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Slab Blocks for the Great Canadian Quilting Bee at Quilt Canada

5/24/2017

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Earlier this year, one of our members Linda, headed up our guild's participation in the Great Canadian Quilting Bee for the CQA Quilt Canada show in June.
Each month more and more blocks were brought in to the meetings for Linda to collect.
These are some of the blocks.
Thanks to all our members for all your hard work making blocks!

​And here are 4 quilt tops that have been put together with our blocks.
The stipulation from CQA was each block needed to include one piece of the required Canada fabric, so look closely and see if you can find all the special fabric.
Once quilted and bound, these quilts will be donated to the Ronald McDonald charity for families using their facilities while a family member in in the hospital.  
A BIG thank you to Linda for organizing and keeping track of our members and all the blocks and for completing the quilt tops!
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May Meeting recap

5/21/2017

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After arriving at the Artisans Centre to find it flooded, the City was quick and found us a replacement venue and we were able to have our meeting after all!
We discussed the regular guild monthly business and then Pat explained the Moda Palette Builder she learned about at Quiltcon.    This is a website where you upload a photo and then the specific colours are selected and you can then find Moda fabrics that coordinate with the photo, as well as Aurifil Threads and Hex Values. 
​At QuiltCon, Brigitte Heiland was the Zen Chic designer that was explaining the Palette Builder. 
Here are Pat's notes:
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Next, Sonia was presenting how to take a traditional block and make it modern. 
Blocks can be made modern by changing the fabrics, the scale, cropping the blocks just to name a few ways.
Here are some photos of what our members did by taking a traditional block and then using magazines- cut shapes to make more modern blocks.  The first photos show how Sonia's example was just to switch the fabrics from traditional to modern solids. 
One of our members Brenda, made the paper block and then took the lesson one step further and made a mini quilt at home!  This is the great thing about our guild, we learn skills and ideas at each meeting, and you can go home and then practice what you learned and make a quilt!
Thanks Sonia and Pat for excellent presentations!  
Next month in June, please bring a bunch of solid fabric scraps, a glue stick, scissors and some paper to glue to for the lesson on Colour Theory.  As well as bring a few larger fabric scraps that all coordinate with each other, and  3-5 larger pieces of neutral fabrics for the Improv lesson.

Here is Jan's Riley Blake Creative Rockstar David Bowie inspired quilt.
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And Linda's Bridge Over Troubled Waters Riley Blake challenge entry. 
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​See everyone in June!
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May Meeting Reminder

5/10/2017

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Here is a reminder for our May Meeting that will be held May 13, 2017!
Here is our agenda:

  • Volunteers needed:
    • To sew iron covers -all supplies provided
    • Artisans Open house- September 16th 11-4 need a few quilts to display and people to man the table and talk about our guild.
    • Quilt raffle for Artisans London
  • Sign Up for Fabric Dyeing Workshop, July 8, 2017. More information can be found here.   
  • Bring Slab Blocks for the Great Canadian Quilting Bee held by the CQA. More information can be found by clicking here.  This is the last month that they can be donated via LMQGC.
  • LMQG Logo Challenge Blocks - Due August. More information can be found here.
  • There are lots of Quilt Shows coming up!   You can find out more by clicking on our Community Quilting Events Page.
  • If you created a quilt for the MQG Riley Blake Challenge, please bring it to share with the group.
  • Update about our Canada 150 Quilt - Display Locations.
  • Michael Miller Friendship Blocks - Fabric to be handed out.
  • "LMQG Canada" Private Facebook group has been set up for Members ONLY to communicate with each other.  You can find the group here. (You will need a Facebook Account)
  • MQG Updates
  • Show & Share
  • We will have a open sew-in until 4pm that day.  Bring a project and stay for the afternoon!
Over the next few months our members that attended Quiltcon 2017 will be demonstrating some of the skills they learned.

This month we will have 2 Members sharing what they learned at Quiltcon.

1) Sonia will talk about how to take traditional blocks and make them modern. Please bring a glue stick and scissors.

2)Pat will also demonstrate the Moda Palette Builder that she was learning more about at QuiltCon. 

London Potters Guild sale on Saturday at the TVDSB at Dundas and Highbury- stop by after our meeting!

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It's been a long time since we posted about Limberlost

5/9/2017

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For those that don't know what our guild does for our outreach program- this post is for you!
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Some of our guild members and members from other London guilds meet each Tuesday to teach sewing and quilting skills to some women in the Limberlost Social Housing community.  
Over the past few years, the students have learned how to hand stitch, make mug rugs, placemats and quilts. 
We are so fortunate that we have wonderful quilters that have donated supplies and money to stock our supplies!  Most of the ladies all have sewing machines in their homes now, in addition to the sewing machines they use every week in class.  And we have a stash of fabric that is amazing!  Thanks again for our generous donations.

Here are some photos from last week. 
Our sewing room has been renovated to give more room and has a fresh coat of paint!  Look at everyone working hard on their projects!  And a big thank you to all the volunteers that share their skills with the women.  If you have some free time, and wish to help out, let us know.  Even if you can only stop by from time to time, it would be lovely to have you.  We meet from Sept. to June once a week on Tuesday, come see how much fun we have!
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