Saturday 27 December 2014

December Christmas Event

This December KRQ decided to have a dessert social at our meeting. We hosted the event at Keswick Ridge United Church and decorated the area for the evening. After a few quick business items were dealt with we moved on to sample some desserts.








After dessert we had a game to get to know each other better, we exchanged our homemade Christmas ornaments and secret pal gifts. We introduced our UFO Contract, our new cookbook and our Quilt Show Challenge. We are all looking forward to seeing finished projects and inspired ideas for the challenge.  
 







 



 
 
As usual, we ended with our Show & Tell
 
Elizabeth, Marilyn and Kathy showed the bags completed at the workshop given by Gail Mitchell.
 




Darcy completed this quilt designed for a customer requesting cardinals on their quilt.


Debbie completed several of these
 
Gail's amazing work


Two chenille rugs completed for family by Gayle

 
Debbie's Christmas projects


 
Louise did a quilt for a baby boy


Linda made Christmas ornaments and some quilted red work
 



Pat saw these purses done by Gail Mitchell in November and took one of her classes and made several herself as gifts


 

Monday 24 November 2014

Correction to Mystery Quilt

Hi mystery quilters ,  I missed one step in this months addition to the mystery quilt instructions so that has been added and a picture in the wrong spot has been moved. I hope this did not cause many of you problems.

Tuesday 11 November 2014

November 10, 2014

We began our meeting with an amazing display of Gail Mitchell's many ideas. Gail talked about many of her designs and how they came about. Many of these are also featured on her blog Quilt, Knit, Run, Sew ... and then do it all again!.





Gail made fascinators for herself and children for the Royal Visit on PEI! This is Gail sporting her fascinator.





Below are many of the ideas that Gail shared with us.  We all came away truly inspired to try some new things and cannot wait for our workshop with her this weekend!













 
 
Gail explained how she quilted and finished these mug rugs. Perfect idea for KRQ!
After our business meeting we shared all of our new projects at Show and Tell



Kathy A finished this quilt after seven years of embroidery and hand quilting. Beautiful!





Marilyn has been working hard on sewing baby quilts


Ella finished a project for a grandson and then created some wall hangings with fabric from her sister in the north.


 
Combining a rag quilt and panel worked so well!


Debby's completed several of these
 

Rose-Marie's Underground Railroad quilt


 Pat's Underground Railroad quilt. People have been busy since last months
program with Cecile Grant!

 

Wendy's table topper and her Bow Tucks bag completed for a class

 
An Iris Garden, twin quilt completed today for a fund raiser

Wendy's Iris Garden twin quilt completed for a fundraiser



Brenda called this wall hanging  "All Snowed In"




 

Sandra completed three table runners, shown here as well as a completed wall hanging called "Under the Stars" shown below.




Melanie's Halloween Pillow



A friend of several of our members gave them a number of appliques blocks. They took them to our workshop with Cecile Grant on making scrappy quilts and Cecile kindly took them home and came up with these quilts.  They will now be donated by Cecile to Victoria quilts.

 


Debbie was inspired to do this quilt by one completed by another of our members (Rose-Marie)



Janet completed several projects from classes, a binder cover and a Bow Tucks Bag.


Diane's baby quilt