Keswick Ridge Quilters: April 2023

What a wonderful giving group we have!

On April 1st the Comfort quilts and 12 Neighbors committee (Joyce and Ruth) organized a fantastic workday for the guild members to make some progress on our charity quilts.

These photos of the workday activities show us how it's done!

It looks like a lot of conferring!

Here we go!!

A top in progress!

more conferring!

hmmm contemplation.....I think its great!

such a pretty top!

Bowling!

I love how they set this up- the sign says "Taking blocks already made and putting them together for a top!" the committee made it so easy for us to help!

I love this one!

doing some measuring!!

Hard at work!

Piles of fabric!

where is it ? where is it? lol she's perusing the beautiful fabrics!

This is a beautiful one - it will be great for a more masculine (and modern) quilt!

More worker bees!

What a terrific guild that we belong to!

From Joyce:

"We had a great turnout (23) and made 5 tops, cut out 10 battings, cut 8 backings out of muslin, made one backing and 5 bindings. We had 1 quilt donated and 4 tops and 3 backings as well. Plus several people took projects home to complete. "

Happy Birthday Mrs. Dunphy! aka.....well we like to keep it clean!

Evelyn has been a long time member of our guild. She always has a good word to say. She likes to tease a little bit and can take it as much as she gives it.

She is always done up nice for us all - I only hope to look that good when I get there!

She's a simply wonderful lady who is a treasured member of our guild!!

We love ya - chick!

Our April meeting program was a trunk show by one of our members, Janet Wright!

Unfortunately I did not get all of the photos at the start of the show and not the best photos of all of her great work but at least you'll see a sample here!

I also could barely keep up with the photos let alone the dialogue!

I got some of the notes but I'm sure I missed some others!

One thing I know for sure - Janet likes to try new things - and do them her way!!

Some Twirly whirlys!

From that came this!

This is a collection of black and white fabrics she had been collecting!

More twirly whirlys!

a neat label for the back (a photo of Janet)

While everyone at the Woodstock Guild was trying their hand at curved piecing - so was Janet! Here is her rendition!

....the back is so pretty too!

Here's a Tula pink pattern- that Janet modified of course! Once again we see those Twirly whirlys!

quilted by our Andrea R too!

One of the Canada flag quilts - again modified - Janet wanted hers to say "O Canada" and she included a pride flag!

this one is based on based on a moth pattern - modified to Janet's liking called - "An inch at a time!" (cause that's how she felt making it!)

I didn't get a close up - but it was quilted (to death) by Andrea.

a side note - When Janet gives Andrea a quilt to quilt - her instructions are "quilt it to death and then quilt it again!" my kind of quilting!

Janet is a tractor puller and a CHAMPION tractor puller at that! She thought she'd have some fun with her mostly (if not all?) male counterparts - and made this Top Puller wall quilt hanging.

This one (sorry for the lack of photog skills) got Janet on the TV - twice - it was made during Covid.

This quilt was not made by Janet but given to Janet by 'her girls' - her friends made and gifted her this quilt. One of her friends (Diane) accompanied Janet to help with her show!

This quilt was made for Janet's husband - she usually makes two- one to auction - and one for her husband.

Another beautiful quilt - paper pieced (but not the right way - I would argue it was the Wright way?) (no explanation given of what the wrong way was - haha)

front view:

a bit of the back texture!

Here's a beautiful applique quilt - Janet made one for a friend and liked it so much she made one for her self!

The back! (Janet has a love for minky on the backs- and wow - they are so soft)

A gorgeous cow paper pieced quilt!

I wish I had gotten a bit closer here - this is a One Block Wonder made with some Tula De La Luna fabric (if i recall correctly)

an idea of what fabric this looks like:

De La Luna VENUS Fabric HAUNTED Tula Pink Venus Fly Trap - Etsy Canada

Finally - last but not least - this is Janet's latest paper pieced quilt! It's not quilted yet - its hot off the press after hours and hours of picking papers from the back!

Those pesky foundations!

thank you to you Janet for the great trunk show! We were definitely inspired!

Now on to show and tell!

Joyce showed us a couple of quilts that Betty D had donated to the 12 Neighbors initiative!

This was a long overdue finish! Thanks Betty!

This quilt was made by Reta S - for the 12 Neighbors project! Beautiful Reta!

Here we go show and tell!

First up is Kathy H who is trying to get herself all caught up so that she can hit the spring ground running (ok maybe not running - but outside hobbies!)

Kathy has been staching fabrics away to work on this and other projects- she buys a little here and a little there and then when she thinks there is just enough - she pulls it out!

Kathy wanted something to reminder her of the northern lights - this pattern had included some mountains - and 'there are no mountains in that part of Manitoba'! so Kathy removed the mountains and made it her own! Great work! (Dot was a guest tonight and concurred it was a great representation!)

Kath was working on a pixelated quilt - she dug through her stash again and voila! a seahorse!!

Gisele has a new niece and she had intended on a beautiful collage quilt - as collage quilts are - it was full of fusible and so it was too stiff for a baby quilt - too much 'crunch'! So Gisele had to get to work and find a new one - we think she chose just right! This sweet Llama quilt was a hit!

it was suggested she look at the Llama llama books too!

Llama Llama I Love You: Dewdney, Anna: 9780451469816: Books - Amazon.ca

Betty has been busy! Now Betty doesn't like making bags but her sister had all the supplies - so she couldn't just let it be! as you can tell from the next few photos - Betty and her sister kept each other busy!

a sweet embroidered hand towel for Easter! So pretty!

a simply amazing Rope bowl! wow that's really good!!!!

This trivet holder was a hit!!! (I hope you can zoom in! its embroidered but stitched to the top of a 'rope' plaque (same idea as a rope bowl but flat).

Betty finished up her Tree wall hanging as well! Beautiful!

Heres a nice summery table runner!

And a gorgeous wall hanging for Bettys house!

Ms Evelyn (the birthday girl) brought this quilt top started in 2008!! Its seen a few retreats but alas it's done! (I bet if this quilt top could talk we'd hear a thing or two.) It is hand pieced for the most part - and she is going to hand quilt it as well.