Although it was cold and dark outside well before our meeting time - there was no shortage of festivity for us at our November guild meeting.
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| We are so ready! |
You see, November is a special month for us. It's our birthday! The guild has grown so much since a handful of quilty people met for the first time in a VON Boardroom in 2013, and we have the dedication of our many executive and guild members to thank for this.
This years party was a total hit! There were almost $500 in prizes to be won, and everyone went away with a little something. Fat Quarter Cupcakes were almost cute enough to eat!
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| Yum! And so cleverly displayed. Thanks Patch for the load of FQ's! |
Big thanks to President Crystal for scouring the prize bin and for doing some serious hustle to collect all these wonderful prizes for us.
We had a little program too - Amanda showed us the sweetest technique for flanged binding. Crystal shared a sweet prairie point Christmas tree ornament that can be made with very little sewing. A perfect project for our homemade ornament swap that is held at our Christmas Party.
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| Turns out flanged binding isn't that daunting after all! |
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| Those sweet little points are attached in the middle to a disk of stable foam. Genius! |
Throughout the evening - we had cupcakes! And as was previously mentioned - MANY prize draws.
Shouting out to all our prize sponsors for the evening:
WOAH that was a lot of prizes. Here are some of our lucky winners and their goodies:
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| Cute pattern, Linda! |
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Joanne won a 6 Month Subscription to Make Modern - the digital magazine that features our own
Julia Wentzell's Potters Wheel Quilt on the cover this month! |
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| Sandra scored this sweet bundle from Clinton Modern Creative - an online fabric shop |
And - as usual - our show and share was epic. Feast your eyes:
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| A set of vibrant place-mats for the charity auction that we support - as a big thanks for our meeting space. |
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| A nautical pillow and table runner set also for the auction. |
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| This one was commissioned to Linda - and she got to keep it! How Lucky! :) |
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| And the big reveal - Linda's BIG birthday quilt |
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| A labour of love, a collaborative effort. |
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| Look at the texture in that baby! |
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| Barb shares a pillow made at a curved piecing workshop from Fiber Fest - very nice. |
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| And a runner from a mini-charm pack, also for the auction. |
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The dimensional nature of these pencils was really hard to capture in a picture, but they look almost round!
Bravo, Joanne |
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| And sweet in baby size too. |
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Julie's Halloween Masterpiece - some of the blocks are paper pieced and others are wonky log cabins.
Quilted with a completely appropriate spiderweb motif by our own Val L. |
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| A cute pair of QAYG Christmas Stockings - Thanks for the great class on these Adrienne! |
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The "on point" quilt - being taught at the beginner quilt class at Patch this session.
Great use of low volume to blend some of the "points" and pop others. |
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| A sweet throw quilt from Jeanette - also for the Auction. |
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| The back - that much coveted Ikea Numbers print. |
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| This adorable, bright and nautical baby quilt is a special gift for a newcomer Mama in Jeanette's community. |
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a "HOME" pillow from our Newfoundland contingent member, Gillian.
Thanks for your contribution to the auction, always good to see you! |
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| A festive strip n flip from Amanda - she says: "thank goodness for colour catchers!" |
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Sheryl shares a sweet string block baby quilt - that is intended to be a gift... but almost to cute to give away!
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Hope you enjoyed this meeting recap - again a big THANK YOU to everyone who makes MMQG what it is: our executive volunteers, our talented members, our local fabric shops and YOU - our online community.
Great post! MMQG meetings are such fun and so inspirational.
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