2024
Mayne Island will be hosting this year! It’s all about re-use, reduce, up-cycle! Save the date – Tuesday, June 18th.
Early arrivers will enjoy a fun hand stitch project, using upcycled fabrics and scraps. Our guest speaker will focus on her upcycling efforts and projects, and our challenge this year is – you guessed it – upcycling fabrics into a new fabric item.
2023
HAW will be held on Pender Island on Monday, June 12th. It’s an early ferry for everyone.
2022
HAW will be held in Duncan this year, on Monday, September 26. Contact Mavis Miller for details.
2019
On Monday, June 3, 2019, the Mayne Island Quilter’s Guild hosted the quilters from Pender, Galiano and Saturna Islands, as well as the Cowichan Valley Heritage Quilters from Duncan.
Early arrivals were whisked to the Fire Hall, where they learned and participated in making items for our Days for Girls project, as well as enjoying coffee and muffins. Those arriving later in the morning joined us at the Community Centre, for lunch and a presentation by our guest speaker – Barb Mortell.
Barb’s Bio – Barb grew up in the suburbs of Vancouver, BC, Canada on the side of a mountain surrounded by forests, ocean, and streams. As a kid, she made things like stuffed toys, doll’s clothes and furniture, houses, little dioramas of scenes catching a moment in time. She learned to use a sewing machine at a young age but never quite learned how to follow the rules, making it up as she went along with a steady persistence and belief that what she was making would work.
Always interested in art she drew and painted through high school, received a Diploma in Studio Art from Capilano College, studied Fine Art at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver, Canada and Textiles at College of Marin in California, USA. In 1990 she attended a quilt-making course, made her first quilt, and has been a patchworker ever since.
Grateful for nudges from Nancy Crow, Barb has taken machine-sewn improvisational piecing seriously since 2006. She now makes art and teaches contemporary quilt-making in Nanaimo, BC, Canada. Still surrounded by water and trees, she gains energy and inspiration from the natural world and from sharing/viewing/making art with her community.
Barb also taught a workshop on Tuesday, June 4th, called “Through Thick and Thin – a new Log Cabin Workshop”. Click below for a class description.
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Hands Across the Water 2017:
Andree Fredette – Hands Across the Water on Flickr
WORKSHOPS
We were lucky to have Krista Hennebury of Poppyprint stay for two days and teach her Cutting Garden & Temperature Check patterns. Photos of these workshops below: