Gather at 7 pm to catch up with friends.
Meeting starts at 7:30 p.m.
Our guest speaker for January is Libbie Burns. Libbie has been wet felting in the "Felted Fibres Studio" in her home for 5 years now. Her projects range from scarves to bags, vests, tunics, hats, tea cozies, felted goats milk soap, and little sheep.
Merino wool fibres are the basis for her projects. Silk fibres, and novelty yarns are used for embellishment. Some pieces use nuno felting techniques on silk chiffon which she hand dyes. Needle felting might complete the odd project.
She will be showing photos and samples from the 2015 Fibre Arts Conference that she attended in Gros Morne Park. Her three day workshop with Liz Clay from the UK was titled " Concepts in Couture". She will also be demonstrating the process of wet felting as it relates to traditional felt work and nuno felting.
Tammy
Thank you to everyone providing our January treats.
It wouldn't be complete without you!
Bonnie Telfer
Marilyn Hadju
Lori Lowes
Lynne Alexander
Mel Armstrong
Sandy Curl-James
President's Message
Happy New Year to each and everyone of you. I hope that you had a wonderful Christmas and New Year’s with lots of time with family and friends. Also I do know you had a little time for quilting.
With the New Year a couple of weeks old, what are your resolutions? Perhaps to complete some UFO’s for the show, start some new projects that are out of your box, learn a new technique or use up your stash.
Whatever your New Year’s resolution or promise to yourself to complete at least one item on your list, I know that as a quilter you will achieve that goal and excel at it. The work that our guild produces
whether it be for the outreach program or to show off at the guild show is top notch. We have some of the most accomplished quilters in our guild and I am proud to say that I know each and everyone of you.
We have a great year planned for our guild with great speakers and events planned for each and every meeting. I do hope that you will join us and help make our guild a success.
That is my resolution for the year.
May all your Stitches be Forward
Jane
President’s Challenge
Just a friendly reminder that if you didn’t get your President’s challenge in by the due date in October, you can still hand it in at the January meeting. This will allow you the opportunity to have it in the quilt show. This will allow us to have a wonderful display at the show and you will have completed your UFO.
Can’t wait to see them all.
Jane
Quilt Show Update
Quilts- A Show of Many Hands
Scugog Community Arena,
Reach Road, Port Perry
Friday May 6th, 2016 10 am - 8 pm
Saturday May 7th, 2016 10 am - 5 pm
Happy New Year Everyone! I’m gong to be repeating myself in the next few newsletters with information on our show and adding a few timely reminders too - so keep on reading. I’ve put forms on our website too, so go to www.portperrypatchers.ca and check on the “Quilt Show” page.
January guild night is a big night for bringing in your quilt registrations - especially for those large quilts. A reminder that they don’t have to be done, but a photo and information are required for planning purposes. We’ll take photos at guild night if you want to bring in things for us to photograph.
Making a Quilt Sleeve
Sleeves for anything you want us to hang need to be at least 4” high. So how do you do that?
Measure the width of your quilt along the side you want at the top
Cut and/or piece one long strip 8.5” by the width of your quilt
Fold each end over 1/2” twice and topstitch
Fold sleeve in half the length of the sleeve, wrong sides of fabric together, sew 1/4” seam
Iron the seam open, turn sleeve right side out, with the seam centred on one side, iron one of the long sides (this edge of the sleeve will be sewn on the back of your quilt at least 1/2” below the top edge of your quilt)
Before you sew it on, iron the bottom edge - but here’s the trick: fold the bottom up about 1/2” and iron (this makes your sleeve into a sling that helps it hang beautifully)
Pin the sleeve to the back of your quilt, at least 1/2” below the top of the quilt, and centred, with the seam next to the quilt back and the “extra” fabric at the bottom. You should find it sits about 1” in at either end. Hand sew (watching your favourite TV show) along both ironed folds and you’ll see how you now have a bit of sling so that the quilt is both easy to hang and hangs nicely.
Do not use pins in place of the hand sewing!
Tip!
If you are going to hang a large quilt on a wall after the show you should make the sleeve in two pieces with a two inch gap between the two pieces. That way when you install a rod you can add a wall bracket in the middle as well as at both ends so that your rod and quilt gets extra support and does not sag in the middle!
Show Challenge
Theme: A Show of Many Hands
DUE DATE: April 18, 2016 (Guild Night)
Here’s your challenge, should you choose to participate! Create an original quilt to be part of a group display at our show.
Concept: We’re hosting a handful of vendors who do fine craft, such as weaving, pottery, woodwork, to set up displays and sell their work at our guild show “A Show of Many Hands”.
Let’s celebrate the many processes of fine craft in whatever your solution is to this challenge.
Parameters:
• Size must be 24” x 24”
• Design must be original, and celebrate the theme of “ A Show of Hands”. The design can be traditional blocks, abstract or pictorial.
• Techniques can include any quilting method be it piecing, appliqué, thread painting, trapunto or paper piecing etc.
• Your quilt must incorporate at least one additional piece of fine craft such as something handwoven, knitted or sculpted. You could include hand-made lace, a piece of pottery or jewelry or hand carved wood. You may include any fabric you wish.
• This extra fine craft item could be a piece of your grandmother’s rug hooking, a lace napkin you bought at an antique store or a piece of jewelry you made yourself.
• The quilt must be finished with the usual three layers, quilted, bound in any method and it must have a label and a hanging sleeve.
Your Personal Show To Do List
• Make a list of the quilts you’ve made since our last quilt show in May of 2012. You’ve probably made more than you realize. List the ones you’d like to show, and if you’ve given them away or sold them, ask to borrow them for the weekend.
• Make a list of the UFO’s you’d like to finish for the show.
• List the guild challenges quilts you’ve done.
• Plan to put hanging sleeves and labels on all quilts.
• Fill out an entry form for each quilt.
• Take a photo of each quilt and print off an image to go with you entry form.
• Make a list of the quilts you’d like to sell. All sales will be handled in our Guild Shop.
Commission to the guild is 20% of retail. Large quilts will hang in the show, and smaller items will go in the Guild Shop.
• Consider what you can make to donate to the Guild (remember that the money we raise at the show pays for our guest speakers for the next three years!) Our committee will select items to go in the Guild Shop, Silent Auction or Chinese Auction. Make things you like to make: baby quilts, runners, placemats, art quilts, wallets, purses, aprons.
• We are adding non-quilt items to our Silent Auction. Could you or a company you know,
donate an item or gift basket?
• Register your large bed quilts by January 18 guild night
• Register all other quilts by March 21 guild night.
A Show of Many Hands reminder –register your quilts early for our Guild Quilt show in May.
Start filling out your registration forms for this year’s quilt show. Now don’t be shy; the more quilts we have, the better our guild show will be.
Remember that we need to know about your large quilts early so that we can order the larger frames to hold them! Please register your large quilts by the January meeting!
See the Quilt Show 2016 tab on the website to download the Registration form. And bring them along to the guild meetings so that Dianne can get a picture of them to attach to the Registration forms.
Lollygagging to Toronto– Don’t forget that we are once again measuring your Show and Share items for Lollygagging to Toronto. I was not there to collect measurements in December; but the guild has started well, after registering 7,390 inches in October, you added 4,228 inches with in November. I look forward to taking the measurements this month.
Joanne Reynolds
CQA National Juried Show
Toronto June 15-18, 2016
As well as preparing for our Port Perry Patchers Guild Show in May 2016, the next CQA show will be in Toronto next June; this is a great opportunity to try entering your pieces into a national juried show.
For those who would like to take up this challenge, I’ve done a bit of research on dates and requirements, so that you know that you can enter your quilt into both the Patchers Guild Show and the National Juried Show (NJS).
For NJS:
Quilt must be completed after January 1, 2014
Quilt must not have been shown in a Canadian national juried show prior to June 2016
Written permission is required from designer/publisher/instructor if you used a book or pattern or started the quilt in class or workshop
Quilt must be completed (and photo’d) by February 3, 2016
Notification of acceptance to quilter on February 26, 2016
Accepted pieces are to be shipped to NJS May 25-June 3, 2016
See the CQA website for more details about entries. Also, check out rest of the CQA website for the list of workshops offered from a wide variety of instructors and the volunteer opportunities to get involved with the show.
Joanne Reynolds
Creative Closing Thought
"The best and only thing that one artist can do for another
is to serve as an example and an inspiration." Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
A good reason to join us for Guild Night - to inspire or be inspired.
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