How can you find some time for Community Quilts in your busy schedules? Here are a few ideas:
- If you’re making blocks for a project, make one or two extra as you go; it only takes a few to make a small quilt. It also uses up extra fabric, so you’re not left with “that annoying little bundle of coordinated scraps.”
- As you’re machine piecing, have some pieces for assembly next to your machine…you won’t have to break the thread, you can chain piece. Before you know it, you’ll have quite a few completed units/blocks.
- If your “Weekender Bag” project has you freaking out, take a time out and piece something simple; it will be a good refresher and it’ll make you feel like you accomplished something.
- If you only have 5, 10, 15 minutes to quilt, run up one small block.
- Remember that fabric you bought, and now you just look at it and say “What was I thinking? Someone else will love it, so use a quick technique like 8 or 10 inch blocks, nine patch, or strip piecing and it will come together. (Bonus: this makes for new fabric in your stash.)
So save the date for the workshop on March 5, 6 and 7th, 2015. Hope to see you 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″
We received cards from Evergreen House, Margret Fulton Centre, and the North Shore Hospice. Letters from Cedarview Lodge and Kiwanis Care Centre. All the letters and cards expressed many thanks and appreciation for the beautiful quilts. As we delivered the quilts to the Intensive Care Nursery at LGH, all the staff and the two moms present were over joyed to see us stating that Childrens Hospital gets so much and they were glad to receive these for the North Shore babes!
Our first prize winner was Gabbie Kwan of Edgemont Village in North Vancouver. Gabbie visited our show on Saturday with friends, and was absolutely thrilled that she won first prize. She choose the blue & white quilt and informed me that she has recently been re-decorating and the quilt will go lovely in her living room – she said she may even hang the quilt! Gabbie is pictured with her new quilt!
Doree Piercy, Val Jeffery and Dolores Bell decided to use some of their leftover scraps to see if they could make some reasonably pleasing quilts. They had so much fun that they thought a weekend event open to all guild members should be held to make quilts for North Shore facilities. So Doree contacted several potential recipients. Dolores booked the Lucas Centre and organized the first Community Quilt Workshop with the help of Val, Renata Doerfert and Shirley Mortell. Fifty members made 35 bed quilts.
This was in 1992 and while I don’t have the exact number it appears almost 2000 !!! quilts have been donated to a number of good causes since then.
At the May meeting, it will be your last chance to purchase a book of quilt raffle tickets, for advance sales to your family and friends prior to the quilt show in June.
For the 2014 Raffle Quilts, four Guild members volunteered their time in the making of the raffle quilts in addition to the quilt ticket sales. We commenced our preparations in March 2013 and decided to make two lap or, as we like to call them “nap” quilts.
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