Thank you to all who supported the garage sale Donna hosted on September 14, 2013. Through your generous donations we were able to raise a total of $800, meaning that each will receive $400 to help with their efforts. As a reminder we were able to help Heaven Can Wait in High River and Pound Rescue in Okotoks.
Monthly Archives: September 2013
Where Women Gather: An Update
We are calling women to gather from all walks of life to come and do their “craft”! Whatever interests you, here is a place where you can bring your favourite creative pastime – whether it’s knitting, or quilting, or crocheting, or scrapbooking, or sewing, or folk painting, or embroidery, or popsicle stick crafts – bring it along and work on whatever you like at your own pace. Get help from others who have already learned how to knit the heel into a sock, or who know how to put the binding on a quilt, or would like to learn something from you in your area of interest.
We will have tables set up to work on. There will be a casual lunch – crock pot soup or wraps – and lots of time for hanging out with each other in a relaxed and happy environment.
We start at 1 PM, just come as soon as you are able and don’t worry if you can’t make it by 1 PM – just come as soon as you can.
At 3 PM, we’ll take a break from our crafts and gather for a story from the Bible told by Beth. For those interested, Jan has prepared a quilt to go along with the stories and will reveal a new section of the quilt each month.
Our program will run on the 3rd Sunday of every month (except September – which will be this Sunday, Sept 22) from 1 PM – 4 PM.
Feel free to bring your friends, daughters, mothers, grandmothers, & aunts.
We hope to see you all there!
Where Women Gather: First Meeting September 22
Where Women Gather is a project based group that celebrates all types of handwork with the artful telling of a story. There will be a featured quilting block of the month that accompanies the stories.
This group will meet the third Sunday of the month (from September – June) from 1:00 – 4:00pm at the Millarville Community Church with the story beginning at about 2:30.
The first Gathering will be September 22, 2013.
Quilts Around the World
Welcome everyone to another exciting year at The Flying Needles Quilt Guild.
The planning committee has come up with a terrific program for you that we hope you really enjoy.
This year we will be taking a TRIP AROUND THE WORLD through quilts. We will be looking at the quilts and quilting techniques from England, Hawaii, Japan, African, South Africa, Ireland and the Amish Country in America.
Each guild Saturday will begin with a show and tell, followed by a demo and time to sew the afternoon away. The exception to this is our Wonderful Potluck Meetings in September, December and June.
Our schedule for this year is….
September 14: First meeting of the year – Show and Tell; Program Presentation; Potluck; Garage Sale with Donna
October 12: Trip Around the World with Jen – See a demo on how to construct the Trip Around the World quilt
November 9: England with Trish
December 14: Christmas Exchange – Show and Tell; Christmas Exchange; Potluck
January 11: Hawaii with Denise
February 8: Japan with Jen
March 8: Amish Country with Jan
April 12: Africa and South Africa with Shirley H.
May 10: Ireland with Donna
June 14: Final Guild Meeting of this year – Show and Tell; Challenge Showcase Potluck
Our Challenges for this year are: (please click the link for more details about each challenge)
- The FUNQI Challenge: Make a Trip Around the World Quilt (for June)
- Brown Bag Challenge 2013 (for June)
- Carol Lawrence Challenge: Sewing Chatelaines (for June)
- Christmas Exchange: Candle Mats (for December)
We will also be hosting a club this year, run by Beth, making the Vingette in Stitches Quilt by Leanne Beasley.
Looking forward to a terrific year with you all.
FUNQI Challenge 2013: Trip Around the World
FUNQI Challenge: Trip Around the World
Courtesy of Amish Country Lane Quilts
http://www.amishcountrylanes.com
Challenge:
Create a TRIP AROUND THE WORLD quilt
Guidelines:
- Must use the Trip around the World block (the 6 strip block is most common)
- You decide what setting you will use for the quilt
- Blocks can be any size, strips can be any size (2.5” strips are the most common)
- You will need a MINIMUM of 4 blocks in your quilt
In October there will be a demo on how to create the Trip Around the World block using the TUBE method.
To view some Trip Around the World Quits try here or here or here
For a tutorial on the Trip around the World Block (this is a similar method to the one that is a demo in October.)
Brown Bag Challenge 2013
The Brown Bag Challenge 2013
Create a FINISHED quilt using the fabrics in a brown bag while adding 1 meter of your own fabric that will compliment the fabric that are found in the brown bag.
However, this year you will not be creating your quilt for a certain individual. Instead you will be creating a FINISHED quilt that SOMEONE ELSE from the brown bag challenge group will get.
Basically, in June all the brown bags, with FINISHED quilts, will be returned. Each person who brought back a brown bag will get to select a brown bag from the pile and that will be their finished quilt. Meaning – it might not be the quilt made with the fabrics that you brought originally.
In The Brown Bag
- 4 fat quarters
- Your name so we know who to credit the fabric to
The Details
- Each participant will be selecting a brown bag – please do not put your name on the outside of the bag. Instead please put a note inside the bag so we know where the fabric came from.
- Each participant will add 1 meter of fabric that compliments the four fat quarters in the bag
- Each participant will create a FINISHED quilt for the June meeting using the 4 fat quarters and the 1 meter of fabric (pieced, quilted, bound)
- In June the finished quilts, in a brown bag, will be brought to the meeting for exchange
YOU MUST:
- Please include a label on the back of your quilt listing who made it, who the fabric came from and the year it was complete. Feel free to add any other details you feel is important. For example that it was a brown bag challenge
- FOLLOW THE RULES – do not put fabric in the bag that EQUALS 4 fat quarters. It isn’t fair to the person who gets your bag to have smaller cuts of fabric it limits what they can do. Just put in the 4 fat quarters!
If for some reason you are not able to continue with the challenge once you have signed up please contact Jen to make arrangements.
Christmas Exchange 2013: Candle Mats
Christmas Exchange: Candle Mats
What are They?
A candle mat is a MINI QUILT that is a used as a mat (placemat) for your candle – like a fancy coaster.
Exchange Info:
For this exchange you will be finding a CANDLE (fun, plain, pretty, funny, cute) and creating a MAT that will compliment it.
Maybe you will use the same motif/shapes/pictures, color, theme to create your MAT.
The DETAILS:
- Must be made of GOOD QUALITY COTTON Material
- Wool Felt, wool or cotton
- If using COTTON – Needs to be layered like any other quilt – Top, Batting, Backing and Bound Neatly
- If using wool or wool felt – you do not necessarily need to use batting to complete it
- These can be pieced, appliqued, embroidered, embellished – just ensure a Candle can rest FLATLY on the MAT
- They can be round or square
- Circular mats must be a diameter of 8”-12”
- Square mats must be 8″x8″
On Exchange Day
- You will be gifting your Candle and matching mat to some lucky person.
Here are some examples of Candle Mats
Carol Lawrence Challenge 2013: Chatelaine
The Carol Lawrence Challenge: Chatelaine
Challenge
Create a chatelaine that can hold your scissors, thimble, needles, and a pin cushion of sorts.
The chatelaine must be either worn around your neck or be pinned to you. It also must have dangles off the main “part” that will have your sewing supplies.
For help with Chatelaines check here
Chatelaine by Angie’s Bits ‘n Pieces
by ajpadilla
The Flying Needles Quilt Guild 