Inside this issue: Presidents Address 1 Executive & NOTICES Book Report New Bed size Chart 3 4 5 Quilter Profile Library, Birthdays etc Workshops Checklist Workshops 2010 6 7 8 9 BOM Ad Rates & Sunshine Quilt Canada & knitted BOAT 10 10 11 Monthly Fabric Horoscope Christmas - Day and Night 13 13 14 The Week After Christmas Calendars 15 18 January 2010 Comox Valley Schoolhouse Quilters Comox Valley A good read on Copyright List of Guilds Email Addresses Puzzle Foods that Help 20 22 23 24 President’s Address We hope everyone had a won- derful Christmas with lots of good food, friendship, laughter and some great memories. Wasn’t the guild Christmas party wonderful? Kudo’s to all the great cooks. I hear there were two groups that celebrated in the evening as well. With Christmas behind us we have a couple of months to do some serious quilting before gardening takes over, so get out that pattern you have been wanting to try or take a workshop and before you know it spring will be here. We have had some members approach us with concerns over the use of e-mails. When people take out their membership they freely list their e-mail address with the understanding it will be used for guild business. We have been forwarding on infor- mation that we receive that are of- ten a solicitation for one thing or another. In the future instead of for- warding these e-mails, we will have a time at the general meetings for members announcements. If you wish to inform the members of an event or activity they might be in- terested in this will be the time to pass that information along. If you wish to sell raffle tickets or ask for sponsoring for a cause please sub- mit your request in writing prior to the general meeting so the request can be made at the meeting. Did everyone make a new years resolution? I decided mine would be to finish at least five UFO’s this year so I am going to be very busy for the next couple of months. I also pledge to sort out my stash. And that is the long and short of it. CVSQG - Box 1507, Comox, B.C. V9M 8A2 - Editor@schoolhousequilters,com http://www.schoolhousequilters.com REFRESHMENTS 2009 - 2010 January O P Q R February S - Y March A B C April D E F G May H J K June L M N June Potluck - Everybody Joan Fentiman and Gail Abel
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Comox Valley Schoolhouse Quilters January 2010
Presidents: Joan Fentiman & Gail Abel
Past Pres: Marie Trimmer
Vice Presidents: Florence LaBrecque
& Lynne McNiel
Secretary: Hope Rychkun
Treasurer: Judy Morrison
Committees:
Block of the Month: Marie Trimmer
Event Coordinator: Norma McNeillie
Fabric Strip: Florence LaBrecque
Hands Across The Water:
Barb Messer, Ardith Chambers
In-House Raffle: Shirley Woodbeck
Library: Myra Shearer, Brenda Levirs,
Debbie Maxwell, Jeannette Morneau,
Christa Constable, Hope Rychun,
Karen Ross, Julie Whitman, Beth Ritchie,
Marilyn Schick
Membership: Myra Shearer, Lynne McNiel,
Newsletter: Ardythe Crawford,
N.L. Advertising : Joan Johnsen
Notification: Gail Kirkoski, Gail King
Publications & Communications:
Verna Power
Refreshments: Myra Shearer, Peg McMillan
Retreat: Terry Vadeboncouer,
Beverly Luck, Sharron Woodland
Sunshine: Shirley Woodbeck
Venue: June Boyle, Norma McNeillie,
Joan Fentiman, WE CARE: Joan Boyle, Betty Forsythe, Margaret Yells, Gladi Lyall,
Joy Whitehouse, Marie Trimmer
Website: Hope Rychkun Workshops: Lynne McNiel, Jan Fraser, Margaret Yells, Hope Rychkun
Our guest speaker in January will be Kathy Klassen of Kathryn
Quilts; she'll be bringing some of the latest & greatest quilts she
has developed.
For our February meeting, Marion of Gramma's Quilting Cupboard
will be coming up from Parksville to demo some of her 'must have'
gadgets.
Please support both these speakers, they both sound very interesting
& there will be an opportunity to spend!!!
IMPORTANT MEETING
January 14th 2010, 7 pm @ Guild Meeting Hall
For all quilters interested in attending future retreats.
We will be discussing existing and alternative options available,
If you want your voice to be heard please attend.
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Also for all those signed up for February 2010 retreat at
Camp Homewood, your $50 deposit is now due.
To pay or sign-up please see Terry Vadeboncoeur,
Beverly Luck, or Sharon Woodland.
BAG O’ TIES : Do you remember receiving a bag of men‟s ties? Washed and pressed, they were handed to you with a few suggestions for finishing to choose from.
Are YOU finished ? I AM NOT and there is no excuse, though I have several to put forth - I am in the midst of being decluttered and I have no idea where they are, I am a procrastinator of the first water and I don’t seem able to control it, I have had surgery on one hand, and, and, and, !!! BUT as soon as I am able, I will make them my first priority of this new year! I promise! EDITOR
Comox Valley Schoolhouse Quilters January 2010 Page 4
CVSQ - Box 1507, Comox, B.C.
FIG TREE QUILTS –
FRESH VINTAGE SEWING
by Joanna Figueroa
That Patchwork Place, Martingale Publishing
2009
Hot off the press and new to our library collec-
tion is Fresh Vintage Sewing. I checked on the
meaning of vintage and it means “having an
excellence that has survived the passage of
time”. This would refer then to the traditional
patterns and to the many sewing ideas that this
book contains that are a bit romantic and old
fashioned using soft, gentle, floral fabrics.
A delightful addition, this inspirational book
will be of most interest to those of you who en-
joy hand sewing and appliqué work. The book
is filled with unique old fashioned gift ideas:
aprons, tablecloths, pincushions, journal covers,
and small sculptured objects. And, these would
all be perfect for making and selling at our vari-
ous venues in the community. For those of you
who don't like selling, many patterns in this
book would be great for small gifts for friends
who love fabric.
Themed chapters tie the book together by four
contributors. The chapters Front Porch Wel-
come, Harvest Welcome, Kitchen Comforts,
Chocolat et crème and An English Boudoir are
the enticing headings that lead into the projects
which are well-explained with good diagrams
and 'fresh tips'.
An example of what is in Front Porch Wel-
come, it starts out with a gorgeous 'rising sun'
block quilt all pieced. What follows is a pattern
for 'sit awhile' seat cushions, patchwork style.
The section finishes with sweet little 'tweetie
birds' that might visit your front porch! And of
course a nest and eggs are included to go with
the birds. These could be considered 'home dé-
cor' items, or for the more practical, pin cushions.
Each section of the book is equally appealing to the
eye and to the imagination.
Not too many actual quilt patterns, but filled with
other sewing projects that may give many of us a wel-
come break from larger quilt projects.
For those of you interested in the past and in creating
really traditional quilts using soft, romantic fabrics,
this is the book for you! I know that there will be a
'line up' for it once one person reads it!
Until next time, Jennifer Harrison.
BOOK REPORT
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When I visited with Margaret on a snowy December afternoon, she was busy cutting sashing for the Glacier View Lodge charity quilt. Our discus-sions, therefore, touched on her quilt-ing volunteerism, as well as on her family and her personal creative jour-ney.
"I grew up in Departure Bay in Nanaimo," Margaret began. "Crafty-wise, I lived at the beach, and I picked up rocks, pine cones, driftwood, and shells, and painted them. So we had my painted nature all around the yard. My parents always encouraged creative expression. I started piano les-sons when I was 9, and later took violin as well. In grade 7, I took sewing at school, and my parents gave me a sewing ma-chine to encourage me. That worked, and from then on, I sewed my own clothes. After I was married, I took a tailoring course to sew David's and the kids' clothes. I also sewed many of the house furnishings.” Although Margaret had played with pastels in the 70's, it wasn't until the family moved to Kitimat in 1982 that Margaret began painting. "One of my new friends and I joined the Kitimat Art Club in 1983, and we agreed to go together to a watercolour course which was being arranged through the Emily Carr Out-reach Program. Don Wright from Nova Scotia was the instructor. That was when I learned about inlines, not outlines. "On the wall in my studio is the painting I did using that tech-nique. I try to keep the first piece I do of each technique."
In Kitimat, Margaret worked as a Court Clerk and Deputy Registrar in
Schoolhouse Quilters in 2004. I love the business meeting because I love the Show and Tell and the trips. One year, through our guild we travelled with the Sunshine Coast Guild to Sisters. That was fun. So, it was Kyla and Joan who got me started, and since then quilting and fibre arts are my focus.
"My daughter gave me a piece of advice. 'Don't worry about the begin-ning, intermediate, advanced levels
of patterns. Pick a pattern that you like, because then you'll finish it.' My first quilt was a NOEL wall hanging with a lot of gold bias binding. I still hang that NOEL every Christ-mas because it was my first quilt. I knew how to make bias, for instance, because of my tailoring, so it wasn't diffi-cult. And my first workshop was with Dorothy - it was a Sharon Pederson reversible quilt. Dorothy showed a lot of us there how to use rotary cutters and rulers properly." Margaret has sewn several traditional quilts for her home and family, including an Asian Magic Tile in the master bed-room. When her son, Michael got married this past summer, Margaret gave the couple a Triple Irish Chain quilt. Pres-
ently, Margaret's design wall displays a scrappy circle lap quilt and the cen-tre of a new quilt using variations of Medallion and Log Cabin techniques for daughter, Laura. Most of her 7 grandchildren have quilts also. After two or three years of learning traditional techniques in quilting, cre-ating art quilts was a natural step. Now Margaret thinks that about sixty percent of her pieces fall into the art quilt and fibre arts world. "It was the
the Court System, then as a Court Liaison officer for the RCMP. “When I was diagnosed with cancer in 1995, and during subsequent treatments over the next three years, I decided to „retire‟ from the legal system to pur-sue a more artistic vocation. I had a home-based business teaching deco-rative painting and started designing and publishing painting patterns.”
Margaret and her husband, David, retired to what she calls this "island in the Pacific" and the Comox Valley in the summer of 1999. “Our youngest daughter, Kyla (who was and is a quilter), and her family moved in with us during the summer of 2002 while they were building a house in Camp-bell River, and I asked Kyla to show me something about this quilting thing.” So in an interesting role-reversal, it was daughter teaching her mother. Margaret remembers, "Then through Joan Fentiman, I joined the Continued on page 16
QUILTER PROFILE: MARGARET KELLY
Comox Valley Schoolhouse Quilters January 2010 Page 7
We have 4 new books in the li-brary and several more on or-der. The new books are: #213 Piecing with Pixels – unique quilts from your own im-ages #214 Quilts From the Heart – quick projects for generous giv-ing #216 One-yard Wonders – Look how much you can make with just one yard of fabric #217 Sew Special Fat Quarter Gifts
Membership
We now have 117 members, with
several new members joining in the
last month.
Please say hello to Sharon Dias,
Laura Fiaman, Elspeth Gadsby,
Anne Mamers and Nerissa Tho-
mas.
And please wish our January birth-
days a happy birthday:
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6 Issue Rates: Full Page (7.5˝w x 10˝h) $22 per month Half Page (7.5˝w x 15˝h) $17 per month Quarter Page (5˝w x 3.75˝h) $12 per month Business Card (3.5˝w x 2˝h) $8 per month The six issue rates must be paid in advance and must occur during the September to June time frame. Thank you to all those who support our Guild by advertising in our newsletter. Please send articles, etc. by the dates above to Ardythe at [email protected]. I will send an email confirming receipt. If you do not hear from me, please resend your email. Please contact Joan Johnsen at [email protected] for information and payment of advertising.
If
anyone knows a member in the guild who has
been ill or has illness or a death in their family
or who just needs to be cheered, please call
Shirley Woodbeck at 250-338-1176
so that a card may be sent from the guild.
SUNSHINE—Shirley Woodbeck
Comox Valley Schoolhouse Quilters January 2010 Page 11
CAPRICORN - The Go-Getter (DEC 22 - Jan 19) Patient and wise. Practical and rigid. Ambitious. Tends to be Good-looking. Humorous and funny. Can be a bit shy and reserved. Often pessimistic. Capricorns tend to act before they think and can be Unfriendly at times. Hold grudges. Like competition. Get what they want. AQUARIUS - The Sweetheart (Jan 20 - Feb 18) Optimistic and honest. Sweet personality. Very independent. Inventive and intelligent. Friendly and loyal. Can seem unemotional. Can be a bit rebellious. Very stub-born, but original and unique.. Attractive on the inside and out. Eccentric personality..
June Orange Tulips
Three inch strips, width of fabric, washed
and pressed please
Monthly Fabric Colours All Based On Flowers
by Florence Labrecque
January Cream Dahalis
February Red Roses
March Yellow Daffodils
April Pink Azaleas
May Purple Iris
January February
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T‟was the week after Christmas and all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even her spouse The quilting frame had replaced the tree by the stair, In hopes she'd not be disturbed, as she quilted there
Outside the flurries of snow from the sky, Made not a sound as they floated by. The needle also made not a sound As through the quilt it slid up and down.
When out from the kitchen there arose such a clatter; She flew out of her chair to see what was the matter. There in his long johns, stood a sleepy-eyed spouse, Grumbling, "Why can't I find something to eat in this house?
A knock on the door gave them both a fright Who'd be calling at this time of night They opened the door, and what a surprise! A very weary-looking Santa stood before their eyes.
"I know it's past Christmas, and you think I'm out of my mind, But I'd like one of your quilts, if you'd be so kind. "You see I'm ashamed," he said with a pause, "But I forgot a present for Mrs. Santa Claus.
"Sir, please help me 'cause you must know how I eel, A woman can make a man feel like a number one heel." The lady smiled, and turned with a grin, Returned with a quilt, and handed it cheerfully to him.
"Here, Dear Santa, is my latest creation." And she gave it to him without hesitation. "the Quilting is good, and the colors quite nice, "I want her to enjoy it; there will be no price."
"Thank you and God Bless. I knew quilters were great!" "now I must hurry, as the time is quite late" And they heard him exclaim, as he turned to depart, "Only a quilter would have such a big heart.
Author Unknown
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NIQCA (North Island Quilters for Com-munity Awareness) who got me started using non-traditional fabrics, and taking the Melt-Down Burn-Out workshop with Eileen Neill. I had the fabric from my tailoring; I'd been paint-
ing with colours, so I wasn't afraid to join the two. So then I explored. One type of design I liked trying was post-card quilts - it's a great way to explore different techniques, because you're limited by size, 4" by 6", but not limited by pattern. You can design outside the box, so you can get out your buttons and your trim and your embroidery thread and lay it all out on a 4" by 6" and add and subtract till you're happy." Margaret has taken several courses recently. "I liked Gloria Loughman's Mosaic Landscape workshop," she notes. It was traditional, but with a different way of looking at things. Barb Shapel's thread painting course was great, and I used the hand-painted fabric from Gloria's workshop. Design, Colour Theory and double appliqué courses from Iona McCauley were
other good workshops. I learn a lot from others, because, besides the Schoolhouse Quilters, I also belong to the NIQCA, the Parksville Guild, the Probus Quilters, and a surface design group."
Margaret says, "I usually find tradi-tional patterns in books and maga-zines, rather than from workshops. I can learn how from the book. Work-shops are good, though, because you feed off others; however, for me, when I'm composing and getting seri-ous about a piece, it is solitary work. But sometimes it is nice to collabo-rate too. I just finished a piece with Florence Labrecque that we are do-nating through NIQCA to the Glacier Grannies, to be auctioned off for the Stephen Lewis Foundation. It was fun working with Florence to design it, but it is nothing like the idea we started out with!" I'm doing a piece on my own for the fundraiser as well.
The OAP (Old Age Pensioners) wall hanging is another example of col-laborative quilting. Margaret says, "Merm had asked me to take charge of the wall hanging, and she had a few sketches of what the OAP would like included. At that time, we had
formed a small group of quilters who were exploring fibre arts, so that was who I approached. There were ten of us who worked on it. First we did the people, then the blocks, and then the creative work - the hardest part - was trying to fig-ure out how to place them. For weeks, the quilt was on my design wall as we pinned and moved the images around, raised and lowered, waved at the bottom, and added the buttons. And then there was Merm's genius in finding the background fabric for us." The African piece and the OAP wall hanging are only two of Margaret's volunteer quilts. "The sashing I'm working on today is for the Glacier View charity raffle, working with Merm and the guild members, and in January we'll get back together to place them on a design wall." Mar-garet adds, "Each year, the North Island Quilters pick a project and I work with them on that. One year I did a piece for Eureka House, then with the Merville Grannies for Stephen Lewis, the Dawn-to-Dawn project, and this year's for the Gla-cier Grannies. And there was the Autumn Windows piece I donated to the Comox United Church piano fundraiser. I photograph what I have quilted, so I have some art cards that remind me of the projects and what they have added to my per-sonal journey.” In addition to her art cards, Marga-ret keeps samples of her projects on the walls and design areas in her studio. “Because I like to keep my first sample,” Margaret explains, “ I keep my watercolour, pastels, and quilt samples around me. They‟re pinned up or framed (or in three-ring binders) if it‟s something that ap-peals to me and it‟s a memory of the journey, from what I learned of a specific technique. It reminds me to use it again – to incorporate it softly,
Quilter Profile of Margaret Kelly - continued from page six
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not all at once – where you want to use it and how much.” What is striking about Margaret‟s studio, aside from the technique samples, is the sunlight. French doors and large windows facing north provide an open feel. Marga-ret says, “I used to sew in the spare bedroom, but we get lots of com-pany, and it was getting frustrating. I love the new studio! This is where I live. There is a Murphy Bed be-hind my 8‟ by 8‟ design board and I have two 4‟ by 4‟ design boards (one of them moveable), a ping-pong table that I used when I taught painting, a computer and printer, and a fireplace for when it‟s cold. I have cork flooring because I stand a lot when I am cutting and design-ing. And I have my iron far away
from my sewing machine so I have to get up and move around more.” Margaret says that she organizes her stash by colour and type. "I have two nine-shelf cupboards for light to dark fabrics - one in warm tones and another in cool tones, then a closet designed for threads, pellons, and specialty fabrics (kids, seasonal, African, variegated for convergences, then whites, neu-trals, a grey-scale, hand-painted or
dyed), and art quilt fabrics in bins for chiffons, organzas, and so on. I remember Sharron Woodland said once that I had the smallest stash she had ever seen. Well, that has changed!" For Margaret, there is a great deal of satisfaction in quilting. “I like picking out the fabric, choosing the colours, and then giving it away when it‟s done. So the first and the last steps are the best.” "I'm very lucky," Margaret says. My family appreciates everything I do, whether it's a fibre arts piece or a tra-ditional quilt, and they always Oo and Ah - and I'm lucky - David introduces me now as a fibre artist. That's a very nice compliment. Our 11-year-old granddaughter, Julia from Campbell River, has just made her first quilt from start to finish. Now she's working on a pair of P.J.'s with me. This is something we can do together. In Kitimat, our youngest grandchild, 4-year-old Caitlyn, works with me, glu-ing fabric scraps onto paper making fibre art pictures, too. And we do some beading on memory wire to-gether. It's amazing how instinctive kids are with the colour families that work together, whether tertiary or complementary, etc. So, I'm lucky that I can enjoy creative exploration with them, too.”
As we left Margaret’s studio and walked down her hallway, through the kitchen, and into the living room, I was struck once again by the varied and remarkable samples of Marga-ret’s creative exploration in several media. The walls are a testament to her search for new learning and new techniques for expression. Thanks, Margaret, for welcoming me into your home and your world of art. EB
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Canadian Quilters' Association - http://www.canadianquilter.com/ Canadian quilters and quilt lovers are wel-come. Links, resources and messageboards.
Richmond Area Quilters Guild - http://www.richmondareaquiltersguild.com/ Richmond, BC quilting guild
Boundary Bay Quilters Guild - http://www.boundarybayquiltersguild.ca/ Boundary Bay, British Columbia, quilting group.
Lions Gate Quilters Guild - http://www.lionsgatequiltersguild.com/ Quilters and quilt shows, based in North Van-couver, BC.
Campbell River Friendship Quilter's Guild - http://www.crfriendshipquiltguild.com/ Meets twice a month September through June at the Campbell River Community Centre. Campbell River, BC.
Parksville Quilt House Quilters' Guild - http://www.parksvillequilthousequilters.com/ Formed in 1979 and located in Coombs, on Vancouver Island. Provides meeting sched-ules and information.
Victoria Quilters' Guild - http://www.victoriaquiltersguild.org To promote quilting in Victoria, BC.
Langley Quilters' Guild - http://www.langleyquiltersguild.com/ A circle of friends meeting to share and pro-mote the love of quilting by inspiring, and be-ing inspired by, the art, techniques and knowl-edge of textiles in quilting. Langley, BC.
Squamish Valley Quilters' Guild - http://members.shaw.ca/squamishvalleyquiltersguild/ Each meeting includes business, followed by a learning program which introduces tech-
Nanaimo Quilters' Guild - http://www.islandquilters.ca/index.htm Meets every 3rd Wednesday of the month at Brechin United Church. Nanaimo, BC
Chilliwack Quilters' Guild - http://www.members.shaw.ca/chilliwackquiltersguild/ Meets 3rd Tuesday of month September-June. Chilliwack, BC
Fraser Valley Quilters' Guild - http://members.tripod.com/~FVQG/ Quilting enthusiasts in south-west British Co-lumbia dedicated to promoting the craft of creating quilts. Meeting n Delta, BC
Pacific Quiltworks - http://www.channels.net/~quiltart/index.html Formerly the Western Canadian Art Quilters' Co-operative.
Canadian Machine Quilters' Association - http://www.cmqa.ca/ Cross-Canada membership with provincial representatives. Site provides workshop list, promotional efforts, information about exhibi-tions and membership form.
TIPS: 1/ If you are having difficulty seeing clear monofila-
ment thread when threading your needle, run the end
of the thread across a permanent marker. This will
colour the thread and make it easier to see to thread
the needle.
2/ Use empty 35 mm film canisters to hold four or
five bobbins. (does anyone have these anymore?)
3/ Make your own greeting cards by decorating card
stock with fused on appliqués or motifs cut from
printed fabrics.
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