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2016 - 2017

President’s Message

It was my great privilege to attend the

Memorial Service for Barbara Fairbairn,

along with many other fellow PECQG

members, on April 11, 2017.

Even though Barbara and her husband

Bill didn't have any children of their own,

they treated all of their nieces and neph-

ews as such. Their stories told of a suc-

cessful business woman who threw her-

self into retirement with as much gusto as

her career.

Not only was Barbara involved in our

guild, and the hospital auxiliary, but

many other facets of her community.

I will miss Barb's energy, calming

thoughtfulness, and her ready smile!

The Head Museum Curator for The Cor-

poration of Prince Edward County, Jen-

nifer Lyons, asked to borrow four of our

wooden quilt racks.

They are to display a Quilt Exhibit, relat-

ing to Canada's 150th Birthday, from

May 20 to early October, 2017.

In response to Jennifer's request, your Ex-

ecutive Committee voted to purchase four

new metal, collapsible, photographic dis-

play stands. Lending these metal racks

will avoid several issues, some being

safety and transportation issues, associat-

ed with the wooden quilt racks.

The purchase of these racks brings our

total up to 5 metal portable racks. The

fifth one will be used to display our 2018

Quilt Show Raffle Quilt at various venues

prior to October.

These display stands will also make it

easier to display Challenge quilts at our

general guild meetings.

Thank you to those of you who showed

interest in helping the Friends of Ameli-

asburgh Heritage Museum. Their repre-

sentative, Sheila Eagen, requested help

sewing Edwardian period Costumes.

I am constantly amazed at the variety of

talent you, my fellow quilters, possess!

-- Janet Reader Day --

Aims and Objectives

Directing Our Guild

• To enhance the

knowledge of quilting

within the group and the

community.

• To preserve quilting as

an art form.

• To establish, maintain

and upgrade quilting

standards.

• To encourage an ex-

change of ideas and

methods.

• To participate in commu-

nity projects.

• To research and preserve

the history of quilting in

Prince Edward County

and surrounding area.

Meeting Information:

Guild meetings are held on

the second Wednesday of

the month at 7:00 P.M. at

Pinecrest Public School in

Bloomfield.

Doors open at 6:30pm.

Don’t forget to lug-a-mug

and wear your name tag.

Guild Mailing Address: P.O.Box 6195

Picton, ON K0K 2T0

EMAIL: pecqg@gmail.com

A Stitch In Time

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We Say Good Bye to One of Our Own ...

Barbara Fairbairn

May 3, 1930 - April 5, 2017

Peacefully in the hands of her husband William at Hospice Prince Edward on Wednesday April 5th, 2017.Barbara Fairbairn of Jasper Street, Picton formerly of Montreal at the age of 86. Dear sister of Vivian Hammond of Ireland, Isobel Helm (Gordon) of Cornwall and Muriel Hammond of Montreal. Barbara will be missed by her nieces and nephews. A memorial service will be held in the chapel of the Whattam Funeral Home 33 Main Street, Picton, ON. on Tuesday April 11th, 2017 at 2 p.m. Friends may visit with the family from 1 p.m. until the time of the service. Reverend Mark Hammond to officiate. Cremation has taken place with interment in Glenwood Cemetery. If desired, donations to the Hospice Prince Edward would be appreciated.

... such a grand lady and generous with her support to the guild. She will be missed ... Vicki

... I'm grateful to have gotten to know Barbara last year working together on the quilt show vendors

committee. She gave good advice, maintained her sense of humour and worked tirelessly with grace

and dignity. She was, and remains, an inspiration. ... Mary

... So sorry. Barbara was in the guild for a long time, always engaged and ready to take on tasks

wherever needed, pleasant and helpful. She will be missed. Greta

... I'm so very sorry! What a great loss! Barbara made me feel so welcome in the county! I'm so sad!

Hugs to all! ... Eleanor

... I didn't know Barbara well, however I fondly remember the first time we worked together. She had

volunteered to help sell raffle quilt tickets at the Milford fair a few years ago. She had the last shift

of the day. It turned out to be a windy day with rain threatening all day. I arrived at the booth early

to help tear down the display, just as torrents of rain were falling, but Barbara had already packed

everything up, ensuring the quilt was safe and dry. She was still there selling raffle tickets in the

rain, without the benefit of the quilt to help her.

Barbara had a lovely soul, a ready smile and a great sense of humour. I will miss her. ... Dealia

... For me, Barbara personified everything that a guild member should be; what I see in so many of

you. She was kind, capable, generous and energetic. I loved her sense of humour and fun and the

way that she greeted everyone with her wonderfully warm smile. I’ll miss her. ...Bill

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This quilt which is owned by Joan O’Neill has an extraor-dinary story which I felt should be shared with guild members

As usual Joan had a vision and the ability to get others involved and eight Ontario Quilt Guilds are represented in this unique quilt which was created through her efforts and the quilters listed below. The quilt unfortunately was not completed in time for entry into the1984 Bi-Centennial Quilt Show.

The quilt was meant to represent each quilter’s interpreta-tion of the Loyalist Heritage of Upper Canada.

Joan appointed me as the promoter of the quilt and during the month of April and until the middle of May the quilt has been displayed at the Parrott Gallery in Belleville. Since It seems a shame to have the quilt lounging in some private cupboard. I intend to contact Upper Canada Vil-lage to see if they are interested in acquiring the quilt as part of their permanent collection. In my opinion the quilt should be of interest to the Village.

The quilt was meant to represent each quilter’s interpreta-tion of the Loyalist Heritage of Upper Canada. Viewing the quilt left to right (note embroidered logos)

1-Etobicoke Quilt Guild, Etobicok -“Batchelor`s Puzzle”, pieced by Ann Steele

2-Oxford Quilters’ Guild, Ingersoll -“Ontario Star”, de-signed and pieced by M. MacHuletz

3-Kawartha Quilters’ Guild, Peterborough -“Revolving Arrows”, designed and pieced by June James.

4-Rouge Valley Quilting Guild, Pickering -”Ontario Flo-ral Trillium”, designed and appliquéd by Kay Sayer.

5-Sudbury District Quilters’ & Stitchery Guild, Sudbury - “Sudbury Sue” designed by Bob Brooks, husband of guild member.

6-Nearly North Quilters Guild, North Bay -“Road Thru Ontario”, depicting longest winding highway (#11) in On-tario wandering thru farmland and wooded pines. De-signed and pieced byAndre Mantha.

7-York Heritage Quilters’ Guild, Willowdale -“Birds in the Air”, pieced by Debbie Saltzburg.

8-East Toronto Quilt Guild, Toronto -“New Star”, repre-senting new guild, designed and pieced by Dolores Se-dore.

9-Centre Logo -Designed and appliquėd by Maureen Mosher. Embroidered by Doris Robinson, The Ontario Stitchery Guild.

Quilt layout, design and colour: Maureen Mosher

Quilt assembly and binding: Joan O’Neill & Maureen Mosher

Hand Quilting: Betty Bourne, Evelyn Blake, Lorraine Cunnington, Frances Ardizzi, Nancy Alderdice and Joan O’Neill

EDITOR’S NOTE ... Thanks Greta. Such an important and in-teresting part of our past!

Bi-Centennial Quilt 1784-1984

The Bi-Centennial of the settlements of Upper Canada by The United Empire Loyalist

... Submitted by Greta Kristiansen

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4 H ‘Graduates’ Submitted by Marianne Sanders

They really impressed us with their inspiration for making proud to be Canadian quilts!

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Sylvia Naylor’s Workshop

... Submitted by Marianne Sanders

We had a great day with lots of flowers, pieces of sparking organza, bits of shiny threads and tons of creativity.

Sylvia is a generous teacher and kept us going for 6 1/2 hours with great tips and inspiration.

Here we show our very different projects!

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Machines looking for a good home.

The guild has been gifted with Barb Fairbairn’s

portable sewing machine and her serger which

are being offered for sale. If you are interested

or know anyone who is please contact Betty

Beaumont at 613-471-1320.

Please help us find a home for these machines.

We might even throw in some incentives. You

never know.

Elna Sew Green

-15 stitches including buttonhole, stretch stitches

and triple stitches. Comes with tapestry carry

case. Approx 4 yrs old. Serviced within the last

year. Suggested retail price $399 ... Asking $175

Euro-Pro 4 Thread Serger

Don’t have a lot of details on this one. Includes plastic dust cover and decorative fabric cover. Asking $150.

(all proceeds to the Prince Edward

County Quilters’ Guild)

Hospitality and You!

... Submitted by Lisa Castonguay & Robyn Hardman

Quilt meetings are so much fun; we get togeth-er, see friends and always have a great time.

The Guild year is almost over, and the Colour Groups have been such a big help for making the meetings easy and fun. Our thanks to all of our members, who have baked, shopped, sorted through their fabric stashes and generously con-tributed their time and energy to each meeting.

Lots of fat quarters have been donated and many have been incorporated into quilts. Bring one or more fat quarters and you might be a lucky winner!

Colour is the key and the next two months fat quarter colours are:

May-Bird themes or Oriental prints June- Stripes of any colour.

Happy quilting!

EDITOR’S NOTE ... What a great system. It allows everyone to get involved. Thanks for organizing this for us!

Our President

... See Her Shine at CQA!

This quilt of Janet

Reader Day’s was

juried into the

National Juried

Show at Quilt

Canada.

She will have at

least two other

quilts on display

in the show!

Congratulations

Janet!

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Cross Stitch Day

... Submitted by Janet Reader Day

We had a great relaxing day learning from Maggie Goode and Judy Blemkie on Thursday March 2.

Everything was provided for us from the Mary Pease Collection.

I'm sure they created a whole group of newly minted cross stitch converts!

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Even though many booths were empty, and at-tendance was low, we had a great booth.

It was very colourful and got a lot of wonderful comments.

Amazingly the one item that generated a lot of attention was Chris Turick’s little wall hanging of the County. So many people commented on it and how they could really identify with the sub-ject.

We gave out a few membership brochures; but did not have any sign ups.

The show was 4 hours and Maggie had brought a pile of Ronald McDonald quilts that needed la-bels so we spent our time sewing them on.

It was however a pleasant day and we met a lot of old friends.

EDITOR’S NOTE ... What a great booth! It makes me want to join the Guild ... Oh wait ...

Information Fair hosted by Picton Recreational Committee at the Picton Community Centre.

... Submitted by Greta Kristiansen (photo by Marianne Sanders)

Membership Report

... Submitted by Anne Russell

As of our April guild meeting, we have:

66 Paid members

7 Lifetime members

1 Honorary member

5 4H members

Member Ad

Judith Baker Mon-

tana: The Crazy

Quilt Handbook,

Crazy Quilt Odys-

sey, The Art of

Ribbon Embroi-

dery $15 for all 3

Pat Borecky <patborecky@hotmail.com>

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Library Report ... Spring

... Submitted by Betty Beaumont

Thanks to our 50/50 draws (supported by our membership) we average $35.00 a month which is used to supplement our book purchases. Thanks to all our members for your support.

If anyone discovers a book which you think would be a good addition to our library let us know and we will do our best to purchase it. We are always looking for suggestions.

We will also be enlarging our library this fall with book donations from the Mary Pease collection. It is a gift that keeps on giving.

Just a reminder: To sign out a library book:

-remove card from the pocket on the inside cov-er of the book (in the back for some books)

-sign the card (Name, the Month and the Year)

-give the card to library committee member

Return the book at the next meeting. If the book is not new or not requested by another member you may keep it for another month.

No book should be kept more than 3 months.

As we will be removing the books from the cart in June to facilitate the move to our new location in September members can borrow up to 3 books at the June meeting for return in September.

Library Report ... Winter

... Submitted by Sandy Jeapes (but missed by the editor!)

There is always an up to date list of the books in our library in the library cart.

If any member comes across a book that they think we should have in our library let us know & we will track it down & order ( that is what our 50/50 draw is for.)

EDITOR’S NOTE ... So sorry that I missed this Sandy! Thanks for all that you do!

Sacred Threads Biennial Show

... Submitted, shamelessly, by the editor

Two of my quilts, ‘At Peace’ and ‘The Rest of the Story’ were selected for inclusion in this show, in Hern-don, Virginia, near Washington, D.C.

Both quilts were quilted by Deanna Gaudaur.

EDITOR’S NOTE ... I am humbled.

From the Limestone Quilt-ers’ Guild Newsletter.

Year End Dinner, with Bill Stear-man as guest speaker, June 7th

• Bill is from Belleille, Ontario and as his blog states is “just a guy who likes to quilt”.

• He will present us with his quilts and his amazing stories.

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Sewing With Your Friends

... Submitted by Maggie Goode (photo by Marianne Sanders)

Mother Nature caused a slow start to our group in Janu-ary, but we are back in the swing of sewing now.

We have been working on blocks, tops and quilting our donation to the CQA for Ronald MacDonald Houses across Canada as well as our own projects. Many mem-bers have come out to help. We thank all of you for your assistance.

If you have not tried us out, please come and enjoy our camaraderie as we share ideas, tips and new methods. You would like our show and tell.

We meet every other week (May 16 & 30 and June 13) at the Bloomfield United Church from 9:30-3:30.

Cost is $5.

It’s never too late to try something new!

Pease Quilt Collection

Report on activity of the Ad Hoc Committee:

... Submitted by Joscelyn

Good News from the Ad Hoc Committee! All 178 quilts and quilted items have found new homes. We are delighted to say that internal sales to guild members (and family and friends) have added $3150 to the Guild coffers.

The bottom line does not reflect all the funds raised in the community. We will report on that number in the next newsletter.

The Ad Hoc Committee is far from unemployed as Pease Part 2 is now underway. That is the sale or donation of fabric, cross stitch, books and so forth.

Maggie Goode, with Judy Blemky’s assistance, held a successful cross stitch sale ($567) at the April meeting.

Thanks to all the Guild members for their enthu-siastic support of this project.

The Ad Hoc Committee for the Pease Quilt Collection;

Betty Beaumont Maggie Goode Sandy Jeapes Colleen Kelly Joscelyn Matthewman Janet Reader Day Marianne Sanders Rosanna Worden Hawker

EDITOR’S NOTE ... Your collective effort with this project makes my heart swell with pride at being a member of this guild. Well done!

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CQA Ronald MacDonald Quilts Update

... Submitted by Maggie Goode (Photos by Marianne Sanders)

Using the Mary Pease fabric we continue to make and finish our donation for the CQA Quilt-ing Bee. Janet Reader Day, Marianne Sanders and I cut the fabric into strips and then our won-derful members sewed, quilted and bound our donation. I have a collection of 12 completed quilts as well as about 20 blocks. At our April Meeting quilts and tops that were returned were shown for Show and Share.

Our Guild members have been very generous with their time and donations of their own fabric, batting and thread. Thank you so much for sup-porting this Guild initiative. You have helped to make the day of a child and his/her family dur-ing their hospital stay.

A final report of our total donation will be in the next newsletter.

Patricia’s pieced top

Congratulations to These Guild Members

... Submitted by Janet Reader Day

Photo taken at the Opening Reception for Quinte Fibre Artists 'Evolving Traditions 2017' Show at the John M. Parrott Art Gallery. Missing from the photo is Pat Sztuke.

EDITOR’S NOTE ... This was an amazing show! Congrat-ulations to these four Guild members, and the other friends of PEC Quilters’ Guild in this fibre arts group!

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Christine Renaud of Alternatives for Women ac-

cepted eight Comfort Quilts from Sandy Jeapes,

Committee member.

Judy Fraser (left) and Jane Moon (right) of Hos-

pice Prince Edward, accepted ten lap Quilts from

The PECQG Comfort Quilt Committee.

Comfort Quilts

... Submitted by Colleen Kelly

CQA Bus Trip

... Submitted by Maggie Goode

We are again travelling to the CQA Quilt Show in Toronto on

Thursday, June 15. Cost is $55. We will be picking up at Pic-

ton Fairgrounds at 7:30 am, Bloomfield, Wellington Essroc

arena and Wooler Road.

We will be especially excited to see the giant quilting bee for

the Ronald MacDonald quilts as well as our own Guild mem-

ber’s quilts!

There are still a few seats available, so if you are interested call

or email Maggie!

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The Program Committee is working hard to find a few more speakers for next season to complete the year. If you have a technique you would like to learn or have a speaker you think would bene-fit our members, please let one of the committee know. After our Historical Retrospective in May, our June meeting will feature Paul Brinko from the County Club in Picton. He will show us how to sit, stretch and stay flexible while spending hours at the sewing machine. June will also be the An-nual General Meeting. After the summer break, Kathy Wylie will be our first guest speaker at our new location in Septem-ber. The lecture and trunk show will be the “Art of Applique” with a workshop the following day teaching “Cut Away Trapunto”. Signup for the workshop is now open at $45 and will be open to other guilds in June. The travelling Canada Quilt Show will be at our guild for our October meeting. I will leave the rest of the season as a surprise for the next news-letter.

Program Committee

... Submitted by Penny Hopkins

... one of Kathy Wylie’s quilts

Picton Fair

I couldn’t find the list of quilting classes for 2017, but I know there will be lots of them.

What a great way to show what you do while supporting this community event.

Watch the website for the new ‘Fair Book’.

http://www.pictonfair.org

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Our April meeting was brightened by the work of Kelly Panacci, one of our newest members.

She is a fabric designer who works with Riley Blake Design, a family owned American compa-ny. She told us about her background.. going from doodling on her shoes as a child, attending George Brown for design, starting a design com-pany of her own that printed on clothing to work-ing in the scrap booking world and then on to fabric design.

She and her husband Mario gave a spirited talk about art licensing and the design world. She al-so gave away fat quarters of her happy fabric and

6 gift bags with more cheerful goodies. What fun!

April Meeting

...featuring Kelly Panacci

... Submitted by Marianne Sanders

May 6th Dyeing Workshop -Another great day with Bethany Garner

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Thoughts on First Nations Art and

Designs ... Submitted by Narda Julg

As far as favourite colours for our Tyendinaga Territory

see attachment regarding purple. But many times, I am

asked to make black shirts with red or turquoise coloured

ribbons. The turquois stone and colour

are considered healing. Other people

across North America ask for other col-

ours as you will see at my web

page. www.nkjnativeoriginals.com

As I mentioned last year, The Three Sis-

ters are always considered important.

Corn, beans and squash. I showed one

combination of these in a painting on a shawl.

For the Woodland area tribes, floral, vine and leaf designs

are the favourites. https://www.google.ca/search?

q=Woodland+beaded+designs&biw=1366&bih=622&tb

m=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiG

wenJgb7SAhUJyoMKHabKAkQQsAQILg

In North America, the geometric designs from the south-

west United States, such as the Navaho, have become

synonymous, for most people, with First Nations, but that

is not correct. Every First Nation or group of similar First

Nations have their own specific designs and colours.

White, purple, red, and turquois beads are popular here.

When I lived and taught in northern Ojibway country it

seemed that every beaded gift included orange and blue

beads.

The Medicine Wheel is usually made up of four colours,

Red, Yellow, Black and White. These represent the four

major Nation groups of the world. But for some prairie

and mid-western state Nations, green

and blue may be added to show the vast-

ness of sky and land.

The Tree of Peace with it's seven tiers of

limbs and the roots going off into the

four directions is also dear to our Peo-

ple.

Finally the three clans of the Mohawk are the Bear, Wolf,

and Turtle. No particular shape or design for these. Then

that leaves the eagle and the eagle feather. It explains the

reason for respecting the eagle, in the 'purple' attachment.

So all the best in working on the First Nations' Challenge.

Please see our web site at www.artistsoftyendinaga.ca

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EDITORIAL ... because no-one said that I can’t

I really enjoy compiling the newsletter. I get lots of email for a few days and feel important that my inbox is full. Then I cut and paste all of the cool pictures and articles into Mi-crosoft Publisher and spend hours making everything look great.

It all sounds wonderful, doesn’t it.

The truth is, I do exactly that ... but for each of the last three newsletters, on the night before I intended to publish them, I carefully saved what I’d done, shut off my computer and went to bed. And all three times, the next morning ... NOTHING! In the night, Gremlins had eaten the newsletter.

And then, on the day when the newsletter is to go out ... I’m madly scrambling all day, in my pajamas, to get it done on time.

And it always looks OK ... So maybe I do my best work at the last minute!

Anyway, it is done on time ... Assuming nothing eats it be-fore I send it!

Happy Quilting!

Important Dates ...

Guild Meetings ...

May 10 ... birds or ori

ental prints

June 14 ... stripes

Sewing With Your Friends ...

May 16

May 30

June 13

Comfort Quilts ...

- the last Thursday

of the month, 10

to 3 at Picton

Fabric World

2016-18 Guild Executive President …………….Janet Reader-Day

Vice President ……….Marianne Sanders

Past President ……….Greta Kristiansen

Secretary……………..Colleen Kelly

Treasurer……………...Linda Pennington

2016-18 Committee Chairs Challenges…………Alfie Deyo, Patricia Fullerton, Anne

House, Deelia Evans

Comfort Quilts……..Betty Beaumont, Colleen Kelly,

Sandy Jeapes, Judy Blemkie

Block-of-the Month…Nancy Hicks

Hospitality ………….Lisa Castonguay, Robyn Hardman

Library……………....Sandy Jeapes, Geri Shortt, Barb

Hofstra, Betty Beaumont

Membership…………Anne Russell

Newsletter…………...Bill Stearman

Programmes/Workshops.. Penny Hopkins, Marianne

Sanders, Deelia Evans, Janet Reader Day

Quilt Show Chair(s) …….. Open

Sewing with Your Friends ..Maggie Goode

Goodwill .......................Patricia Fullerton

Editor’s Final Note

Once again, I am absolutely sure that I

have forgotten to include someone’s re-

port, spelled someone’s name wrong,

been grammatically incorrect, messed up

something or offended someone. For any

or all of these, I apologize. I’d like to

blame auto-correct, but it is likely me that

did it ... :-)

As always, look on this as YOUR news-

letter. I’m just the editor!

... Send me your thoughts.

... Tell what you want more of or less of.

... Suggest improvements.

... Offer to write an article.

The Spring, 2017 issue of our Guild

newsletter is ‘a wrap’ ...

Respectfully submitted,

Bill Stearman

b.stearman@hotmail.com

613-848-1253