Lakeside Quilters Guild WindUp (29)

This was such a fun gathering of Quilters from my Lakeside Guild thanks to Danielle for organizing everything and to Laurie for Opening up her home to all of us and what a beautiful home you have Laurie:)
With the pin cushion challenge to be voted on here's the entries. Also some fun photos of the night:) what a treat to have all of us together. For those ladies that missed it, hope this post helps you feel included. 

New York Beauty (24)

The Lakeside Quilters Guild girls have been work furiously on this quilting project for our next Raffle quilt to raise funds for our local charity projects.

Would you like to WIN this!!

how about a close up?

If you're interested in a ticket AND are currently living in Alberta email me Valerie@PastimesOnline.ca and we can figure out how to get you tickets...which by the way are $1. each :)

Lakeside Quilters: Name Tag Workshop (23)

Sew about a dozen of us embarked on the project of a life time to ensure we all have names and are proud to wear them on our hearts :)

We had sew much fun, thanks to all the ladies to hauled their machines and goodies for everyone to share and a BIG THANKS to Jo for stitching our names - I love mine!

See you soon at the Christmas Party - with Bells On :)

Lakeside Quilters: Fabric Painting & a night of Schnibbles (19)

Hi Ladies, well last Saturday was a day filled with inspiration, a little bit of stress learning something new and a finished fabric painted apple that is absolutely gorgeous!! Thanks so much to Ana for your super teaching skills and help throughout the day it was so great! Thanks to my SIL for making the trek from DeWinton and my Mum for coming from a conference and 3 hours from home :) and too all the Ladies who committed to come and learn something so totally new and challenging.

Heather, this pic is for you as you dressed up for the photo opps today :)

Here's all of us with our proud works of art!

So after this amazing day of painting was over, my SIL drove home to change, my Mum drove home to her cottage and some girls came over to change and get ready at my house with me because we were off to a FAB dinner and trunk show with Carrie Nelson of Miss Rosie's Quilt Co. For those of you unfamiliar with Carrie she is the creator of the Schnibbles line of patterns - which are absolutely adorable!!

Our table was full of so many laughs after so much good food and a nice glass of wine we (I) got the giggles boy did we (I) have so much fun, along with everyone else at the table. Thanks to all my dear Quilting buddies for making it the best night!

unfortunately I didn't bring my awesome D90 but I did have my iPhone which is 3MB so I shot these few photos with that, enjoy.

 

check out her binding clips, she really uses this many - isn't that an absolute riot!!

then we had to get some photos with us girls and she was such a delight to sit and chat with..

Last is me with her, she signed out patterns and fabric packs like a real trooper, thanks Carrie for taking the time to laugh and be with us, we loved it!

until next event in Quilting in Alberta, stay creative everyone :)

Lakeside Quilters: Spring Fair (17)

The Lakeside Guild, Chestermere Quilt Show "Country Connections Spring Fair" was a huge success, can I say "WOW" we had the best turnout of quilts EVER and the best turnout of people. Thanks to everyone who took the time to come out to the show and make it a success for all of us a Lakeside Quilters. THANK-YOU!! Celebrating out 10th year as a quilters guild is so rewarding and we still have 5 of the founding members.

Thanks to all of the husbands who climb ladders, hauled tables and chairs - so appreciated!

It was really nice to have a few vendors there selling their awesome goodies!

Sue and Elke hard at it greeting all of our visitors!

the ladies looking through some candids

Cathy doing some selling in my booth, thanks Cathy

Heather won the amazing bag full of goodies, Kim posing with her..

Finally a great group shot of all of us and I think we are all present!

What a great looking group of fabulous quilters!!