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Mahone Bay Quilters' Guild

Monthly meetings

Guild Meeting Monday April 4, 2011

Our monthly meeting for April is this Monday when we will welcome Karen Henry from Dartmouth as our guest speaker. Karen will present a program on "Art Quilters of Nova Scotia" Karen will introduce us to quilters from all over the province and we'll see their quilts. Come and join us for social time at 6:30, sign up for workshops…

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Guild Blogger1 April 2011

Good Deeds

Congratulations

Congratulatuons to Guild members Jamie Pratt and Valerie Hearder who have each won a $500 bursary to attend the Quilters Retreat at Pictou Lodge in Septemeber 2011. Any member who was interested in going and who was prepared to pay the balance of the Retreat fee, submitted their name for the draw. All names were drawn so that if either…

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Guild Blogger20 March 2011

Monthly meetings

Our 2011 Extraordinary Quilter – Anne Morrell Robinson

We are delighted to have Anne Morrell Robinson come back to the Guild as our Extraordinary Quilter for 2011. This is Anne's Civil War Medallion quilt. More of Anne's quilts can be found on our Flickr link. And you can read more about Anne, her quilts, her hooked mats and dolls by following the link on the right sidebar, just…

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Guild Blogger28 February 2011

Workshops

“Delightful Dragonflies” workshop with Karen Henry

Tuesday April 5, 2011 - Delightful Dragonflies - Karen Henry This class offers the intermediate quilter an opportunity to work on tulle and/or organza. Students will work with water-soluble stabilizer, raw edge appliqué, machine appliqué and wooly embellishments. Students have the option of quilting the entire project, or just the borders. Built in embroidery pattern ‘Dragonflies’ from the Pfaff Creative…

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Guild Blogger19 February 2011

Meetings

February Meeting

We were blessed with decent weather and had a good turnout for our February meeting. Lots of chat along with some pretty nice quilts. Everyone seems to be enjoying our "meet a member" segment. In January we learned more about our past president Patsy Perkins and our membership person Sandra MacSweeney. This month it was Daisy Ballam's turn. Click on…

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Guild Blogger12 February 2011

Monthly meetings

The Launch is Official

After a few interruptions, the Mahone Bay Quilters Guild blog is finally ready to step out into the world! Here we plan to share with the quilt world the activities of our Guild on a regular basis. Located on the South Shore of Nova Scotia, we are an active Guild of just over 100 mmembers. There are several bees within…

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Guild Blogger27 January 2011

@mahonebayquilters

Mahone Bay Quilters Guild

Piecemakers By-The-Sea—bees, talks, workshops and quilt shows since 1991

Don't miss the Mahone Bay Quilters' Guild's biannual show and sale, A World of Colour, held this year from September 27-29 at the @mahonebaycentre. Quilts, demos, gifts for sale and more! Details on our website.

Don't miss the Mahone Bay Quilters' Guild's biannual show and sale, A World of Colour, held this year from September 27-29 at the @mahonebaycentre. Quilts, demos, gifts for sale and more! Details on our website.

This is the gorgeous quilt being raffled off to support our 2024 Quilt Show! Get your tickets from members or at the show itself, from September 27-29 at the Mahone Bay Centre!

This is the gorgeous quilt being raffled off to support our 2024 Quilt Show! Get your tickets from members or at the show itself, from September 27-29 at the Mahone Bay Centre!

And the last few. Thanks to all, it was a great sew and tell.

And the last few. Thanks to all, it was a great sew and tell.

A few more quilted runners and quilt tops from our sew and tell…

A few more quilted runners and quilt tops from our sew and tell…

A few quilts@from our Mahone Bay QG March meeting sew and tell.

A few quilts@from our Mahone Bay QG March meeting sew and tell.

More sew and tell from the MBQG February Guild meeting.

More sew and tell from the MBQG February Guild meeting.

Sew and Tell from our February MBQG meeting.

Sew and Tell from our February MBQG meeting.

Donna’s wool applique Village.

Donna’s wool applique Village.

Inspired by Kim MacLean’s pattern this amazing quilt is our raffle quilt for this year. Tickets are available from Guild members now and they will also be available at various Farmers Markets throughout the summer as well as at our Quilt Show Sept. 27, 28 and 29th. The draw for the winner will be on the 29th. The quilt was pieced by Krista G and quilted by Pam W. Well done everyone and good luck!

Inspired by Kim MacLean’s pattern this amazing quilt is our raffle quilt for this year. Tickets are available from Guild members now and they will also be available at various Farmers Markets throughout the summer as well as at our Quilt Show Sept. 27, 28 and 29th. The draw for the winner will be on the 29th. The quilt was pieced by Krista G and quilted by Pam W. Well done everyone and good luck!

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