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Canada’s Big Quilt Bee

The Mahone Bay Quilter's Guild is participating in the CQA Canada's Big Quilt Bee for Ronald Macdonald House. We will help to make 1,000 quilts for Ronald Macdonald Houses across Canada. Come join us Tuesday January 10, 2017 at Trinity United Church, Mahone Bay from 9am - 3pm. Bring your sewing machine, thread, basic sewing supplies, rotary cutting equipment and…
Guild Blogger
4 January 2017
Cuddle QuiltsEventsMeetings

Happy New Year 2017!

A New Year has begun, may it be filled with lots of quilts and warmth, friendship and learning! Our first meeting of 2017 will be Monday January 9 at 1pm. The hall will be open by 12:30pm. The long range forecast is good so let's have a great turnout to start the new year off right. Several of our members…
Guild Blogger
2 January 2017
CommunityEventsQuilt Show

2016 Quilt Show part one

As I write we are half way through our most amazing quilt show. We had well over 200 visitors our first day and the reviews were wonderful, everyone was truly impressed, amazed and in awe of all our quilts. I think most people stopped and talked to our members to congratulate us on a wonderful show. We had a bus…
Guild Blogger
24 September 2016
EventsMembersrecognition

25th Anniversary Celebration

Anna and Michele cut the anniversary cake. We have been waiting for this special evening the entire Guild year and what a wonderful celebration it was! Almost 100 members and special guests came to help celebrate. Anna and her bee, the BayBees, worked hard for 4 months to organize the evening down to the smallest detail! Thank you all so…
Guild Blogger
9 June 2016
EventsExtraordinary Quilterrecognition

Thank You!!

Next week will be our 16th Dessert Party with an Extraordinary Quilter! We know it will be a wonderful evening filled with wonderful desserts and even more wonderful quilts. We will all be inspired by our Extraordianry Quilter - Katie Pasquini Masopust from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Many Guild members have volunteered their time to help with the Dessert Party…
Guild Blogger
4 May 2016
CommunityEventsMembersQuilt Show

Father Christmas Festival Quilt Show

We did it again! many thanks to our members who loaned us their quilts, wall hangings, table runners and so much more. The Welcome Centre is truly welcoming and I know it will be a highlight of the Festival for everyone who comes in. You would never know that the bed is actually packing boxes! "Before" - a work in…
Guild Blogger
28 November 2015
CommunityEventsGood DeedsQuilt Show

Mice Making!

Suttles and Seawinds asked the Guild to help them make some mice for their "Nutcracker Fantasy" display which will be in the Suttles and Seawinds Barn during the Father Christmas Festival in Mahone Bay November 28-29 and Dec 5-6. Details and a schedule for the Festival can be found here. "Cheddar Mouse" was our prototype and by the end of…
Guild Blogger
12 November 2015
EventsWorkshops

Busy November

As I write, it is December 1, how can that be? November has flown by and this past week has been a busy one for the Guild. The Father Christmas Festival in Mahone Bay is in full swing, we just had a wonderful weekend with the town full of visitors, carollers, wagon rides, Father Christmas wanders the streets delighting young…
Guild Blogger
1 December 2014