and Share!

Andrea also showed us how to finish our quilts as well as framing the map. 

And there was time at the end of the workshop to discuss how the students could use this new technique to make other maps of locations of their choice. 

We had an amazing couple of days with Andrea and highly recommend if you get the chance, take her map workshop!
​Thanks so much Andrea!

Friday night we had a great trunk show and talk from Andrea in front of a packed house at Boyle Community Center.  Wonderful stories about her quilts - very inspiring! 

This Friday at 7PM we have Andra Tsang-Jackson's trunk show. There are still 12 tickets, so if you wished to join us, you can buy them at the door- cost $15. 
The trunk show is at the Boyle Community Centre and the doors open at 6:30.  Parking is in the lot or on the street. 
Hope to see you there. 
​

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.
​

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!