Carly here, posting the recap late as usual (just kidding, it’s Jaclyn – later than Carly was!)

We had a great meeting on August 25th. I feel like fall is in the air and people are getting back to sewing! It was great seeing some new faces and some people who were away all summer. We are so excited for all the fun things we have planned for the fall.

I gave a little tutorial on colour theory. Check out the resources page we recently added to the top for some of the links I mentioned. Feel free to send us an email if you think of things we should add.

After that we did a little show and tell. As always, it’s great to see what all of our talented members are creating. Here is a sample of what we saw. Check out our Flickr page for the full show. I apologize, these iPhone photos do not do this beautiful work justice, next meeting I will remember my camera!

Summer was fun but I can’t wait to see what we come up with in the fall!

We hope to see you at our next meeting.

Yesterday we showed off the results of our ‘Make it Modern’ challenge, saw our first completed charity quilt and shared even more great finishes! We don’t have a lot of business over the summer months and we are taking a little breather from challenges.

Our next challenge is: ‘Inspired By…’. We are asking our members to make a quilt that is inspired by a movie, book, piece of art or music. We want the finished project to mean something to you and so we are giving lots of time to make something really great. The deadline is September 29th, and we’d love to hear the stories that go with the quilts at that meeting.

Here are the finishes from our most recent challenge to take a traditional block or idea and put a modern spin on it.

(please ignore my face, haha)

Here are some other show and tell pieces from our talented members:

And here is our first completed charity quilt thanks to Lisa!

Once again we had a wonderful time. Hope to see you at our next meeting!