Items of Note and Upcoming Events

This Saturday is a workday  - won't you join us? There will be a Valentine's runner to do, or you can bring your own project to work on. These workdays are a great opportunity to get to know other guild members, benefit from their expertise and experience, see others' projects and be inspired! The cost is just $5.00. Come and stay for the whole day, or whatever your schedule allows. Join the fun!

Next Thursday, Joyce Newman will be giving a lecture at our regular meeting place (Johnston Ave. Senior Centre) at 1pm. The topic is "Strategies for Using Your Orphan Blocks." Orphan blocks are those leftovers - blocks that never made it into the quilt, extra blocks, "test" blocks, etc. No doubt you have a few if you look around your sewing space....  Joyce will give us lots of ideas on how to put them to use, or incorporate them into a quilt project successfully. We hope to put some of these ideas to work at our February Community Projects workday. See you at the lecture, Thursday, January 30, 1p.m. at Johnston Ave. Senior Centre.

The deadline for the next newsletter is Feb.7, if you have anything to submit. Contact Lee, our Newsletter Editor.

Aurifil thread... we now have a local source for Aurifil - Andrea at Ridge Machine Quilting (280 Route 616, Keswick Ridge) is carrying Aurifil - large spools in basic neutral colours and small spools of some colours. Please support this local source! If you are looking for colours that Andrea does not have in stock, Linda H will continue to do orders from Karen Neary. (Karen carries 73 colours in the 50 weight 1300m. spools.) As before, once we have an order for $100.00 or more, Karen will ship for free, order arrives the next day. Karen has reorganized her website to make ordering easier, so if you have had it bookmarked, you may want to update to her new site at https://sew-karen-ly-created.square.site/   Her threads are all now separated into categories (by weight) so just click on the links along the left side. Easy Peasy!

Here we go again...

It's a new year, and a new decade! Belated Happy New Year, everyone! Our latest snowfall has covered the landscape with a fresh clean blanket of white - like a fresh sheet of paper looking for new ideas, or a clean and tidy sewing space waiting for a new project? What are you working on? I've been working on a very colourful project.. and doing lots of trimming, as you can see!




Our January meeting is now just a day away, we hope to see you there. Our program topic is Wool Applique and I know we are in for a treat when we see some fabulous wool projects by Ann, Barb and Susan. The Challenge "unit of the month" is the half square triangle (hst.) There will be a demo at break time on making hst's and on using the BlocLoc ruler for trimming.


Saturday is Support Your Local Quilt Shop Day, held annually on the fourth Saturday of January. Plan a visit to your favourite local shop and show it some love. ♥   Saturday is also our first workday of the year. The planned theme is Valentines projects but you can bring your own project to work on as well, it doesn't have to be a Valentines project.  If you are looking for ideas for a Valentines project here are a few links for various projects large and small, to get you going...
Valentine's Day Projects from Weallsew
Four Heart Table Topper
"LOVE" projects from The Crafty Quilter
Of course there is always Pinterest for ideas... oh my!  SO many ideas there...
So dig out those reds and pinks and join us on Saturday Jan. 25. See you tomorrow night at the meeting!