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Online Regional Reports Summer 2017 Yukon Territory Vivian Bales Yukon quilters have been very productive and creative this spring! KLUANE QUILTERS’ GUILD held a reception April 1 st at the Yukon Transportation Museum in Whitehorse, Yukon to kick off their exhibit titled “Threads of Our Yukon River”. The 21-foot collaborative art piece about the Yukon river commemorates Canada’s 150 th birthday. The exhibit is on display and open to viewers at the Yukon Transportation Museum through December 2017. Dahn Casselman, Vice President of the Kluane Quilters Guild with Joanne Love (right). Dahn and Joanne spearheaded this special project. Diane Paquett-Eyolfson Gillian McGee

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Online Regional Reports

Summer 2017

Yukon Territory

Vivian Bales

Yukon quilters have been very productive and creative this spring!

KLUANE QUILTERS’ GUILD held a reception April 1st at the Yukon Transportation

Museum in Whitehorse, Yukon to kick off their exhibit titled “Threads of Our Yukon River”. The 21-foot collaborative art

piece about the Yukon river commemorates Canada’s 150th birthday. The exhibit is on display and open to viewers at

the Yukon Transportation Museum through December 2017.

Dahn Casselman, Vice President of the Kluane Quilters Guild with

Joanne Love (right). Dahn and Joanne spearheaded this special

project.

Diane Paquett-Eyolfson

Gillian McGee

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A partial view of the exhibit.

PINE TREE QUILTERS (Whitehorse) continue to meet once a month for meetings with a Bar-b-que Potluck Finale to close

the year in June. Dorothy Burke hosted this year’s finale. This year’s challenge, “PNS” Projects Not Started was

completed with show and tell.

Pine Tree Quilters were also busy with an extra special project this spring. Long-time member, Shelagh Pollack was

remembered and honoured when PTQ members created quilts for the chemo room at the local Whitehorse General

Hospital. The quilts included fabric from Shelagh’s collection which her family made available to PTQ. Backings and

battings were purchased by PTQ with the help of a donation from Shelagh’s family and a generous discount provided by

Ruth Headley, PTQ member and owner of our local quilt shop, Bear’s Paw Quilts. The April retreat was dedicated to

working on these quilts and PTQ was able to

produce 35+ quilts which were then presented to

the Pollack family and representatives of

Whitehorse General Hospital at the May meeting.

Whitehorse General Hospital representatives with

Shelagh’s daughter (center) and husband (right).

PineTree Quilters with the finished quilts for the Whitehorse General

Hospital chemo room.

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Display of the quilts for the Whitehorse General Hospital.

QUILTERS WITHOUT BORDERS (Whitehorse) continues to meet every Thursday at Bears Paw Quilts for a day of piecing and

quilting. This generous group of ladies provide quilts to Yukon individuals and families in need. In the past quilts have

gone to the local teen parent center and those who have been affected by family or property loss. These ladies have

big hearts!

BC Interior

Catherine Henderson

THE AFTER 7'S SEW N SEWS (Vernon) completed 9 quilts and donated them to Bill’s Place, a

local recovery house for men. In addition, 15 blocks were collected and added to create two completed quilts for Canada’s Big Quilt Bee. We hold our wrap up dinner mid-June and our workshop committee will meet during the summer to plan for the upcoming year.

ARMSTRONG QUILTERS had a very busy year with a workshop and a sewing evening each month as well as a couple of

sewing days. We produced sufficient blocks to make 13 quilts for Canada’s Big Quilt Bee. All were sewed into tops, quilted, bound and delivered early this year. Several more blocks came in and then we completed a few more! In addition, we all made a block for a queen size charity quilt and due to recent flooding, we have finished 5 lap quilts for residents of an assisted living facility that were forced to relocate temporarily. As we head into summer we have two challenges to work on for our upcoming inaugural quilt show in early November. .

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Armstrong Quilters: Judy Glaicar, Marie Freeman-Marsh, Yvette Richoux, and Carol Cooney (standing) Debbie Williams and Kirstin Hemsing (seated) with the quilts they donated to a recently flooded out care facility.

FERNIE QUILT GUILD has 25 members. This past year they had 3 major workshops funded by earnings from their hosting of

East Kootenay Quilt Conference last year. The first was on how to make a French Rose quilt using the raw edge applique technique and was offered by Tammy Howard of Sugar Town Quilts. Many members have completed one of these lovely projects from this workshop. The second was given by one of our members Martha Penner who is a certified instructor for renowned quilt designer, Judy Neimeyer. The designs are complex and challenging, but excellent instruction supported each quilter’s individual growth. The third was a thread workshop given by Donna Kendall, an instructor from Alberta, who had participants explore the properties and uses of different types of thread, from the utilitarian to the decorative. Fernie Quilt Guild made and donated quilts to Hospice Society (8 quilts) Social Services (14 quilts) and Rotary’s Wrap-A- Smile initiative (3 quilts). Our members are very generous!

OSOYOOS QUILTERS GUILD’S regular season wound up in May with a potluck luncheon & an interesting trunk show by three

of our members. One very special quilt was shown by Elaine Young whose daughters & granddaughters had made the surprise gift for her 50th wedding anniversary. Osoyoos Guild is blessed each winter to have snowbird ladies come to

town & join our activities during their stay. This year we had 25 come & go. These ladies bring & share their ideas from their home guilds & contribute greatly to our program & projects.

Elaine Young with her surprise 50th Anniversary Quilt

Saying farewell at our potluck luncheon to our Osoyoos snowbirds who we hope to see next year.

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In addition to our regular care quilts program we took on some extra special projects - 26 lap size quilts were made for

clients of the South Okanagan Community Living Society. These were given as Christmas gifts & the clients loved them!

Many blocks were made to put into the Canada 150 quilts for the CQA. One completed quilt has been delivered by a

member travelling to Vancouver & another to Nova Scotia. More blocks & 6 completed quilts were given to a CQA

representative in Kelowna for Ronald McDonald House. Each year a child’s quilt is donated to a fundraiser which is held

in Kelowna. The funds generated are donated to Canuck Place in Vancouver. Being enthusiastic & learning of a need for

36 inch square baby quilts for the Kelowna General Hospital NICU the members took up the challenge and have delivered

45 little quilts. The final event each year is the presentation of a special baby quilt to the Roots of Empathy program at our

local school. Two quilt shows were held in Osoyoos this past winter, a one day show for large quilts in December & a

three week show at The Art Gallery Osoyoos in February. Funds generated from a quilt raffle held in conjunction with the

quilt shows allows the guild to continue their commitment of care quilts to the community of Osoyoos. Time now for our

members to enjoy the Okanagan summer & look forward to meeting again in September when the quilting fun begins

anew. No doubt the show & tell will be filled with things made over the summer months.

ORCHARD VALLEY QUILTERS GUILD (Kelowna) ran three high school outreach programs this year, with 15-24 students

participating in each session and made quilts for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Kelowna General Hospital. As

of May7th, we had donated 602 items to local charities (321 quilts, 255 Christmas stockings, and 26 sun hats).

May 30th was the official end to our guild season and another lovely party -- Make and Take, PHD (projects half done)

Draw, Basket Raffle, a delicious lunch and an entertaining and informative trunk show by Penticton's Dianne Birney. The

guild recognized Margaret Englert for her significant contribution of donation quilts over many years.

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To commemorate Canada 150 a talented group designed, pieced, and appliqued a quilt entitled Women Shaping our

Nation, 30 women who made significant contributions to Canadian history.

Our summer challenge is Our Canadian Mosaic, a quilted piece (three layers) illustrating what Canada means to you. The

finished pieces will be assembled as a mosaic wall and will be displayed at our quilt show "Binding Canada Together: One

Quilt at a Time" in September.

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VERNON SILVER STAR QUILTERS reached a record, 191 members this year! We have 23 lifetime members (over the age of

80) and another 23 new members this year. Our popular Newcomers Subgroup looks after the newbies each year. Newcomers are paired up with an MLS (member of longer standing) and they work on name badges and bag making workshops, have block making sessions, road trips and their own potluck luncheon and coffee event with the executive. By the end of their first year, newcomers feel well integrated and are often the first to fill needed volunteer roles in their second year.

This past quilt year, in addition to their numerous workshops, the guild produced 145 charity quilts that were distributed to the community. In addition, since January, when the call went out to make blocks for the CQA/ACC Big Quilt Bee, along with contributions from the Armstrong After 7 Sew’ N Sews, Absolutely Obsessed and Wine Country Quilters, our

guild produced another 59 quilts for Ronald McDonald House. Many thanks to an anonymous donor who provided 4 large quilts for the cause!

Vernon Silver Star Quilters and area groups’ quilts for Ronald McDonald House. Photo credit: Marlene Lawrence

Alberta

Kathi Ewen

BLACK GOLD QUILT PATCH GUILD (Leduc) Our guild has had a very full and busy spring. We

have grown to 65 members and 1 associate member, meeting the first Wednesday each

month, Sept. - June. Our Program Committee does an outstanding job of planning special

presentations for each meeting – we have enjoyed many different speakers, games and demonstrations, all geared to

our love of fabric and quilting.

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The Friendship Quilt Committee, heading up our charity quilts, reported these amazing numbers for the 2016 year.

Wow!!! Children’s Heart Society -------------------------120 quilts donated

The Stollery (I Spy) ---------------------------------32 quilts donated Family & Child Services --------------------------- 87 quilts donated TOTAL for 2016 ------------------------------------ 249 quilts donated The committee meets once a month at the Leduc Alliance Church where members work together or complete them at home. Our guild also provided just over 300 quilts to the Fort McMurray fire victims. Over 200 of these were completed by our guild members. We thank the guilds, individuals and long-armers in the surrounding communities for donating quilts and helping complete the

remainder, and the quilt shops and individuals that donated fabrics. We had the privilege of distributing over 200 of these quilts to the families; the remainder we entrusted to the Quilts for Fort McMurray group.

March saw the guild being invited to participate in Canada Big Quilt Bee that is taking place at Quilt Canada 2017. We began our journey into "Slab Quilting" at a workshop on March 25th to support the CQA/ACC making quilts for Ronald McDonald Houses across Canada. After the workshop, there were over 100 blocks completed. Many of these blocks were then made into tops and then into quilts. There ended up being 6 completed quilts, 6 completed tops and 51 single quilt blocks. That is a total of 199 blocks completed by May 15. Lots of exciting plans are underway for our biennial quilt show scheduled for this fall. Expressions from the Heart – “Proudly Canadian” is the theme this year. We’re very pleased and excited to announce that the Black Gold Quilt Patch Guild will be holding its biennial Quilt Show at the Leduc Recreation Centre (LRC). The show will be held in the Field House with the display of quilts, a merchants’ mall, and demonstrations. In celebration of Canada’s 150th birthday we will also be featuring the All Beings Confluence hosted by Martha Cole. The four quilts featured in the photo will be raffled Saturday afternoon. Tickets are $5.00 each and are now available from members. Forty percent of the proceeds will be going to help fund the new CT scanner at the Leduc Hospital, sixty percent will stay with the guild. 2017 Quilt Show Date and Times: Friday, October 13: 12 - 7 pm Saturday, October 14: 9:00 am - 4 pm. Location: Leduc Recreation Centre, 4330 Black Gold Drive, Leduc, AB Please also see our Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/Black-Gold-Quilt-Patch-578576952154905/ for announcements and additional information.

COCHRANE QUILTERS' GUILD is hosting a Quilt Show on Friday, Oct. 13 from 4-8 PM and Saturday, Oct. 13 from 10 AM - 5 PM at

Frank Wills Hall, 405 1st St. E., Cochrane. Admission $5, including refreshments. The theme is Canada 150 - Celebrate!

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HEARTS AND HANDS QUILTERS’ GUILD (Drayton Valley) had a very

busy spring with various workshops including construction of a

Professional Bag and a fibre arts project entitled Birds of

Wisdom.

We were very pleased to make slab blocks

for CQA/ACC’s Big Quilt Bee and the Ronald

MacDonald Houses. Our small guild

completed six quilts.

Our Annual General Meeting and Election of

Officers took place in May followed by a

delightful potluck in June to conclude our

final meeting of the year. Many of our

members will spend a part of their summer

travelling and camping. Regular meetings will resume in

September. However, members are still encouraged to

bring their projects and work on them during the Wednesday Drop In over the summer. It is a great time to work and

chat.

Our Planning Committee will be busy over the summer planning another exciting year of demos and workshops.

MANNING QUILTERS hosted a two-day quilt show April 28-29.

The winners of the many prizes were –

Best of Show (Rosette) Joyce Vos---" As Time Goes By"

King, Queen, Double -- Olga Yasinski-- "Melinda's Heart" Twin, Lap-- Nonie Forrest---"Stratford Cross" Baby__Carol Knauft---"Zoey's Zoo" Project Quilt---Katie Dillman--"Northern View" (Canadiana) Large Wall hanging-- Carol Knauft-- "Spring Wagon" Small Wall hanging-- Janice Nemecz-- "Fall of Plenty" Miscellaneous-- Kim Enders--"Puff Dog Bed"

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PIECEMAKERS QUILT GUILD (Calgary) - A guild that started with 6 has now

grown to 130 members. We celebrated our 25th anniversary with a quilt

show & tea. Members were invited to share their quilts for all to see. The

venue was the Scarboro United Church, with the sun shining through its

beautiful stained-glass windows. The quilts, all 150 of them, were draped

over the pews, providing a fabulous display that drew many compliments.

Tea and coffee were served in the downstairs hall, allowing visitors to linger

and catch up with friends. Guild members provided a variety of treats, and

several of the ladies worked in shifts to

serve. On proud display was our

Anniversary Quilt, designed by member

Charlene Shaw, which was raffled

within the guild (winner’s name drawn at our AGM in June).

We also celebrated our anniversary with a special President’s

Challenge. Members were encouraged to submit a 24”x24” quilted

item containing something silver (coins, jewellery, lame, silverware,

bobbins, whatever the imagination can dream) and to have 25 of

something (squares, HSTs, etc.). Prizes were awarded at the AGM in

June.

We filled in the year with such activities as Block of the Month,

presentations from the Alzheimer’s Society of Calgary (fidget quilts)

and Knitted Knockers of Alberta. Charity quilt days were held for Hull

Homes and the Domestic Violence Unit of the Calgary Police Service.

Four workshops were provided for members, as well as a fall retreat

and a spring retreat. And finally, many of our members volunteered time and entered quilts in the Festival of Quilts at

Heritage Park at the end of May. A beautiful display of almost 700 quilts throughout the park.

A successful year complete, we look forward to another 25.

THE QUILTED MOUSE (Calgary) - The Quilted Mouse has been busy this year. We meet twice a month, September to

June, to work on our own quilts as well as special member-led projects. This year we made patchwork circle bags, spicy

table runners, beaded buttons, folded star potholders, project bags and small bargello wall hangings. Our April sew-day

was dedicated to making slab blocks for the CQA/ACC Big Quilt Bee.

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For the second year running, one of our members had the honour of being the Quilter of Distinction at the Festival of

Quilts in Heritage Park. Trudy Cowan displayed a comprehensive collection of her quilts, ranging from that “first quilt” to

more recent creative and inspiring art pieces., and spent long hours explaining how she achieved such life-like effects.

Our annual quilt show in June featured the Alphabet Challenge, where each quilter portrayed a letter or punctuation

mark – and a wide variety of colours and techniques were employed.

Part of our Quilted Alphabet Challenge

We also had a “Stampede of Elephants” made by both guild members and friends. Many of the quilts then went on

display at the Fish Creek Library for two weeks.

We finished the year with a potluck lunch, and presented the Viewers’ Choice Rosette to Marilyn Samuels for

“Relentless” – an art quilt inspired by a trip to Churchill, MB to view polar bears.

TOFIELD COUNTRY QUILTERS had a busy year which culminated in our quilt show July 1-2, as part of our town’s celebration

of Canada’s sesquicentennial.

We began the year with the grand reveal of our round robin projects from the previous year, and were soon involved in

classes – a charm quilt and two table runners – each taught by one of our members. During winter and spring, charity

work took precedence. Many hours were devoted to sewing for Days for Girls and completing 20 “slab quilts” to

contribute to Ronald McDonald Houses under the auspices of CQA/ACC which will be distributing these quilts, and

hopefully 980 others, since their goal is 1000.

New this year, monthly two-hour mystery projects were taught by the planning committee. We all enjoyed the element

of surprise and all went home from these classes with a new skill and a completed project.

A group shop hop in March helped us top up our stashes in preparation for our biennial quilt show July 1-2, when our

2017 group challenge – hangings made up of exactly 150 squares (representing the sesquicentennial) were hung for

viewers’ choice.

VERMILION QUILT GUILD celebrated it’s 20th anniversary this year.

Back in 1997, after the opening of quilt shop ExtraOrdinary Extras, a group of women began to gather to share ideas and make quilts, growing to the point where membership numbers these days average between 35 – 40 members.

In 2001, we decided to formalize and became a guild complete with executive, by-laws and program committee. We currently meet twice a month in a large space to sew, share ideas and skills, and of course, to show everyone our finished projects. Our guild meets from September to April, culminating each May with a show of the year’s work.

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And we are a very productive group! The annual quilt show displays hundreds of items reflecting ever-expanding skill in colour, design, and technique. There have been colour washes, trips around the world, log cabins, bargellos, machine embroidery and row by row quilts. We have seen hand and machine applique, strip piecing, hand dyed fabrics; each year the mix is new and impressive! The program committee introduces new challenges each year which has included Round Robins, Mystery quilts, theme interpretations, Post Card exchanges and more. Teachers have conducted workshops in various topics to further the exploration of new ideas.

But it’s not all about us! Over the years, more than 300 quilts, dozens of pillows and other articles have been lovingly made by our members for the distribution to sick children, the homeless, cancer survivors and various community fundraising campaigns.

Twenty years of creativity, excellent workmanship and generosity shows no signs of slowing down!

Saskatchewan

Jaynie Himsl

Rivers’ Edge Quilters (North Battleford) - Members of R.E.Q. have been very busy since the start of the new year. In February, a challenge was issued to make 150 quilts in honor of Canada's 150th.

Birthday. To date, 50 plus have been made. Some of these will be donated to the Ronald McDonald House in Saskatoon while others will be donated to various charitable organizations in our local communities. Most of the completed ones are Lap-size & have been sewn from fabric donations made to the guild. Others have donated fabric, batting & backing from their personal “stashes” & never seem to run out! We must mention that much time has been donated to fulfill this huge project. Many members participated in classes which were offered to guild members. Classes included “Twisted Bargello, Through the Window, Placemat class, Hunters' Star, Shopping bag class & a Mystery Quilt”. The Superannuated Teachers of Saskatchewan will be holding a fall convention in North Battleford. Members of the guild have been asked to instruct a variety of classes during that time. Because many of us have needed to sort/clean out our “stashes”, we have started a “New-to-you” table at our monthly meetings. Any member may bring items to be given away but must take anything not claimed by others home with them. It has worked quite well & makes all feel better to down-size (despite taking something else home). Election of officers took place in April with the following members elected by acclamation: Chairperson: Leslie MacFarlane. Secretary: Irene Sack, Treasurer: Lyn Tarr, Program Chairs: Irene Greer & Hilda Eberle. Terms of office take effect September 1, 2017 for two years. We ended our regular season with a delicious catered supper in May. A trunk show followed, with members sharing two items each. Some of the items were sewn many years ago & provided an interesting display of how quilting has evolved over the years. We wish you all a safe & healthy summer – but keep a close relationship with your sewing machine.

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SASKATOON QUILT GUILD - Spring seemed to show up early in our part of Saskatchewan with very warm temperatures

arriving in March (of course to be followed by a few chilly weeks before returning to more pleasant climes). Summer

looks promising for languishing at the lake, enjoying the sunshine and attending a variety of activities involving children,

grandchildren and, of course, quilting.

This spring, the afternoon and evening program committees presented a variety of entertaining and learning

opportunities such as: interesting ways to repurpose/transform/upcycle gently used items to give them new life; quilt

finishing demonstrations consisting of mitred corners, mounted canvas and facings, continuous bindings and piping and

enveloping; everything you wanted to know about wool but were afraid to ask; experiences with fibre art in quilting; and

stash-buster quilts. Four guild members also shared their travel stories of their Road to California excursion. A

presentation by Debora Barlow focused on what quilt judges are looking for.

On May 8 Allison Toy of the Make a Wish Saskatchewan Foundation gave a very informative, emotional and inspiring

presentation to the afternoon group about the wishes and dreams of Wish recipients who range in age from three to 17.

She made her own wish known – for the Saskatoon Quilters Guild to provide a quilt for each of the 30 Wish recipients

for 2017. The request was enthusiastically received and accepted with the donation of the first quilt by Linda Beebe.

We also explored the intricate world of Millefiori quilts. Miriam Pyett, Judith Gidluck and Berna Ostapovitch shared

their experiences and techniques for tackling their inspiring projects.

May 29 was the date for a spring Strawberry Social where we got to know a little more about Miriam Pyett, our featured

quilter for the 2017 quilt show. Her Grade 3 teacher commented on her report card “Miriam is a thingmaker”, which

sums up her identity to this day. From paper and glue to fabric and fibre, she is experienced in sewing clothing, knitting,

crocheting, embroidery, cross stitch, crafting dragons and dolls, and more. Miriam made her first quilt in 1988. Her work

is a combination of original designs and a wide variety of published patterns. We look forward to learning more about

Miriam and viewing her wonderful array of quilts and other “things” in her Featured Quilter area at the upcoming quilt

show.

June 8 marks the end of the afternoon program committee’s 150-Day Challenge to celebrate Canada’s 150-year

anniversary. Members were to track their time spent working on fibre and/or thread projects and to submit their hours

into draws that will be made at the June 12 potluck. Tracked time can include: planning the design; choosing or buying

fabric (driving time to the store does not count); pressing; cutting; sewing; ripping seams; machine stitching; hand

stitching; attending workshops; knitting; crocheting; and other activities.

June 12 is our Potluck Wind-Up. At the December potluck the Special Events Committee announced their annual

challenge to be displayed at the June wind-up. This year’s theme is Proverbs. Members are to show how they interpret

their favourite proverb in fabric. The projects are sure to bring out the playfulness and wisdom in both quilter and

viewers, who will have fun guessing which proverb is displayed. Two prizes for Viewer’s Choice will be awarded.

Intent-to-Enter forms are due by June 12 so the quilt show committee can start to plan the display of hundreds of

pieces of eye-candy. Let’s see how many quilts we can expect to see at the October 27-28 Saskatoon Quilters’ Guild

2017 show, Celebrate Changes Over Time.

This year a variety of Guilder Goodies sessions have included many opportunities to learn techniques and projects such as: folded star mat; cutting mat and ruler tote; on-the-go bags; fidget blankets; envelope bags; raw-edge appliqué; getting your show pieces ready for the judge; tuck-it-in wine coasters; and many more.

Guilder Goodies, held throughout the year, are a chance for members to get together the mornings, and sometimes

afternoons, before many of our guild meetings and sew, or to learn a new technique. Sessions may include an instructor

demonstrating a brief technique, or members can bring a project that they would like to work on. Tables are available

for basting projects.

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And finally, a huge congratulation goes out to Eileen Bayda for receiving the Janome Award of Excellence at the Grand

National 2017: Oh! Canada exhibition for her beautiful depiction of her husband’s grandparents’ sod house in her quilt

Is This Where Baba Milked the Cow? Well deserved, Eileen! The Grand National Quilt Show is on exhibit at the Joseph

Schneider Haus National Historic Site in Kitchener, Ontario from May 7 to September 3.

Have a wonderful summer. The Saskatoon Quilters Guild will reconvene on August 28 for another amazing guild year!

TISDALE QUILTERS GROUP had a successful quilt show on April 29, 20017. Viewer’s choice award went to Berneice

Wearing for her bargello quilt in shades of purple to violet with a floral print in those colors. She was awarded the

rosette ribbon from the Canadian Quilters. It was a bedspread size quilt. Pictures from our quilt show were posted on

Facebook. Advertising in the local towns and quilting groups plus the sandwich board signs at important intersections &

streets in Tisdale were a plus. 199 men, women, & children attended. The vendor at the show was Sew Materialistic

from Nipawin. They gave one door prize of a quilting pattern book. There were 3 other door prizes of baskets filled with

personal care items, items related to quilting or sewing, & snack foods. Our group made a sampler quilt with each block

using a piece of the feature fabric & it was raffled off.

We also made a Canada 150th birthday quilt in red & white with the maple leaf blocks made of red scraps from the

members stash. It was gorgeous. Later, it will be presented to the Tisdale Legion for one of their members in

appreciation for that person’s service. Sew Materialistic gave our group a packet of fabric to use for the charity quilts we

make.

Twenty charity quilts were given to the North East Outreach & Support Services in Melfort that day. Shelly Barbour

demonstrated how to make 2 nine patch quilt blocks at a time using 2 nine-inch squares of fabric. She gave out sheets of

instruction. The Wonky House Quilt, made of blocks of different kinds of houses will be presented to the Tisdale Library

to be hung in the childrens’ reading section. Our officers for the new year are president, Marion Squires, vice

president, Helen Gress, Secretary, Eileen Bone, Treasurer, Corry van Haastert, & Mary Reimer, reporter. Submitted by

Mary L. Reimer

New Brunswick

Bev Day

New Brunswick quilters have put on numerous quilt shows across the province. It is wonderful to see the talent we

have!

I am new to this position and look forward to seeing old friends and making new friends as I connect with the various

guilds in the province.

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Nova Scotia

Joan Tufts

HIGHLAND QUILT GUILD (Antigonish)

The Highland Quilt Guild sews for Canada's 150th.