The Saskatoon MQG met on February 26th for a sew day at Home Inn & Suites. Linda S-K showed us how to make half-square triangle (HST) units based on the “8 at a Time Half-Square Triangle Units” download at: https://studylib.net/doc/18219288/8-at-a-time-half-square-triangle-units. This handy chart shows the square size to cut for a range of HST sizes. The coolest thing for me was to see that you can flip the HST using the Bloc Loc ruler when trimming because the groove on the ruler holds the block in place. Here is a YouTube video that explains this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMxnXkFENxo.

We saw several traveling quilt blocks. Margaret’s shown below (top left) is Village Square. Also shown are couple of HST quilts, and a book by Victoria Findlay Wolfe. The two bottom right quilts show examples of stash projects. The alphabet is the Letra quilt pattern.

Next month we are having our retreat on March 25 & 26 at Queen’s House. There will be a white elephant table if you would like to try to get rid of anything quilting related. If no one takes it, remember to take it home. On Saturday, we will play a game at 2 p.m. and will have show and tell at 7 p.m. If you wish to participate in the game, please bring three 10 inch square Christmas themed pieces of fabric. On Sunday, another game is planned for 2 p.m. No need to bring anything for that one. Also on Sunday, we will have a fat quarter draw. You will get your name entered for each fat quarter you bring. The lucky winner gets all of the fat quarters. If anyone attending ‘Saturday only’ wants to participate, no worries. We will let you know if your name is drawn for the fat quarters.

The Saskatoon MQG met on January 22nd for a sew day at Home Inn & Suites. Thank you for providing me with the opportunity to present “Quilting Rocks”. It was fun for me to combine my work with my hobby. I appreciated all of the questions. Any time that I can pull out samples of rock to share the message that “If it isn’t grown, it is mined” is a good day for me. I hope I relayed that we can not do our hobby without Earth’s resources.

We kicked off traveling quilts and it is going to be so much fun to see the blocks. The idea was suggested that everyone from our guild provide one block (even if not participating in traveling quilts) and that we make a charity quilt at years’ end. We also have tons of interest for a retreat at Queen’s House on March 25/26. Members, watch your email for details. We are receiving so many requests for membership at this time and our meeting space is limited. So we are starting a waiting list until our past members renew and we can evaluate if there is enough room for more.

So many beautiful projects were shared. We are so excited that Roxanne shared Kawandi Quilting with us. This was new to all of us and now we are hoping Roxanne will teach us. She shared a book by Sujata Shah on the topic and told us about Margaret Fabrizio. The basket below is by HandyMum and is a free pattern. So much of our quilting this month was using scraps. A scrap quilter to check out is Terry Roland. Linda and I were both working on “Film at 5”. I love the pattern. Thanks for introducing it to me!

Next meeting is February 26 at Home Inn & Suites. You must renew your annual membership for $60 by end-of-February or you could lose your spot. We are going to send out a survey to see if people prefer the meeting time to be 1:00-3:00 or 2:00-4:00. Also, we will check if there is interest in moving our meetings to the 3rd Sunday of each month. Happy sewing!