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Members and friends of the guild have been busy creating quilts for the new supportive housing opening in Richmond in the summer. Rather than have them just sit in her cupboard Bev took her creations to show residents at Crofton Manor. “They are truly works of art and we so enjoyed seeing them”, they reported in their newsletter.

ArtRich 2021 entrant Gail Newell’s wall hanging. When hiking in the alpine in summer there is a swath of colour and up close an exquisite variety of shapes and colours.

Gail designed and stitched this quilt using Ricky Tim’s convergence techniques for the background.

Applique of Lupines, Columbine and Paintbrush patterned from Gail’s photographs.

Inspiration comes from a variety of sources

Suzanne tried paper piecing and made these beautiful wall hangings to brighten the walls of several of our community partners/

Jenny took lots of bright scraps to make this fun crumb quilt for a kids bed.

A friend of Gail’s daughter-in-law was starting chemotherapy. They adapted a pattern from Spoonflower into this warm rainbow lap quilt.

Proud of her daughter’s marathon racing, Pat put the T-shirts together into a warm quilt.

What to do when it’s raining?

Eileen used a really cute panel to make a crib quilt.

This Hartford star pattern will brighten up a room. Using a donation of 1-2 m cuts Gail pieced and quilted it. Binding by Jean. It is already in the hands of one of our outreach partners.

Grateful for the 1m donations this fun and colourful “Square Knot” pattern pieced and quilted by Gail and bound by Jean will go to our outreach partners.

Melissa Marginet

We gathered together, some in person and some online with Zoom to listen to Melissa. What a great presentation filled with ideas and tips for making something unique and making the creative process fun!

Head over to Melissa’s website for patterns, books, ideas and free stuff.

Design fun!

Whether using modern or traditional designs it is always fun to figure out what patterns work with the fabrics you have.

Suzanne made this marvelous quilt that uses a simple but elegant linear design.

Ruth made a modern baby quilt that has an nice touch of whimsy in purple and green.

The monkey flannel makes the back of the baby quilt so much fun.

Habitat for Humanity

Six new homes were opened in Richmond by Habitat for Humanity. We were pleased to welcome the new residents with quilts.

Suzanne made this restful quilt in blues.

Vickie took interesting fabric scraps to make a fun and colourful quilt. The curved quilting adds a nice touch.

Moreen used the Logjam pattern to make this fun quilt.

Sherry made this interesting quilt with a couple of panels and coordinating scraps.

Pam appliqued octagons to an interesting backing to make a delightful flower garden which Gail quilted and Jean finished.

Joan used autumn colours to make this wonderfully warm quilt.

Garcia_Julie_Bench_Under_Blossoms_fullview-1 — Julie Garcia – Bench Under Blossoms

Julie Garcia

What a great presentation we enjoyed! Julie has some wonderful techniques that got our imaginations going. We learned about making sky and water, layering pieces for landscaping, use of yarn, thread and embroidery for awesome trees and other embroidery techniques to bring life and interest to fabric pieces.

If you missed this fabulous presentation you can visit Julie’s website http://www.juliegarcia.com for more information and see the following videos on YouTube.

Julie’s YouTube demonstration videos

Neighbourliness

Some people are great neighbours. Moreen’s neighbour Joan has a big stash and being good neighbours Moreen has been helping her whittle it down. These quilts will cheer up kids new to the country and feeling a bit at sea!

Really cute teddy bears to snuggle under.

Cheerful colours and an alphabet border.

Inspiration

Sometimes we find a particularly cute panel. Other times we get a wonderful assortment of fabrics in a donation that along with a fun pattern turn into wonderful quilts.

Jean hand quilted this very cute panel into a wonderful warm treat for a little girl.

A large donated piece of beige with other interesting colours inspired this 9 patch madness. Pieced and quilted by Gail with Jean doing the binding.

A recent donation had several 1 yard WOFs. Gail decided it would be fun to see how using different patterns could make mostly the same fabrics into very different quilts.

This Jelly Roll Twist was pieced and quilted by Gail and Jean did the binding.

A “Log Jam” pattern pieced and quilted by Gail with Jean doing the binding.

Fall Show & Tell

After a late but good AGM we got down to the business of sharing our adventures in stitching.

Joan has been very busy with cross stitch. It takes thousands of hours to create such gorgeous pieces but she also managed to work on quilt tops.

An image to warm your heart on a cold wet winter day.

Delightful detail on these wild animals.

Joan made a bunch of quilt tops with scraps. This was a lovely purple one.

Ruth enjoys modern quilting and has been trying out and practicing several techniques.

Curved and bias pieces make up this lovely, restful image

When you have leftover bias pieces and someone donates interesting strips it becomes a table runner.

An interesting quilt in which the center of one block becomes the outside of the next (starting from bottom left)

Ruth made this colourful placemat for a nephew who enjoys Japanese art

There are always scraps and then inspiration (or desperation) strikes!

Gail something for kids from leftover scraps after making pajama’s and vests and decided they would make a fun play quilt.

Sherry executed a wonderful variety of projects.

Sherry pieced scraps into this gorgeous “Mountain Lily” quilt. The borders and binding used up the smaller leftovers.

Sherry made good use of lots of scraps for this colourful play quilt

A whole cloth play quilt lets one practice curves in the quilting phase.

Midsummer Arts Dream 2021

The Community Arts Council of Richmond held their annual show September 10-12. Due to COVID restrictions only some of the work of Painting/Drawing, Photography, Mixed Media and Textiles could be displayed but the full online show can be found here until December 10. Shirley and Gail had four entries accepted between them, of which two were textiles.

2nd place winner in Textile Category. Shirley Rampton “Bottle Fantasy”. An original design inspired by the artwork of Jean-Claude Gaugy

1st place winner in Textile Category. Gail Newell “Chickadee”. An original design from one of her photographs using techniques learned from Sue Sherman to produce a textile hanging.

Shirley Rampton “Poppies”. In this painting Shirley painted her favourite flower with an abstract feel.

Walking in Terra Nova last December Gail took this photo marveling at the sight of a single rosehip with one frozen droplet and one melted droplet.

Summer Quilting

Moreen and Gail played with fabric in between gardening.

Moreen designed this unique and interesting hanging to look like a cathedral wall with ivy growing up it.

Gail borrowed a template to try out making inset circles. It was fun mixing and matching fabrics.

Brenda gave Gail some butterfly blocks. She found a flower pattern to try and it became “Butterflies in the Garden”

June Show and Tell

We gathered on Zoom to catch up with each other and share what we have been working on and learning. Lynda, Gail and Ruth have been learning Walking Foot quilting from Melissa Marginet. Barbara has taken courses from both Jean Impey on applique and Lynn Koolish on colour pop.

Barbara’s basket sampler from Jean Impey’s applique class “Basket Case”

Barbara’s application of what she learned in Lynn Koolish’s class “Colour Pop”

Gail’s sampler from Melissa Marginet’s Edge to Edge Walking foot class.

back of Gail’s sampler from Melissa Marginet’s Edge to Edge Walking foot class

We have used up scraps, finished UFOs and generally had a stitching good time.

Freda’s whole cloth quilt with a friend’s hand died batik.

This quit started with 5 embroidered blocks and a box of fabric. Gail used the rest of the fabric to practice ruler and walking foot quilting techniques.

Donated poppy appliques were turned into this gay wall hanging by Gail

The box full of blue scraps overflowed and became this fun quilt. Gail practiced her new walking foot quilting techniques with diamond lines.

Creative Isolation

Isolation does not mean insulation from new ideas. Quilt patterns and techniques proliferate on the internet. Opportunity abounds to take online classes.

Gail pieced and quilted this using the Shadow Dance pattern from Cool Cat Creations

Gail pieced and quilted this using a Disappearing HST pattern from thersadownunder.com

Jean incorporated a charm pack into this nice soft looking quilt. Gail quilted it with another pattern from Melissa Marginet’s walking foot quilting book.

Tumblers iced by Jean and quilted by Gail using one of Melissa Marginet’s walking foot patterns.

Sylvia used up a lot of intriguing scraps and Gail quilted it with a diamond pattern inspired by Melissa Marginet

Quilts can be simple, complex and fun. Each with their own charm.

Suzanne made this happy, restful scrappy quilt.

Jean pieced this from a Block of the Month pattern. Gail quilted it.

Gail made this fun quilt with fat quarters using Missouri Star’s Pins and Paws pattern.

Sherry had lots of scraps to work with. It is interesting how different scraps and border design can make a quilt unique.

Sherry made this wonderfully colourful circles pattern with scraps.

Seeing Spots with strippy border by Sherry

Seeing Spots with chevron border by Sherry

Quilters often have stashes of fabric that might be cute to use ‘some day’. Covid restrictions have made the ‘some day’ now. Moreen dug into her stash and came up with some wonderful creations.

Moreen made an awesome runner out of an interwoven leaf pattern

Two fun kids quilts by Moreen destined for Family Place.

What do you do when you get quirky fabric? Corisande combines it imaginatively to produce some very fun quilts.

Ladies at large! Pieced and quilted by Corisande.

Fanciful ladies. Pieced and quilted by Corisande.

Delightful ladies. Pieced and quilted by Corisande.

Gloriously colourful. Pieced and quilted by Corisande.

Off to the beach. Pieced and quilted by Corisande.

Ladies at work and play. Pieced and quilted by Corisande.

Home Sweet Home. Pieced and quilted by Corisande.

Applique is a technique that enables wonderful designs to emerge from pieces of fabric. Corisande has made many pieces from the elegant to the fun and whimsical.

Oriental themed applique quilt wall hanging by Corisande.

Intriguing pottery. Appliqued and quilted by Corisande.

Fun with mice. Appliqued and quilted by Corisande.

Judy Leslie Seeded Reflections — Seeded Reflections by Judy Leslie

We had a fun event to see the Fibre Arts Network “From a Tiny Seed”. This slide show had amazing creative expressions of the small growing large.

See more here

Gail’s “Japanese Spring”, created as part of the Guild President’s challenge in 2020 is being exhibited at the “Cherry Blossoms: A Textile Translation” show in West Vancouver. You can find out more about this interesting show here.

Original work by Gail. Uses Lorna Shapiro’s free form curved piecing, raw edge applique and thread painting.

TAGOR held its second online event on March 23 with renowned textile artist Susan Purney Mark. Susan treated us to a talk about her month long residency in Iceland, the places she mot enjoyed seeing, the art she produced there and influences still resonating in the art she is producing now.

Susan Purney Mark paper and fibre — Spring at Brooks Point Susan Purney Mark

TAGOR held its first online event on February 23 with a showing of the Fibre Art Network (FAN) Circles and Lines exhibit. More information about FAN, their artists and artwork for sale can be found on their website here. We enjoyed seeing quality images of the many wonderful pieces inspired by the theme of circles and lines.

Circles and Lines Rust by Lilly Thorne. $150

Hanging in the Balance by Cindi Plant. $80

Christmas is over and members are back working on other projects.

Moreen is still using up her stash creatively.

Lots of fun colours in this split nine patch pieced and quilted by Moreen.

More fun colours but in a different pattern pieced and quilted by Moreen.

Amazing detailed piecing of tiny squares in a comfortable brown and gold. Pieced and quilted by Moreen

Sometimes neighbours sort their sewing rooms and find they have tried out patterns but don’t know what they would do with another quilt. Extra quilt tops are welcomed and quilted for our partners.