Here are some key dates for Visions 2023 for our participating members.
Clyde the Cat, Bow Valley SPCA resident, is looking for his forever home—and when he goes to his new home he plans to bring along his own bed. Clyde is enjoying one of the fabric scrap bags turned into cat beds. The beds were donated to the animal shelter by the Mountain Cabin Quilters Guild in January. The beds are fully washable and, according to Clyde, very comfortable. A great idea to up cycle our fabric scraps.
At our December 7 pot luck, the best elements of the Christmas season came together – good food, fun activities, and being with wonderful friends who share a passion for all things quilting.
Thanks to Catherine Rankin for being the Queen of Merriment! She organized a wonderful pot luck meeting, with quizzes, prizes, and tasty beverages. I’ve added a new acronym to my vocabulary, and over the holidays I’ll be making a list of my NEStYs. We had a great turnout for the meeting. It was wonderful to see so many of our new members attend, as well as two guests.
Many members came early and stayed late to help with the setup and tear down. Thank you!
Our prize winners were:
One unexpected highlight of the meeting was that Therese Hegnauer came in person to thank us for the HUGS quilt she received when she started chemotherapy. Some of you may know Therese, who is a former member of the Guild and the niece of Margrit Remel, another long-time Guild member who has passed away. It is heartwarming to know how much a HUGS quilt means to someone at a difficult time, and that we have been able to help in a small way.
Our Community Outreach committee provided everyone at the meeting with a bag to hold sewing scraps that, once full, can be sewn closed to make a pillow for an animal at the SPCA. If you attended on zoom and want a bag or more information, please contact Deb Boutilier or Catherine Rankin. What a wonderful way to help an animal in need and reduce the amount of sewing scraps headed to the landfill.
Chris Perrin and the Community Outreach Committee send a big thank you to all who made Christmas place mats for Meals on Wheels and St. Martha’s Place. We also collected some donations for the Bow Valley Food Bank.
Dean Murphy from our LQS showed us lots of fun things at the Sugar Pine for the holidays, including some stunning panels and extra wide fabrics. Dean brought a basket of full of Christmas fat quarters for everyone in the room. For those of you who attended on zoom, ask for one next time you are at the store.
We have a few unclaimed dowels for quilts that were left at the CRQS. If you are missing a dowel for your quilt, please let me know.
And last but not least, may you and all those dear to you have a wonderful, merry, and happy holiday. If you celebrate the season, Merry Christmas to you. See you in 2023!
The Canadian Rockies Quilt Show was a huge success for the guild. Beautiful quilts and great autumn weather brought out the attendees in droves. Below are the “Viewers Choice” awards in our four categories. Thanks to all of our quilters for displaying their beautiful quilts in the show, our hard working volunteers, the merchant mall vendors, and the Canmore Recreation Centre.
1st Place Jennifer May, “Inspired By the Mountains”
2nd Place Margaret Lee – Moonglow, Photo coming soon
3rd Place Catherine Rankin, I Wish There Were Deer
1st Place Sue Lowell, My World is Colourful
2nd Place Siobhan Farrer, “Fresh Cut”
3rd Place Sharon Moore, Perspectives of Northern Lights
1st Place Rosanne Tarnowski, Rosanne’s Lone Star
2nd Place Carol Holmblad, Autumn Maple and Birch
3rd Place Lorie Jocius, For Dad who abides amongst the stars…
1st Place – Jillian Roulet, Alberta Foothills
2nd Place – Mary Wahl, Clotilde – a doll
We have a great lineup of speakers for our general meetings, two currently planned workshops, an online retreat in February and many other educational opportunities are being planned through Stitch and Learn and our fun challenges.
Please see the link below for more details on our monthly speakers and the planned workshops.
MCQG Education Program 2022-2023 Year at a Glance
| General Meetings
Date Activity Topic |
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| Fall 2022 | Fall 2022 | Fall 2022 |
| September | Canadian Rockies Quilt Show (CRQS) | Workshops and Demos are occurring during the CRQS |
| October | Cheryl Arkison (Lecture & Trunk Show) (In person & Zoom) |
Topic: Improv is My Love Language |
| November | Cathie Ugrin (Lecture & Trunk Show) (In person & Zoom) | Topic: Inspired to Create |
| December | Dean Murphy (Presentation) (In person & Zoom) |
Topic: What’s New at the Sugar Pine? |
| Winter 2023 | Winter 2023 | Winter 2023 |
| January | Vanessa Genier (Lecture & Trunk Show). (Zoom) | Topic: Quilts for Survivors |
| February | MCQG (In person & Zoom) | Topic: Every Quilt Tells a Story. |
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March |
MCQG (In person & Zoom) |
Topic: Connections Across our Guild Community |
| April | Gloria Loughman (Lecture & Trunk Show) (In person & Zoom) | Topic: The Quilted Landscape |
| May | Jillian Roulet (Lecture & Trunk Show) (In person & Zoom |
Topic: Innovative Art Quilting |
| June | Year windup Pot luck | |
| Workshops | ||
| November 17, 2022. 9 am-4 pm | Cathie Ugrin | Topic: Representational Layered Landscapes |
| January 26, 2023 9 am-4 pm | Jacquie Gering | Topic: Creative Walking Foot Quilting |
| Stitch & Learn | ||
| Monthly October 2022-May 2023 | Sue Lowell | Skill building challenge each month, announced at the General Meeting |
| Retreats | ||
| February 24-25, 2023 | Suzanne Clease & Donna Coulson (our retreat guides) | Online Zoom Retreat (watch for details on the website) |
| Other Opportunities | ||
| October 3, 10, 17 & 24, 2022 (One hour per week) | Lori Dickman | Invitation from Lori to join her free Fall Mystery Quilt Class |
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The Creative Walking Foot Workshop with Jacquie Gering is rescheduled. The new date and time is listed below:
Date: Thursday January 26, 2023
Place: Zoom
Time: 9:30 AM-4:00 PM (Mountain Time) with 30 minutes for lunch
Registration for this workshop is now open again and can be found on the Workshop page.
Our last community outreach initiative for this year is “Touch Quilts”! For people with dementia touch quilts can be a stimulating and calming activity, including those with arthritis.
Jorie, our team member leading the touch quilt initiative, has contacted various members of the Bow Valley care community to assess their needs. The goal is 20 lap quilts that measure approximately 20″x20″. Nine 7 inch cut squares pieced 3×3 and then embellished will create a perfect size. Three quilts were handed in at our meeting so we have 17 to go!
In addition four 36″x36″ wall quilts have been requested. If you are interested in making a wall quilt please contact Jorie at jorieadams@gmail.com. We need two more volunteers.
To provide ideas and answer questions Jorie will be attending the May 4th QTYW zoom meeting from 1-3 pm. Touch quilts are a fun and quick project that make a big impact. Nine fun blocks sewn together.
The link below is to a video that we planned to show at our November meeting to honour Roseanne and the Founders of our Guild. As we recently learned, Roseanne is moving to Leduc to be closer to family. She will, however, remain a member of our Guild and through the magic of technology, be able to join us on Zoom. We’re all sad to see her leave the Bow Valley! Her sunny attitude and willingness to volunteer for anything that needs to be done will be missed by so many local organizations. Thanks so much to Wally and her son-in-law for converting it to a private YouTube video so we can all watch.
Several of our guild members helped add paint to the mural at the Canmore Recreation Centre this weekend. Participants were from groups who utilize the recreation centre.
Raffle Quilt Draw
On Sunday afternoon, Dean Murphy from the Sugar Pine in Canmore drew the winning ticket for our stunning raffle quilt, Colourful Canmore. The winner is (insert drum roll here!) Sue Herlett. The winning ticket was sold by Pat G. We hope Sue, the winner of Colourful Canmore will be delighted with her prize.
The raffle quilt is a major source of funding for the Guild. Many thanks to the Raffle Quilt committee and all those who sold tickets and manned the booths at the market and outside the Sugar Pine during these difficult months!
It was lovely to see so many members out to watch the draw on this lovely fall afternoon, and to Dean for taking the time from his busy life to draw the winning ticket.
