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

Cuddle Quilts Meetings Monthly meetings Workshops

In like a lamb?

Hopefully this photo of Pam W.'s Snowflake is the last we see of the white stuff for a while. According to the weather gurus, March came in like a lamb – nice and quiet. That might be true for the weather but certainly doesn't describe the level of activity in our Guild. Our activity level continues to stay more lion-like…

Communications15 March 2022

Community Cuddle Quilts Extraordinary Quilter Meetings Members

MBQG Meetings Cancelled

A couple of pictures to remind you we have the June dinner and AGM to look forward to...we hope! And won't it be a wonderful sew and tell! *A quick post to let you know that our regular Guild meetings on April 6 and May 4, 2020 have been cancelled. Should anything change (and we sincerely hope it does!) we…

Guild Blogger25 March 2020

Community Cuddle Quilts Extraordinary Quilter Slow Quilting

MBQG Event Cancellations

*Cuddle Quilt Day - Sat. March 28 has been cancelled. But we still need cuddle quilts! So please take the day or any other days and make a cuddle quilt or a cuddle quilt top. the need is still there whether we have our day or not. BUT YOU ARE NOT OFF THE HOOK...... Why not take that day (or…

Guild Blogger16 March 2020

Cuddle Quilts Extraordinary Quilter Fabric Quilt Show

March 2020 Meeting

Yes, we had a fabric sale! Our March meeting was the last of our "winter" meetings when we meet in the afternoon, on April 6 we will return to evening meetings, the hall opens at 6:30 and the meeting starts at 7 pm. At the April meeting Marilyn V and Krista will regale us with the latest and greatest quilting…

Guild Blogger11 March 2020

Cuddle Quilts Events Extraordinary Quilter Quilt Show Quilters Retreat Slow Quilting

March 2019 Meeting

Once again our members brought some wonderful quilts and quilted projects to show and tell. Above is Isabel's Gypsy Wife, pattern by Jen Kingwell, an Australian quilter and designer. Jan's king size plus quilt made using a Jinny Beyer pattern, congratulations to the bride and groom who are receiving this quilt as a wedding gift! Cathy's lovely Where Land Meets…

Guild Blogger12 March 2019

Cuddle Quilts Events Extraordinary Quilter Guild Retreat Meetings

February 2019 Meeting

Checking out the fine embroidery on Laurie's piece. Our February 4 meeting was another successful afternoon meeting. the hall was full with members and guests. One more daytime meeting to go March 4, then we are back to evening meetings on April 1. We also had a wonderful show and tell. Seems like everyone has recuperated from Christmas and has…

Guild Blogger9 February 2019

Community Cuddle Quilts

Cuddle Quilt Day 2018

This picture was taken early on, the church pews were beginning to fill up. Thanks to everyone, members and guests who came for the day or part of it to help with this year's Cuddle Quilt Day. We had over 60 people and 121 quilts were finished. Many were machine quilted and quite a few were tied. I know these…

Guild Blogger18 March 2018

Cuddle Quilts Events Extraordinary Quilter Meetings

March 2018 Meeting

Vicki's two finished pieces from a Sherida Giddings workshop, using patterns from Quiltworx, The last of our winter daytime meetings was held on Monday. We go back to evening meetings for April, May and June. The hall will be open by 6:30, the meetings start at 7pm. We had another wonderful show and tell. You can see the pictures here …

Guild Blogger7 March 2018

Community Cuddle Quilts Good Deeds

Cuddle Quilt Day 2017

We held our Cuddle Quilt Day this year in March rather than January when the weather can be so unpredictable. I think this will be our regular day for Cuddle Quilt Day now, the weather was great and we had a terrific turnout of members, past members, guests and members of the community. Many, may thanks to everyone who came,…

Guild Blogger24 March 2017