Endowment Committee Supports Guild P-Kic Charity

The Endowment Committee of the Edmonton and District Quilter's Guild supports two scholarships (Undergraduate and Graduate) at the University of Alberta and we also support other committees within the guild, ie: charity project or community service. The community service group that the guild has chosen this year is Pediatrics for Kid in Care (P-Kic), a program for children (aged newborn to 17) receiving medical care or assessment at the Grey Nuns Hospital in Edmonton. They have suggested the sew-easy pattern of a disappearing 9-patch as an easy quilt for members to make. Alongside that the Endowment Committee's theme this year is "A Little Birdie Told Me". 

The Endowment Committee brought together 5" squares of bird and bird themed (birdhouses etc) fabrics, sorted and distributed amongst our group. Two of the quilts were brought out to guild meeting last night. I created "The Dark Drake", size 72" x 72" for an older child. It also features a wonderful cozy brown flannel with small mallards floating on the back.

Disappearing 9 Patch...The Dark Drake

The beautiful little quilt shown here was made by a new member of the Endowment Committee, Vicki Robson. It is so delicate and with that lovely scalloped border it is a little quilt to fall in love with.



Disappearing 9 patch...by Vicki Robson

Our wish for the children that receive these quilts, is to feel the love that has gone into the making of these cotton hugs.

Science Sunday

The first Sunday of March is marked in my calendar from year to year. That is the Sunday that is reserved for my grandson Ty and I to attend Science Sunday at the University of Alberta at the Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Building. This is a hands-on science discovery day for ages 5 - 12. We always have a great time. This year was especially great because Ty is now old enough to participate in the archeological dig!


Twenty budding archeologist don goggles, take up trowel and paint brush and excavate away the layers to discover artifacts laying waiting to be discovered under the sand.

There is also the necessity to record/map where in the dig your artifacts were located.

It is a great day to spend with a special boy. We also took in the "Noises in Nature" presentation by John Acorn. Ty always get the answer right when John plays the recording of the flying grasshoppers. John has a new toy which records under water sounds. So this year we got to hear the under ice sounds at a frozen Lake Wabamum (wow the ice cracking sounds like a rifle shot) and the different sounds made by a low flush versus traditional old water guzzling toilet!

There was also time to do "Dot to Dot Dino's",

"Why Playdough is like a Rock",
Or decorate your bag...with a crushing scene of dinosaurs trapped in molten lava...titled "End of Dinosaurs".

Ty got to compare his humerus arm bone being shown here by a volunteer holding a human cadaver bone. Our bones are much larger than those of this smaller species type anteater.
There is so much to see and do at Science Day we will have to go again next year.