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Meetings

September 2015 Guild Meeting

What a wonderful welcome back to our Guild year! Terrific turnout and lots of wonderful quilts for show and tell, a great talk and sharing by the five members who went to the Dorothy Caldwell workshop in Annapolis Royal and some interesting facts about copyright by Nancy. Thanks to everyone who got us off to a great start. Susan, Laurie,…
Guild Blogger
19 September 2015
Workshops

Fall Workshops

Plans are well underway for our fall workshops. The first one is Saturday October 17 with Linda Macdonald "Reflections". Learn to reflect the inner beauty of a fabric. No drawing lines, no fussy cutting, no complicated piecing. This easy technique is a simple strip cutting and piecing technique that you apply to fabric. The Reflection technique is a variation of…
Guild Blogger
31 August 2015
Monthly meetings

Happy New Year!!

Our new quilt year is about to begin! It always does feel like the beginning of a new year after our summer break. Our Guild calendar has been updated with information about some of our programs. Information about upcoming workshops will be posted soon on the workshop page. As always our meetings have a wonderful show and tell and I…
Guild Blogger
29 August 2015
InspirationMeetings

June 2015 AGM and Susan Tilsley Manley

(l-r)Susan Tilsley Manley with Guild members Susan and Linda Well, what a great way to end another Guild year! A wonderful pot luck dinner, a short and sweet AGM and an inspiring trunk show with Susan Tilsley Manley. At our AGM Honourary Life Memberships were given to Ruth Searle and Lorraine MacQuarrie. (l-r) Ruth, Cathy and Lorraine We also started…
Guild Blogger
2 June 2015
Monthly meetings

15th Extraordinary Quilter – Becky Goldsmith

It must be over 16 years ago when Polly and I were the program and workshop committee and we decided to bring a quilt teacher "from away" to come and teach at the Guild. We decided that if she (Kay Phillips) was coming all this way that she should do a trunk show/lecture and if she was doing that then…
Guild Blogger
1 June 2015
Meetings

May 2015 Guild Meeting

Linda Hutt's Storm at Sea, pieced by Linda and machine quilted by Lynn Jones. Our Guild year is coming to a close so fast. We still have a few important dates coming up, most notable our 15th Annual Dessert Party with this year's Extraordinary Quilter Becky Goldsmith for Piece O'Cake Designs. The tickets for the dessert party are all sold…
Guild Blogger
9 May 2015
Community

Our 3rd Annual Quilter’s Yard Sale

Another very successful yard sale! The crowds turned out and I think most people were pleased with their sales. I know I was and the bonus was seeing so many quilting friends from all over! A real treat. Laurie, Marilyn, Anna and Bev wearing hand made fascinators for the day! Guild members had fun too, what a great bunch with a…
Guild Blogger
4 May 2015
Monthly meetings

A Visit With The Celtic Quilt Guild

Eleven of the 15 Celtic Quilt Guild members who visited with us for a pot luck dinner and show and tell and they stayed on for our 3rd Annual Quilter's Yard Sale. Almost 50 members of our MBQG prepared a wonderful pot luck dinner and we all had a great time talking quilts and quilting and enjoying a wonderful show…
Guild Blogger
3 May 2015
Meetings

April 2015 Meeting

April is turning out to be a busy month with Heather Stewart's workshop, our regular Guild meeting and next week, April 30, we are hostng the Celtic Quilt Guild from Cape Breton for a pot luck dinner and show and tell. Our Yard Sale is also fast approaching - Saturday May 2, 10am-2pm at Trinity United Church Hall in Mahone…
Guild Blogger
23 April 2015