This sleeve is applied at the same time as the binding. Cut a strip of fabric 8 1⁄2” wide and about 2” shorter than the width of your quilt. For example, a 70” strip for a quilt that is 72” wide. Hem the ends and fold the strip in half, lengthwise, with right sides out. Place raw edges of the sleeve along the unfinished top edge of the quilt and pin to the quilt back, as you’re pinning the binding to the quilt front. Stitch through all the layers. Blind stitch the binding over the stitching line on the quilt back, then blind stitch the bottom, folded edge of the sleeve to the quilt.
With this method, you apply the sleeve after the binding has been finished. Cut a strip of fabric 8 1⁄2” wide and 2” shorter than the width of the quilt. Hem the two ends by turning under twice 1/4″ to eliminate any raw edges. Leaving the ends open, iron the fabric in half lengthwise. Open the fabric with the crease facing down and turn each side in to meet in the middle crease. Iron each side so there are three creases in total. Sew the raw edges of the fabric into a tube with a 1/4″ seam, wrong sides together. Place the sleeve seam side down across the width of the quilt. Hand stitch the top creased edge of the sleeve 1/2″ below the binding. Hand stitch the bottom creased edge across the bottom of the sleeve.
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As we’ve announced previously, the 2025 Quilt Show will take place at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, located at 6 Sakura Way (formerly known as Garamond Court), near Don Mills and Eglinton.
When is the Quilt Show?
The Show is on Friday, November 14 and Saturday, November 15th, 2025.The Show will run from 10:00 to 5:00 on Friday and from 10:00 to 4:00 on Saturday.
Please put a “Save the Date” in your calendars!
When Is Set Up Day?
Set up day is Thursday, November 13th, 2025, from 10:00 to 5:00
Quilts or quilted items that have been entered in the show are to be delivered on Thursday, November 13, from 9:00 to 10:30. You will be given a receipt for each item, which you (or the person picking up for you) must present on Saturday when picking the item up.
When is Takedown Day?
Takedown is from 4:00 to 5:00 on Saturday, November 15th.
Quilts or other items that have been entered in the show are to be picked up between 5:00 and 6:00 on the afternoon of Saturday November 15th. You (or the person picking up for you) will have to have the receipt that you received when you handed the item in on Thursday.
When Can Quilts be Registered in the Show?
Registration of your quilt in the show is now open, on line. You need to submit a separate registration form for each quilt or quilted item that you want to submit, together with a photo (the photo doesn’t have to show the finished quilt, but you’ll need to indicate the dimensions of the finished quilt in your registration). If you want to submit more than one quilt or quilted item (you can submit registrations for up to five items), it’s possible that we may not have space for all of them, so as part of your registration you need to indicate the preference you have for each quilt or item (my first choice, my second choice, etc.). All members will be allowed to have at least one quilt or item in the show. There are no particular categories for quilts or items submitted to the show, but quilts or items with similar themes/methods/patterns may be displayed together. The final date for registering a quilt in the show is September 30, 2025.
Here’s the link to register your quilt(s) and other quilted items:
The following members have generously agreed to be our speakers at the show. Morning presentations will take place at 11:00 and afternoon presentations will take place at 2:00. Friday, November 14, 11:00 a.m. Presenter: Jan McGoey – trunk show Friday, November 14, 2:00 p.m. Presenter: Peter Byrne – trunk show Saturday, November 15, 11:00 a.m. Presenter: The Madison Makers – Selvedges Saturday, November 15, 2:00 p.m. Presenter: Becky Fiedler – EQ8
Will there be Food/Refreshments at the Show?
Yes! The JCCC’s food services people will provide an array of tasty snacks and meals for sale during show hours.
When and How Can You Buy Tickets to the Show?
Tickets will be available to be purchased on line on our Guild website by the end of April.
Tickets can also be purchased at the door on November 14 and 15.
The ticket price will be $15. All members attending the Show will be required to purchase a ticket, even if they’re volunteering. Volunteers’ tickets will be good for both days of the show. Non volunteers’ tickets will only be good for one day of the show.
When and How Can You Consign Items (including quilts) for Sale at the Show?)
Items which you wish to consign for sale at the Guild Shop at the show must be individually entered in the Guild Shop system at least one week prior to November 13th. We’ll notify everyone when the form to enter your items will be on line. Consignors will pay a fee of 18% for each sold item. Consignors can choose to have the proceeds of sale of items go to the Guild or to Community Quilting, rather than receiving the money themselves. People who wish to sell a quilt or other item which is hanging in the show must register the quilt or other item in the Guild Shop, which will process all payments, and a fee of 18% for each quilt or item sold must be paid by the consignor.
How can You Help CQ fundraise at the Show?
CQ plans to have a Fat Quarter Fishing Booth at the Show; you can help by donating newish fat quarters (18” x22”). Fat quarters can be brought in to the CQ tables at the May, September and October meetings, or can be dropped off at any of the drop off locations listed in our newsletters, or can be mailed to Anne McLauchlan at 108 Chudleigh Avenue, Toronto, M4R 1T6. No scraps or old fabrics, please!
You can also donate orphan blocks to CQ at the May, September and October meetings, drop them off at any of the drop off locations listed in our newsletters, or mail them to Anne McLauchlan at 108 Chudleigh Avenue, Toronto, M4R 1T6. These blocks will be sold in the Guild Shop under a general CQ consignment number.
Help Us Sell Our Vendors Booths!
We have sold about two thirds of the vendors’ booths so far, but because of the current economic uncertainty, some vendors have been reluctant to commit to a booth. We are exploring having non quilt related vendors; if you have any ideas for crafts people who should be approached, please contact Brandie Wolff at bwolff0098@gmail.com
Help Us Publicize our Show!
Please promote our Show on your Social Media, and talk it up to your friends and family. We have postcards ready, which we want to distribute to locations like quilt shops close enough for people to think of attending our show; if you’re going to be near out of town quilt shops, please see Dara Rowland at the May meeting to pick up some cards to take with you, to leave at shops. Alternatively, you can contact Dara by email, if you want to arrange to pick up some cards for distribution. Dara’s email address is darabridget@gmail.com Feel free to pick some cards up at the May meeting to give to your friends to encourage them to see the show!
If you follow any quilt artists on You Tube, please provide their names to Dara (darabridget@gmail.com) and she will reach out to them to see if they will help promote our show.
Volunteer! Volunteers can sign up for shifts at the show and on set up day, starting in September. Shifts will be roughly 4 hours long, and all positions will allow for some sitting so no one will have to stand for 4 hours. It takes a lot of volunteers to run a quilt show, so please sign up when the information is posted!
Questions or suggestions about the show can be addressed to the show chairs, Heather Briant and Anne McLauchlan at york.quiltshow@gmail.com
Nine enthusiastic quilters, who had all been involved in the Etobicoke Quilters Guild and wanted a guild formed in North York, met at Mary Carl’s home on March 7, 1979. We examined the possibilities, and decided we needed some outside advice from established Guilds before our project
We met again in mid-April at Barbara Roberts’ with Sandy Small, the founder of the Etobicoke Guild, and Bobby Leseur, the first president of the Toronto Guild of Stitchery. Their enthousiasm gave us the push we needed. We outlined a plan of action and volunteered for positions. Because of our inexperience we decided to work in pairs.
Co-chairman
Mary Carl and Edyth Yeomans
Secretary
Edyth Yeomans
Treasurer
Mary Ellen
Newsletter and Program
Debbie Salsberg and Barbara Roberts
Publicity
Kay Sayer, Genevieve Yaksich
Membership
Lyn Lepper, Phyllis Purves
That summer we organized a meeting place and dates for our first year, as well as speakers. We concentrated on publicity by organizing showings at Scarborough Town Centre and the new North York Y. We sent flyers to appoximately 400 prospective members and took advantage of as much free publicity as possible – in newspapers, magazines and quilt stores. To provide the group with some working capital we each contributed ten dollars, which was in fact our first membership fee.
Instead of the hoped-for 40 members at our first meeting, we had a crowd of 120! Kim Ondaatje was our speaker that first evening and she helped us outline our goals for the Guild, as well as giving a delightful talk about her quilt collection. We had also arranged for the Canada Packers Quilts to be on display. Truly, the warm feeling that has always been part of this Guild was generated first at that meeting.
At the four remaining meetings that winter we had speakers who, in retrospect, were far beyond us, but who gave us a wonderful insight of what was out there in the Quilt World and what we could achieve.
There were Workshops that winter, too: some given by our own members, some by outsiders (Ginny Beyers (!) and Sandra Gullen); and Bus Trips and Swap Sale. Our naivety was far out-shadowed by our enthousiasm, we literally said “no” to nothing.
Kim Ondaatje had asked us to help create the Brookman Maple Quilt, and the members of the executive did just that on an individual basis regrettably!!
In the spring of 1980 we agreed to co-host, with the Etobicoke Quilters Guild a quilt conference (Quilt Toronto ’81) to be held at York University (Glendon Campus). This would be a combined show and conference which truly put quilting on the front page for a week. (And was the birth place of the Canadian. Quilters Association).
In the summer of 1980, a committee of three, (Mary Ellen, Mary Carl, Barbara Roberts), drafted a constitution and by-laws, and another committee (Debbie Salsbert, Edyth Yeomans, Mary Carl) drew up a series of executive job outlines.
The momentum generated that first winter has never diminished — and we are all aware of the success in the ensuing years…….
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Virtual Tuesday Zoom – October 8th, from 7 PM to 8:30 PM.
Mama’s Got a Brand New Bag
Guild Challenge Kick OffSusan G. and Leslie B., with a little help from their friends, will kick off the 2024-2025 Guild Challenge “Mama’s Got a Brand New Bag”. Apparently, it’s making her feel dynamite and outta sight. And that’s the way we’ll all want to feel while shopping with our new bags at the 2025 York Heritage Quilters Guild Quilt Show – A Celebration of Quilts XV.
We will learn about the challenge sign up and prize details during the zoom.
Shopping bag from Susan G.Tote bag from Leslie B.
What new bag do you want (or need 😎)? Share the names and website links for all of your favourite patterns, tutorials, tips, and supplies with the rest of us so that we can all be ready to shop with our large, beautiful totes.Email: yhqg.virtualtuesday@gmail.com
Be sure to email photos of any projects that you are working on for the Scrapbook Slideshow, including scrappy projects, projects from YH workshops, or previous VT ideas, or any other work-in-progress. (Save the finished quilt photos to be celebrated at the October Guild meeting.) Email: yhqg.virtualtuesday@gmail.com
The monthly zoom reminder and meeting link will be sent on Saturday, October 5th, with the regular guild emails.
Lecture: How to Exponentially Grow a Design Idea (Hybrid)
This lecture will provide practical strategies to help creatives grow a single design idea into a series of work. Cristina De Miranda of Ships & Violins will demonstrate how to unlock an idea or project into a multitude of design studies by exploring various techniques, by shifting project parameters, and by challenging some of our inherent assumptions about quilts and quilting. Join in and discover just how much wonder rests in a single idea.
This lecture will be recorded and available to members on a non-downloadable basis for 2 weeks.
Workshop: Fado Road Quilt: Skill Builder
Sat 26 April (9:30-3:30)
In this workshop, students will learn three quilting skills:
strip piecing with accuracy,
foundation paper piecing, and
spinning seam allowances.
All three techniques are used to make the Fado Road quilt by Ships & Violins. Workshop attendees will receive a limited-time discount code to the Ships & Violins shop at the end of the workshop.
A pattern is required for this workshop and is included in the price. All paid students will receive a link that allows them to download the pattern from the teachers website approximately one week before the class – no additional payment will be required. The workshop will be recorded by the teacher and shared with paid workshop participants, available for 2 weeks after the workshop.
Cristina is also offering a 20% discount for all students for patterns from her website.
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Lecture: Finding my Voice in Modern Quilting (Online)
This lecture focuses on my path to becoming a modern quilter and how I’ve applied many traditional techniques in my modern quilts. I’ll discuss the progression of my work and show my Radial Quilts, Watercolor Quilts, and a few others too! I’ll share information on design inspiration, favorite artists, working in a series, and discuss some quilting highs and lows along my journey. I look forward to sharing my quilts and stories with you! While I will take questions throughout the lecture, I’ll save 10-15 minutes at the end specifically for any guild questions.
This lecture will NOT be recorded.
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Lecture: Now You See It Now You don’t – the magic of disappearing quilt blocks (Online)
Learn about the magic and beauty of disappearing blocks with this interactive online lecture, demo and trunk show. Using 3 cameras, one on me and the quilts, one pointing straight down at the cutting mat, and one close-up on the quilts, I will be able to show you how easy it is to turn simple blocks into beautiful complex patterns. Using the Zoom format you will be able to ask questions for me to answer during the presentation. I will also show you how different block designs can be enhanced by color choices or slight modifications to make even more interesting full quilts.
Brita is offering a 10% discount to her online store for all guild members. Use code: york
This lecture will be recorded and available to members on a non-downloadable basis for 2 weeks.
Workshop: Making Magic: A Disappearing Quilt Sampler (Online)
Thurs Feb 27 (9:30-4:30)
This 6 hour workshop will be structured similar to a “sew along”. There are 9 blocks and I will teach each one in turn. I have 2 cameras, one on me and the sewing machine and one pointing straight down at the cutting mat and pressing surface. I will demonstrate how to make the block along with little tips on accurate piecing and pressing. The students will then follow along and take turns showing the class how their block came out. The Zoom features allow me to answer questions immediately and help anyone who might be having a little trouble. As some students finish before others, I will show other possible layouts and talk about things like how to enlarge the pattern, or use different colors and how these blocks might look in a finished quilt.
A pattern is required for this workshop and is included in the price for members. The cost of the pattern ($12) will be added to the guest fee price. The pattern will be distributed by the YHQG workshop coordinator to paid students approximately one week before the class, including patterns for some bonus blocks. The workshop will be recorded by the teacher and shared with paid workshop participants, available for 2 weeks after the workshop.
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Lecture: Quilt Your Life – Milestone Quilts for Every Moment (Online)
What do you get when you combine journaling with quilting, and add a little bit of photography? Milestone quilts! Come explore the world of quilting your life, and see why these quilts are a fun and meaningful solution to joyful sewing in this busy world. Join Kitty as she shares her journey through the world of milestone quilts, beginning with the quilt she created for her third child to mark his first year of life, and including many other life events that can be documented through the creation of a quilt—from family adventures to miles run and hiked through the course of a year. See the power of positive feedback loops between life and quilting put to use, and leave feeling inspired and ready to document your days through quilt-making, one attainable goal at a time.
Workshop: Off the Beaten Path Piecing with Improv Mountains (Online)
Friday May 2nd, 2025, 9:30-4:00 PM
Set off fearlessly with Kitty as she teaches you how to piece an improv mountain range wall hanging, full of adventurous skill building. In sewing the unique and nestled mountains, you will learn how to piece gentle improv curves, precise thin strips, and how to think through the orderof operations when piecing more complex blocks. Kitty will demonstrate how some pre-planning can set you up for success with off the beaten path designs. Playing with both color gradients and creative piecing methods, you will leave with more confidence to dive into improvisationally pieced quilt construction, ready to head off the grid and embrace the adventure!
This workshop will include a handout with instructions. No additional pattern is required. The workshop will be recorded, only for students who sign up but are unable to attend some/all of the workshop.
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Lecture: Pojagi – From ancient Korea to modern Canada (In-person/Hybrid)
Part lecture and part trunk show, this fun talk tells my journey from Canada to Korea and back again. While in Korea, I studied the ancient art of Pojagi, Korean patchwork. Back in Canada, however, the Korean materials are more difficult to find, so I adapted pojagi techniques to readily-available western materials with some great results.
Workshop: Pojagi Maple Leaf with Elizabeth DeCroos (Online)
Thurs Nov 21 (9:30-12:30)
The Fall Window Hanging is a single maple leaf, which can be made in a variety of colours to represent the leaves of fall. When the sun shines through it, you can almost smell the pumpkin spice.
This window hanging looks like stained glass, but it’s actually made with reversible pojagi seams. Batik fabric gives it the special glow.
It finishes at 24″ square, so it’s just the right size for a medium window.
The handout is included in the workshop price with all the information you need to learn the technique and complete the project. Recording can be made for members who sign up but are unable to attend some/all of the workshop.
Workshop Supply List
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Lecture: From Idea to Quilt – Finding inspiration in everyday things (Hybrid)
In this trunk show, I’ll take you along on a quilting journey from my first quilt to finding the modern quilt movement and the evolution of my own quilt designs over the years. Along the way, we take a look behind the scenes of my quilt patterns and see where I get my ideas and how a design goes from inspiration to published pattern
This lecture will be recorded and available to members on a non-downloadable basis for 5 days.
Workshop: Improv for Planners with Monika Henry (Online)
Thursday October 24 (9:30 – 4)
Are you curious about the world of improv quilts but hesitant to dive in without a clear roadmap? Do you thrive on planning and find the idea of uncertainty daunting? If so, join us for an exciting workshop that introduces a gentle approach to improv quilting, designed to stretch your creative boundaries while providing structure and confidence.
In this workshop, we’ll embark on a unique quilting adventure that combines the freedom of improvisation with the security of preplanned layouts and quilt blocks. It’s like following a “choose your own adventure” path in quilting, where each quilt becomes a one-of-a-kind reflection of the maker’s personal style and creativity.
The goal of this workshop is to become comfortable with not knowing exactly how something is going to turn out, but it’s like dipping your toes into the water, not jumping in at the deep end. We’re improvising some things, and planning some, so we don’t get the overwhelm of too many options. We’ll look at some colour theory, and get a feel for colour placement and learn to trust our instincts when it comes to colours. And we play with blocks and block placement to finish the quilt.
The pattern is included in the workshop price, and recording can be made for members who sign up but are unable to attend some/all of the workshop.
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Shopping bag from Susan G.
Tote bag from Leslie B.
York Heritage Quilters Guild 
