February 2022

Crescent Quilters meeting minutes

Location: Zoom meeting

Date: February 21, 2022

Time: 7:00 – 8:30 pm

Attendees: 18 members by Zoom (The meeting was recorded)

Minutes: Taken by and distributed by Gloria

Before the meeting commenced, (6:30pm-7pm) members signed in, had a social chat time.

The meeting commenced at 7pm. The meeting was chaired by our President Susan. Susan welcomed

everyone. She thanked Gillian for being the Zoom host. 

Brookswood Sew Days will be starting again. Lynne has sent out the dates.

Donna is still collecting community quilts to donate. Let her know if you need batting or labels. She has 

two of the old labels left. She also has new labels that we had custom printed on fabric. Susan showed a 

picture of the new labels. 

Debbie, has membership cards that she will distribute in March at the meeting we will have at Seniors 

Come Share. 

Carolyn –Let her know if a member needs a little sunshine. Thanked Donna for saying everyone could 

use a little sunshine last meeting. People have participated in the idea of passing on a card to the next 

person on the membership list. The people that have received cards have been happy to get them.

Lisa and Marette are both away this month. An update on programs for the rest of the year will be 

shared at a later date.

Sew, Show ‘n’ Tell

Carolyn sent in a photo of a beautiful wall hanging quilt that she made. It looks like a bookshelf with 

books and some family photos on it. 

Vivian showed a nice colorful scrappy quilt that she made with 2 ½” pieces of fabric.

Faith showed a collage quilt that she is working on. It is a mama chimpanzee with a holding a baby 

chimpanzee. She is kissing the baby chimps’ foot. The technique is using Aileen’s glue to put all the 

pieces of fabric in place. The layers of fabric will be quilted after they are all in place. The technique 

includes putting tracing paper on top of a photo and then tracing out the lines. This was enlarged at the 

Copy Center in Langley. This is then traced onto fabric with a sharpie pen. 

Susan described a method that she has learned using a projector to cast a pattern onto fabric. There is 

no need to trace it out, just cut. She was wearing a sweater that she made using this technique.

Lynne gave a Brookswood update. An executive meeting was held on Feb 18th. The price for attending 

Brookswood has now increased by $1 per day. This means the price per day is $6. Brookswood is looking 

into getting an air conditioner for the upper hall. They are also looking into upgrading the lighting. 

Brookswood last $15,000 a year during Covid closures. (Total $30,000) The name has changed to

‘Brookswood Seniors’. The membership fee remains $30 per year. 

Guest speaker Janet Harper: CQA representative for BC. She introduced herself, showed some slides of 

her own work, and talked about the upcoming CQA show. The show will be held in person in Vancouver 

in June. She also talked about CQA membership, and activities and perks of being a member.