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Meeting Location: MIFO, 6600 Carrière St, Orleans, ON Mailing Address: PO Box 62022 RPO Convent Glen, Orleans, ON K1C7H8 1

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Volume 18/19 Issue 7

March 2019

I trust that everyone stayed safe through last month's snow temper tantrum. Thank you to all who helped spread the info that the meeting was cancelled. There were a few moments during the day that I wondered if we had made the right decision, but then it started to snow and snow and....Just like when as kids we got a snow day to do unex-pected things at home, I hope you were able to find special quilting projects to accomplish.

Speaking of accomplishments, it has been a busy year thus far for the Guild. Great workshops, excellent retreats, inspiring speak-ers, charity quilts and peaceful Sew Days, not to mention mystery quilts, fat quarter draws, shops of the month and excellent prizes have populated our agendas in the last eight months.

It has been a terrific year and it is not over yet. More speakers, more workshops, more retreats and a Shop Hop extraordinaire will fill our time until end June. But (here comes the paid political announcement), as Vicki, our vice president, indicated last month, we need to turn our energy and our 'thinking caps' to next year's Guild operation. Many, many volunteer hours go into making our Guild so successful.

As we look to find members to replace those who are leaving the executive and non executive positions, we hear similar refrains: "I am not certain what the job entails"; "I don't know if I have the time"'; "I go away a lot"; "It is just the same people who do every-thing anyway".

But....I have a few responses:

• As an executive, we are working hard to

provide better handovers to new people and

we all have agreed to spend enough 'one on

one' time to get a new member up to speed

in his/her job.

• Time can be an issue for all of us. Fortu-

nately, our constitution allows JOB SHARING.

Each position only gets one vote, but the work

or doing the job can be split between two or a

small team. Only one person is required at

the executive meeting each month. The ma-

jority of the work is done outside ofeither the

Guild or Exec meetings and often planned

well in advance. If you go away for a few

months, please consider sharing a job.

• Lastly, to respond to---its always the same

people. It is often the same people because

they are handy, available and know how im-

portant it is to fill positions. But consider be-

longing and going to the Guild like going to

campfire at summer camp. The first night of

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camp, there are those who choose seats

close to the fire--they may get cold easily

but more likely their personality drives

them to be in the thick of the action. Then

there are those who choose the back row,

really wanting to size things up, not certain

what the campfire and singing might be

about; they have a hasty exit planned if

they don't like it. Lastly there are those in

the middle, not wanting to get too close to

the fire but yet not wanting to miss any-

thing.

There is a good chance that most of us

are comfortable in the middle or the back

row. However, time comes to stoke the fire.

Those in the front row can grow weary of

carrying the logs, getting up from their

seats to do the work and maybe even get a

little warm.

As we approach the election time in

the Guild, it is time to think about changing

our seats. Some people are hot and tired of

being in the front row and need to step

back and maybe others need to get a little

warmer.

Please consider seriously moving to

a warmer seat. I know we all prefer to be

asked to do a job. Unfortunately, with the

size of our Guild, as an executive, we do

not know everyone. We need you to

say...'I can be the secretary' or

'community projects always has interested

me'..

In other news...the executive has been

working hard on many things behind the

scenes--fixing the website, planning the

shop hop, looking for speakers for next year,

keeping track of whether or not MIFO will

be available two years hence, updating doc-

uments and having some fun along the way.

Looking forward to seeing everyone in

March. L

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Next Meeting:

Tuesday March 12th, 2019

7:30-9:00pm, Doors open 6:30pm Remember your membership card. Guests Welcome! ($5 admission) Programme: Irene Lafleche Shop of the Month:

Atelier Quilt et Coton

Fat Quarter: As the February meeting

was cancelled we are going to have two

draws at the March meeting. Bring in your

red/Valentine fabrics for February and/or a

Spring has Sprung themed fabric for

March. The more the better!

We are looking forward to seeing the

monthly Fat Quarter winner's quilts at our

June meeting when we award the Viewers

Choice winner a cash prize!

Volunteer of the Year and Lifetime

Member Nominations A small way to honour members for extraordinary contributions. Nominations due 31 March. Ask any Executive Member if you have questions. Info and nomination form on website under Membership: commonthreadquiltguild.ca

Inside this Issue President’s Message 1,2

Table of Contents 3

Shop Hop 5

Retreats 5

Guild Mystery Challenge Quilt 8

CQA Quilting Gone Viral 9

Workshops 10

Programme/ Irene Lafleche 12

Community Projects 14

Victoria Quilts 15

Membership 16

Sew Days 17

Ailsa Craig Quilt Show 18

Member Award Nomination Form 19

WHAT TO BRING TO THE MEETING

Membership Card and Name Tag

$$ for the Shop-of-the-Month Basket Draws

Themed Fat Quarter(s) for the draw!

Library Books and items

Charity Quilts for Community Projects

THANK YOU to OUR ADVERTISERS!

Remember—just click anywhere on an Ad/Business Card to be taken directly to their website.

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2018-19 Programme Line-up

Please check out this year’s line up of events and speakers on our website:

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SHOP HOP - APRIL 20, 2019

Who doesn’t look forward to a day of quilt shop hopping? Add friends, a coach bus,

games and prizes, and you have the ingredients for a fun-filled trip!

We’ll be travelling to Almonte, Carleton Place and Rideau Ferry to visit 4 shops: Quilting

Quarters, Textile Traditions, The Pickle Dish, and Sew Crafty/Ferry Garden.

$35 is the price for this road trip. Lunch and purchases are not included, but you might

win a prize on the bus!

Your day starts at 8:30 a.m., and ends about 6:30 p.m. Departure/return point is Place

Orleans. Lunch break will be in Carleton Place. There are a couple of restaurants near

the Pickle Dish, or you can brown bag it and eat on the bus.

Sign up/pay at the March/April meetings. Space is limited, and we’ll be inviting other

guilds after the March sign up in order to fill the bus. So try to sign up and pay in March

to make sure you have a spot! Payment in full must be received by April 9 (guild meeting

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Guild Retreats 2018-19 Paula Patterson and Wendy White

The SPRING-2019 in-town retreat dates are: filling up fast

April 26-28, 2019 or May 3-4, 2019 (please only choose one)

Registrations for the Spring in-town retreats will be taken either at the Guild meeting or on line.

How to Register: There are three ways to register.

1) Online: http://commonthreadquiltguild.ca/guild-activities/retreats/

2) At Guild meetings: Sign up at Retreats table at the back of the room.

3) By email: [email protected]

IF YOU DO NOT GET A CONFIRMATION EMAIL RESPONSE FROM PAULA - we have not re-

ceived your online registration. Please check if you have registered through the guild webpage.

Location: Notre-Dame des- Champs Community Centre , 3659 Navan Road, Navan, K4B 1H9 .

Hours: Friday 10:00—9:00 pm; Saturday 9:00—9:00 pm; and Sunday 9:00—4:00 pm.

Cost—includes meals: $80 for guild members, $95 for non-members.

All participants are asked to help with set-up and take down as well as to help with one meal serving or clean-up. A list will be available at the retreat for signing up for meal prep or clean-up.

If space allows Guild members may be able to sign up for a second retreat 1 week prior to retreat dates. pPease send email to: [email protected] to check availability

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Welcome to the CTQG Mystery Quilt Challenge.

MYSTERY SOLVED Check out the CTQG website (under

the Guild Activities tab) for the link to

the final solution (Clue #6). You will also

find all the previous clues listed if you

still want to get in on the action (it is not

too late to get started—all the clues will

be there until June).

The parade of quilt will take place at the

June meeting and all “finished” quilts will

be eligible for three awesome prizes to be drawn:

A quilty goodies gift basket ($100 value);

A $100 gift certificate for long arm quilting services

courtesy of Quilts Inspired by Eva (Gwenne Beck-

Pottier) ; and $100.00.

Happy quilting, Laura

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Last fall I announced that our Guild would be participating in the Canadian Quilters’ Associa-tion’s Member Guild Challenge - “Quilting Goes Viral”. It’s not to late to participate and the winning entry from our guild, as selected by independent judges, will hang at CQA this June in Ottawa. Submissions are due at our May 12th Guild Meeting. I still have some fat quar-ters available in the required colour so please come and see me at guild if you want one. Gwenne

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Easy Peasy Threadpainting class February 23

rd.

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You can register by emailing workshops: [email protected], or in-person. Payment is to be made in-person at a Guild meeting. Please visit us at the Workshops table.

WORKSHOPS Sandra Baynes and Carol Nicholson

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Advertising Space Business Card: $8 / month (3½” x 2” or 2” x 3½”)

¼ page: $16 / month (4⅛” x 3½”)

½ page: $30 / month (4⅛” x 7¼” or 8½” x 3½”)

Full page: $55 / month (8½” x 7¼”)

Contact

[email protected]

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PROGRAMME GWENN BECK-POTTIER

Irene LaFleche -TucanQuilt Quilts

From Raggs to Stitches

Showcasing some of her favourite quilts, follow Irene’s transition from a 35-year career in the Government and being owner of a home-based knitting business to her creative passion as teacher, designer and crea-tor of quilts, large and small. Under the company name of The Woolen Bear, started in the late 1980’s, she produced and sold winter-weight knitwear… on commis-sion as well as at local craft shows across Ontario. Knitting needles were replaced by quilting needles in the early 2000’s. In the fifteen years that she has been quilting she has produced over 300 quilts, ranging in size from miniatures, wall-hangings to King sized bed quilts. Initially a few were made for personal use with the majori-ty being given away as gifts and charitable donations to church and lo-

cal organizations. She has had membership in four Ottawa Quilt Guilds and currently sits on the Board of Directors for the Canadian Quilters Association. Irene looks forward to what lies ahead with new challenges, and continuing to learn and grow in this crea-tive field. She recently launched a website called TuCan Quilt, to further support sales, teaching and shar-ing ideas. Check out www.tucanquilt.com as well as her blog entitled The Falstaff Chronicles.

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Executive and Committee Members

President: Laurelle Callaghan

Vice-President: Vicki Ross

Secretary: Carole Maisonneuve

Treasurer: Barb Till

Past-President: Debbie Isaac

Programme: Gwenne Beck-Pottier

Retreats: Paula Patterson, Wendy White

Quilt Show Coordinator: Cathy Gaudet

Website: Carole LaForge

Membership: Dorothy DeRose, Pauline McNally

Workshops: Sandra Baynes, Carol Nicholson

Community Projects: Catherine Parkinson

Library: Paulette Beauchamp

Newsletter: Eve Luecke, Laura Malo

Shop of the Month: Linda won

Sew Days: Kathy Sheldrick

Challenge: Laura Malo

Fat Quarters : Del Jazey, Susan Baker

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Community Projects

Outreach Recipients and Quilt Sizes:

• Ottawa General Hospital Cuddle Quilts: 22” x 22”

• CHEO: 36” x 48” for infants, up to 52” x 60” for teens

• Eastern Ottawa Resource Centre, Orleans: 40” x 60”

• Interval House, Ottawa: any size

• Carty House, 40" x 60" or larger

• YM/YWCA TRY Program, 40" x 60" or larger

• The Infant and Child Development Program of Algoma

Public Health, Ontario: 40” x 50”

• Chernobyl, Europe: any size

• Cornerstone Housing for Women, Ottawa; 40” x 60” or

larger

*Please remember to put our CTQG label on the back lower corner of all quilts you donate. Thank you!

COMMUNITY PROJECT NEWS Cuddle Quilts

In November we received 73 cuddle quilts

from our members. Our total for this year

(from September) is 260! Great work, thank

you!

Non-skid Soles for CHEO Slippers

Volunteer Services of CHEO is asking if any

of our Guild members would be interested in

sewing non-skid fabric onto the soles of

slippers that are donated to CHEO. These

slippers are hand knit and are very slippery

on the hospital floors so they would like

volunteers to provide and sew on non-skid

soles. If anyone is interested, please come

and see us at the Community Projects

table at the next Guild meeting and we can

provide you with the contact information.

YM/YWCA TRY Supportive Housing for

Women.

The TRY program provides low cost housing

with support for women who are homeless

or at risk of being homeless. The women

have a private room but share common

washrooms and kitchen facilities. Rooms

come furnished with a closet, bed frame and

small fridge. Clients provide their own

mattress, bed sheets, towels, cooking

utensils, and groceries. Often these women

arrive with only a blanket for their bed. By

giving these women quilts we can help keep

them warm and hopefully provide some

comfort.

Summer Contest Panel Panache

The Summer Contest is now over. Thank

you to everyone who participated. At the

November meeting we had the draw and

two lucky people each won $50.

For those members who still have a panel

that they signed out, it’s not too late to bring

us a quilt. We still have a need for quilts.




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Victoria’s Quilts Canada is a charitable organization of volunteers that provides quilts to people living with cancer in Canada – as a gift. To make the quilt tops, we rely on donations of 100% cotton fabric. We can’t use Christmas, baby or novelty fabrics, but we take just about anything else – as long as it’s unused and at least ¼ metre in size. Why not trim down your unruly stash by do-nating part of it so that we can continue providing comfort to those dealing with this dreaded disease. To donate, email [email protected] or call (613) 843-9212.

www.victoriasquiltscanada.com

Victoria’s Quilts Canada is always happy to receive your fab-

ric donations.

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MEMBERSHIP Dorothy DeRose Pauline McNally

Our Membership drive for the 2019-2020 Guild year will start in May. Please consider signing up at the April meeting to help us.

If you have ordered a name tag, please remember to collect it from the Membership table.

To comply with fire regulations limiting the capacity at MIFO, we need to keep track of the number of people attending our meetings. Signing in allows us to know how many people are in the room as well as giving you the opportunity to win a fat quarter supplied each month by Quilty Pleasures in Orléans.

Dorothy and Pauline, Membership

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No Frills Sew Days

Cathy Sheldrick ([email protected]) is hosting our No Frills Sew Days starting this fall. Next sew day is Saturday, March 9

th, 2019.

Register online or in person at a guild meeting.

What? A monthly Saturday Sew Day, great friends, great space, little work.

When? 9am-8pm—the second Saturday every month beginning in October. Mark your calendars and reg-ister now!

Where? Centre Notre-Dame- des-Champs Recreation Centre, 3659 Navan Road.

How? This is a co-operative effort among participants; minimize work, maximize fun. All you ever needed to know to participate you learned in Kindergarten. All you need to bring with you is a cheerful attitude, your lunch and/or dinner, your sewing projects and supplies, beverages. No liquor licence will be purchased. The cost is $10 (member) or $12 (non member). Bring your friends!

No frills means no frills. Participants will be responsible for set up and take down of their personal work space. Volunteers will be needed to bring guild sewing supplies (irons, ironing boards, Ac-cuquilt, etc.) from the basement and return same. Access will be given to Guild dishes including kettle but participants must clean their dishes immediately upon use. Participants are required to bring their own tea, coffee etc. No supplies will be purchased for sew days.

Sign up will be at Guild meetings (on sign up sheet), by booking on-line, or on Facebook. Money will be collected only at the sew days. Drop ins are welcome assuming there is space available.

Why? Sewing at home is good; sewing with friends is even better!!!!

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Completed nominations must be received via email [email protected] or dropped

off at a Guild Meeting, no later March 31st.

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