This years raffle quilt is “Mod Mountains”
Pieced by Heather Davis, Peggy Locke, Dale Robertson & Mary Wahl. Quilted by Darcie Gellner.
Queen size, 91” x 104”
Valued at $2500
This years raffle quilt is “Mod Mountains”
Pieced by Heather Davis, Peggy Locke, Dale Robertson & Mary Wahl. Quilted by Darcie Gellner.
Queen size, 91” x 104”
Valued at $2500
The 2023 Visions show closed on March 26th. Thirty-three original art quilts were shown and over 1350 viewers visited the show. The guild received many positive comments about the show and the quality of the work displayed.
Second place went to Lorie Jocius for her quilt entitled ‘For my Dad Who Abides Amongst the Stars’.
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.
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
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.
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.