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Strawberry Social
Our before summer windup included show and tell, delicious strawberry cake, a multitude of conversations and a light hearted exchange of items.
Brenda capably stick handles a light-hearted item ‘exchange’.
Vickie and her new blouse.
A couple of the bags Thelma created to support SOS children’s villages.
Colourful child quilt by Corisande.
Corisande’s Elegant Iris.
Gorgeous Sunflower by Corisande
Barbara made this elegant log cabin for her black and white challenge piece.
Ruth recently participated in a modern quilt block exchange. This was left over and so she made it into a mug rug.
For this quilt Gail used the split 9 patch madness pattern by Missouri Star Quilting.
Fall quilt by Gail. 4-strip blocks are used to make half square triangles and a delightful diamond design results.
Doors Open Richmond
We had almost 150 visitors to find out about quilting and other things we do. In the afternoon enthusiastic kids learned how to use a sewing machine and stitch together blocks.
Over 40 sites across Richmond open their doors to the public to enable people to see more of the unique things that happen in Richmond.
Freda,Vickie and Moreen work on projects in between visitors at Doors Open Richmond.
May Meeting Black and White Challenge Reveal
Members brought delightfully creative interpretations of our president’s black and white challenge.
Thelma black and white wall hanging original design
Elly original design black and white quilt
Joan with another delightful mini hexagonal project. This one a bag with several pockets.
Vickie playing her black and white piano bag
Gail’s original design. Black and white ‘stained glass’ with rose.
Pam’s wonderful elephants and birds.
Annette with black and white crows from her back yard
Pat’s original wall hanging textured with free motion quilting
Adele’s black and white bag
Barbara’s dressy black and white tuxedo bag and casual striped bag.
Jean ingeniously used up her leftover black and white quilt blocks for a table runner.
Lyn’s black and white pillow cases
Jenny’s black hole free motion practice piece.
Jenny with her black and white pig free motion practice piece.
Karen’s black and white floral runner
May Show and Tell
Our members have been busy with more than black and white challenges. Other projects in a rainbow of colours delighted our eyes.
Corisande’s classy original design of birds and girl with violin.
Vibrant blue florals by Shirley
Oriental themed fabrics stitched into a rich quilt by Corisande
Tranquil bed quilt with boats on the water by Corisande.
Brenda’s cheerful strippy diagonals. Each block has a unique button in the center.
Diagonal Strip quilt pieced and quilted by Gail
Sherry with an armful of beautiful pillow cases
Thelma’s cheerful kids bags
Barbara’s knitted fidget muffs
Gail’s first quilt blocks using the ruler technique. Tulips for a friend who likes cream on cream colours.
Gail’s rendition of Irene Harvalias Pinwheel version of her strip block.
Habitat for Humanity
On May 23 Habitat opened five beautiful units in Richmond. Two duplexes and a single family home grace the end of a cul-de-sac. Each unit was presented with a beautiful home made quilt. Freda, Vickie and Gail attended the opening ceremony.
Vickie and Freda in front of one of the duplex units.
Eileen’s scrappy quilt in cheerful colours
Grateful recipients of quilt fashioned by Joan are delighted with their new home.
Warm brown tones put together by Joan
Happy recipient of quilt made by Adele
Sashed nine patch quilt by Adele
Happy family with Freda and Gail and the quilt Jean and Gail made.
Jean used crackle fabric to piece this quilt and Gail added free motion leaves to quilt it.
Applique quilt by Gail
TAGOR – A finalist for the 2019 Richmond Arts Award.
In recognition of the hundreds of items that TAGOR donates annually in support of various organizations around Richmond, TAGOR was selected as one of the three finalists in the Volunteerism category for the 2019 Richmond Arts Award. In our 2018/2019 operating year TAGOR donated over 400 items. Community Involvement
Gail, Corisande, Vickie, Suzanne, Freda and Norma represented TAGOR at the ceremony announcing the winners of the various arts awards categories.
At our April monthly meeting, speaker Terry Aske gave us a ‘behind the scenes’ look at her wall hangings so we could see the techniques she uses to give her pieces depth and perspective. We enjoyed her slide show, picked up some great tips and then she showed us some of her finished hangings. It was awesome to get a really close look at what she’d just been explaining.
Example of great perspective
Showing ways of highlighting foreground objects with the Westminster Quay W
April community donations for kids and babies
Suzanne Laferte shows off her great colour sense in this baby quilt.
Moreen Rutherford’s Peter Rabbit kids quilt.
Cute teddy bear kids quilt by Jenny Hsu
Jenny Hsu livened up these cute monogram images with bright sashes. Her first free motion quilting project.
Norma used bright, interesting fabric to make this kids quilt.
Fun Kids quilt by Norma
March Show and Tell included a wonderful variety of pieces sewn and knit.
Wonderfully colourful stash busting kids quilt by Freda Hopper
Adele Loewen is all smiles as this delightful baby quilt has helped reduce her stash
Playful elephant kids quilt by Moreen Rutherford
All hand sewn whimsical kids quilt by Anna Kim
Darling village wall hanging in felt and cotton designed and made by Pam Mahoney
Amazing eagle by our long arm quilter Jean Vanderwel. See LINKS for her contact info.
Amusing kids panel quilt sewn by Brenda Battye
I Spy Wonky Log Cabin quilt for kids by Gail Newell
Eileen Ryan-Lewis’ completed Magic Tiles quilt in superb greens and browns.
Karen Glazier shows off her selvage quilt – no fabric goes to waste!
Knitted baby blanket by Ruth Bahri
Fun book bags for Public health nurse to distribute items to families.
We enjoyed hearing about what inspired Karen and how she took that inspiration and turned it into fabric art.
Forest interpreted in fabric
Pieced leaves on textured background
Norse creation myth land of fire meeting the land of ice with seeming nothingness in between.
Skinny strips provide texture
Log cabin snakes
February: A delightful variety of donation quilts by Ellie, Moreen, Corisande and Gail.
Irene Harvalias led a workshop to show us how to make interesting blocks out of strata of five 2.5″ strips. Some people used jelly rolls and others used scraps. We all started with the same process to produce quarter blocks. These were then assembled into one of three patterns; Diamond, Cross or Pinwheel.
Diamond block
Centered cross block
Pinwheel block
After choosing our block type we sewed them together. When jelly rolls or full width of fabric (WOF) were used the quarter blocks could be put together in a way that emphasized the pattern. The results were wonderfully varied.
Jean crosses and diamonds
Moreen scrappy diamonds
Karen WOF diamonds
Freda WOF diamonds
Eileen and Irene conferring
Eileen WOF diamonds
Gail scrappy diamonds
Comfort quilt of scrappy crosses by Moreen, Gail, Eileen and Freda. The fall colours prompted Gail to applique a few leaves on top.
