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The New Year Begins

Here we are again, another new year for the Mahone Bay Quilter's Guild, our 23rd year as a Guild. It is the year of our bi-annual quilt show which is held in conjunction with the Scarecrow Festival in Mahone Bay. The dates for our show are Friday October 3-Sunday October 5. Details can be found here. There will be lots going…
Guild Blogger
13 September 2014
Inspiration

Kaffe Fassett Lecture

Jackie adjusts Kaffe's microphone. Almost 60 members of our Guild, along with other quilters and friends from the Mariners Quilt Guild (Dartmouth) and the Mayflower Quilt Guild came together at Saint Mary's University to hear Kaffe Fassett present his lecture  "Glorious Colour" and glorious it was! Many thanks to those who brought their quilts to display in the lecture theatre,…
Guild Blogger
21 July 2014
CommunityMembers

Drumroll Please!!

Anna talks about the 100th Anniversary Quilt for the Mahone Bay School President Cathy D and Anna do the unveiling! There it is - much applause and oohs and awes! With thanks to all the Guild members who helped make the quilt, to Anna who designed it (and made several blocks) and to Lynn Jones who machine quilted it. Be…
Guild Blogger
6 June 2014
Monthly meetings

End of Another Year

The 100th Anniversary Quilt and 23 of the 40 members who helped to make it. The quilt, designed by Anna Davison, was a gift from our Guild to the old Mahone Bay School which is celebrating their 100th anniversary this summer. Over 400 hours of work went into this quilt which was superbly machine quilted by Lynn Jones. The quilt…
Guild Blogger
6 June 2014
InspirationMeetingsMembers

May 2014 Meeting

Linda Naugler's piece using hand and machine stitching and techniques she learned from an online course by  Carol Ann Waugh  Where to start? One word to describe the May meeting - colourful? Maybe - exciting? Maybe - inspiring? How about all three? Between show and tell and Tina's trunk show it was quite the evening. Tina Belding brought a wonderful…
Guild Blogger
6 May 2014
CommunityEvents

The 2014 Annual Yard Sale

I guess it is now officially an "annual" yard sale" as this was our second year. The first Saturday in May is known as the "100 Mile Yard Sale" day along the South Shore, with many participating from church and community organizations to individuals to our Guild. We promote it as a "Quilter's Yard Sale" with everything a quilter would…
Guild Blogger
5 May 2014
Extraordinary QuilterWorkshops

Ana Buzzalino – Our 2014 Extraordinary Quilter

  Ana Buzzalino talks to us about her stunning quilts and her inspirations. So many choices! Special thanks to the MBQG members who always bring such amazing desserts! Ana Buzzalino was truly a wonderful choice for our 14th "extraordinary quilter" this year. She joins a long list of extraordinary quilters who have come to our Guild. We started out with…
Guild Blogger
27 April 2014
AwardsCommunityMembers

Mahone Bay Founders Society Award

The Mahone Bay Quilters Guild was presented with an award for our "Group Voluntary Service" at the Founders Society Annual Dinner and Awards Ceremony. We were thrilled with the number of Guild members in attendance, especially one of our Life Members Rose Pritchard who was been a member since the beginning. One of the founders of the Guild Anna Davison…
Guild Blogger
14 April 2014
Meetings

April 2014 Meeting

It isn't often I miss a meeting but a cold I brought home with me from Calgary got the better of me. I hated to miss but no one needed this bug! Many thanks to Sandra A for taking over the check-in table for me and to Suzanne and Cathy for helping out with the pictures. I am well on the…
Guild Blogger
12 April 2014