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Banner Bags

Ever wonder about what happens to Richmond street banners when they come down? The city cleans them and offer some for sale. About 500 make their way to TAGOR who, for a small fee, turn them into tote bags that are sold in the Steston Museum and Richmond Nature Park earning them and us revenue for operations. The bags are colourful and sturdy. We also make bags for groups like Tourism Richmond for special events.

An array of bags made with Richmond street banners.

Lots of Projects – It’s been a fruitful Spring

Beauty is All Around with Kathy Wylie

Kathy gave us a wonderful presentation of her quilts inspired by natural and human made beauty. Many of her quilts and motifs are round and wonderful to look at. She showed us a unique way of creating applique patterns she calls ‘sewflakes’ as you make them like you made paper snowflakes as a child. A bonus in the talk, Kathy talked about the way she chooses colours for her quilts. You can see more of Kathy’s work here.

Sewflake
Kathy Wylie Butterfly-Kisses

A variety of items for our community partners.

Creative endeavours

Karen’s book bags. She used her cutter to make the cute bear applique.

More items for donations and friends

By Knitting, Sewing and Quilting members are making a wonderful variety of items


Using up those scraps effectively

Cheryl Arkison‘s presentation

Cheryl gave us many tips on how to use scraps effectively. We especially enjoyed her description of ‘Bossy’ fabrics and how to use them effectively.

More than quilts

Textile Arts is more than quilts and wall hangings. Our members like to do a variety of projects.

Show and Tell

One of our favourite parts of January is the show and tell where we get to see members recent creations and find out how they were constructed and where the ideas came from.

Marine Life group quilt resulting from Gail’s applique workshop: Quilt as you go blocks made by Anne, Beth, Eileen, Gail, Karen, Meg, Nina, Ruth, Sherry, Suzanne, Vickie. Quilt assembled by Gail.

January – getting back to our regular routine

Linda W making diamonds with HSTs and quilting 1/4 from seams to emphasize them.
Linda W using up scraps in this delightful zigzag quilt.
Linda W using up scraps in HSTs and showing the variety of patterns the HSTs make.

How we spent our Christmas Break

We find sewing and knitting relaxing so between times with family and friends we were creating.

Holiday Social

We had a fun social gathering and shared sandwiches and goodies as well as what people had created with teacups and in the Koi workshop.

Gorgeous creations from the Koi workshop by Karen, Brenda and Meg.

The studio activities include party preparations as well as quilting 🙂

ArtRich 2025

Three of our members have pieces in the Art Gallery as part of ArtRich 2025. The show is on until January. Only 50 pieces were selected of more than 400 entries!

Just in time for cold weather

Members have knit scarves and made more quilts at the frost descends on us.

Wonderful Presentation

Sandy Simmelink joined us on Zoom to give us great ideas about incorporating stories into our quilts for treasured family memories. She uses an amazing variety of techniques to add pictures and words to make her quilts truly memorable and memory inspiring.

Learning Together

Lynda showed members how to make a Koinobori WIndsock.

More creations

For Our Community Partners

Loads more creations

Donna went to town with hand appliquéd hexies! One block but the variations in fabric, sashing and quilting make each one unique.

Knitting, sewing and other fun!

Shades of Fall Art Show

Vickie and Gail exhibited pieces in this annual show.

September Show and Tell

President’s Challenge

Vickie issued us a challenge to repair or repurpose something that was no longer used so we didn’t have more stuff in the landfill.

Fun during Culture Days

We hosted demonstrations, making sock buddies and a design challenge.

Sewing and knitting through the summer