Such a lovely spring day but we still managed to have a great turnout. Thanks to all of you for making it such an enjoyable afternoon of sharing. Everyone’s collection of travelling quilt blocks is growing and it is so fun to see the subtle changes to colours and designs as each person interprets our blocks and perhaps adds some fabrics from our stash. This is also great for sharing techniques such as those by Barb for the paper piecing block. She suggested folding along the paper edge with a piece of cardboard to get a nice crease, and to cut with a 1/4″ ruler with a ledge.

Charlene did a fabulous talk about her virtual QuiltCon 2021 experience. We are all so very tired of Covid-19 but this reminded us that we can find the silver linings too. Wouldn’t it be cool if the conference could continue to at least post the quilt gallery online? We see quilts on social media but it was such a treat to buy an entrance fee so that we could see them all at once. And with the zooming function, we could still marvel at the stitching. And so many of us have this conference on our bucket list but it will be a while before it is feasible to go. When taking the virtual lectures, there was an opportunity to pause the videos and it was still possible to ask questions.

Our ice breaker today was “what or who inspired you to get into quilting?”. Next month’s theme continues to be one of inspiration as we are all going to teach each other. We will open with the icebreaker of “what is your favourite book or resource for quilting?”, then we are all to do show and tell of postcards that we are to make this month. We hope these creative assignments will help to inform and encourage each other to try new techniques. And as post cards are only 4″x6″, it could be a fun month ahead for all of us as the size of the project is not so intimidating! Stay safe.