October 18th @ 7pm

Next General Meeting is on October 18th @7pm

Kingsville Arena Complex, 1741 Jasperson
2ⁿᵈ Floor

Guests welcome @ $5 per person

September 2022—

Hello Quilters.
We have many things happening in the guild right now. Tickets for our first Christmas Dinner are available. Members may purchase an additional ticket for one guest if they wish. Raffle tickets are on sale for the beautifully donated quilt. The Bridge has been selected by the Christmas committee as our charity for donations. We will have a list of requested items from The Bridge for members to bring to the Christmas Dinner. Pillow cases made by members will be most welcome to their beneficiaries, the ages of the people they help are l4-24 years old so fabrics chosen with that in mind would be appreciated.
Our UFO Challenge is due this month. If you did enter the challenge, bring your finished project to the meeting to show it off and have the chance to win the fabric entry fees.
At our last meeting I announced this year’s President’s Challenge. Quilts that say something. The quilts must have words on them that you create; applique, embroidery, or pieced words. Fabric printed with words doesn’t count!
I introduced a Mini Quilt Swap at the meeting as well. If you want to participate, sign up at break with me. The criteria for the quilt is that no side of the quilt be larger than 36 inches. The way it works is you make a list of things you like and don’t like. Then that list is given to another and they make you a quilt following those things.
See you at the meeting!
Adrian

Next General Meeting Tuesday August 16, 7 pm
Kingsville Arena Complex, 1741 Jasperson

2ND FLOOR

PRESIDENTS MESSAGE

As I end my term as President of the Guild, I am happy to turn things over to the capable hands of Adrian Hansen. Adrian has a wealth of quilting knowledge and has wonderful enthusiasm and fresh ideas for the guild. I would also like to thank the current executive for their supreme support and guidance over the past three years in these remarkable times. Many of the current executive members will assume new roles and we will welcome our new executive team at the August meeting.
I would like to draw your attention to the opening of the membership renewal for 2022-23. If you renew early, you will be entered into a draw to have your membership reimbursed for the year (2 winners will be announced at the September meeting).
If it is possible, please send an e-transfer to the guild erieshorestreasurer@gmail.com. I renewed today and it was easy for me, and it really helps with the bookkeeping and for the membership committee.
Reminder to take out a book and make a block or project to receive a very pretty spool of thread.
I would like to ask you to help with one more job. It would be very helpful if we could get someone to volunteer to set up and take down the café each meeting. We are finding that it is too much for the hostess committee. Please contact me or see me at the meeting to discuss.
Remember to bring in your UFOs and a fat quarter for each to enter the challenge.
Thanks everyone for your support of the guild and I am very much looking forward to next year.
Lydia

PRESIDENTS MESSAGE

Dare I say it, but it’s starting to feel like things are getting back to normal. We were able to
have the yard sale last month and went quite well, despite all the challenges of the
restrictions not being fully lifted.
This month Adrian Hanson will give a talk on how to love your longarmer, so she loves you
back. Looking forward to seeing her tips on how to prepare those quilt tops for a perfect
finish.
In April we are going to do an interactive workshop where I show you my Mount Scrapmore,
and we share ideas on how to manage, sort, store, and reduce that pile of guilt we all have in
our craft rooms.
In the following months we hope to have some guest speakers and workshops as we adjust to
the new normal.
On a side note, for my day job I run a speakers series. In March, I am hosting a free webinar
with the author Virginia Postrel who has written the book, The Fabric of Civilization. It’s a
great book that follows the history of fabric as well as how fabric has been constructed
throughout the ages. If you are interested, you can follow this link to register. The talk will be
held on March 22 at 12:00pm online.
Lydia

Our next General Quilt Guild meeting will be held at the Kingsville Arena at 7 pm

Guests always welcom @ $5 per guest

Hope to see you all there

President’s Message
Well that ended quickly. Just as we were preparing to continue with hybrid meetings, the province started reporting more cases and increasing restrictions. Out of an abundance of caution, we have decided to have online meetings only for the remainder of the year.
What this means for our members is that the only way you can access the meetings is through the Facebook current members page. On October 20, we will start the meeting live from my craft room on Facebook live. Doing it this way should ensure that everyone gets a chance to watch and comment. However, because it is a live event, you will only be able to comment, rather than appear on camera. Executive members will be online to assist with questions.
After the business meeting, I’ll post a video I did with Yvette where she did a demo on thread painting and free motion quilting. After the video has ended, Yvette will be on hand to answer any questions. The full meeting should be made available permanently on our page.
Thanks to everyone who tried to attend in September and for your ongoing patience as we manage the new virtual world of guild meetings.
Lydia

Hello,

I’m excited that after months of planning we are moving ahead with our Quilts in the Village event on Saturday and Sunday July 25^th and 26^th at Black Creek Pioneer Village in Toronto.

Here’s how you and your guild members can get involved.

• Be a committee member – have an active role in creating the event!
• Loan a quilt – it will be displayed in one of Toronto’s premier outdoor attractions.
• Be a volunteer on the days of the event.

And, last but not least, we would love to welcome you to the event in July. A day of history, mixed with creativity and inspiration, awaits!

Please check out this blog for more information:

https://quiltsinthevillage.wordpress.com/

Contact us for further details,

Steven Kellier
Coordinator, Special Events
Black Creek Pioneer Village | Parks & Culture

T: (416) 736-1733 ext. 5402
C: 647.200.3025 
E: steven.kellier@trca.ca
A: 1000 Murray Ross Parkway, Toronto, ON, M3J 2P3 | trca.ca

The Town of Kingsville has postponed all of our rentals until April. This includes the Charity sew day.

Every month, we look forward to sharing our love of quilting with each other. Given the growing concerns around COVID-19, we’ve made the difficult decision to cancel the March 17, 2020 Erie Shores Quilters’ Guild meeting.

This was a tough call to make – our monthly meetings are incredibly important part of our organization Nonetheless; we need to prioritize the health and safety of our community. I am hopeful that with many organizations and the province cancelling similar events and not holding mass public gatherings that we will be able to flatten the spread of the disease and be able to resume our programming in April.

We will attempt to reschedule the program and vendor for later in the year.

On behalf of Executive, I thank you for your patience, and wish you robust health in the coming weeks.

Lydia

See you this evening at 7pm!  Kingsville Arena.  Our program this evening is Melanie MacDonald authorized teacher of the Jacqueline DeJonge Be Colourful Series! Bring your friends, guests are $5.

This is for our upcoming trunkshow by Sue Aylesworth at the April quilt guild meeting.
She has called it “Strips & Strings & Squares, Oh My!”

A trunkshow of quilts from New Zealand will be presented at the Erie Shores Quilters’ Guild meeting Tuesday, Feb. 19 at 7 p.m. at the Kingsville Arena. Come and join us!

Anniversary celebration
We have heard lots of positive comments about our anniversary meeting! It was great to
have such a good turnout. Good memories were shared. The entertaining slide
presentation was the result of lots of time put in by Licia Cipkar and Paul, her helpful
husband, who gathered all the photos from numerous albums. And Heather Northrup’s
husband, Grant, who put all the photos on a stick for the projector.
We really appreciated all the support received from you, both by attending and allowing us to do something special in the way of a nice gift for each member!
Thanks again!
Your executive

Loving the little notebook!  What about you? Have you tried the binding needles yet? And I want to say, isn’t it the best that we have such a supportive and friendly guild?! Have you given any thought to joining our executive? Maybe as hostess? That’s just one of the open positions.

Would you consider joining us on the ESQG Executive Board?  We’re looking for members to join us in filling the following positions come September

President                                                                       Vice President

Treasurer                                                                       Secretary

Programs and Workshops                                          Historian

Hostess                                                                           Advertising

Publicity

If you’ve enjoyed being a member of Erie Shores Quilt Guild, it’s because so many people are working away in the background to make it all happen.

**If there are any positions you would be willing to fill, please contact one of the executive…you won’t regret it.

A few details about Hostess position, as per our by-laws: take attendance and welcome guests. Provide bottled water for sale to membership at the general meetings (optional, and we have a cooler on wheels to accommodate). And also to work with the Program Chair to arrange for vendors as needed. This position can be shared. Our current hostesses are doing a great job, I’m sure they’ll be happy to help the new hostess(es) settle in.

If you’re not swooning over the idea of the hostess position, you might consider Publicity/Advertising. Sounds daunting, right? Not! Can you contact businesses and offer them a small spot in our newsletter? Maybe make a call to the local press about our upcoming quilt show or other event? Our executive will give you all kinds of support and help with this, please consider taking it on. It’s a fun and friendly group of people doing their best to provide quilty pleasure. C’mon, don’t be scared.

The ESQG Charity Program has a new charity:  Southgate Retirement Home.  We already have 10 lap quilts & 15 quilt bundles to be quilted.   30 lap quilts is our goal by the end of May/18.   I know we can do it!

We had the Chatham Applique Group to thank for a fabulous trunk show.  Each member presented two quilts.  There were so many different styles to view.  The group had presented some that were hand appliqued along with others that had been machine appliqued.  The ladies presenting brought their sense of humour along making for a very enjoyable evening.  The following are pictures from the trunk show:

Pictured below are quilts from our guild members from our April 2017 guild meeting.  I for one, am amazed at the many talents of our members.  Love to see the different ideas and colours.  Keep up the good work!

The following are our guild members’ show and tell quilts shared with all.  We are lucky to have such talented quilters among us:)

Well, Marian Wiebe treated our members to an awesome evening of quilting.   Her ability to speak so freely about her talents as a quilter along with her sense of humour, made for a very enjoyable evening for all.  It was nice to see her family’s influence in her quilts, some of whom came to the meeting to assist Marian in her presentation.  The standing ovation at the end of her show represents just how much our members enjoyed the evening.  Thank you for a wonderful evening Marian.   Personally, I thoroughly enjoyed it!!

.  Her sense of colour and artistic ability certainly showed in her quilts, which are pictured below.