March 2020 - Jen Swallow from Happy Wife Quilting
Happy Wife Quilting is an online and home-based quilt shop located just outside of Carleton Place, Ontario. (https://www.happywifequilting.ca/). She will present her Trunk Show - “My Quilting Journey”. She will also be bringing some vendor items as they connect to her trunk show.
February 2020 - Project TEMBO Presentation and Fabric Sale
Project TEMBO provides education for girls and economic empowerment for women through micro-finance loans or micro-business opportunities. They do this work in two villages in northern Tanzania – Longido and Kimokouwa.
Project sustainability is fundamental to their work and the objective is to achieve this by 2020. Project TEMBO has already established activities toward realizing this objective. A micro-finance program was launched in 2005; TEMBO Trust was registered in Tanzania in June 2007; and the TEMBO Guesthouse was officially opened in January 2009.
In Canada, Project TEMBO and its volunteers raise awareness and raise funds, and in Tanzania, TEMBO Trust carries out programming. The focus is educating and empowering girls and women.
Project sustainability is fundamental to their work and the objective is to achieve this by 2020. Project TEMBO has already established activities toward realizing this objective. A micro-finance program was launched in 2005; TEMBO Trust was registered in Tanzania in June 2007; and the TEMBO Guesthouse was officially opened in January 2009.
In Canada, Project TEMBO and its volunteers raise awareness and raise funds, and in Tanzania, TEMBO Trust carries out programming. The focus is educating and empowering girls and women.
January 2020 - Demonstrations, Seasonal Table Runner/Topper Challenge, Thread and Fabric Sale
The thread and fabric sale raised $1,073.25 for Peta Hall's Ghana project.
Patricia showed us how to do an 8-pointed star without Y seams and pot holders.
November 2019 - Backpack Show by Bill Stearman
Bill has used storytelling as a way to make sense of his life for many years. He started making quilts in his mid 60s and found that it works well as a storytelling medium.
Bill brought many quilts and told us their stories.
Bill brought many quilts and told us their stories.
October 2019 - Strip Quilt Challenge
See the photos on the Challenge page.
September 2019 - Batiks and Other Textiles from Bali, by Robyn Hardman
Robyn gave an excellent presentation on her trip to a textiles retreat in Bali. Afterward, there was a special Batiks Show and Share.
