A “Pop-Up Quilt Show” for Visiting Cruise Quilters

The MBQG was asked to host some quilters who were on a "Fall Colours" cruise to Halifax and they wanted to come to the South Shore. We quickly decided to host them with a "Pop-Up Quilt Show" in the church sanctuary where we meet. "Dolly Quilter" welcoming our guests! We had seen this done before but we had never used…

Guild Blogger4 October 2015

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 Blogger19 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 Blogger31 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 Blogger29 August 2015

Inspiration Meetings

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 Blogger2 June 2015

Monthly meetings

Applique & Imrovisational Quilting Workshops with Becky Goldsmith

After the Dessert Party we got busy with the workshops. Becky taught a one day applique workshop Backyard Birds and then two days of improvisational quilting and applique. I was very intrigued with Becky's use of technology to show her detailed hand work. she used a combination of a digital project and a Sony Handy Cam which projected on a large…

Guild Blogger1 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 Blogger1 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 Blogger9 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 Blogger4 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 Blogger3 May 2015