Hi Ladies
Please find attached the OWQS Spring newsletter, with all the details of the upcoming annual meeting, as well as the registration form for the 2018 AGM (deadline for registering is April 7th) and your membership form in case you have not yet renewed your membership. Let me remind you that we are always looking for news from our members' guilds so be sure to send me any information you might like to see in the Summer newsletter as soon as you can. Happy reading!
Ginette
Great news, we now have a Facebook page that you can view here:
https://www.facebook.com/OceanWavesQuiltSociety/
Please like our page and invite your quilting friends to like it as well. We will be using the page to keep you informed of our activities and of any changes to scheduled events.
I wish all of you a wonderful summer with family and friends. Happy reading!
Ginette
Please find attached the OWQS Spring newsletter, with all the details of the upcoming annual meeting, as well as the registration form for the 2018 AGM (deadline for registering is April 7th) and your membership form in case you have not yet renewed your membership. Let me remind you that we are always looking for news from our members' guilds so be sure to send me any information you might like to see in the Summer newsletter as soon as you can. Happy reading!
Ginette
Great news, we now have a Facebook page that you can view here:
https://www.facebook.com/OceanWavesQuiltSociety/
Please like our page and invite your quilting friends to like it as well. We will be using the page to keep you informed of our activities and of any changes to scheduled events.
I wish all of you a wonderful summer with family and friends. Happy reading!
Ginette
Quilt Frames for Sale
The Compass Rose Quilters Guild in Sherbrooke, N.S. have for sale 8 Display Frames for Quilt.
The Display Frames are selling for 1/2 the price of the hardware and wood.
If interested please email me at mini.kaiser@ns.sympatico.ca
The Display Frames are selling for 1/2 the price of the hardware and wood.
If interested please email me at mini.kaiser@ns.sympatico.ca
2017 Events
Baddeck Quilt Guild Quilt Show and Sale
Tuesday July 18th to Friday July 21st.12:00 noon to 7:00 p.m.
Greenwood United Church Basement
Tuesday July 18th to Friday July 21st.12:00 noon to 7:00 p.m.
Greenwood United Church Basement
The Causeway — Show and Sale
Celebrating 12 years of quilting at the Causeway
Hosted by The Strait Area Quilters and Ocean Waves Quilt Society of Cape
Breton, will be held August 10 to 15 in St. David’s United Church, Port Hastings. We encourage active members of OWQS to submit their quilts and small items. Join us as we work on a Housing First quilt set-up in the hall as part of the display of quilts.
Celebrating 12 years of quilting at the Causeway
Hosted by The Strait Area Quilters and Ocean Waves Quilt Society of Cape
Breton, will be held August 10 to 15 in St. David’s United Church, Port Hastings. We encourage active members of OWQS to submit their quilts and small items. Join us as we work on a Housing First quilt set-up in the hall as part of the display of quilts.
Janet Kasper
Quilt Canada 2017 Registrar, CQA/ACC
Georgetown, Ontario
Phone: 1-905-873-2639 OR : 1-877-672-8777 ext 2
Email: CQAregistrar@gmail.com
www.canadianquilter.com
I had a query about Canada's Big Quilt Bee and the sizes of quilts for McDonald House. Here's the
link for all the information at the Canadian Quilters Association: http://www.canadianquilter.com/events/quilt-canada-2017-quilting-bee.php and I've attached the PDF for making slab quilts.
Here's the link for making the blocks in case you want to share it with other quilters: http://www.canadianquilter.com/pdf/quilt-canada-2017/Quilting-Bee-How-to-make-a-block.pdf.
The PDF contains two quilt sizes and Canada's Big Quilt Bee will accept either size for the McDonald House quilts.
link for all the information at the Canadian Quilters Association: http://www.canadianquilter.com/events/quilt-canada-2017-quilting-bee.php and I've attached the PDF for making slab quilts.
Here's the link for making the blocks in case you want to share it with other quilters: http://www.canadianquilter.com/pdf/quilt-canada-2017/Quilting-Bee-How-to-make-a-block.pdf.
The PDF contains two quilt sizes and Canada's Big Quilt Bee will accept either size for the McDonald House quilts.
Quilt Canada 2017 ~ Quilting Bee Event ~ Canadian Quilters ...
www.canadianquilter.com
Canada's Big Quilt Bee. To celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday we want you to be part of Canada’s biggest Quilt Bee! The Big Quilt Bee will be held June 14-17, 2017 ...
www.canadianquilter.com
Canada's Big Quilt Bee. To celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday we want you to be part of Canada’s biggest Quilt Bee! The Big Quilt Bee will be held June 14-17, 2017 ...
The Art Hits The Wall committee is pleased to announce the theme for our next exhibit "Under The Influence" to be held in 2017.
Please find attached the Call For Entry and the Application Form. We'd really appreciate it if you can spread the word to your group.
We are currently seeking venues for the show. If you have any suggestions please let one of us know.
If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact Linda Alderdice as indicated on the forms.
Please find attached the Call For Entry and the Application Form. We'd really appreciate it if you can spread the word to your group.
We are currently seeking venues for the show. If you have any suggestions please let one of us know.
If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact Linda Alderdice as indicated on the forms.
16th Mayflower Quilter’s Retreat
Wed. Sep 20– Sun. Sep 24, 2017 Pictou Lodge, Pictou, Nova Scotia
Click here for retreat brochure and registration information:
Wed. Sep 20– Sun. Sep 24, 2017 Pictou Lodge, Pictou, Nova Scotia
Click here for retreat brochure and registration information:
Below are some pictures of the slab block day held in Port Hawkesbury by the Tea Tyme Quilters
Member News
OWQS Member Bea Tilsley-Cunningham's daughter, Susan Tilsley - Manley, passed away on Saturday after a courageous struggle with a brain tumour. She leaves behind her husband and two young children.
Susan was an accomplished art quilter. Many of you will remember her from one of our quarterly
meetings in Margaree Valley a couple of years ago. She also gave workshops to our guild and at
number of retreats where you may have been her student.
A shining start has gone ahead to light our way. Please remember Bea and her family at this difficult time.
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Susan was an accomplished art quilter. Many of you will remember her from one of our quarterly
meetings in Margaree Valley a couple of years ago. She also gave workshops to our guild and at
number of retreats where you may have been her student.
A shining start has gone ahead to light our way. Please remember Bea and her family at this difficult time.
http://www.eaglesfuneralhome.ca/
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Theresa Benteau MacLean, had a wonderful opportunity to be a block tester for Quiltmaker 100 Blocks magazine, Volume 11. As a result she also had the opportunity to create a quilt for the magazine from the blocks she had tested. It is featured on the last page of the magazine, which is on store shelves this week. It was a very rewarding challenge. She is a member of Baddeck Quilters Guild and Ocean Waves Quilt Society and she has recently moved to Cape Breton from Newfoundland.
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Marg Ferguson's quilt won a first place ribbon at the Vermont Quilt Festival in June. Congratulations Marg
Marg Ferguson's quilt won a first place ribbon at the Vermont Quilt Festival in June. Congratulations Marg
This is a quilt made by the Celtic Quilt Guild for Canadian "Quilts of Valour " project. The quilt will go to a veteran or soldier. It was designed by Anne Morrell Robinson of www.kingrossquilts.com and the blocks were made by members of the Celtic Quilt Guild in Belle Côte. It was quilted by The Mira Stitchin'
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From Blankets of Love to Charity Quilts and now on to Touch Quilts
Back Row, left to right, Lucille Evans, Stella Warner, June Oliver, Sherille MacKeigan, Thelma Forbrigger, Pat Sharpe, Barb MacInytre.
Front row, left to right, Carolyn Langley, Daniele Burlock, and Catherine MacColl. Missing from the photo, Dina Nicklason and Valle Ross
The Ocean Waves Quilters have embarked on a new and exciting project for their quilts.
The Tea Thyme Quilters at St. Mark’s set up their sewing machines, & tools on Wednesday, May 15th to begin a new project: to sew a Touch Quilt for each person in the Nursing Home suffering from Alzheimer’s. The girls were able to complete 30 Touch Quilts which were blessed by the minister, Nan Corrigan, D.M, at the Sunday morning Service, May 19th. The quilts were made of a variety of fabrics all brought in by the quilters and their friends for the enjoyment and happiness of the patients.
To learn more about making a touch quilt please click here
The Tea Thyme Quilters at St. Mark’s set up their sewing machines, & tools on Wednesday, May 15th to begin a new project: to sew a Touch Quilt for each person in the Nursing Home suffering from Alzheimer’s. The girls were able to complete 30 Touch Quilts which were blessed by the minister, Nan Corrigan, D.M, at the Sunday morning Service, May 19th. The quilts were made of a variety of fabrics all brought in by the quilters and their friends for the enjoyment and happiness of the patients.
To learn more about making a touch quilt please click here