How to spend your summer vacation…

If you plan to have some things to sell at our Garage Sale at the October meeting, you can get a head start by printing out the page of Garage Sale Tags, filling in your name and phone number and making a few copies. Then as you find things you wish to sell at the Garage Sale over the summer, fill in the item name and price and attach the tag. Store these items in a bag or box ready to pick up and bring to the October meeting and turn them into cool cash… oh yeah, don’t forget to start saving your pennies to bring along and spend on other members’ Garage Sale treasure.

Inspiration

I’ve chosen a project to work on “Live” so to speak.  I will attempt to keep you updated on the process as it happens.  I wanted to add a few comments on Inspiration.  They are random, just thoughts that popped into my head while thinking of something else completely.

Inspiration arises from exposure/stimulation, subtle or blatant, by conscious or unconscious.

Inspiration likes to follow its’ own timetable.

Inspiration chooses the “Eureka Moment” ,  sometimes you just have to be patient and allow it to happen.

Enough Philosophy for one day.  I’m off to work on the drawing for My Northcott Challenge Piece.

Next Meeting - June 26, 2008 - Summer Fruit Festival & AGM

I hope all our members will come and join us to celebrate the end of the 20th year for the Brampton Quilters’ Guild Inc. We will have cake, whipped cream and a selection of summer fruits along with punch, tea & coffee. The members that participated in the 2007-2008 Mystery Quilt will have their completed tops and/or quilts on display for all to enjoy. We will have news on the Block Contest for our next Raffle Quilt and will review all the activities over the past year. Of course, most importantly, we will be electing a new Board of Directors to oversee Guild affairs and activities in 2008-2009. Please show your support by attending the meeting and stepping forward to fill the vacancies on the Board. Without you, there will be no Brampton Quilters’ Guild.

Northcott Challenge: Where to start

Well here we go!.  It’s almost summer but it only seems like yesterday that we were at Northcott choosing this years fabric for the Transitions Challenge.

This is my first Challenge EVER!  And I am co-chairing the project with Sheree. I Hope that by using the blog to communicate with you as I stumble or fly through this, you will join me and even comment at some point.

I finally cleared room on the design wall this week to display the fabric. I pulled some pieces from the stash to see if they would work together.

I have to decide what I’m going to do.

I quite like this little rose.  It comes from a book about the Holy Grail.   I may play with this idea.

We suggested keeping a journal while we worked through the process so I thought that looking at the fabric I would start there.    I started by writing the word Inspiration, that’s what we need in order to finish our Transitions piece.  Well a few pages later ( it’s a small book) I had a few ideas written/rough sketched out.  I really think you can look at a challenge either way.  You can make the fabric fit the  topic, in our case Transitions or you can choose the design and make the fabric  work.  But this is my first challenge so those words may come back to haunt me.

I’ll follow up when I get on to the next step.  I’d love to read you comments on my first step. Possibly the Northcott Challenge is an opportunity to arrange to keep in touch with your satellite group or quilt friends over the summer.  The Mystery Quilt is done now.   Sometimes all you really need is someone else to say it looks good to keep going.

Joanne

More Lone Stars

I am slow in getting these pictures posted. Here are two more finished Lone Star tops from the workshop with Patti Carey

Be sure to let me know if you have your top finished so we can get a photo and add it to the Lone Star photo set on our Flickr page.

Activities for 2008-2009

Please complete the following poll to help us plan for next year. If you would like to participate in more than one activity, you may choose as many as you like. (See below for a description of these activities). If you have a suggestion for a new activity, please fill in the ‘Other’ space and leave a comment if your suggestion requires more explanation.  Oh, and if you want to take on the challenge of organizing any of these activities, please be sure to let us know.

Block of the Month – a pattern is available at each meeting. Sometimes fabric is included with the pattern. You can make one or several blocks. They are returned at the following meeting. At the end of the meeting all participants in the Block of the Month are eligible to receive all the blocks returned at that meeting. Sometimes the blocks are coordinated to make a quilt at the end of the year and other times, the blocks are just random.

Piece a Block - Each participant chooses a theme for themselves. A piece of fabric is purchased that coordinates with that theme. Each month the projects are rotated in a predetermined fashion to each of the participants. Each participant is responsible for making a block that follows the theme and uses a piece of the fabric that is included in the box. At the end of the year, a show & tell of all blocks takes place at the June meeting. The person will receive the blocks that pertain to their theme. The block can be of any size and that makes the project interesting to work on and also to complete once all the blocks are completed.

Mystery Quilt – In the first month, the participants are given the fabric requirements and the cutting instructions. Then each month, they will receive instructions for some part of the quilt construction. Each participant is responsible for their own fabric. At the end of the year, there is a show & tell of all completed projects.

May Meeting

Our May meeting (May 22) featured Judy Lyons, “Quilts in Periods of Time”. Judy is a certified Quilt Appraiser  and she shared some of her old quilts throughout the evening. The quilts were amazing and the stories Judy told about the purchase and the history of each quilt were entertaining, to say the least.

You can also read about Judy on the Buckhorn Area Quilters Guild website.

Submitted by Kate

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Angela Krotowski

Our speaker in April, Angela Krotowski, has a quilt gallery all her own, so I hope you have a chance to see her quilts, although the pictures could never do them justice …

Next Meeting - Thursday April 24th - 7:30 p.m.

Guest Speaker - Angela Krotowski, “Unfinished Quilts, Finished Treasure”
Angela taught quilting for 30 years, 1975 to 2005 and has been designing and marketing her own patterns since 1986. Join us for an inspirational evening.

While you are visiting the blog, be sure to check all of the additional pages with Quilt Show, Community Projects, Blitz, etc. information. These pages will be updated when new information is available. If you know of an Upcoming Event that is not in our list, please be sure to let us know!

Colouring Outside the Lines - March meeting

Our speaker in March, Barbara Downey, encouraged everyone to break the rules and colour outside the lines. Barbara shared some inspirational stories and quilted art pieces from her journey as a quilt artist. From her use of colour -
to innovative piecing techniques -
to thread painting and embellishment -
all the pieces were beautiful and inspiring. I am sure that many members will take Barbara’s advice to heart as they work on future projects and challenges and create some beautiful works of art.

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