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west anneli #5
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Round and Round We Go cropped
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Mary McKenzie Presents at the April 2025 Meeting

Please join us on Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 1:00 p.m. at the Vittoria Community Centre.

Mary McKenzie Presents her Trunk Show “My Journey into Art Quilts” at the April Meeting

Mary will share her source of inspiration, some of the quilt artists she admires and the different techniques she uses to achieve the desired results.

She has been quilting since 1999. In these 25 years, she has learned much from fellow guild members, guest speakers and their workshops and most recently through online learning.

Her favorite quilting pastime is creating landscapes and abstract quilts.

Find out more about the rest of this year’s presenters here.

President’s Challenge March Blocks

The March Blocks are ready for you.

Have fun with these.

Block 8

Block 9

Blocks of the Month – March 2025

“The Art Haus” BOM is led by Barb Green.

This wall hanging quilt is designed by Jamie Fingal and the finished size is 23½” x 29”. It uses different techniques such as paper piecing, regular piecing and appliqué.
BOM The Art Haus Quilt photo

“Women of Courage” BOM is led by Donna Bethune.

This large quilt finishes size at 98” x 98” and was designed by Denice Lipscomb.

Find information and April instructions on this year’s BOMs here.

Blooming Nine Patch Workshop

Louise Hamilton will lead us in the Blooming Nine Patch Table Runner Workshop.

This table runner is made from beginner blocks – squares and nine patch blocks – that are set on point. Part of the magic of this pattern is how the fabric appears to blend together in some of the rows. It’s fun to learn how your fabric choices can lead to more or less fabric blending. Striped fabric or other directional fabrics won’t blend as well as solids and prints.

Louise is a member of NCQG.

Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2025, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Doors open at 8:30 a.m.

Location: Vittoria District Community Centre.

Maximum number of participants: 25

Registration Fee: members $35.00

To sign up, go here.

President’s Challenge – 2024-25

As mentioned at the Guild Meeting, each month we will be issuing a new block to complete.  Each block will consist of nine 6” squares (finished size).  Each final Block will measure 18.5” x 18.5” (unfinished).

Your fabrics (both feature and background) can be one fabric, a crumb fabric that you have sewn, or many fabrics for a scrappy look.  Have fun!

You will be sewing one large block, as described above, and a second block (same design) that measures

6.5” x 6.5” (unfinished).  Think carefully where you want to place this small, second block before you make the large block.  This second block will replace one of the nine 6” squares of the large block. 

When you choose the fabrics for the smaller block, think carefully about your design.  It could look exactly like the large block, or you could change the fabric placements.  You could change the colours in this block to draw your eye to it.

Accuquilt Go! Big Fabric Cutter Equipment

This equipment is located at the Simcoe Public Library in the Maker Space.

The NCQG and TQG were instrumental in having this equipment installed at the Library in 2019.

Recently new dies and new cutting mats were purchased by the library.

Benefits:

  • 6 layers of fabric can be cut at a time on each die.
  • There is no Shoulder or hand strain from cutting.
  • There are no dog ears for pieces such as Flying Geese, as they are pre-trimmed. This helps with accuracy.

The link to an 8-minute video tutorial on YouTube – AccuQuiltGo Big Electric Cutter (dated September 2014) is here.

Find more information (Cutting Reference List and List of Available Dies) under the Resources tab on the Guild’s website.

Community Outreach

Our Guild has been able to donate quilts and many other items to the Children’s Aid Society of Haldimand & Norfolk, Haldimand & Norfolk Women’s Services, Haldimand-Norfolk Reach (Union House) and Norfolk Pregnancy & Family Resource Centre again this year. Thanks to all those who were able to contribute.

To see more information, go here.

 

 

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