Gone Traveling! Note from the Editors: Anne Dickson is taking a well-deserved vacation and will be back with her message in the next issue.

President’s Message

The objectives of the organization shall be: to foster interest, awareness and education in the area of quilt making. The Guild is to be a non-profit organization with all the monies being used to promote its objectives and support local charities, organizations and educational facilities.

I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E

President’s Message 1

Program 2/3

Membership Report 3

Block of the Month 4

Community Quilts 5

Sales! Sales! Sales! 6

Quilts Kingston/

Sir John Eh Challenge 7

Upcoming Meeting 8

Mark Your Calendar 9

Privacy of Information 10

Executive 11

Membership Form 12

Limestone Quilters Guild Newsletter , K ingston, ON l imestonequi ltersgu i ld@yahoo.ca http://l imestonequiltersgu ild.wordpress.com/

Quips October 2014

Volume 24 Issue 2

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2014-15 Program Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Trunk Show & Sale – Liz Schueler,

Lilac Lane Quilts, Alliston, Ontario Thursday, October 23 – 26, 2014 LQG Fall Retreat, $325/Double McIntosh Country Inn & Conference

Centre, Morrisburg, Ont.

More info and registration form on our

Web site (Still room for a few more) Wednesday, November 5, 2014 Trunk Show – Shahena Fredricks,

Cozy Quilts, Port Hope, Ontario (certified Judy Neimeyer instructor)

Thursday, November 6, 2014 Workshop – “Cappuccino” Scissor Sharpening – The Scissor Man (see Additional Information next page)

December 10, 2014 Christmas Dinner, Edith Rankin United

Church at 6:00 pm Michelle-Renee Charbonneau Lecture “Modern Quilting” & Trunk Show Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Traders’ Market Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Strip/Layer Cake Bingo

Wednesday, March 4, 2015 Trunk Show & Mugs/Blocks Sale Mary Ewing, Quilts of Valour www.quiltsofvalour.ca

Wednesday, April 1, 2015 Trunk Show and Pattern/Kits Sale “Quilted Covers” Valerie Miller, Renfrew, Ontario www.valeriemillerquiltedcovers.com

Thursday, April 2, 2015

Workshop – Quilted Covers Monday, April 20 – Sunday, April 26, 2015

AQS Quilt Show, Paducah, Kentucky Bus Trip

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Trunk Show – Elizabeth Dillinger www.elizabeth.dillinger.ca

Thursday, May 7, 2015 Workshop – Free Motion Quilting

Wednesday, June 4, 2015 Year-end Dinner

Lillian McQuaide and Susan Clarke

All workshops are held at Stitch by Stitch at 550 Days Road, Kingston. Classes run from 10am to 4pm. Each participant brings her lunch. Non-members pay an additional $10.00 per class.

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Additional Information on our Program for 2014-15:

1. McIntosh Country Inn Retreat, Morrisburg, ON We still have space for a few more people at our retreat on October 23 to 26, 2014. The rates below include 3 dinners, 2 breakfasts and Sunday Brunch. Single $500.00 Double $320.00 Triple $265 (everyone has their own bed)

2. Paducah 2015 – April 20-26 We will be staying at the Thrifty Inn. The price will be announced at the October meeting.

3. Scissor Sharpening – Robert Joffray, the Scissor Man, will be coming to our November workshop at Stitch by Stitch to sharpen our scissors.

Scissors will be collected at both October and November meetings. Bring them to Lillian McQuaide along with $6.00 per pair (rotary blades - $3.00 per blade) plus $1.00 shipping per person. They will be shipped to Lillian who will return them to our members.

4. Thank you to Gail Garber who donated her latest book “Flying Colours” to our Guild library.

Susan Clarke/Lillian McQuaide

Membership Report Current total for 2014-15 membership year, there are 91 renewals, 17 new members and 5 lifetime members, for a total of 113. The data on the Yahoo account has been updated. There were 72 names entered in the Early Bird Draw and Brynhild Hansen was the winner. The Privacy of Information forms were completed by 96% of the membership. There were 9 people who did not provide consent. The forms are valid until the end of June 2015 and are being kept by the Membership Convener.

Claire Westendorp

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Block of the Month / Boutique

The Boutique at Quilts Kingston is one of the main fundraisers for the guild and presents the opportunity for all members to help. Memberships to the guild only cover the cost of rent, insurance, library, coffee and tea. Funds for Community Quilts and Programme come from Quilts Kingston profits. Having high quality speakers is very expensive. Please make a few items. Below is a chart showing the types of items that sold well at the last show. Each month, patterns and samples of some of these items will be supplied by The Block of The Month and put on the Website. You are not limited to these patterns. Please make whatever makes you happy whenever you want. Think about organizing a work party with some friends or making a small item once a month - whatever motivates you.

Month Theme Examples

Sept. Placemats Travel Placemats, Any Placemats Preferably in pairs.

Oct. Bags Wine Bags,Gift Bags, Lunch Bags, Lug a Mug,

Tote Bags , Evening Bags

Nov. Kitchen Stuff Microwave Bowls, Bread Baskets, Pot Holders, Coasters

Casserole Carriers, Coasters, Tea Cozies

Dec. Christmas Gift Bags, Placemats, Decorations, Tree Skirts, Wall Hangings

Jan. 2015 Baby and Kid Hats, Blocks, Bibs, Quilts, Receiving Blankets , Toys,

Feb. Household Arm Chair Caddy, Walker Caddy, Senior Bibs, Aprons,

Table Runners, Mug Wraps, Wall Hangings,

March Personal Items Luggage Tags, Eyeglass Cases, Jewelry Bags, Ipad Cases

Tissue Holders, Cell Phone Cases

April Sewing Room Thread catchers, needle Holders, Pin Cushions,

Scissor Holders, Sewing Machine Pads and Covers, May

Everything Else

Postcards, Greeting Cards, Pillows Wallhangings

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We had a very nice display of quilts at our last meeting. Twenty-four quilts were finished by the group since our meeting last June. On Tuesday Sept 9, we had our workday at Anne Dickson's place as usual. Anne and Gerrie were on holidays, but they let us use the house anyways. There were 6 of us attending: Holly Moyes, Heather Buchan, Gisele Van Putten, Jean Clair, Susan Torrens and myself. We had 10 quilts needing labels, which got all done during the morning coffee. With Gerrie not there to make our lunch, we still had quite a nice spread. Heather brought the soup, and there was lots of good stuff. We concentrated on pin basting panels, - Claudette of KGH has requested several for their gift shop. Apparently we are the only ones helping her by making quilts for the shop and the panels really sell. There were also several quilts that had borders put on, and some big quilts needed the backings pieced before we could baste them. All together we got 8 quilts ready for quilting, and Susan Torrens took a load home to work on before she leaves for Florida. The next work day will be Tuesday, October 7th.

Brynhild Brynhild

Do You Know your Quilt Acronyms?

BOM Block Of the Month DSM Domestic Sewing Machine FART Fabric Acquisition Road Trip FOB Fear Of Binding FQ Fat Quarter HST Half Square Triangle LAQ Long Arm Quilter LQS Local Quilt Shop MAQ Mid Arm Quilter OBW One Block Wonder PhD Projects half Done PIGS Projects In Grocery Sacks PP Paper Piecing QAYG Quilt As You Go RR Round Robin SABLE Stash Accumulated Beyond Life Expectancy SEX Stash Enhancing Experience SID Stitch In the Ditch SnW Stack and Whack Squishy Envelopes filed with swap fabric or gifts sent

through the mail STASH Special Treasures All Hidden Secretly TGIF Thank God It’s Finished TOT Tone On Tone UFO UnFinished Object WWIT What Was I Thinking WISP Work In Slow Progress WOF Width Of Fabric WOMBAT Waste Of Money, Batting And Time

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Sales! Sales! Sales!

Sawdust and Glass Fall Sales: Oct. 18 St. John de Bosco Church Nov. 15 – 16 C.F.B. Kingston Christmas Craft Sale 9 :00 - 2:00 175 Windsor Dr. Brockville 10:00 - 4 :00 Military Sportsplex

& 11:00 - 3:00 Hwy 2 ( across the Causeway ) Nov. 1 - 2 Gananoque Rotary Sale 10:00 - 4:00 Gananoque Secondary School

Visit our new website

www.sawdustandglass.com

Ann Oastler 875 Ashton Place Kingston Ontario aoastler@cogeco.ca 613-389-7002

Special Sale The family of Shirley Mills, who formerly operated Quilts & Other Cover-Ups in Blenhiem, Ontario will be selling premium 100% cotton fabrics that are not found anywhere else in Canada for $10/yard including taxes. The Kingston Heirloom Quilters invites us to attend their October 7th meeting anytime between 9:30 am – 3:00 pm and/or 6:30-8:30 pm for this sale. Fabrics by: Northcott, Jinny Beyer, batiks from BALI, Kona Bay and B & J will be available for

sale at these amazing prices.

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Quilts Kingston 2015

It’s Official!

Friday, June 12 10 am – 7 pm, Saturday June 13 10 am – 6 pm

Sunday June 14 10 am – 4 pm

Royal Kingston Curling Club, 130 Days Road

Kingston ON

More information will be available on our Quilts Kingston 2015 Web page soon!

The “Sir John A. / Sir John, Eh?” Challenge Quilts Kingston 2015

June 12 – 14, 2015

In 2015, Sir John A. Macdonald, Kingston lawyer and first Prime Minister of Canada, turns 200.

To celebrate, the Quilts Kingston 2015 challenge is “Sir John A. / Sir John, Eh?” Competition details:

Entrants must be current members of either the Kingston Heirloom Quilters (KHQ) or the Limestone Quilters’ Guild (LQG);

Quilt perimeter not to exceed 150 inches (e.g., a 3 foot square is 144 inches);

No minimum size; Unlike previous challenge competitions, this year there is no entry fee;

Entry form (on WEB site) to be submitted by March 4th, 2015

www.limestonequiltersguild.wordpress.com/quilts-kingston-2015/

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DON’T FORGET……

Membership renewal Books to return to the library BOM challenge items – placemats for donation to Meals on Wheels and Block of the Month Completed kits for Community Quilts Indoor shoes if the weather is nasty Show and Tell items Block of the Month – Summer Challenge Fall placemats for Meals on Wheels are due at the October meeting so that they can be delivered before Thanksgiving. Monthly Volunteers - Tulip Block

The evening’s refreshments are provided by this month’s Block Volunteers:

Co-Ordinator Susan Clarke

Simone Lynch Lorraine Patry Shirley Coombs Henriette Kilfoyle

Shelley Simpson Dianne Andrews Linda VanHal Mary Lou Boudreau

Beth Abbott Mary Dupel Ann Amos Carol Garner

Refer to www.limestonequiltersguild.wordpress.com/monthly-social-committee/

Remember to advise Doreen Jeffers of any best wishes or condolence cards that should be sent to Guild members. She relies on all of us for this information.

COFFEE BREAK - Remember to bring your mug to the meeting

SAVE YOUR STITCH BY STITCH RECEIPTS!!

Please bring in your receipts from Stitch by Stitch. For every $2,000 we collect in receipts, Stitch by Stitch gives us a $100 gift certificate. These funds are put to good use by our Guild. You can drop off your receipts by depositing them in the envelope located at the reception tables. A special thank you goes to Stitch by Stitch.

REMEMBER – OUR UPCOMING MEETING SENIOR CENTRE, 56 Frances Street, Kingston

WEDNESDAY, October 1st, 2014 - 7:00 pm www.limestonequiltersguild.wordpress.com/

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Mark Your Calendar

2014 Ongoing until November 9 “Stitches Across Time 2014”, Rosemont, ON www.stitchesacrosstime.com/index/files/Page677.htm October 3-4 “Fall Into Quilts” Presented by Hamilton Quilters Guild At Ancaster Fairgrounds, 630 Trinity Rd., Hamilton, ON www.hamiltonquiltersguild.com October 18 “Celebrating Quilting” Espanola, ON Contact Jackie Tarinowski for more info Email: mrs_t53@hotmail.com October 24-25 “The Fabric of our Lives Quilt Show”, Best Western Plus, Brantford, Ontario Brant Heritage Quilters Guild www.brantheritagequilters.com November 1-30 “Work of Threads Festival” Queen Elizabeth Park Community & Cultural Centre, 2302 Bridge Rd., Oakville, ON www.worldofthreadsfestival.com November 15 – 9:30 to 4:00 pm Workshop – Modern Totems Instructor: M.R. Charbonneau Fee $40 RSVP by Oct. 15/14 Kemptville Pentecostal Church, 1964 County Road 43, Kemptville, ON Contact: Beth Brown brelizabeth2010@gmail.com 2015 April 18 – 19 “Quilts 2015” Napanee Heritage Quilters Guild 16 McPherson Dr., Napanee, ON www.napaneeheritagequiltersguild.com

May 1-2 “Gathering of Quilts” Royal City Quilters Guild Guelph, ON www.royalcityquiltersguild.ca/ May 22-24 “Waterways Quilt Show” Brockville, Onatrio Thousand Islands Quilters’ Guild www.thousandislandsquiltersquild.com May 30-31 “Quilted Treasures” Lindsay Creative Quilters’ Guild, Lindsay Curling Club, 18 Peel St., Lindsay, ON www.linsaycqg.com June 6 – 7 “Stitching Among Friends Quilt Show”, Quilting Corners Quilt Guild Alliston Curling Rink, 52 Albert St., Alliston, ON www.aqcguild.edublogs.org/ June 12-14 “Quilts Kingston 2015” Royal Kingston Curling Club, 130 Days Rd., Kingston, Ontario Limestone Quilters’ Guild and Kingston Heirloom Quilters http://limestonequiltersguild.wordpress.com/quilts-kingston-2015/

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Privacy of Information

As a public organization, the Limestone Quilters’ Guild (LQG) is compelled to abide by the Canadian rules applying to Privacy of Information. Basically, this means we cannot share any information about our members without their consent. The personal information collected consists of name, address, telephone number and email address and is used mainly to contact our members for Guild business. Names and photographs taken at Guild meetings and events are used for the newsletter and on our web site and only to promote the Guild and its goals.

Therefore, we need to obtain your permission to use your information to further the Guild’s objectives. Your assistance is requested in completing the permission portion of your annual membership form. If you do not wish to participate in this sharing of information, please inform any persons taking pictures at our events and refrain from participating.

Newsletters This is YOUR newsletter. We would love to hear about any quilt trips, other

guild shows, tips, or websites you would like to share with everyone. Please submit your

articles and information to the newsletter editors at any time. In addition, we rely on you to give us

feedback on what you would like to see. We appreciate your questions, comments, and/or

corrections.

The due date for ads and submissions is 2 weeks before the newsletter is to be published. It is

emailed on or about the first of September, October, December, February, April and June and those

requiring paper copies can pick them up from their mail folders at the subsequent meeting.

Shirley White & Phyllis Langridge, Editors

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2014-2015 Executive

Support your Guild – Volunteer some of your time!

Help with Community Quilts!

Make something for the 2015 Quilts Kingston Boutique!

Share your quilting projects at Show & Tell!

President Anne Dickson 384-4564

Vice President Mary Waugh 389-7202

Past President Marina Wright 544-2626

Secretary Shirley White 484-5114

Treasurer Mary Waugh 389-7202

Block of the Month Ann Oastler 389-7002

Community Quilts Anne Dickson

Brynhild Hansen

384-4564

358-2835

Historian Carole Murphy

Lucienne Coppens

389-3443

Librarian Sheila Cornett 547-4319

Assistant Librarians Carol Shaw

Zarah Kerr

Joan White

928-2354

549-2040

507-7903

Membership Claire Westendorp

Kim Trode

382-4905

653-6485

Newsletter Phyllis Langridge

ShirleyWhite

547-4062

484-5114

Phone Committee &

Member-at-Large

Doreen Jeffers 389-7037

Program Lillian McQuaide

Susan Clarke

376-3210

544-5737

Publicity Caroline Grant 547-4722

Social Holly Moyes 546-3034

Webmaster Susan Torrens 389-5490

Postcards Kim Trode 653-6485

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Limestone Quilters’ Guild Membership Application

2014 September – 2015 June

Make cheque payable to Limestone Quilters’ Guild and register at Sept. meeting or mail to:

Claire Westendorp 3520-6th Concession Road

Joyceville, Ontario K0H 1Y0

Phone 613-382-4905 or e-mail westendc@kingston.net

Note: Members signing up by mail over the summer will receive their receipt and membership card at the September meeting.

******* Early Bird Refund of 1 Membership if paid before end of August *******

Membership Renewal ($30.00) □ New Member ($30.00) □ Name tag ($10.00) □

Name___________________________________________________________________ Address (Street, City, Postal Code)__________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Phone Number___________________________________________________________ E-mail_________________________________________________________________

IMPORTANT NOTICE RE: PRIVACY OF INFORMATION

As a public organization, the Limestone Quilters’ Guild is compelled to abide by the Canadian rules that apply to Privacy of Information. No full names, personal information or photographs will be published in newsletters, on the web, or in any publicity from the Limestone Quilters’ Guild unless permitted by the member. Limestone Quilters’ Guild will not use your name, personal information, or photograph in any other manner. Please read and sign the following: I , _______________________________________________________( please print full name) DO give _______ DO NOT give _______ (check off the appropriate) permission to have any personal information and photographs published by the Limestone Quilters’ Guild. Signature: ___________________________________ Date: _____________________ If you do not complete this form, you will be deemed to have given your permission to the Limestone Quilters’ Guild in this matter.