Art Hits the Wall

Art Hits the Wall opened last Friday at the Rossignol Centre in Liverpool, NS. This is a collaborative exhibition between quilters and rug hookers held every 2 years. It originally started out with the Mahone Bay Quilters Guild as a quilt show for quilters to make a wallhanging inpsired by a work of art. Doris Eaton was one of the…

Guild Blogger10 July 2011

Monthly meetings

MBQG Quilt Show and Sale – 2022

Our 2022 Raffle Quilt, Rolling Waves, pieced by Jill Green, machine quilted by Colleen Paton. Design by Jane Koelker which appeared in Quilting Daily as a free pattern. The dark colour is navy blue (not black!). Save the Dates! The MBQG Quilt Show is coming - September 22 - 25, 2022 at the Mahone Bay Center. Please watch this space…

Guild Blogger13 June 2011

Monthly meetings

June 2011 Closing Pot Luck Dinner

It is hard to believe that our year is over! Last Monday we had our closing pot luck dinner and we celebrated our 20 years as a Guild with a few special guests. Before dinner we were interupted by Verna and Gordie (aka Marie Hayward and Debbie Pottie) it seems they got their venue mixed up so we had a…

Guild Blogger10 June 2011

Quilt Show

2012 Quilt Show

The MBQG 2012 Quilt Show will once again be held in conjunction with the Scarecrow Festval. The dates have yet to be announced but they are usually the first weekend of October. The quilt show committee will be meeting this weeek to get started making plans. Every year we have had a quilt show we make a raffle quilt. This…

Guild Blogger30 May 2011

Workshops

EQ Workshops with Anne Morrell Robinson

We had Anne with us for 3 days of workshops. One day on "Flower Arranging for Quilters" and two days on "Medallion Quilts" We all learned so much from Anne and had a great time doing it! I know there is going to be some wonderful "Sew and Tell" coming up in the months ahead. Now that so many made…

Guild Blogger16 May 2011

Community

11th Annual Dessert Party with Extraordinary Quilter Anne Morrell Robinson

For 11 years now the Mahone Bay Quilters Guild have had a Dessert Party for about 120 quilters and their friends. This year we invited Anne Morrell Robinson to come back so we could see what she has been up to the last 10 years. And what a journey she has been on! Anne told us she is getting close…

Guild Blogger13 May 2011

Meetings

May Guild Meeting

It is hard to believe our year of meetings is coming to a close with our June 6th clsoing dinner. We wrapped up our regular monthly meetings with a visit from five of the Queens Quilters from Liverpool. Their quilts all showed lots of creativity, fun and wonderful quilting. Karen's Pitcher Plant A "One Block Wonder" "Twist and Twirl", pattern…

Guild Blogger10 May 2011

Monthly meetings

Medallion Workshops

We are so lucky to be having Anne Morrell Robinson with us for workshops from May 4-7. Her 2 day Medallion Class will be a great opportunity for Guild members and guests to design and start their own unique Medallion quilts. These 3 quilts are works in progress from a recent Medallion workshop that Anne taught. Great to see such…

Guild Blogger17 April 2011

Workshops

Reversible Quilt Workshop

Bev Drysdale will be teaching a workshop on the Reversible Quilt - Quilt As You Go quilt on Saturday May 28. Contact Ann Phelan to register at aphelan@eastlink.ca

Guild Blogger9 April 2011

Featured Friends

Spring is in the Air

It is springtime in Nova Scotia and the quilters certainly came out of the woodwork last Monday to share many of their wonderful quilts that they have been working on this winter. Thanks to all and my apologies to those whose pictures I couldn't include. I think it was a combination of bad focusing on my part and trying to…

Guild Blogger9 April 2011