At our meeting Lynn Fanthorpe came to speak on Fearless Machine Quilting. Following are some of Lynn's hints for successful machine quilting. Use sheets of unlined paper and practice machine quilting ideas. This can help your brain get into the rhythm and flow of what you want to do on your quilt. Use machine quilting gloves. Needles … Continue reading Machine Quilting in November 2013
October and the VMQG
Everyone enjoyed our speakers from the Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild. Holly Broadland is the founder of the VMQG and co-President and Felicity Ronaghan is the other co-President. Holly and Felicity talked about the Internet and the role it has in Modern Quilting, both in spreading ideas and in helping people connect and share their interest. They … Continue reading October and the VMQG
Non-slip Mat and More
Oddments from Linda S There is a neat idea for a mat for under one's sewing machine on the blog she can quilt. When you are looking at blogs and you find one that you like, check out the blogs that that person follows. Linda finds she is often exposed to blogs that she would … Continue reading Non-slip Mat and More
Barn Quilt Trails
While passing through northern Oregon last summer Lynn B and her husband noticed quilt blocks painted on barns! Lynn discovered that the blocks are part of the Tillamook County Quilt Trails. She brought back one brochure on quilt blocks on barns and another on quilt blocks on businesses in Tillamook. Go to the website to find the Quilt … Continue reading Barn Quilt Trails
Quilt BC 2013 in Penticton
Quilt BC in Penticton was great!! On Thursday evening we were able to visit the merchant mall. It was excellent with stores that are all over BC and a few that are online. We could also see the Trend Tex Challenge display. Seeing the entries for real was certainly a treat and I managed to … Continue reading Quilt BC 2013 in Penticton
Community Quilts Day in May 2013
May 8th was our Community Quilts Day. We had a lot of fun making jelly roll quilt tops and sharing a lasagna lunch. The only quilt I know of where one person can iron the seams while another sews more seams on it across the room! Most people worked in groups. These were l-o-n-g strips … Continue reading Community Quilts Day in May 2013
HQWT in April
Here are a couple of pictures from our last Have Quilts Will Travel. We went to Churchill House here in North Van. Residents enjoyed hearing the short history of quilting and seeing quilts made by our members. Marianne's Flower Quilt Judy's Mystery Quilt This was our last Travel Show this Spring.
Trunk Show
Caught! A few of our members caught having a trunk show of their own rows after the April meeting. It was very exciting - and inspiring! We are all looking forward to seeing quilts from our members' rows in June and/or in the Fall. Happy Quilting!
April 2013 Meeting
---- BORDERS, BORDERS, BORDERS!! --- Carol Piercy spoke on borders. She had us thinking about multiple borders, several different takes on pieced borders, and colour considerations as borders can enhance the beauty of the quilt. Picture of one of her quilts in progress where borders will be added as a sandwich. Carol also talked about … Continue reading April 2013 Meeting
Gail Hunt Workshop
Great day with Gail Hunt! The morning was spent creating a background. In the afternoon we learned how to make confetti and apply it to create the landscape. The little piles are the palette of colours that are carefully applied to the background. Some of the participants were already applying confetti and net to their … Continue reading Gail Hunt Workshop
March Machine Travel
WoW - Have machine will travel! Go Diane!
March 2013 Meeting
Our Program committee brought us another great meeting full of inspiration. Catherine Nicholls is a local, international artist who has expanded her art from paint to fibre. She presented and talked about some of her art quilts. One of Catherine's particular joys is words - they are often stitched on by free motion writing or … Continue reading March 2013 Meeting
February 2013 Meeting
20 February 2013 What an inspiration, Matt Wheeler, owner of The Quilted Bear in Ladner, talked about his quilt journey and presented a trunk show. We were inspired by his enthusiasm for quilting. These are only a few of his quilts. If you would like to see them again, a few of them will be on display at … Continue reading February 2013 Meeting
Community Quilts Day for Fall 2012
Thank you to Connie for organizing another Community Quilts Day. The new venue worked out. There was plenty of room to spread out while we worked on new quilts and on unfinished ones. Near the end of the day we used the design wall and had fun arranging the Northern Lights BoM blocks so that … Continue reading Community Quilts Day for Fall 2012
October with Gail Hunt
Our October guest Speaker was Gail Hunt, well known quilting instructor, author, and award winning innovator. Gail's audio-visual presentation titled, The Anatomy of a Canadian Quilter features quilts and quilters from across Canada. The presentation was great - interesting and funny! We all recognized parts of ourselves in her presentation! Gail mentioned that she has just been building … Continue reading October with Gail Hunt
April Meeting
A nice short meeting for everyone. Thanks to Community Quilts for the well prepared kits. Each set of fabrics had instructions for cutting and we soon had many kits ready for the May 2 Community Quilt Day work session. Hope to see many of you there.
March Meeting
Louise Jackson
February 2012 Meeting
Uschi Greiner and Kerry Karmen of Wool Penny Rugs gave an lovely trunk show of their work with wool applique. They sold single kits, block-of-the-month kits, and some fabric then did a short workshop for some members. You can sign up for their newsletter on the website Wool Penny Rugs.
“Carol’s Mystery” Workshop
On February 1st we arrived with our darks, lights, medium darks and medium lights. We had no idea what the result would be! Carol led us through 7 steps and by the end of the day most of us had a few quilt blocks finished. A few people brought theirs to the February meeting -
January 2012
Our first meeting of the year. Our guild business was soon finished and we saw a few items in Show and Tell. After the break Elaine A. presented her quilting journey in applique. Elained showed her quilts and she explained the process for building them. Picture to follow.
Seymour Quilters Guild 