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October 2015

President’s Message:

This time of year reminds me of a poem by Seema Chowdhury, it starts… As summer ends and autumn comes Days get shorter, misty and cold And in this spectacular season Nature's beauty graciously unfold. It is true, the days are getting shorter and chillier, but I look forward to fall - it is my fa-vourite time of year. I wait patiently for nature to say goodbye to summer, and to the

start of the leaves changing to their vibrant colours. The landscape of Ontario changes to a carpet of reds, oranges and yellows. Even coming to guild, I like to take a quick drive down into Sunnybrook Park just to see the trees changing. This month our guest Kathy McNeil, will transport us to different lands, with her landscape quilts, and inspire us with her appliqué. She says “Every creative act begins as a connection between the artist and their world. Exploration of that moment of inspiration fuels the process of telling a story and making art. Results are never predictable, as the discovery is different each time.” Let’s learn together how to tap into that creativity we all have, to create our works of art, and maybe the colours of leaves outside can inspire us.

Laurissa Werhun

[email protected]

YHQG is a scent-free zone!

This is a reminder to all of our members to please

refrain from wearing perfumes at our meetings.

We have members who are highly allergic to scents.

YHQG Tuesday Meetings Toronto Botanical Gardens, 777 Lawrence Avenue East,

Toronto

Next meeting is Tuesday, October 20 at 7pm

Guest Speaker is Kathy McNeil

November 17, 2015 January 19, 2016 February 16, 2016

March 15, 2016 April 19, 2016 May 17, 2016

The new YHQG website is up, and we look forward to your comments and suggestions. The website address

is the same, http://yhqg.org/ , but you may have to refresh the page to see the new website. We have also

set up a new system to send emails, so hopefully the messages will reach members who didn’t get them pre-

viously.

Along with the changes to the website, the email addresses used to reach the members of the York Heritage

Quilters Guild board have changed. See page 5 of this newsletter for the new addresses.

If anyone has a quilt-related website or blog we would be happy to list it on our site. If you have won any

awards or accepted into a juried show we would love to let the rest of the guild know.

Valerie Prideaux

[email protected]

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Program:

October 20, 2015: Kathy McNeil (www.kathymcneilquilts.com) will be our guest speaker and workshop in-

structor for the month of October. She is an international award winning quilt artist, teacher, author and judge

who comes to us from the state of Washington. We have been in contact with Kathy who is genuinely excited

to be visiting with us. Her passion for quilting shows through her emails.

November 17, 2015: Heather Stewart (www.heatherstewart.ca) will visit us in November. Heather won

“Canadian Teacher of the Year” in 2009, and has many quilts in international collections. She creates a di-

verse range of traditional to contemporary quilts using a number of quilting styles and techniques that she has

developed. We look forward to hearing what Heather has to tell us in her lecture “Tips and Tricks for Quilters”.

Maria Steventon and Chrystle Stucky

[email protected]


Workshops:

Bonjour from the workshop chicks! Just a reminder that Kathy McNeil’s workshops are on October 20 and 21. To all those who have signed up, welcome to two days of beautiful art work and creativity. If you are consider-ing signing up for one of her workshops, but haven’t done so yet, please note that you will need a pattern that must be ordered from the United States. The patterns will be ordered 10 days prior to the first workshop, so unless you have purchased her latest book “Landscape Quilting by Kathy McNeil” or plan on ordering your own pattern, you will need to let us know by October 10th or sooner. Visit Kathy’s website www.kathymcneilquilts.com to see more about her workshops. Also, take a look at her newsletter for all her news and recent spectacular projects….not to mention her heart warming tale of 6 days without electricity. We Torontonians know all about that one! We have already begun setting things in motion for Heather Stewart’s “bargello” workshop, Wednesday November 18th. At the October meeting we will be giving a presentation about Heather’s work and her stunning quilt projects. See you on October 20th. Happy Halloween!

Anabelle Payne and Judy Beca [email protected] and [email protected]

Wednesday November 18th—Spiral Bargello This workshop allows you to make a fantastic wall quilt using 20 different fabrics. This is Heather's design based on a technique developed by Chris Timmins of Australia. Any com-bination of fabrics in gradation colour families will work. Piecing of the strata is done at home before the workshop.

Tuesday October 20th—The Wonderful World of Landscape Quilting Discover the secrets that will bring your landscapes alive. Learn to create depth and dimension in your pattern with simple tricks of fabric choices. Play with fabric paints to create those realistic hi-lights and shad-ows. Kathy will demonstrate a mix of appliqué tech-niques! Begin the journey of landscape quilting work-

ing on your pattern.

Wednesday October 21st—Feathers are Flying Learn the steps of layered appliqué to make a beautiful bird design. Kathy will teach two different methods of appliqué - fused raw edge or the new easy Apliquick method of hand appliqué with turned edges. Your beautiful birds can be made as free objects that will be ready to place on the background scene or block of your choice. Patterns include background scenes as shown. Apliquick hand appliqué or raw edge tech-niques are suitable for beginners.

Workshops with Kathy McNeil

Workshop with Heather Stewart


Workshops:

Saturday Workshop! House-Building 101 with Catherine Schuler

Saturday October 24th We're pleased to be welcoming Catherine back to York Heritage as she teaches a whole-day workshop on creating and embellishing miniature houses. The class will be at Armour Heights Presbyterian Church, 105 Wilson Ave. (very close to the 401 and Avenue Rd.), from 10am - 4pm. We have a few spots left in this class so if you're interested act quickly. The cost is $45. Cheques (made out to YHQG) or cash can be brought to our meeting on October 21, or mailed beforehand to our post office box at:

York Heritage Quilters Guild P.O. Box 35510 2528 Bayview Ave. Toronto, ON M2L 2Y4 Your place in this workshop is reserved when we receive your payment.

Contact Jane at [email protected] if you have any questions.


The YHQG has a substantial membership which al-lows us to enjoy speakers and workshops from well-known quilters from across Canada and around the world. However, volunteers are also important to the rich experience of a quilting community. Consider be-coming more involved in the various guild activities. Just ask any executive member how you can enrich our quilting community. Many thanks to Lana Peck, Ann Hawkins, and Leslie Chisholm for greeting our members and assisting them in picking up their 2015-2016 green cards, com-pleting their applications, and answering questions. We welcomed three new members at our September meeting: Gail Gordon, Sandra Peace and Diane Shink. For the October meeting, Helen Crooke, Shelley Keyser and Val Taylor will be the friendly faces to greet you at the door. Please remember your bright green membership card and we look forward to receiv-ing more renewals on October 20th. “You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.” Ansel Ad-ams, one of my favourite artists, seems to capture in this quote the complexity and depth of the act of quilt-ing too.

Judith Hunter, Membership Chair [email protected]

Membership: YHQG Executive 2015/2016:

President: Laurissa Werhun [email protected]

Past President: Jane Cramer

[email protected]

Vice President: Toby Sklash [email protected]

Treasurer: Andrea Heimrich [email protected]

Secretary: Karen McMillan

Community Outreach: Wendy Dines

[email protected]

Display and Competition: Sandy Lindal

[email protected]

Library: Hilde Sausik [email protected]

Membership: Judith Hunter [email protected]

Newsletter: Judy Messenger

[email protected]

Programs: Maria Steventon [email protected]

and Chrystle Stucky [email protected]

Workshops: Annabele Payne [email protected]

and Judy Beca [email protected]

Webmaster: Valerie Prideaux [email protected]

You may notice that these email addresses are different

than the ones used in previous years—it’s all part of the

website re-design!


Display and Competition:

Show and Share

Thank you to all who brought their finished quilts to share in September - what a gifted group! I know that many of you have been busy over the summer and there are a lot of finished projects that the membership would love to see so please do not be shy. We espe-cially would like to see some talent from our new members.

White Glove People

Thank you in advance for volun-teering to help with this task. The guild could not operate smoothly without your help! Our October “White Glove People” are :

Linda Hemming Charlene Hearst Laura Rowbotham Ethel Patt Fran Auty Sandra Bockus

Quilter of the Month

A big thank you to Jan McGoey who wowed us with her beautiful quilts and some amazing and very dense hand quilting last month. We welcome Lynn Lusk as the October “Quilter of the Month”. Lynn has been a member of the guild for many years and is a very prolific quilter with a wonder-ful sense of colour.

Sandy Lindal [email protected]

Make it Modern Challenge

Nineteen lovely quilts were entered into the “Make it Modern” challenge last May. The following were voted as 1st, 2nd and 3rd place by the viewers:

By Sandy Lindal

By Fran Auty

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- Over 1830 Bolts of Cotton (in stock)

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- Sewing & Quilting supplies

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Announcing our upcoming Members Challenge

“Out of the Blue”

This year Sandy and her team are organizing a juried challenge. The theme is “Out of the Blue”. If you enjoy

challenges you might like to put some of your “grey matter” to work and join fellow YHQG members in this up-

coming challenge.

For those of you who have never entered a juried challenge…why wouldn’t you enter? We’ve heard many rea-

sons, including the following:

Reason: "I don’t think my quilt is good enough." Response: You never know how others see your quilt and the feedback from the judging will allow you to per-fect some needed skills or to say….. “Yes, I AM a good enough quilter to enter a show!”

Reason: " I don’t think there is enough time." Response: Well, there is never enough time! That is why we have no size restrictions, and no need to pro-

duce a whole cloth bed quilt.

Reason: “How will my quilt be judged?”

Response: A professional judge will evaluate each quilt based on how well you have interpreted the theme.

She will also judge how well you have put the quilt together.

Reason: “Are there any restrictions on what I enter?”

Response: There is NO size restriction. You can have as many colours as you wish, embellish to your hearts

content, hand stitch or machine stitch. If you think of it, you can do it. The only thing is, please put a hanging

sleeve on for the April meeting.

Reason: “What if I don’t want my quilt hung at the April meeting, but I would like to have it judged?”

Response: No problem, just let us know and we will not hang it up.

Reason: “Why would I like to do this?”

Response: It’s fun to challenge yourself and your skills and get feedback.

The Rules of Entry, Levels of Entry and Prize information follows, and an entry form is include with this newslet-

ter. Information can also be found on the guild website here:

yhqg.org/display-and-competition/

Member Challenge:

Out of the BlueOut of the BlueOut of the BlueOut of the Blue

“Out of the blue” can mean an event that occurs unexpectedly. What does it say to you? A mood, a colour, an oddity, a surprise? Turn those ideas into a material masterpiece for our Out of the Blue Challenge!


RULES of ENTRY April 19, 2016 is the deadline for entries. Please read the rules carefully as digression from the rules can result in disqualification. 1. You may only enter one item. 2. The entry must be solely the work of the entrant. 3. The work must address the theme “Out of the Blue”. You can use your choice of colour. 4. The entry must be completed and have a quilted element. 5. No kits or commercial patterns may be used in your entry. 6. There are no size restrictions. 7. All entries will be judged using a point system. Entrants’ names will remain anonymous until the judging is com-

pleted. All judges’ decisions are final. Entrants will not be allowed to attend the judging. All entries will be given a written critique unless requested otherwise. In the event that entries do not meet the standards of the judges, no prize(s) will be awarded.

8. DO NOT identify your work in any way. All entries must be accompanied by the attached entry form. The form must be in an envelope pinned to the back of your project.

9. No project will be accepted after the April 19, 2016 guild meeting.

LEVELS of ENTRY There are three levels of entry in the 2015/16 Members’ Challenge. Any member can compete at a higher level if they wish.

LEVEL I Open Class. All YHQG members must enter in this category if they: • have previously placed first, second or third in any previous YHQG Member’s Challenge • are teachers of quilting

• have ever received provincial, national or international recognition of their work LEVEL II General Class. Members who have entered competitions in the past but have not placed among the finalists and members who have none of the credentials listed above in the Level I class.

LEVEL III Beginner Class. Members who have never entered a competition or contest previously - regardless of how long they have been quilting.

PRIZES In addition to ribbons, the winners at each level receive a cash prize: First Prize $ 50.00 Second Prize $ 40.00 Third Prize $ 30.00

A Viewers’ Choice Award will be chosen by Guild members attending the May 2016 meeting and a $50.00 cash prize will be awarded.

The Genevieve Yaksich Award is given in memory of Genevieve Yaksich, a founding member of YHQG. It acknowl-edges excellence in workmanship. A $100.00 prize accompanies this award. It is open to all entrants but can only be won once by any Guild member.

The Founders Award was established on the occasion of our guild’s 25th anniversary in honour of our founding members. It acknowledges the best interpretation of the challenge theme. A $100.00 prize accompanies this award. It is open to all entrants but can only be won once by any Guild member.

These awards will only be presented if, in the opinion of the judges, the entries meet the standards of this challenge com-petition.

Out of the Blue Member Challenge:


Community Quilts

You could win a prize for finishing a Community Quilt sandwich! ENTER OFTEN TO WIN! Each quilted CQ sandwich returned will qualify you for one entry to the draw. Straight stitching is a great way to finish these sandwiches, or use a CQ sandwich to practice your free motion quilting. It's a win-win for yourself and the final recipient. Prizes are a choice of quilt kit, a $25 or a $15 certificate for purchases from the CQ table. Draws will take place at the January and May 2016 guild meetings. Thanks for the ten quilted CQ sandwiches returned at the September meeting: Kathy Schofield and Erica Rao (3), Elizabeth Davis (2), Sandy Lindal (2), Bob Gutcher(2), Charlene Hurst. Thanks go out to Phoebe Visser (2), Jean Pucyk, Anne Wood and Ann Ferguson for do-nations from their own stash. A special thanks to Jean Pucyk who also donated 8 quilts from her own stash during the summer.

Sherry Davidson is overseeing the distribution of com-fort quilts. She was able to donate a number of quilts this summer to Covenant House, who distributed them to youth in need. As well as working with Covenant House, she is investigating how to link with the ex-pected arrival of Syrian refugees. She started by deliv-ering 30 comfort quilts, both adult and kid-themed, to Sojourn House. A speaker to acknowledge and edu-cate the membership on the final destination of these quilts can be expected at either the October or Novem-ber guild meeting. Thanks to Linda Royce and former member Kathy Al-bino for their fabric, book and pattern donations to Community Quilts.

Wendy Dines

[email protected]

The Canadian Quilters Association Report:

Quilt Canada 2016- Registration Date Delayed! You heard it right, we are delaying the registration because something BIG is happening and we WANT YOU to be in on it! We don’t just mean a bit BIG, we mean GIGANTIC BIG EXCITEMENT! We can hardly contain it, but we are going to sit on it until October 28, 2015. Then we are releasing our AWESOME NEWS! You do not want to miss this, so be sure to join us on October 28th when we tell you our BIG NEWS! Information pertaining to Quilt Canada 2016 at the International Centre in Toronto, Ontario, June 15-18, 2016 is now on our website: http://www.canadianquilter.com/events/quilt-canada-2016.php. We have 44 workshops and many levels of pricing to meet your budget! We also have 9 Lectures to offer you. Get ready to register: October 28, 2015 for CQA/ACC members and November 18, 2015 for non-members. Trend-Tex Challenge Kits for the 28th Annual CQA/ACC Trend-Tex Challenge en-titled "Living a Life in Green" will be available October 1, 2015 for CQA/ACC members and October 15, 2015 for non members. Rules have been published in the Autumn 2015 "Canadian Quilter" magazine and on our website: www.canadianquilter.com/pdf/2016-Trend-Tex-Application.pdf


Around the Block:

Pieceful Night Quilters’ Guild Bazaar Pre-Sale

Each year, members of the Pieceful Night Quilters’ Guild make quilted and hand crafted items to sell at the annual Armour Heights Presbyterian Church ba-zaar. Again this year, bazaar items will be available for pre-sale at the PNQG October meeting, on Wednesday October 14th. Guests are welcome to join us at this meeting to shop the sale, then stay for a presentation by Sandy Lindal—”Confessions of a Scrap-a-holic”. The regular guest fee is waived for this meeting, so bring all your quilting friends and come to join us! The meeting starts at 7:30pm, but come early (from 6pm) to shop and get a head start on your holiday shopping list! If you can’t make the October pre-sale, check out the Bazaar on Saturday November 14th, 10am to 2pm.

105 Wilson Avenue, between Yonge St. and Avenue Rd.

October 2015 Vendor

Fridays Off Fabric Shop is a Canadian online fabric shop carrying the best quality 100% cotton, flannel and knit designer fabrics for your quilting, home dec and other sewing projects. The shop also boasts the largest fabric subscription club in Canada, called Le Club, where subscribers receive carefully curated sur-prise bundles of six or twelve fat quarters every month. It all began when I noticed a serious shortage of Ca-nadian-based online fabric shops. I was looking for a career change so I hung up my public relations hat and opened my very own online shop. Since then, the shop has been featured in Style at Home magazine and makes a semi-regular appearance on the Cana-dian Living blog Make & Do. I also host open houses in my home "studio" and do everything I can to spread the fabric love via Facebook and Instagram. At the guild meeting I'll be selling the following:

• Single fat quarters • Fat quarter bundles • Half metre bundles • Bolt ends

I will also have my iPad so you can order online right on the spot. Cash and credit will be accepted. Looking forward to it!

Alanna

New guild member Jan Eaton would like a ride to the

October guild meeting. She lives in Guildwood Vil-

lage in Scarborough and could meet someone on

Kingston Rd. If you can help her please call her at

416-261-8857.

Attention entrepreneurs/crafters/sewists/knitters/gift-makers!

We'd like to invite our members to take part in a holiday shopping opportunity. By renting an 8' ta-ble for $20, you'll be able to sell your wares at our November guild meeting, solving 2 problems at once - you get to sell your lovingly hand-made items and we get to cross off names from our gift list. This is a WIN-WIN opportunity. Contact Jane at [email protected] to re-serve your table. We have a few tables left, so please contact Jane at [email protected] as soon as you can. Tables need to be booked with her by Octo-

ber 30, 2015!


What’s On:

October 3 2015 - “Everything Quilts 2015”. Saturday 10am - 6pm. Join us for this one of a kind event celebrating quilts and quilting presented through various artistic medi-ums such as photography, painting, pottery, stained glass, wood turning, metal work, knitting, fibre arts and oh yes, fab-ric! Featuring Quilters Dream Raffle, Quilting 101, Sit and Sew, Merchant Mall, Demo Corner, Scissor Sharpening, Tea Room, Purse Parade, Artist Meet and Greet. Lindsay Exhi-bition Fairgrounds, Commonwell Building, 354 Angeline Rd. South, Lindsay ON. $2 Admission. In support of United Way, Kawartha Lakes. October 3 2015- “GENESIS: Memory Lane”. 15 artists tell the story of genesis and memory through large scale pro-jected art, textile art, architecture and sculpture. Spadina Museum, 88 Spadina Rd., 7pm to 7am, as part of nuit blanche, toronto. October 3 & 4, 2015 - ”Quilting on the Rocks”. Presented by the Sudbury & District Quilting & Stitchery Guild. Park-side Centre, YMCA Building, 140 Durham Street, Sudbury, Ontario. Tickets $5. Quilting and stitchery displays, mer-chant mall, boutique, silent auction. Quilt appraiser Judy Lyons—for early registration contact Daintry Chitaroni at [email protected] Please indicate your prefer-ence as to Saturday or Sunday. Spaces are limited. October 16 & 17 2015 - ”Waterloo County Quilters’ Ex-hibit”. Presented by the Waterloo County Quilters’ Guild. Forbes Family Hall at RIM Park, Manulife Financial Sports-plex, 2001 University Ave. East, Waterloo, ON. Fri. & Sat. 10am to 5pm. Vendors, Quilt Displays, Raffle Quilt, Mem-bers’ Boutique, Door Prizes, Small Quilt Draw, Tea Room, Accessible. Admission $7. October 27 2015 - Pop up Sale at the Textile Museum. Our workroom at 411 Richmond St. East is packed with gor-geous donations. We will be holding Drop-in Sales on the last Tuesday of the month, 1-3 pm. There will be a variety of items available for sale – from upholstery and dressmaking fabrics, to buttons, yarns and notions. Cash only. November 6-7, 2015 - ”10 Twisted Years”. Presented by the Twisted Stitchers Quilt Guild. Friday 10am-6pm, Satur-day 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am-5pm. HMS Ajax Room, Ajax Community Centre, 75 Centennial Road, Ajax ON. Raffle quilt, tea room, merchants mall, silent auction, in-guild chal-lenge, boutique. www.twistedstitchersquiltguild.com/

November 7-8, 2015 – Toronto Bead Society presents "Fall Bead & Jewellery Fair". Saturday 10am to 5pm, Sunday 11am to 5pm. Toronto Reference Library, Appel Salon, 2nd Floor, 789 Yonge Street. Admission $7 for 1 day or $10 for 2 days. www.torontobeadsociety.org/

December 4-5, 2015 - Textile Museum Fall Decorator Fabric Sale. Friday 11am - 5pm. Saturday 11am - 3pm. Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw St. (Queen and Ossington), Toronto. We have decided to combine our annual For the Love of Cloth sale (traditionally held in October), and our Textile Treasures sale (December) into one event. The new Textile Treasures sale will feature fabric from our lead sponsor Pri-mavera Interior Furnishing, which includes drapery panels, upholstery bolts, and decorator samples from Pierre Frey, Cowtan & Tout, Manuel Canovas, Jane Churchill, and many other designers. We’re expanding the sale to include a wide range of dressmaking fabric, yarns, notions, craft kits, hats and some clothing so that there is something for everyone. http://strandnews.ca/

ENTRY FORM - 2015 - 2016 YHQG MEMBERS’ CHALLENGE

THEME “OUT OF THE BLUE”

Your finished project is due at the April 19, 2016 YHQG meeting. Should you be unable to attend the April meeting please contact Sandy Lindal at 416-229-4728 to make delivery arrangements prior to April 19 2016. Projects will not be accepted after that date. Please print your information below: Name ___________________________________________________________ Project Title ___________________________________________________________ Level of Entry___________________________________________________________ Quilt Techniques Used:___________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Artist Statement :________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________

Circle your answer below: Do you wish to have your project critiqued? YES NO I would like my quilt displayed at the May 2016 YES NO Quilt Guild Meeting. Please give a value you your project $_________________________ (You may have already insured your project under your home insurance policy. Your project is covered under the YHQG insurance policy while it is in our possession.) Have you previously won the Genevieve Yaksich Award? YES NO Have you previously won the Founders Award? YES NO When you submit your project please sign and date this form Signature______________________________ Date___________________________

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