PEI Modern Quilt Guild May 2020 Guild Meeting

Wow, we welcomed a new member over the past month and actually had warm spring like weather on our meeting day.  We had a small but mighty (and fun loving) crowd at the virtual meeting tonight as members were involved in other activities.  We are lucky to be on the island as we have been easing up on public health restrictions.  We will be moving into to Phase III and looking forward to supporting businesses as they open their doors.

First off, we had to make silly faces...so here we all are...having a good laugh.



We quickly moved to the business aspect of the meeting and discussed the block lotto with a reminder they are due in June.  We also got an update on our pouch swap with the Victoria MQG.

Here is our raffle quilt, in our guild colours, fresh off Colleen Henderson's long arm machine and the detail shot is below.  After discussion, the members present agreed we would defer our raffle until the 2021 guild year.  The pattern is Lilla, by Cheryl Arkison and Lotta Jansotter.







We also discussed having a virtual quilt show in the fall where members could showcase one quilt as all the venues where we would enter our quilts this summer have been cancelled.  More to come on this idea as we flesh it out further.

For our program, we took advantage of the share screen feature to showcase some of the features of the MQG website.

Then we moved into the show and tell aspect of our meeting.

Here is Jean's Love from Above, a Charley Harper pattern.  Jean quilted it on her long arm and we all admired the quilt.

Here is Linda's CQA Row by Row Quilt.  It is coming along!

Lucinda has been working away at stash busting.   Here are two of her works in progress.

Janice shared her Quilt for Nova Scotia, which the Maritime MQG is organizing following the recent tragedy in that province.  Janice machine quilted this quilt on her domestic machine.  Here are photos of the front and back.

Roberta has been very prolific during the pandemic period.  Here are her quilts: 
This is Red Guess and was quilted by Colleen Henderson.

This is Roberta's block of the month sampler called Spotted More Paper by Zen Chick and was quilted by Blueberry Cove Long Arm Quilting Studio.

Some small quilts - about 7"x 9" that Roberta made.

Roberta's Maple Leaf runner that she quilted. 

A fabulous summer beach scene.

So that was our May meeting.  We will continue to hold our virtual sew-in on June 13 and hold our meeting on June 25, 2020.  Further details as to whether it will be an in-person meeting or virtual.
Until next time...

May 2020 Stay in Place Sew-In and Virtual lunch break

Here on PEI, we are extremely fortunate during this pandemic. Every one of the 27 cases are recovered and there have been no hospitalizations or death.  We are grateful.  As a result, public health restrictions have eased and we are now allowed 5 people to enter and 10 to gather outside our homes.  As a result, some of our members were happy for the opportunity to see family today inside, since the weather is frightful!  A perfect day to work on our projects too!

Here we are at various times during our lunch break.  Next time the president will signal a funny faces pose so we can capture that moment!  😉

We all had various projects at different stages of completion.  Here are Anna's and Cathy's temperature quilts for 2020 up until the end of April.  Looking good ladies.  Always wonderful to have a partner to motivate us to complete.

Jean quilted her quilt, Love from Above, a Charley Harper design, on her long arm machine with a panto called Diagonal Plaid.  Beautiful.

Linda's top using the no waste method of making flying geese. It was an opportunity to delve into her batik stash to make a dent in it using the Remixed Geese pattern from Robert Kaufman.  She is working on her next row of the CQA Row by Row Quilt Along.

Lucinda was also working on her flying geese.

Janice was trying to finish a baby quilt for a good friend's new grandson.

Colleen finished quilting her foxes on her long arm and Dawn agreed to bind it!  All done, yea!  Here are pictures of the quilt on the machine and finished binding.  It is not often Colleen has the opportunity to get her quilt done in among her client's quilts.

Liz was working on her flying geese to add to her borders.

And here they are on the flimsy! This is the Unity quilt by Bonnie Hunter. Liz isn't the only  PEIMQG member participating in this free Quilt Along.

Last month, Heather won the block lotto.  As she receives the blocks, she's been playing with the layout on the design wall.

Today, Heather, was working on her mini for her CQA swap partner.  It has to be in the mail early June so we will have to wait until after her partner receives it before we see it here.

Velda was not sewing with us today, however she was kept busy with quilt related things.  She worked on her blog post: Simple Shapes = Fabulous Finishes.  Check it out at: freckledfoxquiltery.wordpress.com.

She also recently received this lovely assortment of fabrics from Troll Brothers Quilt Designs

We will be having a virtual guild meeting again this month and we will see what the future holds for all of us to come back together again in person. 

Now, if only Mother Nature would cooperate for Mother's Day and not send us snow tonight...until next time...