Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Monday, May 24, 2021

CPQG Challenge 2021 – quilt label ideas

The 2021 Centre Pieces Quilt Guild “My Town” challenge reveal is just around the corner!

The one requirement for the challenge is a label that references the challenge, what town or area you picked, and why you chose the town or area.

The internet link below provides lots of ideas about what information to include on the label and how to create the label: 

https://blog.shopmartingale.com/quilting-sewing/how-to-label-a-quilt-7-ideas/

Information you may want to include on the label:

-your name as maker
-quilter’s name if item was quilted by someone else
-the name of the quilted item if you gave it a title
-the town where the quilted item was created
-the year the quilted item was completed
-recipient’s name if your quilted item will be a gift
        -the name of the pattern and pattern creator if pattern is not original
        -washing and care instructions

Those of you with embroidery modules as an accessory to your sewing machine may want to search online for videos to help you make an easy (or complex!) machine embroidered quilt label.

Another idea is to search online for information about how to use freezer paper and fabric or pre-treated fabric sheets to print a quilt label using your ink jet printer.

Easy labels can also be printed free-hand using a permanent archival marker or pen. Or you can hand embroider a label.

Other ideas include using project scraps or an orphan block when creating your label.  

Let your creativity shine!





Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Masked Quilters: 2 meetings in May Cancelled

  Community Room at Mall is closed May 20 and 27.  No Masked Quilters those 2 days.

Sunday, May 16, 2021

Summer Membership Meetings

Our Summer Membership Meetings will be held at Orchard Park (1060 Bayberry Dr. off Blue Course Drive) under a pavilion (unless the weather is exceptionally horrible in which case we’ll Zoom.)  We will not serve food or drinks; we will mask-up and we will abide by current social distancing rules.  Please bring a chair.  This park has flush toilets and close by parking.  We plan to be finished in time to drive home while it is still light. Programs will be announced later.

        Jun 8, 2021 Social 6:30 to 07:00 PM (Airing of our Pandemic Quilts and Challenge Reveal)


        Jul 13, 2021 Social 6:30 to 07:00 PM

        Aug 10, 2021 Social 6:30 to 07:00 PM

Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Planning Meeting

 May 24 12:30 at Good Day Cafe.  Agenda TBD but will include summer and fall membership meetings, increasing membership, and other items.

All CPQG members are welcome.  Bring a chair and your ideas.  We'll be outside but undercover in case of rain.

Sunday, May 2, 2021

May Membership Meeting

  Join us for the last Zoom meeting (for a while) on May 11 at 7:00pm 

Carla Klop learned to quilt by hand around 1976 and for the next 30 years completed a quilt per year. It was not until discovering the rotary cutter, that her ideas went wild. She developed shortcut methods to speed up her time. These methods are now published in a binder along with patterns and tips.

Carla has created 100+ patterns, many which use her techniques. She has been published 4 times in the American Quilter magazine and has had featured patterns with some of Northcott’s fabric collections. 

In this hour long presentation, Carla shares the accidental path she took to go from Quilter to Designer. She has many quilts to show, all created over the past few years. 

Topic: Centre Pieces Quilt Guild Monthly Membership Meeting

Time: May 11, 2021 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

        https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87309987167?pwd=TGQ0NnMzYXp1QkdqLzJGZFdOamMvUT09

Meeting ID: 873 0998 7167

Passcode: 220216

 The nominations for Executive Board elections are as follows:  

 Presidents Leslie Demmert and Becky Trunzo
 Vice Presidents Fran Hrenko and Karen Powers
 Secretary Jane Brown
 Treasurer Carrie Fala
 Members at Large  Jill Aller and Lynn Springer

Elections will be held at the June meeting.  Nominations from membership will be accepted until June 1.  Absentee ballots may be sent to Lynn Springer until 5:00 PM June 6.