Victorian Tea - October 17th

Our Victorian Tea celebrating our 25 years as a Guild was a huge success.  It was standing room only - every one was there.   We all looked amazing in our hats and in some cases period costumes. 

The food was great, the entertainment was fun, (Lady Cordellion even had mayor Rick McGee bowing!!), and the company fantastic.  What a perfect way to start the next 25 years!!!

It Takes A Village....

Sunday afternoon and early Monday  morning a "village" of dedicated Guild members came to the church to help  prepare food and decorate for our 25th Anniversary Victorian Tea.  Many hours were spent off site planning, baking, buying supplies,  and preparing decorations for our big day.   It was hectic but we sure had fun!!!  Eleanor Plewes and I would like to extend a huge thank you to all of you - what a great team!!

Show and Share September Meeting

 On we go to another season of showing and sharing our talents.....

September Speaker Elizabeth Dillinger

 Elizabeth Dillinger, our first speaker for the 2011-12 season wowed us with her amazing collection of art quilts. Elizabeth’s quilts are a combination of piecing and raw appliqué. Paints and dyes are used to paint fabrics allowing her to create the color of fabrics needed to match the digital image she has created. Elizabeth’s thread painting and freestyle quilting are done on domestic sewing machines. Her quilts have won Awards of Excellence and Viewers’ Choice in Canada. She has won several awards in the United States including 1st place at the International Quilt Festival, the largest annual quilt show in the world. Elizabeth has been featured in Quilters Newsletter, Quiltmaker and is a regular featured artist in A Needle Pulling Thread, a Canadian magazine.

Planning for the New Guild Season

Lorna Bawden-Smith held an executive meeting in August to start planning the new guild season.  Where did the summer go!!
Sharron  Coxon and her Program and Workshop Committee have held meetings to plan and get, for our members, interesting and informative speakers.   Plus great and fun workshops!!  We know they will not disappoint.
Eleanor Plewes is co-ordinating the 25th Anniversary Victorian Lunch in October and she has been busy holding meetings, planning menus, decorations etc.   It will be a day to remember!

I am looking forward to the 2011-2012 Guild meetings...I hope you are too.

It takes a good size group to keep the Guild running...

Show and Share June Meeting

 Here are some of the Show and Share items......

President's RMH Donation nets $1,504.13

Our president Lorna Bawden-Smith chose RMH's  "A new Day is Dawning" drive as her campaign this year.  Her goal was to reach $1,500. from our monthly contributions.  She did it!!  She was able to give Brenda Dekoker, director of the RMH Foundation $1,504.13 at our June meeting.  Brenda gave us a interesting history of the need and the drive for this equipment, and was most appreciative of our donation.  Way to go Lorna!!

Lorna Bawden-Smith and Brenda Dekoker




Brenda Dekoker



Raffle Quilt Nets $6,338.

We presented the Learning Disabilities Association with a cheque for $6,338.  This amount was generated by the sale of raffle tickets for our quilt.  What a great job done by our Guild.  To all the members who helped make the quilt and sell the tickets..thank you.  Great co-ordination job done Donna and Jean....all tickets sold...wow...hard shoes to fill next time!

Faye Flood, Jenna Stewart, Janice Belfore, Jean Kyle, Donna Mackintosh

Dresses for Haiti

Students from LCVI presented Gertie Ottens with a 115 sun dresses to augment her contributions to Haiti.  The event was co-ordinated by Jennifer Currie, overseer of the Guild's Helping Hands activities.  Thank you ladies for your contribution.

Pot Luck Luncheon

Our June Pot Luck Luncheon was a big success.  Good food, good friends, and great entertainment.  A wonderful way to end the season!!

Great turn out for our final meeting of the year.

Mini Pearl (aka Mable Bruce) was hysterical....who knew !!