Have you always dreamed of going to the BIG Quilt Show in Paducah, KY... well here is your opportunity! Register right away to be included!!!

The Limestone Quilters Guild is once again sponsoring a QUILTERS BUS TRIP to the American Quilters Society 's "QUILT WEEK IN PADUCAH" this spring April 20-27th.

It is one amazing trip, and a very reasonable alternative to driving yourself, booking all of your own hotels and being on your own. Who wouldn't want to be among a group of great quilters and seeing the sights, touring the Quilt Shows, visiting the National Quilt Museum and so much more. Seats are available now!!!

And you be back well before the QUILTS KINGSTON 2015 Show... make this your reward for getting your entries in right away!

Contact Susan Clarke at:  sjcway@cogeco.ca  for all of the details and be a part of all of the fun!

Susan can email you a larger copy of the details sheet below...don't wait. Seats are filling fast!

QUILT SHOW PLANNING NOW UNDERWAY in earnest... submission of Quilt Show entries due by March 3 and 4th for our Quilters...

 More Winning Quilts from QUILTS KINGSTON 2012

The Quilt Show planning process is well underway and our quilters are focused on creating the most wonderful selection of all new quilts for this Kingston Show. Viewers from across Ontario and beyond are already planning their visit to Kingston during the JUNE 12 - 14th weekend. 

** The Entry Forms have been distributed to members at Kingston Heirloom Quilters Group and Limestone Quilters Guild meeting and are now posted to our official QUILTS KINGSTON website at: www.quiltskingston.org/   (just click on the Quilts Kingston Logo here at the blog to go directly to the website for all of your forms)

YOUR entry forms must be received no later than March 3rd or 4th at the KHQ and LQG meetings.

** Members are busy working on their donations to the Members Boutique and from what has been coming in at the local meetings, this will be our best Boutique event ever. We encourage all of our members to create their favourite projects for donation and sharing with the Guild's as this important part of our Quilt Show is filled to the brim with beautiful project pieces. The Boutique Committee members will be collecting through the May meeting, so there is still plenty of time on these winter days to get started on your planned donations.

Each month at our meetings, the show and share table of some of the wonderful small pieces for the Boutique has proven to be a fun filled gathering spot for members.

 ** Specific guidelines for taking photos for attachment to your Entry Form have been provided and are available at the Quilts Kingston website.... www.quiltskingston.org/

It is really important to have great photos of your quilts intended for entry! 4 x 6 only, and printed on photo paper. You will get your photo(s) back after the show. Please, NO STAPLES - paperclips only when attaching items to your entry form.

You will also need to include with your form the photo of your quilt, and small pieces of fabrics from your quilt if the photo is not "true colour" representative, and a small sample of the backing fabric to help the designers as they layout the Show Floor arrangement and choose which quilts will hang back to back with another... so important to ensure that all of the quilts are being shown to their best advantage.

Be sure to go over your Entry Form carefully and ensure that all of your information is printed clearly so that the Committee members translating your name, quilt dimensions and label information to the Quilts Kingston documents for hanging.

Awarning Quilt: Pickle Dish by Diana Hogan 2012

 ** So many small details, but all very important to ensuring that we have a smooth walk into the important production stages of the Quilt Show.

** Don't forget the "Sir John, EH?" Challenge and Quilts by Children special exhibits... are you working on quilts for these categories?

Please direct questions to your Show Coordinators:

Margaret Henshaw for the Kingston Heirloom Quilters: henshaw[at]sympatico.ca

Anne Dickson for the Limestone Quilters Guild: anne.dickson[at]sympatico.ca

 

WE HOPE YOU WILL HELP US MAKE THIS THE VERY BEST SHOW YET.....

Best wishes for a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful start of your NEW YEAR!

To each of our area quilters and those who follow us from a distance - we send our wishes for a blessed and family focused Holiday season.

May your hearts be filled with love and family, the joy of travel if that is part of your plan, and most of all, time for the creative needle arts you all love so much.

Looking forward to seeing you in the New Year as we gear up for the planning, publicity and best of all THE QUILTS that will be rolling in with their entry forms as January and February approach.

Safe travels and see you in the classrooms, the Guild meetings, at our Community Quilts day gatherings and at the local shops.

Please remember the quilting friends we all know who may need a ride to January - March meetings, and do check in on those you know who are home bound this winter.

Happy Holidays one and ALL!!!

Your Kingston Heirloom Quilters Group and Limestone Quilters Guild Executive and Quilts Kingston Committee members

NEW EXHIBIT for Quilts Kingston 2015 invites children who quilt to join us in sharing their quilts!

The Quilts Kingston-2015 planning committee is introducing a new entry category to the Exhibition for this next year.

 "Quilts by Children". 

We welcome quilts made by children in our community.

There are no rules except that the child must be sponsored for entry by a member of the Limestone Quilters Guild or Kingston Heirloom Quilters Group.

 

Any child may enter a quilted item in the show as long as the item meets the following guidelines:

1)    Child is 14 years or under at any time during 2015.

2)    Item circumference does not exceed 240 inches. (e.g. 60 inches square)

3)    Child must be sponsored by a LQG or KHQ member.  A member may sponsor only one child.

4)    Entry could be done by one child or done as a group entry.

5)    Child must sew the quilt top and the binding.  Quilting does not need to be done by child.

6)    Items will not be judged.

7)    All children, whether as an individual or as a group, will receive a participation ribbon.

 

So hoping for a great response for this exhibit. If your child is making quilts or if you know of a child who has always wanted to make his or her own quilt, please contact the Guild/Group and meet with a member who might provide some help or guidance along the way and sponsor the quilt for our Show.

 

Show Contacts:

Anne Dickson  Limestone Guild  - anne.dickson@sympatico.ca

Margaret Henshaw: Kingston Heirloom Quilters  - henshaw@sympatico.ca

 

The season for FINISHING your Qults is underway... and before the holidays arrive, get stitching!

from Joann Sharpe's free form Lettering, as posted by Cherie Haas,
Online Editor to Cloth Paper Scissors Today Nov. 7, 2014
 



Just a reminder as you go into this slower and more stitch focused season of shorter days and LONG evenings for stitching and 'making' of new quilts or other fibre projects , to take your thoughts, talents and joy each day to the place in your life where you develop new ideas and take the studio focused action that all new stitch work requires.

 

For me... it's taking weaving lessons and learning to bring the new "Fanny" floor loom (actually 14 years old) in my studio become a useful and enjoyable tool for all new art cloth. Finishing a baby quilt for our new grandson Luke, born October 27th. And soon, 'framing in' the two bed quilts I want to submit to Quilts Kingston in February...much work to do.

 

Make QUILTS be the focus ... visit exhibitions, shops, sales and meetings of your favourite groups/Guilds - all abundant in this month of November. Take time to visit websites/blogs of the quilters you love and include them in your lives. Take a friend along on a day trip to see a quilt show, and be sure to say THANK YOU to someone who has been an inspiration to you or helped you out along the way.

Bethany