Programme  

 October’s Guest Speaker: Ralph Jarvis

This month's presenter is Ralph Jarvis - he calls Newfoundland home during the summer and travels to Mexico in the winter - we are glad he is able to join us for our October meeting. Ralph's creativity has been fuel by the natural beauty and species found in Newfoundland - When you couple Ralph's artistry and Corey Follett's pattern designs, the results are fun and together they established The Quilted Stash -

Ralph writes -

"Newfoundland and Labrador are known for their unique heritage and cultural traditions, and this is certainly true of Christmas too. Some like mummering (Christmas-time house-visiting tradition practised in Newfoundland and Labrador, Ireland and parts of the United Kingdom) are unique while others like a shared cup of tea and cutting a Christmas tree are part of the more universal customs.

 Using the The Quilted Stash Christmas ‘Round the Harbour series, Ralph will highlight how these traditions have informed the design of patterns and artwork for tree skirts, wall hangings and other quilt projects.

 A closer look at some of the details of the project may inspire you to appliqué a story, memory or tradition from your community, region or cultural experiences"

Kerry Alldritt, programme

 

Placemats & Mug Rugs

 Please continue to make placemats and mug rugs and when we resume our meetings, Brenda Lupton will be collecting them. 

Remember to use those orphan blocks to make placemats to donate also. 

Brenda Lupton

Nesting Robin

Having trouble getting motivated to quilt? Need a little boost to your sewing machine? Try the Nesting Robin. Unlike a Round Robin where you pass your work around within a group to add borders to a centre medallion, here you will do all the work yourself. The robin never leaves your nest. You start with a centre, it can be a panel, an appliqué, or a few of your orphan blocks stitched together. A set of options/guidelines will be revealed monthly via the guild’s newsletter to give you a little direction for your next border. There are no size restrictions, no must-do’s, no quilt police. Just a little something to try and keep us going during the pandemic. To help you if you are doing some size planning, there will be four sets/months of options. To start us off, in honour of Fall, try any or all of the following: !) the colours yellow and/or orange 2)pieced flying geese 3)leaves; pumpkins, or something you are thankful for (these could be pieced, appliquéd or printed on the fabric). Hate all of those? Just add what you do like, but do try to challenge yourself. The next set of options will be in the November newsletter.

Any questions, please email Laurie Allan. Contact info is on the membership list