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Ancaster Quilter’s Guild
Web page: www.ancasterqilters.com/home
Email : [email protected]
December 2018
In This Issue
Page 1 President’s Message
Page 2 Executive Programme &
Page 3 Membership &
Advertising rates
Show & Share
Page 4 What to bring to a
meeting & Caring
Cards
Page 5 Workshops
Page 6 Snacks & Placemats
Page 7 Guild Links / President’s
Challenge
Page 8 50/50 Draw Prize
Winners , White Glove
Ladies
Page 10 Block of the Month
Page 11 Comfort Quilts
Page 12 Upcoming Shows ,
Library
President’s Message
The holiday season is now upon us, and if you're anything like most folks your to-do lists are about as long as possible. Holidays - the to-be-finished list is now fairly long, but I am going to make sure that in the midst of all of the projects that I will find time to let my creative energies flow and I hope that you all can do the same! Sometimes it is hard to give yourself permission to turn off the ‘shoulds’ of everyday life while allowing yourself time to enjoy the creative process. I'm sure that it isn't just me who needs to find more studio time; as a longarm quilter the demands on my available time to finish customer quilts reach their peak at this time of the year, and seem to increase every year...but that might ‘just’ be my age showing! I'm also looking forward to our annual Christmas social time, and I know that your program ladies have made a very special effort to make it an enjoyable time for us all. It will give us all some time to socialize and kick off the festive season in style! I hope that all of your holiday activities are happy and healthy, and that you get to spend quality time with your loved ones, and Best Wishes for a happy and healthy 2019! Alison McDonald, president
PRESIDENT’S CHALLENGE ON PAGE 7
Doors open at 6:00 Meeting starts at 7:00
Third Wednesday of each month Marshall Memorial United Church
20 Gilbert Ave, Ancaster
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Programme
December Meeting:
Ho Ho Ho and Merry Christmas. We have put
together a fun evening for you to enjoy this
month.
Thanks to the generous donations from your
amazing Executive members, we have some
Raffle Baskets Jane has put together for you
to try to win. Tickets will be 8 for $5 or 20 for
$10.
Remember to bring your Pattern wrapped in a
Fat Quarter for our fun, interactive Gift
Exchange game. You can bring more than
one if you like because however many you
bring, you will take home the same number.
Victoria Quilts will be there and will be selling
their 2019 Calendar for $10. There are 5 of
our very own members with Quilts featured in
the calendar. See page 13.
We look forward to seeing you on December
19th for some goodies and good cheer.
See page 13 of our newsletter to learn what
you are to bring.
Leslie & Jane
Ancaster Quilter’s Guild
Executive
President – Alison McDonald
Vice-President – Janice Haluszka
Past President– Jackie Syer
Secretary - Willy Walker
Treasurer – Marlene Reynolds
Membership Secretary – Jody
Farrand, Barb Masefield
Program Coordinator – Leslie Drake,
Jane Waye
Workshop –Karen Exley, Mary Lou
Pemberton
Library – Elizabeth Rosser, Mary
Louise Duncan, Trish Murphy
Block of the Month – Sam Croucher
Social Coordinators – Hanna Nudds,
Diane Childerley
Comfort Quilts – Cathy Pinelli, Ann
Roy, Karen Rienau
VON Placemats –Brenda Lupton
Draw Prizes – Joan Barron , Barb
Gibson
50/50 – Debbe Durham,
Webpage/ Advertising/ Newsletter–
Susan Lusted
Greeter –Colleen Dawson
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Advertising Advertising rates are as follows: Thank you to all
the advertisers who support our guild. The Ancaster
Quilter’s Guild appreciates your support. .
• Business Card: $5 per month
• One quarter page: $8 per month
• One half page: $12 per month
• Full Page: $20 per month
Advertisers who sign for the entire year, receive
one month free.
When visiting our advertisers, please let them
know that you saw their ad here.
Ancaster Quilter’s Guild Advertising Chair
Susan Lusted
Email: [email protected]
Ancaster Quilter’s Guild
Membership
Holiday Greetings from Membership. Welcome to new members Judy Lantz, Heide Koehn and Claire Renaud. If any member needs a replacement name tag please let us know at the December meeting as an order will be placed and ready for January. Name tags are $5.00 each. We look forward to seeing everyone at the festive December meeting. With thanks, Barb and Jody [email protected] 905 526 0372
At the Membership table you will need
to:
• Sign in • Sign the sheets for Show and Share • Membership will now be open to
new members with a cap of 125
members.
• Please be sure to let us know if you
do not wish your name to be in our
newsletter.
White Glove Ladies
NOTE: White glove ladies, please sign up
at the membership table to volunteer for the
following month.
Thanks to Desiree Turnbull, Kathy L. Leslie Drake and Ann Roy for assisting at our November meeting.
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Webpage: http://www.ancasterquilters.com/home
Quilting Fabrics
Notions
Machine Quilting
Block of the Month
Kits
356 Wilson Street East, Ancaster
905-304-0180
[email protected] - www.thequiltrack.ca
Caring Cards Remember to send the name of members to whom a caring card should be sent to Colleen Dawson
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 905 529 1346
WHAT TO BRING TO A MEETING
Name Tag,
Indoor shoes
Money for UFO/Workshops
Tabs from pop cans
Note that cell phones should be turned off or to vibrate. If you must answer your phone, please go to the entry hall to do this.
Show & Share
Coffee cup, Lug a Mug
Money for 50/50 NOTE please try to have toonies and loonies to pay for this.
Library Books to return
Blocks for Comfort Quilts
NOTE: our meetings are now fragrance and latex free
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Workshops and UFO Dates Wow! How time flies! It seems like Halloween was only yesterday and now it’s Christmas time. There is no UFO workshop this month. Mary Lou and I would like to thank all of you for your support in October and November. We’ve seen some beautiful Whirligig quilts and I know some of you have made more! Well done! The candy wrapper block was beautiful. You girls took the block and made your own unique runners. I hope some Whirligig quilts and runners will be seen at show and tell this month. Our next UFO is set for January 18 and 19. Be ready for our surprise Demo with Leslie Drake. Have a great Christmas and join us in January to start working on all the UFO’S and learning new techniques from our members not to mention the fun and friendship. Remember the cost is $15.00 a day or $25.00 for both days. See you in January!
There won’t be a workshop in December but we will be back in January. Come out and enjoy! Remember cost is $15.00 per day or $25 for both days. • January 18/19 a surprise mini project! Think of shoes? • February 22/23 Spring may not be too far away. Maybe a quick ribbon pillow! • April 26/27 The Disappearing Pinwheel quilt with Jackie Syer inspiring us! Looking forward to another fantastic year trying to finish our UFO’S (alien projects.) Come out and enjoy coffee, tea, gab fests and fun. Mary Lou & Karen, Workshop Coordinators
Show and Share Ladies, please remember to sign in at the Membership Table when you are checking yourself off
on the attendance sheets.
Jane Waye Taupe Sampler quilted by Alison McDonald
Vicki Edwards Woodland Blooms, Winter Table Runner
Shirley Anderson Sugar Skulls Quilt
Wendy Dalrymple Snowmen quilt with an embroidered border, quilted by Janice
Lerveton
Ann Fucic Sashiko embroidery
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Webpage: http://www.ancasterquilters.com/home
Snack Ladies
Please bring 3-4 dozen.
No snack ladies this month. See you in January.
With thanks
Diane Childerly & Hanna Nudds
Placemats
Last year, we delivered 51 placemats. This is a
great way to use orphan blocks up. We know that
the placemats are greatly appreciated by those
who receive them. Let’s keep this programme the
success it has always been.
Brenda Lupton
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.Links for Quilt Guilds
http://www.canadianquilter.com/professionals/
shops.php
Ancaster Modern Quilt Guild
Brant Heritage Quilt Guild
Common Thread Quilt Guild
Dufferin Piecemakers Quilting Guild
Halton Hills Quilters Guild
Halton Quilters Guild
Hamilton Quilters Guild
Kincardine Sunset Quilters’ Guild
London Friendship Quilter’s Guild
Ottawa Valley Quilters Guild
Prince Edward County Quilters Guild
Sudbury Quilting and Stitchery Guild
Waterloo County Quilters’ Guild
York Heritage Quilters Guild
Stoney Creek Quilters; Guild
PRESIDENT’S CHALLENGE Panels, Panels, PANELS!
We all have panels in our stash and
sometimes it’s a challenge to find a ways to
use them...so now to the challenge – Make
a quilt, any size, any technique, just be sure
to include a printed panel...or two...maybe
three!
Prizes, Prizes, PRIZES!
• Best workmanship
• Most creative use of your panel(s)
• Judges choice
This could be a great way to use up some
stash, or stretch your creative wings, or you
consider donating your finished quilt to
Outreach.
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DRAW PRIZE WINNERS
Prize winner from our guest speaker.........Cathy Pinelli Prizes: Joanne Fish, Tonie Wilt, Barb Gibson, Karen Rienau, Heather Ritter, Dianne Busser, Marjorie Weber, Ann Hewitt, Martha Forbes, Claire Renault, Nancy Sinnott
FIFTY FIFTY DRAW WINNER
Jackie Hilton $63
JUST A REMINDER THAT THERE IS NO 50/50 OR DRAW PRIZES AT OUR DECEMBER MEETING
White Glove Ladies
NOTE: White glove
ladies, please sign up at
the membership table to
volunteer for the following
month.
POP TABS are still being collected for the purchase of wheel chairs through the Elora Legion. Jackie Syer is doing the pick up at the AQG monthly meetings. Donations can be turned in at the Membership Desk.
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Block of the Month This month brings us almost to the half way mark. I hope that everyone is coming along. Remember I am available if you are having any difficulty with the blocks. I look forward to seeing and talking with all of you at the meeting.
If you cannot pick up your next hand out perhaps you can have a guild friend pick it up for
you.
Look forward to talking with you at the meeting.
Keeping you in Stitches, Sam Croucher 905-388-9561
Tuesday to Friday 10 - 4 Saturday 9 - 3
Monthly Specials*Weekly Features* Classes* Upscale Retreats
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Comfort Quilts Season's Greeting to All, We have been able to donate a total of 87 quilts to the organizations we support since September 2018. What a wonderful effort ladies!!! The Comfort Quilt table will be open at the December meeting with kits, quilts to be quilted and quilts needing hand binding. Please come by and pick up some handy work for the cold days and nights that we'll likely experience in January. We will also have a "Colouring Book" quilt on display at the December meeting. We hope to put a number of these quilts together in the new year. During our Christmas festivities on December 19th, we will have pieces of muslin with colouring book pages drawn on them in permanent marker. We will set out some crayons with the muslin at the tables and ask that you do some colouring to provide us with squares that will be made into kits for future quilt piecing. Hopefully this will be a relaxing activity and fit in with our socialization time during the meeting. Thanks in advance for helping with this new effort. Wishing everyone a happy and healthy holiday season. Merry Christmas, Ann, Cathy and Karen
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Victoria’s Quilts Canada Calendars
https://www.victoriasquiltscanada.com/ I will be bringing the 2019 Quilt calendar to the next meeting for sale. It features the work of 4 of Ancaster Guild members. It will be for sale for $10.00. All proceeds go to purchase of batting to make the quilts. Hamilton Niagara is a new branch that started in April of this year. So far we have delivered 105 quilts to people having cancer treatments who live in Hamilton Niagara. With Thanks Nancy Sinnott Member, Ancaster Quilt Guild
Thank You From Céleste Compion There are three things I want to follow up with:
• One of your members showed my husband that she cut her finger on a staple on one of my sample cards. I am so sorry! I will give the staples a check up to ensure that they are safe for future handling.
• I forgot to pass on more details about using salt to fix the colour for the indigo prints. The very first quilt I showed tonight was the indigo and muslin hand quilted HST quilt. I rinsed that in lukewarm water with salt to wash out the quilting marking and there was no running of colour. (About 1/2 cup of salt to a shallow bath.) You will find all my social media links at the end of this email. Please remind everyone how much I love photos of their projects, and anyone who has questions is welcome to reach out to me by email. My best wishes to all of you. Céleste Compion meerkat trading 248 Geddes Street, Elora ON, N0B 1S0, Canada Tel: (519)846-5289 Fax: (519)846-2729 Website: www.meerkatshweshwe.com Online store: http://shop.meerkatshweshwe.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Meerkat-Shweshwe/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/meerkatshweshwe/
For the December Meeting
Just a note to remind you of things to bring for our December meeting. • a pattern wrapped in a Fat
Quarter for the Fun part of our meeting
• Please "LUG A MUG" • Plates and cutlery will be
provided. • Those whose surnames begin
A to L bring Sweet or Savoury Appetizers.
• Those whose surnames begin M to Z please bring a new or gently used bath towel for Interval House or a Craft Item.
Looking forward to a fun night.
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Fifty Blocks Fifty Weeks
50 blocks in 50 weeks! Join in the fun as we make one 6 1/2” block each week for 50 weeks!
You can use scraps, solids, prints or a combo! It will start January 15th, and we want every-
one to join in!
Please help us spread the word, there is no cost and anyone can participate!
Blocks will be put on the CQA website each week, but advertised here and Instagram to re-
mind you! https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/50blocks50weeks/ .
Library Report
We added several new books this past year, more
modern approaches and recent publications that are
sure to pique interest. Please check them out.
Mary Louise has been compiling theme lists which will
be helpful to our members when searching. These will
be available at the table in the near future.
Make sure you have your name tag for book check out!
NOTE: THE LIBRARY WILL NOT BE OPEN AT THE
DECEMBER MEETING. PLEASE RETURN BOOKS
AT THE JANUARY MEETING.
Your Library Committee:
Elizabeth Rosser, Mary Louise Duncan, Trish Murphy
Upcoming Quilt Shows
• Quilt Canada 2019 https://canadianquilter.com/quilt-canada-2019/
• QUILTING FOR A CAUSE: Red Cross Quilts of the Great War From now to February 15, 2019 the Waterford Heritage and Agricultural Museum (WHAM) is presenting an exhibit of “red crosses quilted on white cotton and sprawling signatures painstakingly embroidered with scarlet thread - tangible examples of patriotism and devotion to those who served. WHAM is located at 159 Nichol Street in Waterford. 519-443-4211 www.waterfordmuseum.ca