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Newsletter for
AMQA Inc. June 2015
It’s
been a while…
Well it has
been a very long time since a newsletter has been out but we hope to have this
issue sorted out. Our apologies to our
members for the lack of contact over the past months.
Newsletter
Contributions.
To keep our
newsletter fresh and up to date and as interesting as it can be please send any
articles or information you would like shared with our members to the following
email for the present time please, raylee@sunflowerquilting.com.au .
We would
like to hear about local shows, great products, helpful books, quilting tips,
interesting stories, business ideas, the list is long and broad of topic. Share your knowledge with us all.
AMQA
Members Challenge
It’s on and
entries close the 30th June.
Have you entered? You can choose
to make a wholecloth quilt or a pieced design or both, one entry per
category. We do separate the hand guided
and computer guided quilts for the member’s challenge. Go on, give it a go. It’s a great way to stretch your skills on a
small quilt rather than a larger item.
Here’s the
link for all the information: http://www.amqa.com.au/ then login and go to the members
section to download the pattern and entry forms.
Below are
some pictures of the 2013 Member’s Challenge, a feast for the eyes.
Facebook
and Social Media
We have a
new Facebook page set up a little differently to the initial page. This allows us another avenue to share
information with you. The file for the
Member’s Challenge can be found on the new FB page. The new page is a closed group and is for
financial members of AMQA Inc. Search
for AMQA Members group and then go to the files section once you have joined
the group.
Do you have
a social media account? Would you like
to share your contacts with us? As a
member we would encourage you to share the link to your FB page on the AMQA
Members Group page so we can find each other.
You could also share other social media accounts there if you wish. Personally I have a few which include
Instagram, Flikr, Tumbler, Twitter and Google+.
Let’s not even mention Pinterest shall we!
Do you have
a question about social media? Ask on
the members group page and we will do our best to help.
New
President
At a meeting
held on 5th May 2015 Jenny Robertson was elected President until the
next AGM, Jenny is from WA and has been a long arm machine quilter for 4 ½
years, and a quilt maker for many years prior. We would like to thank Val
Slater for accepting the role previously.
Introducing
Jenny Robertson…
Hello, I'm Jenny Robertson a
self confessed quiltaholic from lovely Albany, situated on the southern coast
of Western Australia.
My mother, aunts and both
grandmothers were all very handy with needle and thread, making clothing, soft
furnishings, upholstery and soft toys, you name it one of them knew how to make
it. So it was a given that I would get
hooked with the sewing bug.
I was the first of the family to
make a patchwork quilt and that was out of necessity for my youngest sons first
big boy bed. It was made from left overs
from all my sewing projects. That was 37
years ago, not many garments have been styled since then, but gosh there has
been a lot of quilts.
Only one of the many quilts was
hand quilted, all the rest were quilted on my small domestic machine, until 4
1/2 years ago when I purchased my long quilting system.
I purchased it so I could
produce quilts to donate to charity.
Once I had mastered my long arm machine, I realized that was making more
quilts than I could afford to make.
Jenny Robertson Quilting was
created to finance my charity quilts and my obsession for making scrap quilts.
I offer hand guided custom
quilting, freehand edge to edge and pantographs designed by Loren quilting,
together with renovation and repairs to old and vintage quilts.
My biggest wish is that every
person who has old UFO in the cupboard
will get to that wonderful feeling of achievement when they pull it out and
complete their quilt.=
Information
relating to the AGM will be coming out in future newsletters. Please keep in mind the Association does not
run itself. Your input and a bit of time
are also needed.
Asking
Questions??
Did you know
you can use the FB page to ask questions?
Amongst our members are quilters who have been quilting for many years
and have a wealth of knowledge. If you’d
like to know more about something tap into that vault of knowledge and post
your question on the FB page. You never
know, someone else might have wanted to know the same thing.
Product
Review
This has
been waiting for a bit to be shared with you so the product has been on the
market for a little while now. Please
follow the link to see more for this product
“Great
New Product”
Westalee
Designs one of the Sponsors for AMQA Festival 2014 has launched a new product.
For all our members that have an interest in domestic machine quilting have you
caught up yet with the news that Westalee Designs have developed a hopping foot
referred to as a Ruler Foot so domestic machine quilters can use rulers or
templates just like long arm quilters do. The new foot which is due to arrive in
Australia early February 2015 comes either as a low shank or high shank foot
and is a great tool for advancing your quilting from the domestic machine. There is a great deal of information about
this new Ruler Foot on the Westalee Designs website.
Westalee
are also very proactive in developing and promoting rulers for long arm
quilters and are very supportive of the association particularly in regard to
the Festival.
Sponsors for the 2014 AMQA Show Please show your support where possible. Without our sponsors the show would not be
possible.
Quilting tips
Posture. Are you standing correctly, taking a break if
doing concentrated work, adjusting the table height for different tasks? Our health is important; we can quilt if we
are making ourselves sore and overtired. Use the features of your machine to
reduce the strain on your body. When did
you last check you posture whilst quilting?
I caught myself the other day not standing well. Made me think about this a bit more.
If you have a
quilting tip you think others should know of, please email it to me using the
email raylee@sunflowerquilting.com.au for the time being.
