May Guild Meeting Meetings

May Guild Meeting

It is hard to believe our year of meetings is coming to a close with our June 6th clsoing dinner. We wrapped up our regular monthly meetings with a visit from five of the Queens Quilters from Liverpool.  Their quilts all showed lots of creativity, fun and wonderful quilting. Karen's Pitcher Plant  A "One Block Wonder" "Twist and Twirl", pattern…
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10 May 2011
Medallion Workshops Monthly meetings

Medallion Workshops

We are so lucky to be having Anne Morrell Robinson with us for workshops from May 4-7. Her 2 day Medallion Class will be a great opportunity for Guild members and guests to design and start their own unique Medallion quilts. These 3 quilts are works in progress from a recent Medallion workshop that Anne taught. Great to see such…
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17 April 2011
Spring is in the Air Featured Friends

Spring is in the Air

It is springtime in Nova Scotia and the quilters certainly came out of the woodwork last Monday to share many of their wonderful quilts that they have been working on this winter. Thanks to all and my apologies to those whose pictures I couldn't include. I think it was a combination of bad focusing on my part and trying to…
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9 April 2011
Congratulations 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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20 March 2011
“Delightful Dragonflies” workshop with Karen Henry 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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19 February 2011
February Meeting 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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12 February 2011
The Launch is Official 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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27 January 2011