March Hint for 2025 Mystery Quilt

It's March already and we're halfway done with the mystery adventure. I sew hope everyone is enjoying the ride and having fun with the monthly clues. This month you'll be preparing: 1. 12 3.5" squares of your colour #3 (original colour brown) -- the pattern hints recommend making this a fabric you really really like because it's…

Webmaster5 March 2025

Monthly meetings Mystery Quilt

February Hint for Mystery Quilt Sew A Long

Mystery Quilt Sew A Long - February February Mystery Quilt Steps Complete the units called for in the hints sheet for the month. This month it's half triangle triangles cut from 4.5" squares of your background fabric and a contrast colour. You'll need 48 triangle units for the throw quilt or 100 for the queen size. Eldora's big hint is…

Webmaster4 February 2025

Monthly meetings Mystery Quilt

Mystery Quilt Sew A Long 2025 starts this month!

Mystery Quilt Sew A Long Starting in January and finishing in June, the Guild is hosting a free mystery quilt sew along. Each month (the day following each meeting), clues will land in your inbox. The information can also be found online on our website under the "for members" tab or on our Facebook page under members only. All members…

Webmaster6 January 2025

Workshops

Wonderfil Thread Workshop with Nadine Stevens

On Saturday October 26, MBQG held a practical in person workshop on Wonderfil thread led by longarm quilter and Wonderfil educator Nadine Stevens. It was invigorating to get together in person, learn more about this extensive line of Canadian thread, make a cute practice project and support each other as we worked with special machine stitches many of us had…

Webmaster1 November 2024

Events Guild News Quilt Show

Information for members entering the 2024 Quilt Show and Sale

It's that time, again, when members finalize their entries into the quilt show, decide what Boutique items they might make for sale and commit to bringing in their Challenge Quilts to support charity. This is a long post, so I'm breaking it into three parts: QUILT SHOW ENTRIES CHALLENGE QUILTS BOUTIQUE ITEMS QUILT SHOW ENTRIES - questions to Cheryl Borden…

Webmaster1 June 2024

Inspiration Shopping

Out and About

Fabric shopping and a quilt show - a quilter couldn't ask for more! After many weeks of planning, I headed to Mahone Bay last Friday morning with my friend Jan to look for pieces of wool for our latest wool embroidery project. On arrival, we knocked, called and stood outside the shop wondering what was going on - until a…

Communications14 April 2024

Events Extraordinary Quilter Monthly meetings

April – A Busy Start! Tea Anyone?

Welcome to April! We have crammed such a lot of activity into a very short time frame! If you didn't make it to the meeting on April 8, you missed the completion of the President's Ugly Fabric Challenge and quite a diverse set of projects undertaken by our participants. Be sure to check out the album here to take a…

Communications14 April 2024

Cuddle Quilts Events

Celebrating International Quilt Day!

Saturday, March 16, was International Quilt Day, better known in this Quilt Guild, as our annual Cuddle Quilt Day! Guild members and members of the public gathered together at the church hall and enjoyed a busy day putting the finishing touches on a colourful array of donated quilts. On-site sewing, quilting, binding, adding Guild labels and more took place through…

Communications17 March 2024

Monthly meetings

March Meeting

Mild weather brought almost 50 of our members together for the March meeting Monday afternoon. Much of the meeting agenda provided updates on the planning for the many upcoming events on our schedule. Don't forget Cuddle Quilt Day on March 16th - International Quilt Day! Join us at Trinity United as we check in the many quilt tops and finished…

Communications6 March 2024

Monthly meetings

Ready for a Cuppa – and a Trunk Show? EQ is on April 10th!

The April Extraordinary Quilter (EQ) event is only 6 weeks away - here is the poster! Be sure to buy your tickets early - you just know this one will sell out!

Communications26 February 2024