This day has become a guild tradition – a fun-filled, social, inexpensive day to get lots of members together, and start off the new year with perhaps a different perspective. The theme this year is flowers. This could be flowered fabric, flower blocks, a landscape of a garden with flowers, 3-D flowers or artful flowers like Judy Leslie showed us last month. There will also be a pot-luck lunch (finger food only).Hosted by Carol Piercy

DATE: Saturday, January 18, 2014
TIME: 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
PLACE: St. Stephen’s Catholic Church, 1360 East 24th Street, North Vancouver
COST: $20.00 plus a contribution to a finger-food pot-luck lunch

This is a free-motion quilting course for those with some free-motion experience already. The morning will be spent drawing, then stitching, leaves, flowers, vines and stippling. The afternoon will move into more advanced feathers, and possibly fancy borders, again with lots of drawing first.

DATE: Saturday, February 22, 2014
TIME: 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
PLACE: St. Agnes Church, 530 East 12th St, North Vancouver
COST: $40.00

Please make note of the Executive Positions that will become vacant in February 2014.

The job descriptions are brief, but do take the time to read through and consider volunteering for one of the positions. What are your strengths? Where would your talents shine through and benefit the Guild? We need your help!

• Vice-President:
  Assumes the duties of the President in her/his absence. Oversees the storage locker and post office box rentals.
• Treasurer:
  Responsible for all accounting tasks related to Guild business, including preparation of year-end financial statements and required tax returns, as well as preparation of draft and final budgets each year. Presents all budget and financial report details to members at each year’s AGM.
• Newsletter Editor:
  Prepares and distributes the guild newsletter for each of the 9 months of January through June and September through November.
• Member-at-Large:
  One of two members (one is elected each year) whoprovide another communication channel between the Executive and guild members. Responsibilities include greeting people at the door for meetings, coordinating the 50/50 draw and providing assistance for “show and tell”. In the second year of his or her term, also servers as Nominating Committee Coordinator for upcoming elections.
• Library:
  Responsible for set up and take down of library at each guild meeting, recording of books in and out, library fines, and purchasing new additions for the library.

All of these positions are two-year terms and require attendance at monthly executive meetings.

Welcome to September everyone. I hope you had a most enjoyable summer with lots of outdoor activities and socializing because this was definitely the summer to do those sorts of activities. But now, as I write this, the clouds have rolled in and it is time to move indoors and back into our sewing space. It is like hibernating isn’t it?

The Guild Executive usually meets in early September to touch base and to make sure we are going to have an exciting and inspiring year culminating in our Quilt Show. Anne Pelton and her committee have been very hard at work organizing three workshops for the Fall and they have booked an assortment of workshops already for winter and spring.

We discussed the subject of Advertising for new Guild members and we have some good ideas on how to let people know that we exist and that any person who is interested in sewing and quilting are welcome to come to our meetings. Once they come through that door they will be ours because we are such a fun, caring and talented bunch of quilters! I think my prejudices are showing through. So, let your friends or mere acquaintances know about our Guild and encourage them to come to a meeting. We have already submitted information to the North Shore News and the North and West Vancouver Community Arts Councils and plan on distributing posters in the near future.

Because our Guild belongs to the Canadian Quilters’ Association I get their monthly news update and this month they are promoting a Challenge called: Stitch Across Canada as we Walk to Brock. Here is their description of the challenge. “Starting Sept. 1st, we want you or your guild to send us the perimeter of all quilts shown at your Show and Tell/Share. We will plot the inches from Mile Zero in Victoria to Brock University in St. Catherines, the home of Quilt Canada 2014. But to make it a REAL challenge, we will visit our Regional Representative, Shona Barbour and her quilting friends, in Inuvik NT along the way. Yikes! a mere 106, 007,412 inches more than our last Stitch Across Canada challenge.” So, what do you think? The Executive thought we could give it a try. If you are going to bring some Show and Tell to our next Guild meeting please measure the circumference/s in inches and then tell us that total number when you are up at the mike. Dorothy Porter will record our data and send it on to CQA. Thank you Dorothy.

We are fast approaching our annual AGM in February. This is the first of many reminds about this important meeting. We will have the following positions open for renewal: Vice President, Treasurer, Programs, Newsletter, Library, Member-at-Large. All of these positions are for a two year term and we also need someone to volunteer for our Membership position for a one year term.

Kate Burzuk would like some assistance at the Membership table and if you are interested in volunteering to fill that position in the new year this would be an excellent opportunity to find out more about the job and sit with Kate, getting experience firsthand. Give Kate a call or just pull up a chair beside her at the next meeting. She does not bite.

I look forward to seeing you on the 4th Tuesday of this month which is September 24th. Don’t forget: to wear your name tag; money for 50/50 draw; cheque book for workshops; your coffee mug; any overdue library books and fines that go along with that; any “free” sewing related items to give away; any leftover birthday goodies/cake for us all to enjoy and your Show and Tell with circumference totals.

Happy Quilting,
Betty

Fall is a time for getting back into the normal routines. With such a beautiful summer, and great weather, I am hoping a lot of you spent time with family and friends. Now it is time to spend time with your quilting friends.

To date we have 138 members. The June meeting was fairly well attended and I hope to see a lot of you there for our September meeting. Remember to bring your name tag and be wearing it at the meeting. Should you forget it, they are available at the membership table for $1.00

At this time I would like to inform you, that this is my last year as Membership Chair person. We will need a volunteer to take over as of February. However, it would be great if someone is interested in the position to maybe start a month or two early so they can get a feel for what the position entails.

Should you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me.

Happy Stitching!

Kate Burzuk
Membership Coordinator

Just in time for Christmas! Add a touch of whimsy to your holidays with these adorable foundation-pieced pillows. Don’t worry if you have never done foundation piecing, this is a good way to start.

DATE: Saturday, November 16, 2013
TIME: 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
PLACE: St. Catherine’s Church, 1058 Ridgewood Dr, North Vancouver
COST: $40.00 + cost of the book “Pretty in Patchwork” by John Q. Adams.

Once I know how many books we need, I will do a bulk order from Amazon and split the delivery among everyone. I estimate the book cost to be about $13 – $15.