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Please welcome our newest blog sponsor- KNIT STITCH

7/28/2016

Knit Stitch is a knitting and fabric store that recently moved locations into a much larger shop on Wharncliffe Road.
Suzanne started to carry modern quilting fabrics after the move, and is constantly receiving more and more bolts, with the most recent line being the Uppercase fabric. She also offers classes for knitting, garment sewing and quilting.

On the last Wednesday evening of every month, there is a drop in night for knitting and hand sewing- here is a photo of the July drop in night.

Just look at this lovely store!

Knit Stitch will be closed until August 6th for holidays, but if you wanted to know more about Suzanne and her shop, while she is on vacation, here is a link to a London Free Press article- KNIT STITCH ARTICLE

Please welcome Knit Stitch as our blog sponsor!

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July Meeting Recap- Orange!

7/25/2016

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After a quick meeting we got straight into learning about Orange! Sheilagh had excellent hand outs for the colour theory portion and then had mixing paints like experts. Each person was given a paint sample in some version of orange and we then had to mix red, yellow, black and white paints into the exact shades of orange found on our paint sample.

Let me tell you it was harder than it looked!

Here are some examples of what we all came up with. As you can see there was a lot of paint mixing to come up with the exact orange.

Here are the paint chips with the orange we mixed.

And here are all our paint chips with the mixed paints- I think everyone did really well!

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July Meeting Reminder 2016

7/6/2016

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Don't forget to join us for our meeting this upcoming Saturday, July 9, 2016 at 10am. Here is our agenda and supply list for this month's meeting:

Quick Review of Guild Challenges:

MQG Charity Quilt/Quilt X Quilt For those who signed up at the May meeting, you will be give precut fabric and instructions to create the block. This can be done at home or at the sew-in after the meeting.
Riley Blake Challenge - Due at August Meeting
#QuiltsforPulse For those that have volunteered, please bring your improv blocks you have previously created this year to donate, as well as red, yellow and orange scraps to make additional blocks to contribute to our #Quiltsforpulse quilt. We will work on these blocks at the sew-in after the meeting.

Recap of Nancy Trowbridge Triangle Workshop

Bring your quilt tops (or completed quilts!) to share with the guild.

Sew in the Park Dates

Thursday, July 21, 2015, 6:30pm
Tuesday, August 23, 2015, 6:30pm

Volunteers Needed:

Someone to present the colour Yellow for August
Upcoming Quilt Shows that the LMQGC is participating in.

Thread Bar Workshop

October 1, 2016 - $65 payable to guild- sign up if you are interested as we are opening it up to the local guilds for registration.

Sew-In

After the meeting until 4:30pm. Bring a lunch. Stay and sew with your fellow Guild members. You can bring your own project or assist with the following:
Quilt X/QuiltCon Charity Block - Lead by Joyce
#QuiltsforPulse Charity Blocks - Lead by Lyndsey

We have 2 activities planned for our program this month. Please bring your sewing machine, a basic sewing kit and don't forget the sewing machine cord and pedal! Please do not set up your machine until the second activity, it is not required for the first activity.

Orange
Building Orange
presented by Sheilagh

Have you ever wondered how some people can look at a colour and immediately recognize all of the colours, tints, tones or shades are used to make up that colour? How can they look at orange and also see red, or yellow?

On Saturday we will "build" our own variations of orange and its tints, tones and shades.

We will also talk about the colour schemes that use orange and the effects they have.

Please bring a sample of your favourite orange fabric (if you have one). All other supplies will be supplied to members.

*Please don't set up your sewing machine for this exercise.

Improv: Triangles
presented by Kristyn

Kristyn will be demonstrating 3 different types of Triangle Improv techniques. If you wish to give these techniques a try, please bring the following for the improv supplies:

Scraps of random orange fabric
Basic Sewing supplies (machine, thread, pedal, cord, rotary cutter etc.)

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