April 2015

Charity Quilts National Juried Show The Evening News

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Guild Raffle Quilt ShowThe Art of Quilting

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Feature QuilterJo-

Anne

Niven

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Art Group Plays with

printing images

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KOOTENAY QUILTERS DAY GUILD NEWSLETTER

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QUILT EVENTS & WORKSHOP CALENDAR April 2Chat and Sew; April 16Guild Meeting

April 16Judy Niemeyer Trunk Show, starting at 6:30 pm, doors to open at 6:00 at

Montrose Community Hall, 490 9th Ave., Montrose, BC; $10.00 Tickets will be presold. &

only 70 tickets are available. Contact Lee-Anne Halifax for tickets at 250 367-7274 or

leeannehalifax@hotmail.com. Check out Judys quilts at www.quiltworx.com

April 17,18Crazy for Quilts, Creston Valley Quilt Guild Show at Rec Centre; Fri. 10-8; Sat.

10-4

April 17,18Traditional 2 Trending, Rumplestiltskein Fibre Arts Guild, Rock Creek Fair

Grounds, Sat 10-5; Sun 10-3

April 25,2015West Kootenay Quilt Conference in Nelson; St. Josephs School 8 a.m. ven-

dor set-up; 9 amRegistration ($4+a fat quarter); 10 a.m. meeting & presentation. Bag lunch.

May 2,3Rag Bag Quilters Conference & Work Shops. Linda Petrone in Blairmore

May 8,9, 2015 Quilted Creations X, Penticton Quilt Guild, Trade Centre; Fri. 9-9; Sat. 9-5

May 8,9Mountains of Quilts, Cranbrook Alliance Church, 12 Kootenay St. N

May 7Chat and Sew May 21Guild Meeting

May 23,24Festival of Quilts at Heritage Park in Calgary

May 25-June 7North Star Quilt Guild Show at Centre 64 in Kimberley

June 4Chat and Sew

June 4-6The Canadian Quilters Association Conference will be held in Lethbridge. The

Lethbridge Guild has a call out for volunteers to assist at the conference. Registration open.

June 13,14Edmonton Festival of Quilts, Central Lions Rec. Centre Sat. 10-5; Sun. 10-4

June 18Guild Wind-Up Meeting & Pot Luck Luncheon

Friday June 26Market Fest Raffle Ticket Sales

July 2Chat and Sew

July 7-13Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show, Sisters, Oregon

Friday July 31Market Fest Raffle Ticket Sales

August 6Chat and Sew

Friday August 21Marketfest Raffle Ticket Sales

September 3Chat and Sew

Sept. 5,6Affair on Main Street, Metalline Falls

September 17Guild Meeting & last day for registration of quilts for the show

Friday October 2 & Saturday October 3, 2015Kootenay Quilters Show at the

Prestige Friday noon8; Saturday 9-4 $5

Oct. 29Nov. 1Houston International Quilt Festival at George Brown Convention Centre.

Classes begin October 26 in conjunction with the Quilt Market

Oct. 14-16Washington State Quilters, Spokane Quilt Show

Members

Needed

for Raffle

Ticket

Sales Please review the calen-dar and let Sheila Hart

know when you are available to sell tickets.

All members are needed

for ticket sales.

CHARITY QUILTS Quilts for Romania have 351 quilts ready to go. Help out on Tuesdays at the First Baptist Church or drop by and pick up some cut blocks to sew together at home. This would really help this small but dedicat-

ed group.

Darlene Hearn of the Kootenay Lake Hospital Auxiliary has panels and backing available for Guild

members to sew together.

Gerda Liebenow is now the GO-TO-GAL for all of the Day Groups charity batting needsboth polyester and cotton. She has kindly agreed to keep BOTH huge rolls at her house. Contact her with your requirements, and she will bring the cut piece to the next meeting, or you could pick it up at her home on the North Shore, 1553 Hwy 3A

Phone 250-825-9601.

QUILT CANADA AND NATIONAL JURIED SHOW 2015

Registration is now OPEN for Quilt Canada in Lethbridge, AB (June 4-6, 2015) Visit the website at http://www.canadianquilter.com/events/quilt-canada-2015.php. The pattern for the tablet bag on the conference site would be a great gift for you to add to your projects - one for the conference and one for a friend or family member! This is our second year with the online Call for Entry. Many quilters are reporting that this is a positive

experience. It is available at: http://www.canadianquilter.com/events/quilt-canada-2015.php.

Early Bird Notice for 2016 Quilt Canada will be held in Toronto sometime in June.

The Evening News from The Ladies of the EveningThe Evening News from The Ladies of the EveningThe Evening News from The Ladies of the EveningThe Evening News from The Ladies of the Evening Plans are well underway for the West Kootenay Conference which will be held on Saturday April 25 at St. Josephs School; vendors at 8 a.m. registration at 9 a.m. Chris Halleran and Sandi St. Denis are Coordinating

this event.

The February Beat the Blahs Party was a great success with over $800 of donated fabric sold. The Ladies

topped this up to $1000 and gave it to Nelson Cares Society for renovations ongoing at Ward Street Place.

We have been working on our own projects either quilting or knitting.

Keep stitchin, Lorraine

APPLIQUE GROUP Dawn Fox-Cooper and Suzie Holmes are attending the Annual Applique Retreat at Seabeck near Seattle. They will

bring back lots of new ideas and techniques.

The group meets on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at Suzie Holmes. Phone 1-250-229-4250 or e-mail:

sholmes01@shaw.ca

NEED SEWING MACHINE REPAIRS? Valerie Swetlishoff & her husband services for all makes and models, vintage and modern; they keep the sewing going. Titanium nitrate cutting blades; lint rollers for use on all boards; cutting services for various shapes and sizes. Contact Val at: outdooran-

imal@gmail.com The Outdoor Animal Contract Sewing & Anything Sewn Repairs valeriediecutsforquilters.blogspot.com

2015 GUILD RAFFLE QUILT REPORT

Bonnie Bell, Cheryl Cherry, Sharon Drew, Mary Jane Dudley and Darlene Hearn have been providing the leadership for the creation of Garden Labyrinth. . Chat and Sew sessions were used as workshops to create the quilt and members have helped out as they are able. Cheryl Cherry ap-plied the sashing. Gloria Reibin did the machine quilting and Rose Johnson put on the binding. Jude Schmitz is doing photography and each member who is selling raffle tickets will receive a small version of the photo for dis-play purposes. Sheila Hart obtained the lottery license and the sale period is June 4October 4. Sheila Hart, Laura McEachern and Rosemary Wal-lach have arranged sales locations and the sign up sheet is now available for the 21 days of sales. A page with all of the dates and locations listed will be e-mailed to members so that they can call Sheila and book their preferred times and locations. A Sign-Up Sheet will also be available at Guild meetings. All proceeds from the Quilt Raffle will go to the Koote-nay Lake Hospital Foundation. Only one quilt top is being made as the

Quilters Draw has been discontinued.

QUILT SHOW 2015THE ART OF QUILTING

Planning for the 2015 Quilt Show, THE ART OF QUILTING, is well underway. We are thrilled to an-nounce that Janet Jones and Dorothea Housworth will be our feature quilters. Elsie Gates and Bonnie Chalmers will again be overseeing the Hanging of the Quilts. Darlene Hearn and Irene Evanoff will be put-ting together the fabulous raffle baskets and will be asking for donations for those. Sheila Hart has been plan-

ning out her advertising strategy for this show.

REGISTRATION FORMS are now available and the deadline for entries is September 17, 2015. If you submit an entry and then withdraw, it is essential that you inform Dianne Watts as pre-planning is done for the quilt displays. Please include a small photo of your quilt on each entry form this year. It will make the pre

-planning of quilt hanging at the show so much easier.

Sandi St. Denis and night guild members will be co-ordinating the BOUTIQUE again this year, and will

have a larger space at the show. Keep this in mind if you wish to sell any of your wonderful creations.

We have chosen PAINT CHIPS as our CHALLENGE for this year. You will choose an envelope with a paint chip inside, and will have the opportunity to trade it in once if you are unhappy with the colour. The challenge piece may include any tone of your paint chip plus two other colours. The maximum perimeter of

the finished piece is no larger than 120 inches around the edges.

Thanks to our great planning team of Diane Watts and Leah Gray (Co-ordinators), Elsie Gates and Bonnie Chalmers (set-up and vendors) and Val Swetlishoff (Night Guild Liaison), Rosemary Wallach, Laura

McEachern and Sheila Hart (PR & Raffle Sales). Thanks to Elsie Gates for creating the show poster.

Originally from Nelson, Jo-Anne recently moved back and one of the first things she wanted to do was join the Kootenay Quilters Guild. She already knew quite a bit about it from former members Amy Stevens and Trudy Moulyn. This is her first experience in joining a guild and she is already enjoying the camaraderie of fellow quilters and is keen to take

on new challenges and learn more from this talented group.

Jo-Anne did some quilting in the late 90s and loved piecing but wasnt keen on hand quilting and so it was a hobby that went dormant. In Jan-uary 2011, Jo-Anne moved from Holland to Toronto and a family friend from Thrums insisted that she invest in a decent sewing machine and take up quilting. Her friend had recently been bitten by the quilting bug and her enthusiasm was infectious. Jo-Anne followed her advice

and was soon addicted.

Jo-Anne has been trying out different styles and techniques and is al-ways looking for new challenges. Her main interest at the moment is to improve her free-motion quilting on her domestic machine. She

wants to bring her quilts to life from start to finish. She feels that quilting is as important as the piecing and an art form in itself as it can change the tone of a very simple pieced quilt into something special. Her goal is to

develop a skill set that will allow her to bring her own designs to life.

When not quilting, Jo-Anne is studying it in books and blogs. Being very visual, she takes advantage of all of the great tutorial videos that are now available on the internet. She also likes that she can stay abreast of new trends and techniques from the movers and shakers in the industry. There are so many avenues to explore that the possibilities are endless along with a wish list of pro-jects. She enjoys the enthusiasm of quilters and loves to share their

passion and feels privileged to be part of such a community.

Welcome to the Kootenay Quuilters Guild, Jo-Anne!

In March, the Art Group played with printing images on fabric using gelatin plates, found objects and fab-ric paint. It was a fun and tactile session and clearly

demonstrates the variety of ideas in the group.