What to Bring to a Meeting

Ancaster Quilter’s Guild

Welcome to the Fall and what a beautiful start we had. I

regret that I will not be at the meeting in October as I

love the patterns of our guest speaker and would really like to see her trunk show. Sue Lusted has kindly agreed

to run the meeting in my stead.

However, one of our members, Cathy Roberts, organizes cruise groups and she has a large group going to Bermu-

da in mid-October. We depart from Boston so my hus-

band and two of our friends are going to Boston for four days before the cruise. I should also mention that anoth-

er of our members, Denise McKenna, has designed and will teach an exclusive pattern for a wall quilt which we

will work on during our sea days.

We are still in need of two volunteers to help run our

guild. We need a vice-president and a membership ap-prentice. Please consider these positions and how they

might fit into your life! See you in November!

Name Tag

Show and Tell

Coffee cup, lug a mug

Money for 50/50,

Library books to return

Note our meetings are fra-

grance free

Money for UFO/Workshops

Note that cell phones should

be turned off or to vibrate

Executive President – Joanne Beard

Vice-President –

Secretary Martha Forbes

Treasurer – Cathy Pinelli

Membership Secretary – Janet Hockley, Martha

Forbes( assisting)

Program Co-ordinator – Janet Hockely

Workshop –Janice Leverton, Wendy Dalrymple

Library –, Leslie Wickendon, Penny Nijisse, Ann

Roy, Elizabeth Rosser, Mary Louuse Duncan

Block of the Month – Jackie Syer

Social Co-ordinators – Joan Barron, and Linda

Clugston

Comfort Quilts – Mary Crowe, Janet Shannon Col-

leen Dawson, Linda Ryan

VON Placemats –Brenda Lupton/

Draw Prizes – Patricia Ryckman- Fleming

50/50 – Joan Wilkins,

Webpage –Susan Lusted

Advertising- Susan Lusted

Newsletter – Susan Lusted

President’s Message

Webpage: http://www.ancasterquilters.com/home

October 2014 Email : aqgmembers@outlook.com

Doors open at 6:15 Meeting starts at 7:00

Third Wednesday of each month

St. John’s Old Parish Hall 37 Halson Street, Ancaster

A hearty thank you from Margaret Gibbs

for the personal quilt respect our Septem-ber white glove gals who assisted with

my presentation, Jackie Syer for tabling the quilts and also to (Debbie) Tammy for

helping with the folding and packing up of

my quilts to go home.

Much appreciated, Margaret (Gibbs)

Programme

Our October lecturer is Sherri Hisey from Border Creek Station Pattern Company in Newmarket, On-

tario.

The lecture trunk show topic: Borders and Settings:

Are you ready to set those blocks into a design of your own? The importance of balance in a quilt’s visual

space, how to keep it simple when decoding the math

and some basic rules of thumb of quilt designing. Get-ting it all together in a unique and personal way is key

to Sherri’s distinctive teaching style – there is always a way to process your creative thoughts and ideas into a

finished project just let your imagination soar! Includes

a multi-page handout for all. Sherri will have many patterns to sell and is also bring-

ing a limited number of patterned kits ready to cut and sew. Sit back and enjoy, I know Sherri has lots of in-

formative ideas and suggestions to help you make your quilts a show piece.

Our white glove ladies for October are Barb Gibson, Sue Lusted and Margaret Gibbs. A BIG THANK YOU to

Gisela Ball, Karin Romanowski and Jackie Syer for hold-ing the many quilts from S & T and our two ladies

Janice and Marg who shared their quilt journey with

us. Great job, my arms ache thinking about it. I will be circulating the list again, there are some empty spaces

for one more helper and three blanks the months of December & June for Show & Tell only.

Janet Hockley Program Director

905-304-0257

Membership

Ladies what a turn out for our first meeting in 2014 -

2015 year with 96 people in the hall - 10 of whom were

guests so yes our wait list has started to grow again. I'd like to extend my congratulations to Ann Hewitt our

winner of the free membership draw - Cathy Pinelli has a

cheque for you.

We have a few little tweaks on our membership list: I missed Messier, Margaret; email:margarethmessier@g

mail.com living @ 99 Cloverleaf Dr. ANC L9K 1S2 phone

905- 335-4593; Cathy Roberts phone # ends in 0557; Rena Mahler phone # has changed to 289-456-8398;

and Irene Puzinas can be reached @ 905-639-5173. Keep up the good work of signing in as you come

through the door this helps immensely if we ever had to evacuate in a hurry.

We are still looking for someone to volunteer to take over as Membership Chairperson sooooooo if you feel

the urge to get involved call myself or Susan Lusted @ 905-945-0027 or slusted@hotmail.com

Janet Hockley Membership Chairperson 905-304-0257

hockljk@hotmail.ca

If you are willing to help at the Membership table please

see me as there is a need for an assistant Chairperson

for a two year term.

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Show and Share Ladies who had S & T for us were: Martha Forbes - Guild Mystery 2014 and Wonky

Stars Colleen Dawson - 4 comfort quilts

Denise Warrick - throw quilt Chris Forster - an enormous Dear Jane Sampler

Rena Mahler - To Grandma's for Christmas and Rob-

in Morris Betty Kerman - Watermelon picnic

Visual Quilt Block Library :

http://genxquilters.com/p/quilt-block-library.html

Modern Day Quilt Guild– 100 Days of Modern Quilting

http://themodernquiltguild.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/100-days-of-modern-quilting-wrap-up/

Just Sew You Know!!!

Page 3 Webpage: http://www.ancasterquilters.com/home

Quilting Fabrics

Notions

Machine Quilting

Block of the Month

Kits

356 Wilson Street East, Ancaster

905-304-0180

thequiltrack@sympatico.ca - www.thequiltrack.ca

Block of the Month October 2014 Your October instructions are ready for pick up at the BOM table.

I wish and IF you wish......bring your September blocks for all to see! We can do a pin up on the board behind the BOM desk.

Rolling along nicely, the November block has been

chosen....

Jackie Syer

Snack Ladies For October Susan Lusted, Barb Gibson, Margaret Gibbs,

Jill Walton, Karin Romanowski, Jane Waye,

Thanks, Linda Clugston

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Workshops and UFO Dates

Good day ladies. Workshops are coming along nicely. Wen-

dy and I are working on a few ideas, as we confirm them we

will certainly pass them along. Our next UFO days are Octo-

ber 24 and 25. Need help with a project, looking for a new

idea, or just looking for a break from housework , well join

us and have a fun filled day for $15 or $30 for both days .

We still have room available so please pass this information

along to your friends and quilting buddies, the more the mer-

rier. Please remember we have changed the format it is a "

BAG LUNCH " day, so no need to stress over what to bring,

refreshments will be provided, hopefully this will make things

easier and our numbers will be filled to the max.

Also remember the special UFO day being held at U Quilt It

on November 21st. Wendy and I are visiting Sara to obtain

more information for you on the pro-

gram. If you have EQ7 and are having

problems sorting everything out then

this is for you. Visit our table at guild to

get more details.

See you on the 15th

Janice and Wendy

Page 5 Webpage: http://www.ancasterquilters.com/home

Upcoming Shows

Fabric of our Lives Quilt Show—Oct. 24—25, 2014—Brant Heritage Quilt Guild, Brantford, ON (see ad on p. 8)

World of Threads Festival Oakville, Ontario

Saturday November 1 - Sunday November 30, 2014

Monday-Saturday 10:00 am to 6:00 pm. Sunday 12:00 noon to 5:00 pm. CONTACT INFO FOR DAWNE RUDMAN

Contact: Dawne Rudman Phone: 905 844-6524

Email: dawne@worldofthreadsfestival.com

Comfort Quilts Well ladies, I must tell you that I was a bit nervous on Wednesday, I really wasn’t sure how the

“complete” quilt kits would go over and as always your response was overwhelming. Colleen, Lynda, Teresa, and I want to thank you all so much.

We also want to thank Penny for the lovely cross-stitch blocks, Pat for the pillowcases and Betty for

the lovely quilts and of course we want to thank our long-armers…Mary Macfarlane for the beautiful

bed quilts she completed over the summer and Mark Ryan for the beautiful work he did on 5 of our bed quilts, and he has generously offered to quilt the last of our bed quilts.

Jackie, thank you for your ongoing support of Comfort Quilts, with you heading up the pillow case

production, I’m sure we’ll surpass what we’ve done in previous years. Thank you and I’ve already

signed up and looking forward to the December “pillow-case-a-thon”

Ladies, it looks like another wonderful year is well under way…..and remember we’re looking to get the quilts back in October or November, thank-you.

Mary, Colleen, Lynda and Teresa

VON Placemats Placemats are a great way to practise new

quilting techniques or using up your orphan

blocks. We know that the placemats are

greatly appreciated by those who receive

them. Let’s keep this programme the success

it has always been. Donate a placemat by

the December meeting .

Rena, Sam and Brenda.

This is becoming a popular item on our agenda. Bring your projects and

then you can Brag!!!

The sign in book for Show and Share is at the membership table and you

can sign in there.

Many thanks to all or our members

who bring their finished products to share with us!!!!

See the list on page 2.

Caring Cards Remember to send the name of members to whom a caring

card should be sent. Please

send this information to Janet Shannon at wshan-

non1@cogeco.ca or 905 975-5894

Show and Share

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DRAW PRIZE WINNERS

Collected $154.00 Winners, Joan Barron, Rena Mahler, Mary MacFarlane, Ann Thomson, Sheila Noble-Cree,

Debbe Durham

FIFTY FIFTY DRAW WINNER

Collected $150.00 -- winner -- Joanne Beard - $75.00

Thank you to all who donated prizes!!

Ancaster Fair Report:

Well the fair is over and oh what fun we had and the kids too! We had

prepared 420 squares for pictures, drawings, words etc. We have

most of the blanks filled in ready for assembly and sewing. We have

seen many budding artists of all age range 2-16.

We'd like to say Thank You to all our helpers who made the day a suc-

cess especially Ivy Smart, Louise Zylstra (my niece), Roseanne

Histed, Louise Duthie, Catherine Schuler, and Dianne Thomas.

We have enough material in our stash to keep our squares going for

2015 and 2016 fair so be prepared to volunteer some time at the fair.

Until then have fun sewing.

Janet Hockley, Janet Shannon

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Links for Quilt Guilds

http://www.canadianquilter.com/

professionals/shops.php

Brant Heritage Quilt Guild

Burlington Quilters Society

Common Thread Quilt Guild

Dufferin Piecemakers Quilting Guild

Halton Quilters Guild

Hamilton Quilters Guild

Kincardine Sunset Quilters’ Guild

London Friendship Quilter’s Guild

Ottawa Valley Quilters Guild

Prince Edward County Quilters Guild

Sudbury Quilting and Stitchery Guild

Waterloo County Quilters’ Guild

We have set December 5 as a day to sew pillowcases. We need:

Fabric cut 42 inches by 31 inches

As many pieces as you can glean from your stash

Please bring to our October meeting

One sergrer operator with serger for December 5th

Five sewing machine operators with machines for December 5

Three ironing board pressers, just be here to help for the day

Any thread you can donate, remainder to be re-turned.

Any volunteers, please see Janice Leverton at the Workshop table.

With Thanks,

Jackie Syer

PILLOWCASE-A-THON

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Library Report October 2014

Congratulations everyone; all summer book loans were returned at the September meeting. We have had a number of books do-

nated and these will be reviewed for additions to our library or

offered for sale. We do have one new book this month SCRAPPY FIREWORK

QUILTS BY EDYTA SITAR. This year we will be hi-lighting some of our collection each month. This month will be our Kaffe Fas-

sett collection. Look for it on the display shelf at the back of the

cases.

Your library committee Library Committee Ann Roy, Leslie Wickendon, Elizabeth Rosser,

Penny Nijisse,

Shop Hop Reminders!!! October 20th Time: please be at the Parish Hall by 8:15

Due to time constraints, we cannot wait for stragglers

No food or drink on the bus

NO REFUNDS WILL BE ISSUED!!!