Please welcome Fabric Please as our newest guild sponsor!  

We met Rita at the QuiltX Quilt Show as our guild booth was right across from hers!  Oh the temptation of staring into her booth filled with lovely fabrics for two days!

Fabric Please is an online shop as well as a travelling shop for quilt shows and retreats- SPOILER ALERT- If you are attending the 2018 SWO MOD Retreat you will get the opportunity to shop from Rita's trailer! 

Here are some current sales she has on specified fabrics. The sale runs until October 3rd. 
25% off Halloween (use code HALLOWEEN)
20% off Christmas (use code CHRISTMAS)
15% off Flannel (use code FLANNEL)

Coupons can be used in conjunction with each other.  Excludes pre-cuts.
Very excited to have Fabric Please sponsor our blog!

The Artisans Centre will be participating in this year's Doors Open event on Sunday October 2nd from 10-4.
Come out and see what our guild is all about, as well as the other guilds that share the Artisans Centre.

We will have quilts on display made by our members and we can answer any questions you may have about our guild.

​Hope to see you on Sunday.

Our Thread workshop is on Saturday October 1st (there are still 2 spots available if you are interested) and anyone is welcome to come by the East Lions Artisans Centre at 4pm to do some thread shopping!

If there is thread you are specifically looking for- please contact Anita prior to Saturday and place your order for pick up.  
COTTON MILL THREADWORKS

Hope to see some familiar faces on Saturday, because we can always use a little more thread.  

Our September meeting was held on September 10th.  We had a very full house!  It is great to see our group growing.  

We started our meeting with a tiny bit of business including announcing upcoming quilt shows and our Thread Bar Workshop that will take place October 1st.  

The date for the South Western Ontario Modern Quilt Retreat 2018 (SWOMod) was also announced and it will take place April 6-8, 2018.  A $100 deposit is due by April 1, 2017 to secure our spot.  For more information you can visit the quilt retreat website by clicking here.

Sonia lead a discussion and exercise about the colour Red.  This is our last discussion in our year long colour series.  Sonia had us create a layered improvisational block using a technique by Sherri Lynn Wood of Dainty Time.​

Kristyn demonstrated some ideas on how to create improv crosses and X's.

A great tutorial for the Cross Cut Quilt pictured on the left above can be found on 'A Quilter's Table' Blog.  You can find that tutorial by clicking here.

A fantastic Improv Cross Pattern can be found here. You can access the original source by clicking on the image below.

As always we had a fantastic group of quilts shared during our Show and Share:

Since our next meeting falls on Thanksgiving weekend, the meeting will be a catch up meeting and sew day.  If you missed any of the lessons from this year, you can come to the meeting to see demonstrations and ask questions!  It will take place October 8.  Hope to see you there!

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

• Quilt X Booth - September 16 & 17 
•  Friendship Guild Quilt Show Booth - October 21 & 22
• Quilts to display at the above shows (bring at the September meeting)
• Kirkton Guild would like 3 people to do a trunk show in either March or April on the 2nd Tuesday. 
• Executive Committee Volunteers

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.  4 Spots still available and open to non-members. 

SWO MOD Quilt Retreat 2018

Guild Business

​Sew-In

• After the meeting until 4:30pm.  Bring a lunch. Stay and sew with your fellow Guild members. 

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!  

​I had a trip planned for Vancouver and made sure my dates corresponded with the Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild Show!   Some of the Vancouver MQG members are on Instagram and I have been following them for a while, so contacted Holly, the founder of the Vancouver MQG, for more information about the quilt show.  She was so friendly and helpful and even gave me all the transit routes to take over to North Van.  Once again I got to take a ferry like last year when I went from Halifax to Dartmouth for the Maritime MQG meeting.  Once off the ferry, I followed the signs to the quilt show!
 
I knew Holly was volunteering at the show near the entrance, and she was one of the first people I saw upon entering the quilt show.  She welcomed me and told me a little about their guild.  The Vancouver MQG has just over 100 members and they organized this quilt show in only a few months.  They put in long hours setting up the beautiful venue and hanging quilts, and it was obvious that all their hard work paid off- the quilt show was amazing!  Here are a few photos of the show and the venue called The Pipe Shop.

​Right near the entrance was a display of the guild’s mini quilts.  The wall was painted with their guild logo and all the mini quilts hung on this wall.

​Beside the mini wall was an activity where quilt show patrons could cut fabric and glue it to paper to create their own improv block, and these blocks were displayed on the nearby beams.

​Holly introduced me to some of the guild members who were all so proud to tell me about their quilt show.
 
The guild was raffling their 2016 QuiltCon Charity quilt to raise money for a local charity called Mom-to-Mom Poverty Initiative. I bought some tickets, but did not win the quilt. One of their members named Nancy Chan won the quilt!  Congratulations Nancy!

And now for the eye candy!  These are just some of the quilts that were on display at the quilt show. 

Here are some quilts that were made with the MQG Fabric Challenge Riley Blake and Michael Miller fabrics. 

​As you can see, the Vancouver MQG is a busy guild with lots of member participation.  I am so glad to have been able to see their quilt show, and meet some of their members.  Wonder which quilts will be at QuiltCon East?

The London Modern Quilt Guild is hosting a thread workshop presented by Anita Zobens from Superior Threads.  Anita is a fantastic teacher who will guide you through the different types of Superior Threads as well as help you navigate your fancy machine stitches.  And of course Anita will bring threads to purchase after the workshop!   Come and enjoy a lovely day while learning more about specialty threads.