Yearly Archives

2011

Merry Christmas! Meetings

Merry Christmas!

Last night 52 of our Guild members gathered to celebrate the holiday season with our annual Christmas Party and Pot Luck Dinner. Once again we had a wonderful dinner, thanks to everyone who contributed to the Pot Luck, thanks to Lee and Sandy who looked after the set-up and clean-up. The hall had a wonderful festive flare! Brenda had wonderful…
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6 December 2011
MBQG November Meeting Meetings

MBQG November Meeting

We had a wonderful turnout for our November meeting and what a treat we had with the visit of some of the members from the Piecemakers Bee from Halifax. Their bee is the Mayflower QG and have been meeting for almost 30 years! They meet every Friday morning for lots of quilt chat, quilt work and usually the conversation will…
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10 November 2011
Dory Building Day Community

Dory Building Day

In June 2012, the Mahone Bay Quilters Guild will (hopefully) be hosting about 100 quilters from the Quilt Canada Conference in Haliax. They will come by bus to the south shore, visit Lunenburg first then come to Mahone Bay for a chowder lunch with us. We quickly got to work thinking about what we could make for them that would…
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16 October 2011
Welcome to the New Executive Meetings

Welcome to the New Executive

October 3 was our regular meeting and our AGM. We are thrilled to say we have a full slate of officers to run the Guild and many people have volunteered to help on various committees. Thanks to all who have stepped forward. And many thanks to the outgoing executive for their contributions to the MBQG. Outgoing President Val Hearder and…
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5 October 2011
Meeting Dates for 2011 Meetings

Meeting Dates for 2011

It is getting close to that time of the year when we start our new quilting year, not January 1 but the first meeting since we stopped in June. The summer went by quickly despite the weather, but it was pretty good quilting weather. I have added a new link on the sidebar, right there on the right hand side…
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27 August 2011
An Alphabet of Quilters Books

An Alphabet of Quilters

Two time Mahone Bay Quilters Guild "Extraordinary Quilter" Anne Morrell Robinson has just published a wonderful quilters' address book  An Alphabet of Quilters.  "An Alphabet of Quilters draws its inspiration from the many characters that Anne has met over the years while attending shows, teaching workshops and visiting fabric stores. Like a children's book, each letter of the alphabet describes a different quilters'…
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17 August 2011