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Additions to our Guild Library:

 

Why Quilts Matter Series DVD

There is a DVD series, "Why Quilts Matter: History, Art& Politics", being shown on some PBS stations in the US.
The guild will be purchasing a copy of this series for our library. For more information please go to go to the Why Quilts Matter web site.

 

 

"Quilts draw us close to those we love and pull our hearts toward home."

 

 

 

RYQG News!

 

After spending 87,000-plus hours on some 400 quilts during the past 40 years, Angela Krotowski knows a thing or two about quilting.  But unless you step into Ms Krotowski’s quilt-filled home or visit the quilter’s guild she helps run, chances are, most people won’t have much interaction with the age-old art.  As a way of bringing this traditional and often unrepresented artform to the masses, she will display a sample of her work at the Aurora Cultural Centre. 
Along with the wide variety of her handmade quilts, she will be on hand to teach you how to quilt, an art to which she has dedicated much of her life. Click here to read more of this article.

 

 

Martha Schellingerhoud shared her love of quilting and her "artistic abilities, palette, and interpretation of patterns and unique method of assembling a quilt." at the St. Jacobs Quilt and Fibre Art Festival at the end of May, as quoted by the article in the Winter 2010 edition of The Canadian Quilter magazine. To read the full article, you can check the magazine out of our guild library.

 

 

One of our sponsors, Quilters Cupboard in Uxbridge, where several of our members are staff, will be a featured shop in Better Homes and Gardens Quilt Sampler magazine's Fall/Winter 2010 issue. Another of our members, Sherri Hisey, co-designed and created the quilt, "Oakridge Towne Square", that will be featured (known as Autumn Nights in the magazine). The quilt is now on display at Quilters Cupboard in Uxbridge. Congratulations to all involved!

 

 

Our Guild is featured in the Focus on Guilds section of the Summer 2010 Canadian Quilters Association Newsletter! The article, written and submitted by member and Historian Lyn Moore, is entitled YORK QUILTERS GUILD MARATHON and includes great pictures of some of our members at work. The article focuses on our journey from Susan Cox's donation of the quilt top through to completion of the quilting and donation to Doane House Hospice for a raffle. To quote Lyn, "projects such as this prove just how much a small group of dedicated quilters can do to give back to their communities and make a real difference in the lives of others." Many thanks to all who participated and supported our efforts.

 

 

Personals:

 

For Sale by Member:

Beautiful Brother QC1000 2 years new. Wonderful quilting machine, just received yearly maintenance tune up. Options:needle up/down,knee lift,thread cutter, drop feed dog key, automatic reinforcement stitch key, mirror image, bobbin almost empty alert. For quilting has an attachable wide table, Stitch patterns can be saved to computer via USB cable. Machine software updated to Windows Vista. Feet: buttonhole, overcasting, monogramming, zipper, zigzag, blind stitch, button fitting, free-motion quilting, free-motion open toe, free-motion echo quilting, walking, 1/4" quilt,straight stitch. Also comes with a wheeled travel case. See pictures to the left. Asking $2000.00 or best offer. If interested, email quilter1987@gmail.com.