October 2021

Crescent Quilters meeting minutes

Location:	Seniors Come Share—Basement level
Date:	October 18, 2021
Time:	7:00 – 9:00 pm
Attendees:	20 members in person, several members by Zoom, 1 guest speaker
Minutes:	Taken by and distributed by Gloria

Before the meeting commenced, members signed in, showed vaccination passports, and had temperatures taken. All attendees wore masks. Jean, Gloria, and Susan worked together to log into the Zoom link by Wi-Fi with a laptop and a couple of iPads. The hybrid meeting was Zoom hosted by Jean.

The meeting commenced at 7pm. The meeting was chaired by our new President Susan. The co-chair of the meeting was our Secretary Gloria. Susan welcome everyone back to the first meeting of the year and, the first meeting since the pandemic started.

Susan and Gloria mentioned all the names of the people on the executive committee this year.

Debbie, our membership coordinator reported that all members from last year except Colleen Hull renewed their membership this year. She has contacted the first person that was on the waiting list to inform her that she has been accepted into our group. Her name is Eileen Walsh. Eileen is a friend of Faith’s and knows Lisa as well.

Bea gave a financial report. Our bank account balance is currently $4229.92. Petty cash is $164.35. (This balance is after $250.00 was deducted for the guest speaker of the evening).

Donna, our community quilt coordinator, is collecting quilts. She encouraged people to continue to make quilts to donate. She announced that quilts larger than lap size are also being accepted. Come Share would be happy to accept any size quilt. As before, the lap size quilts will go to Peace Arch residential care living. She still has batting and labels available.

The next Brookswood sew days are Tuesday October 26^th and Wednesday October 27^th. The next CQ meeting will be at Seniors Come Share on November 15^th.

Marette and Lisa, our new program coordinators, are still open to suggestions for possible program ideas.

 

 

Lisa introduced our guest presenter Karen Kroeker. Karen is a local fiber artist. She was an art teacher in a local high school and retired in 2010. She has displayed her work at multiple art shows and sales. She belongs to a local fiber arts group.

Karen had an extensive trunk show of her work. As she showed each piece, she mentioned special supplies used, and the inspiration behind the piece. Her technique included free motion sewing and extensive use of her felting machine. She also does decorative hand stitching on her work. She described a technique that she has of using water soluble stabilizer. She draws on the stabilizer, then places the water-soluble stabilizer on top of the piece that she is working on. She then does free motion sewing on top of it. After the sewing is done, she dissolves the stabilizer with water. She upcycles many different supplies and materials in her works of art. On her art piece depicting the storm that broke the White Rock pier, she used dryer sheets to create the look of wind and waves in the water. She often includes items such as crocheted dollies from superfluity shops. She also makes use of gauze and netting. She found quite a large amount of heavy black felt at a local superfluity shop that she used as the background for a series of wall-hangings. She even used a pair of vintage pillowcases to make wall hangings.

Sometimes she frames her work in picture frames or puts them in shadow boxes. Some of her work is displayed in hoops.

Each work of art has meaning for her. One of her works is a picture of flowers in a vase. It is a replica of a painting that was done by her grandmother, but instead of paint, she used fabric to recreate the picture.

Some of her works are landscape pictures that she created with black thread on white fabric. They are like drawings but made from thread. Many of her works are depictions of highlights from trips she has taken. Her wall-hanging visual diaries are from trips she has taken to Cuba, the Okanagan, Toronto, Banff, Salmon Arm, a train trip across Canada, Lake Heron, University of Victoria, Niagara on the lake. She also showed some wearable art that she made. She had several wrist cuffs and small squares of felting made into broaches. She has also made some fancy Journals.

She brought along her felting machine. She described how it works and then did a demonstration for us. She pointed out that the machine has five needles, but it doesn’t use thread. It doesn’t have any feed dogs or pressure foot. It fuses felt and bits of other fibers together by punching needles through the materials. She also brought her domestic sewing machine to show us how she does free motion sewing.

We had a Sew, Show ‘n’ Tell from several of our members.

Linda B. showed a baby quilt for a baby named Zoey. The quilt had the name on it in big letters.

Karen B. showed her completed round robin quilt. She also showed a hockey themed quilt for her grandson.

Vivian took a Judy Niemeyer course and showed a paper piecing quilt that she created. She also showed a trucks themed quilt that she made for her grandson. She used a technique that she learned in a Deb Tucker rulers’ course.

Jean showed her pandemic themed round robin quilt. She also showed her “Toe shoes” wall hanging.

Faith showed her round robin quilt. She also showed what she calls her “Covid Quilt”. It is an intricate quilt that she worked on over much of the pandemic. It is a pattern by Kathryn Kerr, called “Aves”

Carole N. showed her round robin quilt that she will be giving to her granddaughter.

Debbie showed a quilt that she made for a child named Everly. The name was on the quilt in large letters. She also showed two completed quilts that were Jen Kingwell patterns. One was “Gypsy wife” and the other was “Bakers dozen”. The two Jen Kingwell quilts were quilted by Faith.

Wendy showed a quilt via zoom of her one block wonder quilt.

The meeting was over a few minutes before 9pm. Several people helped to put away tables and chairs and wiped down surfaces we used.