The Weyburn Crocus Quilt Guild had its first meeting of the 2023-2024 year on September 5. There were about 29 members present, plus about 6 members on Zoom. Plans for the year were reported.
The guest presenter was Angela of “Gypsy Soul Fabrics” in Estevan. She demonstrated Paper Piecing and she showed some of her beautiful paper piecing in the wall hangings below. The patterns are from “Legitkits”. What beautiful flowers!
And Angela’s “Blue Jay” is absolutely delightful!
Angela also brought items for sale from her “Pop-up” store. Some of the members enjoyed an opportunity to shop.
Show and Tell
We all look forward to seeing what our members have been working on and thank you to the members who shared their quilting!
A few of our members went on a quilt bus tour in Newfoundland in June and they had a wonderful time. Colleen shared some pictures of the house blocks that they made for a charity quilt that will be raffled to raise funds to assist with the restoration of the historic settlement of Trinity, Newfoundland.
The red house block was created by Colleen. This is a biscuit box style house seen in Newfoundland. In the background there is an iceberg floating in the bay.
The next block is a lighthouse block created by Bonnie. The lighthouse we saw at Cape Bonavista was painted red and white with stripes running vertically. Bonnie’s stripes run horizontally, and like many of the lighthouses, it is red and white.
The third block is a yellow house created by Shelley G. This is another biscuit box style house. She used some decorative stitches to depict the dandelions that were everywhere.
Peggy made three blocks for this quilt. One of her blocks is the lighthouse below and she used 1 1/8 inch squares to make her block! Her other two blocks are of a church (with stained glass windows), and one block of a blue biscuit box style house.
Below is the Quilt top pieced together with all of the house blocks from the other members on the Newfoundland tour. A lady from Ontario pieced the 12 inch blocks, and another Ontario lady will do the longarm quilting prior to sending it to Trinity for their fundraiser. Can you spot the six blocks pieced by our four Guild members?
Colleen showed a picture of a bargello wall hanging that she created for her sister. The pattern is called “Twisted Bargello” by Chris Timmins. Her sister picked three fabrics in colours she liked, and Colleen filled in the rest of the fabrics. There are 21 fabrics in this wall hanging. Colleen long-arm quilted it with the digital design “Drifting Sands” This wall hanging now lives in Halifax, NS.
Leanne showed her rainy harvest weather project, a pretty baby quilt in pinks and purples. She did the quilting by using the green painter’s tape method to do the straight quilting lines, as can be seen on the pink backing.
Leanne also showed more of her rainy harvest weather projects: a huge number of lovely Christmas gift bags. She used a variety of fabrics and she made a large selection of different sizes of bags. These environmentally friendly bags can be used over and over!
Mary Jane made a table runner to match her home. She found the pattern in a magazine. Angela from Gypsy Soul Fabrics did the quilting for her.
Charlene has been busy sewing buttons! She got this pattern from the “Missouri Star Christmas Box” and there are 146 buttons! Charlene also made the pillow to go inside the pillow cover.
Charlene also made the lovely moose wall hanging that is appliqued.
Using the 60 Degree Ruler, Charlene pieced and quilted the pretty table runner below. She purchased the fabric on her trip to Three Sisters last year.
Charlene showed her lovely wall hanging, “Delectable Mountain”. She found the pattern in a magazine and she bought all the fabric in Crosby. She had started the project before Covid, and then was able to finish it this year after the border crossing opened! Terry Whitman did the longarm quilting using a leaf design.
Jaynie will be participating in “Art Now” at the Hansen Ross House booth in Regina in September. This will be the first time that she will have her work at this event so she is really looking forward to it. What beautiful landscape quilting! Jaynie painted and quilted the fabric, and then glued it to the wooden frames.
Happy Quilting, everyone, and enjoy the fall weather!
Our next meeting will be October 3! Hope to see you then!
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