Saturday, October 6, 2012

MYSTERY RUNNER - STEP 1

We had mentioned STEP 2 of the MYSTERY RUNNER to be shown by Liz Lewis at Tuesday night's meeting, but first you need STEP 1...

STEP 1 – CHOOSE YOUR FABRIC

*You should use the same fabric for backing as for the outside border, no binding needed unless you want to do a binding…

Light background :  1/4 meter or 1 fat quarter
Light accent, a little darker than your light background and a different colour, too: 1/4 m or 1 Fat quarter
Medium colour, one of your feature fabrics:  1/4 m or 1 fat quarter
Dark accent, another feature fabric but preferably a subtle tone on tone: 1/4 m by width of fabric (wof) need the length for long pieces
Border: ¼ m can be the same as either of your lights or your medium but NOT the same as your dark accent
Backing:  if your fabric is at least 43” wide, you’ll need ½ m, if less than 43” wide, you’ll need 1 ¼ m
Batting: 43” x 19” piece, fusible batting if possible
Binding (optional) ¼ m

For a scrappy version:

Light background: 12 – 5” squares preferably within the same color family (for example, all beiges)
Light accent, a little darker than your light background and a different colour: 24-2”x4 1/2 “ strips, all in the same color family, for example, all pinks)
Medium (one of your feature fabrics)  6 – 6” squares plus 3 = 3 ½ squares in another color family, for example, green)
Dark Accent/Border/Backing/Batting/Optional binding are same as above


Monday, October 1, 2012

Fall 2012 News

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

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

St. Andrew's School Project and Youth Detention Centre

Pictures from St Andrew school project and purses made by the girls from youth detention centre with help from members of the miramichi quilt guild.












Monday, February 27, 2012

St. Andrew's school project

Members from our guild are working on a project with students from the St. Andrew's school.




Retreat at the Morada Resort

Phyllis with a part of her "Quilt as you go" Log Cabin

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Quilt Shows


   April 19 – June 10, 2012

Rooted
SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates)
Mary E Black Gallery
Marginal Road [next to Pier 21]
Halifax, NS 
                                                  

Information found here: http://www.quilttheatlantic.ca

















Friday, October 14, 2011

Another little movie

It has nothing to do with quilting but it's nice to see it.