Hello Ladies!
Firstly, I'd like to thank Christel Frischmuth for all her hard work setting up this blog, sadly, Christel won't be with MQG this year, but we wish her well, and Happy Quilting - Auf wiedersehen Christel!
The Committee is in place now for the next term, list to follow soon...
I'll be co-ordinating\maintaining\trying-not-to-make-a-hash-of the Blog\Facebook Page\email notifications for this year. Many thanks to Dianne Woods for her email efforts over recent years - and hope you're back with us soon!
IMPORTANT INFO FOLLOWS!
This is a reminder that anyone who wants to enter into the 'Secret Santa' event only has until the meeting tomorrow night to sign up!
Additionally, Quilting 101 begins tomorrow night with Betty Doyle. You will be shown what you need to get started on a quilt. The blocks for this quilt will be displayed and you will have a chance to try your hand at cutting using a rotary cutter, and if there's time you may try sewing strips. Handouts will be available for those who want them. Also, those ladies who expressed an interest in the 'Thirty Something' workshop: the signup sheet will be available and Betty will have the finished quilt on display!
We also want to remind people of the Fat Quarter Lottery - this week is Halloween colours\fabrics, last time 2 lucky ladies won a nice bundle of fat quarters each!
I also have a little 'fall mystery' task for anyone who feels 'crafty' at next week's meeting - more information tomorrow, but I will warn you to save a couple of old Sobey\Co-op plastic carrier bags as a precaution ...
A couple of ladies expressed interest in the Batik Ghost wall hanging that's in the Keepsake Quilting Catalogue, in the absence of a pattern I have cobbled-together my own version of the pattern. It only uses 2 fat quarters (could be prints instead of batiks) and a few scraps, and even given my sloth-like work rate I had it appliqued in a few hours. I'm hoping to have it in some sort of semi-finished state by the meeting tomorrow - if anyone wants to copy the pattern I've done, they're more than welcome.
We'll also be aiming to try the Halloween placemats pattern, like the examples Jacqui Stephens showed us, before Halloween - the pattern would be equally good in Christmas colours for the festive season.
Busy little bees we'll be this Fall ! See you all tomorrow.
Gill Wallace
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