Hope everyone had a good summer. The community quilt group had a meeting July 6 and the following were sent out for distribution:

• Evergreen lodge: 21 quilts
• Kiwanis: 16 quilts
• Sage House: 6 quilts
• North shore women’s Centre: 6 quilts
• Lookout: 6 quilts
• Turning Point Lodge: 7 quilts
• Hospice: 11 quilts
• NV Neighbourhood House: 18 children and baby quilts for child care program; they have requested another 18 if we are able
• Dogwood shop at LGH: 3 quilts to sell

Thirteen raffle quilts were also distributed to Evergreen, Cedar View Care Centre, Margret Fulton Centre, West Van Daycare, Ingelwood Care Centre, North Van Hospice.

Everyone was effusive in their thanks for the donations. Looking forward to seeing everyone at the meeting and I will have some kits available!

I hope everyone is looking forward to seeing all the beautiful quilts we have created, they come in all the colours of the rainbow and then some. We shall try to show them slowly enough that they can be appreciated individually. I will have a few kits if anyone is looking for a summer project or we do accept any scrappy quilts created to use up your own stash. Looking forward to seeing everyone at the meeting.

Anita Jones-Gould,
Community Quilts President

Thank you to everyone who made a quilt for us. It was great to have some community quilts to line the entrance and tea hall at the show. We received lots of positive feedback on them. One delighted mom brought her Christmas baby and the quilt she received and wanted to thank the person who made it. I said I couldn’t tell who had made it but we were all glad she felt so strongly about thanking us. We are now working on our next collection so please if you are looking for a summer project pick up a quilt kit from the Community quilt table. I also have batting and if you need a piece please contact me with a size either by phone or email to communityquilts@lionsgatequiltguild.com and I will bring it to the meeting.

Anita Jones-Gould

Several years ago Cedarview Lodge in North Vancouver received quilts from Community Quilts. They raffled one of them in order to raise money towards a new van for their facility. Their raffle netted $300. Last year they asked if we could give them another quilt which they would raffle to add to their Van fund. Fore Shore Quilters (a satellite group of LGQG formed 12 years ago) decided to take on this project.

The pattern chosen was a free pattern from Cloud9 fabrics titled the Amsterdam Quilt. We decided to each make two blocks so we would have enough blocks for two quilts. A palette of Batik for the tulips and leaves with a white background was chosen. Helen Jorgensen quilted the quilt to be given to Cedarview and Karen Munro did the binding.

The members of Fore Shore Quilters are Anita Jones-Gould, Anne Pelton, Anne Read, Betty Clark, Dianne Ritter, Glennis Wilkinson, Helen Jorgensen, Jan Callow, Joan Herrin, Karen Munro, Laurie Cunningham, Rebecca Skiffington, Trudy Jaskela, Susan Lum and Vicky Digby.

The second quilt top was given to Community Quilts. Rita Douglas is quilting it and it will eventually be given to a charitable organization as a raffle quilt.

Trudy Jaskela

I’m sure most people gave up counting the number of community quilts shown at our April meeting—we were constantly unfolding, holding up, folding and packing away again. By special request, most were for the Intensive care nursery at LGH, thirty-eight quilts in total. The five larger bed quilts went to Turning Point lodge ladies recovery program. Donated quilts were accepted with heartfelt thanks. I will have some quilt kits at our next meeting and please bring in any finished quilts as we have our showing of Community Quilts in June. Please contact me if batting or backing are needed. Thank you to all for the continuing support.

Thank you to everyone who took a kit or brought back a finished quilt at our last meeting. We have lots of kits to give out still and please remember there is not a strict time limit on them, we appreciate them as we get them back. We donated a quilt to the Ecole Boundary for their silent auction. We are also going to deliver some baby quilts to LGH Intensive care Nursery after we show them this month so the spring babies can benefit from them. Please continue with your great works.

We had some very productive days with our gathering on March 5–7, 2015, although not as long as we would like as it seemed we were on a roll and then had to clean up.

Thank you to everyone who took part: 15 on Thursday, 31 on Friday and 24 on Saturday. We hopefully will make the North Shore News.

Please help yourself to a kit at our meeting. We have packed tops, backing, batting and binding together. This is easier for us to keep it all together; if you aren’t comfortable quilting it, just piece the top, bring it back to a meeting, and we will find someone else to quilt it. But it is a good way to practice your quilting as the recipients appreciate everything.

Thank you again to everyone who helped.

 

These photos cannot show the smiles on the faces of the people at Turning Point Lodge when we delivered quilts to brighten up their new home. It is a beautiful building in a lovely setting but suffers from builders beige. We will keep our eyes open for a few hanging to help them out. We did receive a lovely card of thanks.

Community Quilt Days are March 5–7 this year. We will be unloading and setting up Thursday morning; if you can come that day, even for a couple of hours, please arrive after 10:30 AM. Anyone wishing to help with sorting of fabric (we have received numerous donations) or fine cutting of kits, strips and squares would be appreciated. We will have some modern and traditional patterns but welcome any pattern you would like to make and pick from our fabric supplies. The hours we have the church are:

• Thursday 9:30–4pm
• Friday 9:30–4:30
• Saturday 9:30–3

Cleanup will start at 2:30 on Saturday. Anne Read has again volunteered to take sandwich orders Friday and Saturday; orders must be in by 10:30. If you like to bake I am sure any donations would be greatly appreciated by your fellow quilters! Hope to see as many of you as possible there.

Quilt Size Reminder

• Wee Baby: 16″ x 20″ or 18″ x 24″
• Baby: 36″ x 40″
• Child/Lap: 42″ x 54″
• Twin: 54″ x 72″

Happy New Year, everyone.

We had a busy December. On December 8 we finally delivered 29 single bed quilts to the New Hope Center at Lions Gate Hospital, and I apologize for not taking a picture of the piles on their dining room tables but they will do much to brighten and jazz up the plain rooms. They were received with profuse thanks by Joanne McClelland of the Lions Gate Foundation. On December 19 we delivered 10 Christmas themed quilts to LGH Intensive Care Nursery which were gladly received by staff, who stated they would let the parents of the twins and premies in residence have their pick. We started giving baby Christmas quilts in 2013, so this was our second year for this donation.

Please remember to mark your calendar for Community Quilt Days. Thursday March 5 is ‘set up’ day with some precutting and kit making. Sewing, layering, and more kit-making days are Friday March 6, 9:30-5 and Saturday March 7, 9:30-3. All help gratefully accepted, a most pleasant and helpful way to get to know the other guild members and see the wonderful quilts we create. We will have signup sheets at the January and February meetings. Hope you can join us!