Welcome

Welcome to the home of the Thunder Bay Quilters Guild.  If you have any comments or suggestions please email cridley@tbaytel.net.  Thanks for visiting.

April 1st – No Fooling -unfortunately our site experienced a ‘hacking’ – must be our beautiful quilt patterns they were after.  We are back up and running now but have lost some of the postings.  Over the next few weeks these will be re-loaded but if, as you are browsing you notice any particularities, please let me know at cridley@tbaytel.net

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Monthly Meetings

Join us  at the Calvary Lutheran Church at 2820 Donald Street East -located at the intersection of Donald Street and Edward Street. We will meet on the third Monday of each month, September through June but our meetings will now begin at 7:00 p.m. with doors opening at 6:00 p.m. All are welcome.  Click here for a full listing of the dates, time and location…

Our next meeting will be: Monday, May 21, 2012.

Join Alva for a demo in the library before the meeting.  There is always something to be learned from this amazing quilter!  She’ll follow it up with a link which will be posted on the meeting page.

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Quilt Bee

Thursday February 9 – Quilting Bee was a great success. All participants had a good time. The facility was great especially once we had the amount of strain the breaker system could take. The food was plenty and very good. Every quilter appeared very engaged in what they were doing and many quilts were created.

A big thank you to Aila Metsa and Linda Santorelli, chairs of the Bee committee for ensuring every one had what they needed to create the quilts. Thank you to Meghann Choquette for making the arrangements with the Prince Arthur and for trouble shooting through out the day.

Also a big thank you to the group leaders, Alva Llewellyn, Bobbie Dafoe, Cindy Cockell, Jeanette Oja, Karen Boote, Linda Guitard, Lori Smetaniuk, Nelly Reedhead, Peggy Skillen and Wendy Currie. Your leadership and instruction lead to many colourful quilts being created. Another big thank you goes to the members who came out to participate in all the aspects of making quilts. Without your dedication the comfort quilts made that day would not have been possible.

A thank you also goes out to Tom at Twin City, Bob at Sysco, Marcia at Merle Norman, Cindy Cockell and Luci Andreacchi at Circle of Friends Quilt Shoppe for the wonderful prizes up for grabs by the participants.

Thanks to all for an awesome day.

Click here for an update on our Comfort Quilts.

Placemat Bees

There were 44 placemats turned in at the June meeting and about the same number over the summer
months.Join us at our next Placemat Bees where placemats are made for a number of community organizations.  Click here for more information or to download a couple of patterns and make one, or two, or four. Bring them along to the next meeting and Nellie will collect them.

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We’re Blogging

A number of our members are BLOGGING. Click here to see the links.  If you want to add your BLOG to the list email us the link (cridley@tbaytel.net).

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Possiblities

Interested in discussing the “possibilities” of quilting – join the Possibilities Club.

Next meeting: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. in the Home Ec (do they still call it that?) at Superior High School. For more details click here

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Superior Quilt Show 2013

Check back here for regular updates of our 2013 show – have you started on your quilt?

Superior Quilt Show 2011

2nd Place went to

and 3rd Place went to

There were winners in the categories of Art, Clothing, Hand Quilting, Miniature, Wall Hangings and Seasonal – click here to see these beautiful quilts. Congratulations to all of our quilters for a truly inspirational show!

Thanks to our 2011 Feature Quilter – Helen Knight. Helen’s work is now being shown, in it’s entirety at the Thunder Bay Historical Museum.

See some of our other award winning quilts from the 2009 show – Click here…

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FAQ’s

Read the articles on Specialty Threads

Part 1

Part 2

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Share your Tips and Hints

Muriel Squires shares Things I Have Learned (or Muriel’s Laws) You know, like Murphy’s Law
1. If you want to get threads off a quilt top be sure to wear dark clothing, preferably black, and either corduroy or fleece, and the threads will just jump right off onto your clothing. (This works under the same principle as when your hair is partly black and partly grey – the grey will fall out when you wear dark clothes, and the black will fall when you wear light clothing. Remember, opposites attract.) Click here to read more …

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Recipes

We had a pot luck - try one of these recipes and send us yours…

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