The Alberta Craft Council has asked that we find a new place to store our quilt racks and dowels before the end of September. 

The quilt racks need a dry space.  As it is awkward to get the racks out of the existing basement storage what we really need is a portion of someone’s dry garage. 

A pickup truck without a canopy is needed to move the 4 racks from storage to the Challenge venue and back. 

The racks can be managed by several women in good physical shape although when a couple of males can be recruited the job gets much easier. 

The size of storage needed for the four racks is a space 85” X 74” X 18”. 

If you can help please get in touch with Gerda so that we can keep our quilt racks.

Each year members are challenged to stretch their skills and creativity by trying something new or by applying an existing skill in a new way. This year all of the entries were an original design with the theme of One's Own Treasures. Participants received written feedback from the two judges. The judges are chosen from the Guild members who have had some judging training. This opportunity is provided as professional development for the chosen judges and the roster changes. The Guild deals with the judging of the challenge in a professional way and great care is taken to ensure that the entries are anonymous. Our judges this year were Dawna Dey Harrish and Randall Eckert. The category winners receive a hand made button and bead rosette. These rosettes are coveted and greatly sought after. This year the wild rose beauties were made by Karen Ostachuk. To encourage new entries we had a category for first time entries.

Prize Categories and Winners for Challenge 2010: One's Own Treasures are:

• Commission Request: 52" x 28" Cathedral Squares Pattern
  

These are some of the events that are happening this summer:

• July 25: Quilted Garden Tour sponsored by the EDQG Endowment Committee

• Aug. 13 to Oct. 1: Focus on Fibre Arts International Show at Muttart Conservatory

And once the summer is done:

• Sept 15: First Guild Meeting of the year and Annual General Meeting
  

• Oct. 22 to 24: EDQG Fall Retreat

• Nov. 6: EDQG UFO Day #1

• Jan. 29, 2011: EDQG UFO Day #2

• April 8 to 10, 2011: EDQG Spring Retreat

• June 11 to 12: EDQG Quilted Expressions Show at King's College

• Marion Bourne

• Eileen Fairbrother

• Mary Anne Kilgannon

• Colette Martin

• Ada Moyles

Here is a detailed itinerary for the Quilted Garden Tour:

• in pdf    (Link)

• in Word    (Link)

This quilt is a major fundraising effort for the Endowment Committee and we are calling on all members for help and support!

The Rosenberg Quilt Collection is a major component of the University of Alberta's Clothing and Textiles collection and all 677 quilts can be viewed at the link below. The quilt is a replica of Blackford's Beauty.

• Link to Rosenberg Quilt Collection    (Link)
  

• Link To Blackford's Beauty Quilt from Rosenberg Quilt Collection    (Link)
  

Passports for the Quilted Garden Tour can be purchased for $20.00 at any of these gardens on July 25^th from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

• Garden of Barb Brady-Fryer, 706 Hollingsworth Green, Edmonton

• Garden of Christine Nesdoly, 10716 145 St, Edmonton

• Garden of Margie Wright, 647 Romaniuk Rd, Edmonton

• Garden of Lezley Zwaal, 9721 189 St, Edmonton

• Garden of Debbie Pietrzykowski, 40 Dalhousie St, St. Albert

• Garden of Penny Odegard, 17 Kingsborough Court, St. Albert

Proceeds of the tour will be used in support of the EDQG's Founding Members' Scholarship for a Graduate student of the Human Ecology Textile Program at the University of AB. 

Here are a little of what you will see during the tour:

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