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Season of Creation

One of our guild members, Gail Newell, has designed and created a number of art pieces with birds and flowers over the past several years as she has honed her craft. Some of these have won awards in local shows. She is also a member of St. Anne’s Anglican Church near No 1 Rd and Francis. They are currently displayed in the sanctuary of the church to help celebrate the season of creation until the first Sunday of October. The seven wall hangings of various sizes are: “Loon Rising”, “Kingfisher”, “Pileated Parent”, “Chickadee”, “Columbine”, “Japanese Spring” and “Alpine Memory”.

For the observant and curious: The unusual number of backpacks in front of the altar are waiting to be blessed and distributed to school children in need of packs and supplies for school.

St. Annes with Gails artimage000000 — Techniques used in these hangings include raw edge applique, free form curved piecing, thread painting, Ricky Tim’s convergence piecing and free motion & machine quilting.

Family Day at London Farm

Artists from around Richmond were invited to display their art at London Farm on Family Day. Freda, Lynda, Ruth and Sherry took samples of our quilts and other works to display and talk about with visitors.

london farm 2022 g boretta — Picture by Gerry

Quilt Canada 2022

Several of our members enjoyed the displays at Quilt Canada. This year all the BC guilds were invited to showcase their talents. We had two quilts displayed, both TAGOR group projects.

Original design by 12 TAGOR members to celebrate our diversity of artistic talents & projects and our fair city of Richmond.

Ruth at Quilt Canada next to her modern block remembering Richmond as the site of the first powered flight in western Canada.

Our Canadian Bookcase. Created with 150 Canadian Authors names to celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday in cooperation with the library and with public input for authors names and icons. See the video of its making in our video gallery.

Spring Was Wet

Not able to spend much time gardening, some of us turned a rainy spring into a bonus for family and outreach.

Moreen’s son-in-law loves to bike. Hence lots of bicycle fabric in this beauty.

Moreen’s daughter who lives on a farm is the recipient of this log cabin with bright vegetable fabric.

Corisande found farm and African animals to make this fun play quilt.

Corisande made these quilts playful with African motif fabric.

Corisande made this fun play quilt using a panel with families doing chores and having a good time together.

Jean’s version of Sparkle and Pop with gorgeous colours. Quilted by Gail.

Gail used donated Hawaiian fabric to make this colourful quilt. pieced and sewn by Gail, bound by Jean.

A large pile of unique nine patch blocks came in a donation. No two blocks are the same. Blocks joined and quilted by Gail, Binding by Jean.

Show and Tell

After all the business of our AGM was finished we relaxed and shared our first Show and Tell in a few months. A wonderful variety! Quilts, cross stitch, bags, and knitting!

Joan did this cross stitch owl from a kit. Six months and tens of thousands of tiny stitches later it looks absolutely fantastic!!!

Joan made this gorgeous Canada quilt for her son.

Vickie made this warm quilt in green and earth tones for her brother and sister-in-law’s camper.

Suzanne put this simply elegant quilt together.

When we get heavier cotton fabric donated Sherry gets busy and makes wonderful shopping bags.

Ruth is into modern quilting and made this interesting hanging evocative of a middle eastern palace.

Irene had pieced these 1″ hexies a long time ago and a friend insisted it was well past time to finish it. Her friend quilted it and now she has a beautiful Grandmother’s Garden.

Adele gave these wonderful brown/cream pieces all cut and ready to go. Joan finished it beautifully!

A study in blue beautifully put together by Joan.

A fun zig zag pieced and quilted by Joan.

Scrappy patches to add colour to any room by Joan.

Joan put these pretty lavender pieces to good use making a quilt that evokes Lilacs.

A marvelous scrappy creation by Joan.

Prefect for a preemie girl, pieced and quilted by Joan.

Sunny colours for a preemie quilt pieced and quilted by Joan.

These cats add the perfect touch to a kids quilt. Pieced and quilted by Joan.

Joan used a few cat and dog prints to make this fun play quilt pop.

Jenny dug into our boxes of donated fabric strips and came up with a fun quilt for kids.

Jenny made this colourful quilt for her daughter out of scraps.

Freda finished her cheery version of the quilt started in the class we took with Irene Harvalias BC (before Covid)

Freda shows off more of her toques. She makes each one with a different new pattern and especially enjoys putting tassels on top.

On the back of her quilt was some of Freda’s knitting creations.

Gail’s brown fabric scrap box was overflowing so it was time to use them. Yellow and orange strips make a fun zig zag.

Gail made this fun and easy interwoven pinwheel quilt. 7″ blocks are cut diagonally twice in pairs and then sewn with alternating colours.

It is fun to use fabric donations and figure out how to bring different colours together. Pieced and quilted by Gail and binding done by Jean.

Gail decided to try an ‘on point’ quilt pattern. Much of the fabric was donated from Irene’s butterfly collection.

Gail made this to practice her ‘on point’ skills. Much of the fabric was donated from Irene’s butterfly collection.

Sparkle and Pop continued…

Three of the workshop quilts are completed and show off the versatility of this design.

Joan’s interpretation of Sparkle and Pop. Soothing colours on a white background with the feeling of wind blowing.

Sue made her Sparkle and pop in a very modern style. Creative use of black , white and grey. The three black backgrounded blocks add a fun ‘pop’.

Gail used fabric from Irene’s butterfly collection for these fun ‘pops’.

Deborah Zibrik – Creating Art Using Stitch

Deborah presented her journey into creative stitchery with good humor, delightful examples and thoughtful tips. She was very encouraging and offered practical ideas to further our own artistic journeys. It was a wonderful afternoon talk!

If you missed this and/or want to see more of Deborah’s work check out the exhibits at Knox United Church May 28-29, noon to 5pm part of Artists in Our Midst

Textile artist Deborah Zebrik

Sparkle and Pop workshop with Stacey Day

All the workshop participants enjoyed learning from Stacey how to fold and stitch rectangles and squares into marvelous curved diamonds. It was fun to see how a single design could be interpreted multiple ways for an interesting and marvelous variety of results.

IMG_1182 Sparkle and Pop Workshop — Freda pins her pillow top to the design wall.

Our sewing machines are not locked down!

Corisande and her daughter-in-law Bev have been quilting up a storm. Here are a few of their cheerful creations for kids and the young at heart.

A fun quilt by Corisande

Cheerful, colourful quilt by Corisande and Bev

More Fun with Quilting

Suzanne made this strip quilt with cheerful colours.

Moreen played with orange , brown and green.

An split rail fence complimented by a beautiful border by Moreen.

When there is fabric left over from other quilts Moreen makes fun scrappy quilts.

With lots of black and red in hand Moreen put on her thinking cap and came up with an intriguingly beautiful design. The middle pieces are large triangles cut and rejoined.

Moreen’s imagination produced this wonderful combination of modern and traditional.

Log Cabin Fever

Gail’s scrap pile was getting too large. The first job was to tackle the brown pile. Then she cut up the Blue with pink highlights and the Pink with blue highlights but put together they didn’t work after all so it was back to the scraps and there were lots of white and cream so one quilt became two.

Gail pieced and quilted this wonky log cabin. Jean added the binding.

Gail pieced and quilted this log cabin in spiral stitching from the centre of each circle. Jean added the binding.

Gail pieced and quilted this in ‘diamond’ rays. Jean did the binding.

February Show and Tell

We had a Zoom meeting and shared some of the projects we’ve been working on.

When you have wonderful fabric it can be hard to cut it up. This delightful quilt showcases some beautiful fabrics.

After acquiring this intricate pattern 20 years ago it took COVID to slow her down enough to have time to put it together. What a wonderful rendition!

Barbara made this wonderful and quirky, creative gardener wall hanging.

Barbara’s “Could’a Been” was inspired by her California quilting group challenge. Make something with a length of red fabric and a theme in the world of entertainment. A very creative and pretty original design!

Barbara’s pretty, practical iPad and other stuff carry.

Sherry used up more scraps with this delightful “Rose Garden” quilt.

Sherry practiced her free motion quilting making eleven toiletry bags for Family Place to distribute. Isabelle, Pat and Moreen helped her acquire items so they could be donated full.

Inspired by the cold weather and Gail’s pieced jackets, Jenny made a lined and sandwiched jacket. Just right to brighten a winter day.

Gail turned the leftover snowball pieces from a ‘Log Jam’ lap quilt into this warm and colourful quilt.

Gail turned the leftover snowballs from the ‘Square Knot’ quilt into small pinwheels and added some big ones for a fun lap quilt.

Our members find working with colourful fabrics adds colour to our lives amidst the latest wave.

Beth chose wonderful colours for this fabulous and well crafted design. Pattern “Jean’s Diamonds” from the thecraftyquilter.blogspot.com

Starry design began with leftover snowball cuttings and fabric scraps Gail had laying around.

Elly turned these luscious purple leftovers into a fun crib quilt.

Elly used this fun ‘stained glass’ design for crib quilts.

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.

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