Comments (0) A reminder this Friday, October 21, 2011, Linda Clark, instruction from Kenora, is coming to teach at our retreat, Saturday and Sunday. She will be having a trunk show on Friday at 7:00 p.m. at the Oxdrift school (HWY 17). Everyone is welcome to come but if you are not registered for the retreat there will be a charge of $5.00 to attend.
Linda Clark of Born to Quilt in Kenora, Ontario will be our retreat instructor October 21-23, 2011 at Joan Schneider’s Schoolhouse. Linda’s Angle Options (shown on left) can be made as a 31″ square table topper, 16″ x 39″ table runner or 53″ x 62″ lap quilt.
For more information or to register, contact Heather at hecopeco@shaw.ca or 807-223-5643 before October 17th.
Our regular Sewing Saturday schedule begins again for the 2011-2012 season this coming Saturday, September 24th at 9 am. Adeline Johnson of Kenora will be teaching Fabled Folded Dimensional Flowers. Click here to see a gallery of Adeline’s incredible handiwork. Here’s a sample:
If you would like to participate in this class, contact Hellen staffnh@drytel.net or 807-937-6793 to register. Addition information (supply list) can be found here.
Hellen has also provided a great workshop list so you’ll have everything you might need for a class.
Thank you to Mary LaRocque for providing the pictures.
Have you seen the branding for the Olympic Games in 2014?
Check out some of the places these quilts will appear here.
At our season wind up, several of our members brought their block of the month pieces for show and tell. Looking good!
Our next meeting, Tuesday, June 28th, is our annual AGM and potluck season windup. This year, like in 2009 (non quilt show year), we will have a mini vendor market. Doors will open at 6 pm. The following shops will be attending.
Serenity Quilts, Sioux Lookout, ON
Oma’s Quilt Shop, Grunthal, MB
Crazy Ladies Quilt Shop, Fort Frances, ON
Qustom Quilts and More, Dryden, ON
A few shops have yet to confirm. We’ll update this post with changes as they occur.
Here are some pictures from our last Mini Market.
The Sunset Gallery in Kenora, Ontario July 4th to July 9th will be hosting a special exhibition of Nancy Bergman’s ‘Shorelines’ fabric and thread work art quilts. The gallery is open 9 am – 5 pm and Nancy will be on site between 11 am and 2 pm daily. Stop in, meet Nancy and see the new spider web photo quilt she’s working on.
This Saturday, Adeline Johnson will be showing different ways to use those selveges you might throw away.
Here are some of her samples.
Our Sewing Saturdays begin at 9 am and are held at the Go-getters Senior Centre in Dryden, ON. Participants pay $10 and bring a potluck dish to share. More details.
We have posted an album of photos of the works in progress at Nancy Bergman’s Landscapes class May 14th & 15th. You can see the students’ work here. Click on an image to enlarge it or click on ‘slideshow’ at the top left of the page to view all images automatically. We may have missed one participant and will add her picture when we can.
Our neighbours to the west will be hosting their summer quilt show June 14 – July 16 at the Lake of the Woods Museum. We featured Pam Holland’s slide presentation of their previous show a few posts ago (below). Details of this year’s show location and hours can be found here.
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