KOOTENAY QUILTERS DAY GUILD

NEWSLETTER
QUILT EVENTS & WORKSHOP CALENDAR
Jan. 8Chat & Sew + Art Group SessionPlaying with Rust Dying, lead by Rosemary Wallach
January 22Guild Meeting

December 2014
2
Charity Quilts
National Juried Show
The Evening News

Feb. 5Chat and Sew; Feb. 19Guild Meeting

March 5Chat and Sew; March 19Guild Meeting
April 2Chat and Sew; April 16Guild Meeting
April 17,18Crazy for Quilts, Creston Valley Quilt Guild Show at Rec Centre; Fri. 10-8;
Sat. 10-4
April 17,18Traditional 2 Trending, Rumplestiltskein Fibre Arts Guild, Rock Creek Fair
Grounds, Sat 10-5; Sun 10-3

Guild Raffle
3
Quilt ShowThe Art of
Quilting

Art Quilt Group Activities

4,

April 25,2015West Kootenay Quilt Conference in Nelson; St. Josephs School 8 a.m.
5&6

May 2,3Rag Bag Quilters Conference & Work Shops. Linda Petrone in Blairmore
May 8,9, 2015 Quilted Creations X, Penticton Quilt Guild, Trade Centre; Fri. 9-9; Sat. 9-5
May 7Chat and Sew

May 21Guild Meeting

Grandmothers Dream
Work Shop A Success

June 13,14Edmonton Festival of Quilts, Central Lions Rec. Centre Sat. 10-5; Sun. 10-4

Quilter of the Month

June 18Guild Wind-Up Meeting & Pot Luck Luncheon

Janet Jones
Art Quilt Group Wonderland Challenge

May 25-June 7North Star Quilt Guild Show at Centre 64 in Kimberley

June 4Chat and Sew
June 4-6The Canadian Quilters Association Conference will be held in Lethbridge. The
Lethbridge Guild has a call out for volunteers to assist at the conference. Registration for this
event is now open.

Friday June 26Market Fest Raffle Ticket Sales

July 2Chat and Sew
July 7-13Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show, Sisters, Oregon
August 6Chat and Sew
Friday August 21Marketfest Raffle Ticket Sales
September 3Chat and SewLast day for quilt registration for the show
Sept. 5,6Affair on Main Street, Metalline Falls
September 17Guild Meeting
Friday October 2 & Saturday October 3, 2015Kootenay Quilters Show at the
Prestige Friday noon8; Saturday 9-4 $5
Oct. 29Nov. 1Houston International Quilt Festival at George Brown Convention Centre. Classes begin October 26 in conjunction with the Quilt Market
Oct. 14-16Washington State Quilters, Spokane Quilt Show

Do You
Have Time
to Spare?
Sheila needs help
making 12 Quilt
Show Today signs.
Do you have some
time to spare this
winter to make some
from some signs?
Kits are available
but you will need a
glue stick, some fabric and a black
marking pen.
.

Friday July 31Market Fest Raffle Ticket Sales

CHARITY QUILTS
Rotaplast headquarters reports that it has a large stash of quilts available at the moment, so there will be
no campaign this year. Quilts for Romania have 30 quilts ready to go. Help out on Tuesdays at the First
Baptist Church. In the past 14 years, the group has sent at least 1200 quilts to Romania. Darlene Hearn of
the Kootenay Lake Hospital Auxiliary reports that there are enough quilts at the hospital to last until
early February. So, take a breather until January. Gerda Liebenow is now the GO-TO-GAL for all of the Day
Groups charity batting needsboth polyester and cotton. She has kindly agreed to keep BOTH huge rolls at her
house. Contact her with your requirements, and she will bring the cut piece to the next meeting, or you could pick it
up at her home on the North Shore, 1553 Hwy 3A Phone 250-825-9601.

QUILT CANADA AND NATIONAL JURIED SHOW 2015

Registration is OPEN now for Quilt Canada in Lethbridge, AB (June 4-6, 2015) Visit our website at
http://www.canadianquilter.com/events/quilt-canada-2015.php.
The pattern for the tablet bag on the conference site would be a great gift for you to add to your projects
this month - one for the conference and one for a friend or family member!
This is our second year with the online Call for Entry. Many quilters are reporting that this is a positive
experience. It is available at: http://www.canadianquilter.com/events/quilt-canada-2015.php.

The Evening News from The Ladies of the Evening

Seasons Greeting to quilters everywhere. Plans are well underway for the West Kootenay Conference
which will be held on Saturday April 25 at St. Josephs School; vendors at 8 a.m. meeting at 9 a.m. Chris
Halleran and Sandi St. Denis are Coordinating this event.
Only seven of us attended our annual retreat at Lemon Creek, where a good time was had by all. Several
projects were completed and some were started. Our hosts, Barry and Judy were just as great as ever.
In October, four Kootenay Quilt Guild members, Gloria Reiben, Elsie Gates, Shelley Lee and Bonnie
Chalmers travelled to Houston Texas for the International Quilt Festival. Donna James, a former Guild
member won second place in her category for her exquisite machine quilting. Congratulations Donna! This
was the 40th anniversary of the show and it broke all attendance records with over 62,108 in attendance.
There were over 5000 students in over 400 classes and lectures.
We have been working on our own projects and many items have been completed for Christmas giving.
Knitting has also been done as every year, we contribute socks and underwear to the Amy Beauliieu Transition House.
Keep stitchin, Lorraine

NEED SEWING MACHINE REPAIRS?

Valerie Swetlishoff & her husband services for all makes and models, vintage and modern; they keep the sewing going. Titanium
nitrate cutting blades; lint rollers for use on all boards; cutting services for various shapes and sizes. Contact Val at: outdooranimal@gmail.com The Outdoor Animal Contract Sewing & Anything Sewn Repairs valeriediecutsforquilters.blogspot.com

2015 GUILD RAFFLE QUILT REPORT

Bonnie Bell, Cheryl Cherry, Sharon Drew, Mary Jane Dudley and Darlene Hearn have been providing the leadership
for the creation of Garden Labyrinth which looks intricate but is deemed as a confident beginner pattern. Chat
and Sew sessions are being used as workshops to create
the quilt and members have helped out as they are able.
The squares are complete and Cheryl Cherry is busy applying the sashing. Gloria Reibin will do the machine quilting and Rose Johnson will put on the binding. The Committee has kept on schedule and hopefully the quilt will be
completed by late January.
The lottery license will be applied for in late January and sales locations will soon be determined. We already know that Marketfest will be held on the following FridaysJune 26, July 31, August 21. All proceeds
from the Quilt Raffle will go to the Kootenay Lake Hospital Foundation. Only one quilt top is being made as
the Quilters Draw has been discontinued.

QUILT SHOW 2015THE ART OF QUILTING

Planning for the 2015 Quilt Show, THE ART OF QUILTING, is well underway. We are thrilled to announce that Janet Jones and Dorothea Housworth will be our feature quilters. Elsie Gates and Bonnie
Chalmers will again be overseeing the Hanging of the Quilts. Darlene Hearn and Irene Evanoff will be putting together the fabulous raffle baskets and will be asking for donations for those. Sheila Hart, Laura
McEachern and Rosemary Wallach are starting to organize for ticket sales, and Sheila has been planning out
her advertising strategy for this show.
A few things to note at this time:
1. We would love it if you could include a small photo of your quilt on each entry form this year. Though
this will be optional, please try to make it happen. It will make the pre-planning so much easier.
2. Selling tickets is a huge task, but it is the way we are able to make a sizeable donation to the Hospital
Foundation following each of our shows. Please be a responsible quilt guild member and sell at least a few
tickets to family and friends. Of course we will also need many volunteers to sell tickets at the chosen venues.
3. Sandi St. Denis and night guild members will be co-ordinating the BOUTIQUE again this year, and will
have a larger space. Keep this in mind if you wish to sell any of your wonderful winter creations.
4. We have chosen PAINT CHIPS as our CHALLENGE for this year. You will choose an envelope
with a paint chip inside, and will have the opportunity to trade it in once if you are unhappy with the colour.
There will be a complete explanation at the December meeting and chips available at the January and February meetings. Include your chips with the quilt submission.
Thanks to our great planning team of Diane Watts and Leah Gray (Co-ordinators), Elsie Gates and Bonnie
Chalmers (set-up and vendors) and Val Swetlishoff (Night Guild Liaison), Laura McEachern and Sheila Hart
(PR & Raffle Sales).

ART QUILT GROUP ACTIVITIES

The October meeting was hosted by Heather Myers in her beautiful basement studio. We were revved up and excited to show and tell our Challenge-of-the-Month, which was the word WONDERLAND. Everyone
came up with a unique interpretation on the word, practicing various techniques explored .

Heather Myers nished workshop sampler from a summer workshop at CQA with Pippa Moore
Dorothea Housworth smiles while making units as part of improvisa!on
The November meeting was led by Heather Myers in an improvisational exercise she had learned at the last CQA Quilt Canada with Pippa Moore. The premise being that many an art quilt is made up of units and variations thereof. So participants were
encouraged to sew blocks, strips, squares, log cabins, etc, which were then sliced, diced and re-assembled. In the following
photos you can see the progress made. Although none were completed that day, the quilters were well-armed with the tools
to go home and complete the project!

Rosemary Wallach did a Paulsen Summit scene

The word-of-the-Month for November was WILDERNESS
and you could see what innovative and delightful responses were received!. Heathers (left) combined Oct and Nov. words
Wonderland and Wilderness, Rosemarys Paulson Summit and Lauras Wilderness.

Laura McEacherns woven and painted trees from the improvisa!onal

exercise workshop

A challenge Word-of-the-month was not issued for January, but we hope some will complete their improvisational
piece, or their November Challenge to bring along to the January Meeting to be held at Christie Less Hall on January
8, at which we will be playing with Rust Dying, led by Rosemary Wallach.

ART QUILT GROUP

Wonderland Challenge

Heather playing with paints

Heat guns and soldering irons

We welcome all members of the Day and Evening Guilds, always! Our next session will be held on
Thursday January 15 and will deal with Rusting. Curious? Contact Rosemary Wallach to find out more.

KOOTENAY APPLIQUE LADIES SOCIETY

This group meets the second Wednesday of each month at Suzy Holmes in Long Beach. For more information contact her at 229-4250 or e-mail: sholmes01@shaw.ca

GRANDMOTHERS DREAM WORKSHOP A SUCCESS

On November 27th a well attended workshop was given by Dorothea Housman. Dorothea learned the
technique while wintering in the USA. Attendees brought eight sets of eight fabric strips plus their own set
of strips already sewn together. Each set of fabrics consisted of two strips each of eight fabrics that gradually
graded from light to dark. Dorothea had us all shop for fabrics from those brought by other participants
so that everyone ended up with nine different fabric sets. Once the shopping was done she skilfully guided
us through a rather complicated process of cutting, laying out and re-sewing our first set of fabrics. The goal
was for each person to go home with a completed block set and I think everyone accomplished the goal. I
cant say enough about how much fun Dorothea made the day. Her skills as a teacher were evident as she
helped everyone through the process of making their own blocks.
Elsie Gates

The quilting aspect of Janet Joness life began about 1984, when she
was inspired by what a sister-in-law in Prince George was doing. She
had already been sewing garments, from a very young age, on her
mothers treadle sewing machine. This was in Grande Prairie, Albert
area where she lived until 2003.
While living in Grande Prairie, she worked for about 10 years at a
quilting sore, where she also taught classes in basic quilting techniques. Those years, were such a good experience, Janet says. It was
like visiting with friends in your living room.
Her first quilt was a log cabin, in many hades of blue, which she completed in 1986. This quilt was subsequently sold.
Janet started making a green sampler quilt in early 1986 and
completed it in 1989. She entered it in a rural area fair, specifically in the Canada Packers Competition. The quilt took first
place and subsequently won at the Provincial Canada Packers
Competition for 1989-90, which took place in Calgary in February 1990. The quilt was purchased by Canada Packers for
their collection. Eventually Canada Packers ceased to exit , and
the Alberta Association of Agricultural Societies became the
custodian of their Alberta quilts. For a few years those quilts
were transported to various fairs and shows in Alberta where
they were on display. At some point, these quilts were turned
over to the textiles collection of the University of Alberta.
Janet and her late husband retired to Creston in 2003 and enjoyed life there until 2010 when he passed away. Their family
lives in Nelson, so it was the logical place to move, which Janet
did in the autumn of 2013.
Janet is trying hard to make inroads into the stack of fabrics
that she has acquired. She has made several quilts in the past
year.
She joined the Kootenay Quilters Guild, where she enjoys the companionship & friendship of like-minded ladies. It is an important aspect of her life. She is honored to have been named as a Feature Quilter for the
2015 show.