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If you love cloth, you might love this free Curator’s talk from the Royal Ontario Museum. Coming up tomorrow, Jan 27th!

FREE Zoom program. RSVP Required.

Chintz Today: Breathing New Life into Traditional Textile Design
Wednesday, January 27, 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm EDT

Join ROM’s Sarah Fee and Chintz Artist Renuka Reddy of Bengaluru, India, for a lively discussion on the exciting revivals and innovations taking place today in India’s unique art of painting cottons using the kalam pen and natural dyes.

https://www.rom.on.ca/en/whats-on/rom-curator-conversations

Our current challenge is “Covid Bugs”. The Covid part refers to our circumstances due to the pandemic. The Bugs part is to let your imagination go into fantasy, reality or inspiration from your stash.

As our display will be totally online, there are no size restrictions.

Create a bug and take a photo/photo(s) of your finished project. The creations from the challenge will be shown at our online meeting in January.

Reluctantly, we have made the decision to forego classes for the 2020-2021 year. Thus we have reduced our membership fees for the year to $40 for all types of members.

Our postponed Annual General Meeting will take place via Zoom on Tuesday September 15th at 10 am. As a treat, we will be having the Brown Bag Challenge Great Reveal at the meeting. Cathy Lysnes will bring us up to date on our financial position. We also have a few Executive positions to vote on.

If you have not used Zoom before, you might want to test it out on Tuesday Sept 1 at 10 am when Catherine will be hosting a meeting just for you to try it out. If you are already a member of the Guild, you will have received the information you need to join the meeting in your newsletter. If you are not yet a member but want to attend, please email us and we’ll send you the credentials you’ll need.

We also plan to meet once a month, via Zoom, with something of interest.

Tues Oct 20th will be a talk on Crazy Quilting by Judy Eckhardt.
Tues Nov 17th will be a Christmas project.
Tues Dec 1st will be another Christmas project.

All the meetings above will start at 10 am.

The Ailsa Craig Quilt and Fibre Art Festival has been cancelled for 2020. Please see the Ailsa Craig Arts Centre website for details.

Well, we all had some fun at the Christmas Workshops in late November. Discussions afterwards also focussed on the delicious goodies which were brought in. After getting several requests for the recipe for her Butterscotch Cashew Bars, Mavis has agreed that the recipe can be posted here. Enjoy!

This year’s challenge will be a “Water Fantasy” theme and be a “Brown Bag” challenge. Those deciding to sign up to do the challenge will be given a brown bag in week 5 (November 19). You must sign up in week 3 and 4 to get a brown bag in week 5.
You’ll receive a variety of fabric pieces which will include a piece of very fancy material that was donated….think of texture, glitter, sequins, gold or silver threads. Let your mind wander as you think about the theme. Be creative; plan. Then sew, embroider, bead or otherwise embellish or whatever……
For full details click here.

Do you sell your work? There are 2 opportunities coming up that might suit you.
One is the Bo Peep Market in Elora on the evening of Fri Sept 27 and the day of Sat Sept 28. See blacksheepfestival.ca for details and contact information.
The other is the Christmas Market at the Shops at Paisley. This will take place in Guelph from Fri Nov 29 through to Sun Dec 1. Vendors are asked to submit an application by Aug 31st but this deadline is somewhat flexible. See the poster here.

Our list of classes for the 2019-20 year is here! Check the “Classes” page for the latest!