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Hurrah! Winter is really over. It‟s wonderful to see all the spring blossoms. Spring is my favourite season in Vancouver.

I‟d like to welcome back those members who travelled to warmer climes for the winter. I also congratulate those who, like me, stayed home and suffered through the cold days of winter.

I‟m looking forward to this month‟s meeting and our “Quilt „til You Wilt” day later in the month. I wouldn‟t be surprised to see an increase in attendance with the return of our snowbirds. See you all there!

Wendy

2018- 2019 Executive

President: Wendy L.

Treasurer: Bonnie B.

Membership: Tracy L.

Secretary: Sheila W.

Programs: Tracey D.

Library: Marg T.

Newsletter: Trish V.

Website: Teresa N.

http://gmdqg.ca

Grouse Mountain Day Quilters Guild meets the third Thursday of the month at 10 a.m. at St. Martin's Anglican Church, 195 Windsor Road East, North Vancouver.

Please remember to have your cell phones on mute or turned off during the meeting. Thank you.

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APRIL PROGRAM Wine Bottle Table Runner McCalls Quiting Issue May/June 2017 Designer Caroline Reardon Kathy A. and Janet C. will be helping you put together a wine bottle table runner. Please measure

your table prior to the meeting to gauge the length for your runner. Bring your wine bottle fabric

cut out, any additional scraps of cork and your sewing machine etc. If you did not pick up a

template in March please email Kathy A.

Please bring your projects from the March meeting with Kerry Karram for show and tell.

Kathy A. will also bring a yellow sharps container to the meeting for disposal of your old blades and needles. Quilt ‘til You Wilt Day Monday April 29th. 8am – 2pm It is at the same venue as last time – the Lynn Valley United Church, …..

The church is closed so we will have the whole church until 2pm. Please remember that there is

parking underneath the church, and a dolly for you to bring your stuff up on.

MAY MEETING

If you are doing some spring cleaning in your sewing room – we will be having a

members only sale at the coffee break in the May meeting.

APRIL MEMBERSHIP REPORT

We have another happy recruit to join our ranks! Please welcome Ennua Lee to our ranks! She

will be joining our April meeting so if you are able to make the meeting please drop by to say

hello her! We are now at 58 members and 3 honorary members for a total 61! Membership

closes at 65 so let’s see if we can find a few more!

There are a few classes from other lower mainland groups

With spaces:

28 April Courthouse colourplay with Krista Hennebury

information and sign up at vancouvermodernquiltguild.ca

25 may Botanical Beauty with Sandra Sandvik

Information and sign up at lionsgatequiltersguild.com

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Both Needle and I in Burnaby and Fabricana in Richmond have

announced their closures. Please support our local quilt stores.

Community Quilts – we will be welcoming Ruth Kershaw from

“shelter to home” at our april meeting.

NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2019-2020 EXECUTIVE

Please remember that we will be looking for a new Secretary, Programs and

Workshops chair and Newsletter Editor in June. We will also need a new

Community quilts co-ordinator. If you are interested in standing for one of these

positions and contributing to your guild, please talk to the present executive.

QUILTERS ON THE GO

Sue Roy was recently in Nanaimo and came across a brand new small quilt shop called

“SEW IT BEGINS” #4 -34 Nicol St. Check it out at sewitbegins.ca

Wendy will be

introducing this

lovely block of the

month quilt in June.

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Grouse Mountain Day Quilters Guild

Next Meetings: Thursday, APRIL 18 ,2019

10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (doors open from 9:00a.m.)

St Martin‟s Anglican Church, 195 East Windsor

North Vancouver

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LOCAL QUILT SHOWS

Quilt Stories Ridge Meadows Quilt Guild

April 13-April 14, 2019

Maple Ridge Alliance Church

20399 Dewdney Trunk Rd

Maple Ridge, BC

Quilts in the Valley – Abbotsford Quilters Guild

April 26-l 27, 2019

Abbotsford Pentecostal Assembly Church

3145 Gladwin Road

Abbotsford, BC

Quilts by the Bay Boundary Bay Quilt Guild

May 4- 5, 2019

South Delta Recreation Centre

1720 56th Street

Delta, BC (Tsawwassen)

Kathy and Ross

McColeman meet up with

Bena Luxton and her

husband to share drinks

and a meal in Yokohama,

Japan .

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Spring on the Coast

May 10- 11, 2019

Gibsons & Area Community Centre

700 Park Road

Gibsons, BC

Colour Carnival

May 17-May 18, 2019

George Preston Recreation Centre 20699-42st Ave

Langley

QUILTS OF VALOUR

Here is a reminder to everyone about our guild’s contribution of log cabin blocks for Quilts of Valour. Every block

made will generate one ticket for the sewer to enter in a draw happening at the May meeting. If you make 5 blocks,

you will be given 5 tickets. Happy sewing and good luck! You may be the lucky winner! The pattern is at the end of

this newsletter – the block requires a scant ¼ inch.

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Moja Coffee Corp. 1412 Rupert Street North Vancouver, BC V7J 1E9 Moja is a wonderful place to grab a cup of coffee. It is located at the corner of Rupert Street and Harbour Avenue (east of Canadian Tire). Moja takes pride in supporting our community and we are pleased to thank Moja for their generosity. When in the area, please drop in for a coffee. Enjoy a Thomas Haas treat and say ‘Thanks’ for providing our guild with coffee every month.

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CANADIAN QUILTERS ASSOCIATION

Good day to all CQA/ACC Member Guilds,

Thank goodness it is almost spring. I'm sure many guilds are starting to plan for their end of

year activities and even starting to work on next year's plans. Today's biannual CQA/ACC

Guild Newsletter brings you a few items that may be of interest to our member guilds. Also, as

we know guilds' executives change and different people become responsible for different

activities, we include a few reminders of where to find resources, such as Event Calendar and

ordering Guild Rosettes. We want our member guilds to receive the full benefits of their

membership.

1) Quilt Canada 2019 Sponsorship

Guilds received correspondence from Heather Black, CQA/ACC President, in the fall of 2018

requesting support for 2019 Quilt Canada being held in Ottawa. We want to thank the many

guilds who have already sent in donations! Whether $25 or $500, all donations make a

difference to your Association and allow us to provide a top notch event. If your guild has not

made a donation yet, it is not too late.

To make a donation toward Quilt Canada 2019, please contact our Treasurer, Judy Brown,

treasurer@canadianquilter.com ; she can assist you with this.

2) Guild insurance

Many of our guilds have already found the benefit of the CQA/ACC Guild Insurance Program.

For those already enrolled, renewal notices will be appearing in the late summer in preparation

for the renewal date in November 2019. Please ensure your guild contact information stays

current in our insurance database by updating any changes with our Treasurer, Judy

Brown. Judy can be reached at treasurer@canadianquilter.com

For those guilds not already enrolled in our very affordable liability and property

insurances, please visit https://canadianquilter.com/insurance-program/ for more information.

3) How Can CQA/ACC Member Guilds Help Support Our Quilt Judge Certification

Program?

We all know that quilters like to share their work with others and that is one of the main

reasons they display their quilts at their local guild shows. Many of our member guilds order

the complimentary CQA/ACC Rosette for their shows. Guilds have the option of awarding it to

either the Viewers’ Choice quilt, selected by visitors to the show or Best in Show, selected by

members of their guild. Some of our guilds award the Best in Show ribbon to a quilt selected

by designated judges.

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Has your guild ever considered holding a judged show?

We often hear that quilt guilds are reluctant to have judged shows as their members do not

think their work is good enough or think it puts too much pressure on them. Please consider

the following as your guild considers whether to have your show judged.

Judges want you to excel and grow as a quilter

Judges provide feedback to help you become a better quilter

Perhaps knowing your quilt is going to be judged will make you a better quilter as you strive to

perfect your workmanship?

As Cindy Seits-Krug explained in her blog, Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad….Quilt Judge

(https://quilterontherun.com/archives/531) , as a way to encourage her guild to go with a judged quilt

show -“Think of it this way, if your child or grandchild said they didn’t want to play a game because they

were going to lose anyway, wouldn’t you tell them that winning wasn’t everything. You just have to get

out there and do your best whether you win or lose! “

Quit Judge Certification Program (QJCP) and Judged Shows

You may ask why we are bringing up judged shows and the relation to the CQA/ACC QJCP, and what

does this have to do with our guild?

We are looking for your help. Basically, our apprentice judges are required to judge a certain quantity of

quilts before they can take the final certification exam. It is often hard for them to find quilt shows to

judge. The QJCP students have already put in 2 to 3 years (or more) of their time and they have to

complete this last step before they can take the practical exam. This is where your guild can help - by

asking one of the apprentice judges to come to your show and judge quilts, your guild is giving them the

opportunity to finish their requirements for the QJCP in a timely manner.

Your guild could then present the CQA/ACC Rosette to the Best in Show quilt that has been selected by

a CQA/ACC Apprentice Judge.

The list of apprentice and certified judges is maintained on the CQA/ACC website. You can pick an

apprentice from the list to contact and offer them an opportunity to judge at your show. At the moment

there is only one apprentice listed, however after Quilt Canada 2020 we expect many more apprentices

to be available.

If you would like more general information about the QJCP, please visit our website.

5) 2020 Guild Rosette Invitational - Quilts winning a CQA/ACC Rosette at a member guild show in

2018 and 2019 are eligible to enter the 2020 CQA/ACC Guild Rosette Invitational in Edmonton. Quilts

from 2018 that have already been displayed at the 2019 Quilt Canada in Ottawa are not eligible to enter

a second time.

Entry is limited to the first 25 eligible quilts due to space constraints. Information will be posted on our

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website later this year, with entries being accepted in January 2020 for the June 2020 Quilt Canada. We

will put notices in the monthly e-newsletter and in social media when the information and entry forms

are posted.

Please ensure that the winner of the guild rosette has their information and picture sent to us for the

website prior to January 1, 2020 in order to be eligible to enter. The submission information will be sent

with the email that confirms your request for a rosette.

6) Member Guild Challenge 2020 - "Gateway to Adventure"

The 2019 Member Guild Challenge has proved very popular with our guilds. We wanted to give our

guilds a heads up that we will be doing a Member Guild Challenge for Quilt Canada 2020. The title of

the conference and this challenge will be Gateway to Adventure. The details of the 2020 challenge will

be shared in upcoming member e-newsletters (May & June) and on our website. We are hoping to have

more guilds participate in 2020 and hope that Guild Executives will consider putting it on their 2019-

2020 Guild year activities calendars.

That's it for now. Another CQA/ACC Member Guild e-newsletter will be sent in September 2019. Your

guild should also receive the monthly CQA/ACC Member newsletter with up to date information that is

relevant to both individual members and guilds. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions

or feedback.

Sincerely,

Carole McCarville

CQA/ACC Executive Director

AUDREY’s Make Ahead Bran Muffins.

2 eggs, well beaten

1 cup brown sugar

1/4 cup cooking oil

2 cups bran

2 cups milk

2 cups flour

2 tsp. Baking powder

2 tsp. Baking soda

1 tsp. salt

Add bran to milk, let sit. Beat eggs and sugar, add rest of ingredients including bran and milk. Add

1 cup raisins. Bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees.

Batter can be stored in fridge and baked fresh as desired. Mixture will keep in fridge a week or

more. Enjoy.

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