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

So here we are - just two days away from NOVEMBER... is your quilt in the frame or on the machine bed??

Quilters across Kingston, ON and area are starting to really begin the "making" required to get their submissions for the QUILTS KINGSTON 2015 Show and Sale underway ... both the Kingston Heirloom Quilters and the members of the Limestone Quilters Guild are working on their quilts, Members' Boutique items and their consignment piecess that could be part of the sale room.

 

Having just come back from the beautiful Quilt Show of the Brant Heritage Quilters Guild in Brantford, ON, I certainly see the excitement that building up to a huge undertaking like a Guild's Quilt Show can be...and just know that the QUILTS KINGSTON 2015 Committees that are planning for our show June 12-15, 2015 are getting many details in place to draw in as many visitors to Kingston and our Show as possible.

Fences and Ladders, B. Garner and friends

 

Developing designs and pulling together the stashes of fabric - maybe using up those hand dyes and the painted fabrics you made in a class, or taking advantage of the year end sales at your favourite shops is a passion that only quilters can understand. Now is the time to get planning, pull out the draft paper and rulers.. get an all new project underway.

 

I have three beautiful quilt kits that I have purchased on our Bus trips to Lancaster and Paducah, and they need to be made up this winter. I bet that many of you have taken classes or also purchased quilt kits that are begging to be finished. No excuses now... the calendar is ticking off days and soon the quilts will be photographed and the submission forms required for the Quilt Show Committee.

 

My challenge to all Kingston Guild members is one quilt EACH... miniature, wall quilt, bed quilt, art quilt, wearable or a consignment project... lets make this the biggest and best show yet!

 

Stay tuned for more news about the Show, timelines for getting your work photographed and submission forms in to the Guild/Group Quilt \show Committee members responsible for collection and processing of entries.

 

Bethany, Publicity Committee

In support of our Quilt Guild members who are also members of the Kingston Handloom Weavers and Spinners we invite you to visit the FALL SALE of our sister Guild in fibre!

STITCHING fingers are getting a workout as quilters continue the process of creating the beautiful stitch that will be seen on quilts...

Quilters at Gail Garber workshop with the starting pieces from their STAR QUILTS
Hoping for MANY at QUILTS KINGSTON 2015

Having traveled to numbers of local venues and a few quilters homes this fall, we can safely say that there are a number of beautiful quilts underway that are destined for the QUILTS KINGSTON Show and Sale on June 12-14, 2015. The Committee members are busy collecting donations for the members boutique and the donations are WONDERFUL.

 

Workshops with visiting Quilt Instructors have inspired participants to begin all new quilts, and finish those that have been on the design walls and marking tables. Groups who work together are executing plans and setting up work days. Classes have started again at the local shops and the long arm quilters are busy completing work for entries that will be completed for the coming deadline for entry.

 

Hoping YOU are working on your pieces - large and small wall quilts, bed quilts, wall hangings, miniatures, clothing... all are welcome.

 

And please plan your entry for:  The "Sir John A. / Sir John, Eh?" Challenge: rules and entry form for members of the Kingston Heirloom Quilters and Limestone Quilter' Guild ONLY.

 

Watch the circulation of your local Guild Newsletter and our Quilt Kingston website http://www.quiltskingston.org/ for news, entry deadlines and more.