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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
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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
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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
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
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First Ever MBQG “Quilter’s Yard Sale”

Well, we did it! The Mahone Bay Quilter's Guild held a yard sale with 23 Guild members and friends selling everything a quilter could wish for and more. The hall was filled to the brim with fabric, thread, notions, books, patterns, finished quilts and quilted itmes plus vintage quilts and sewing machines. I don't think many people left empty handed,…
Guild Blogger
5 May 2013
Events

Quilter’s Yard Sale

The MBQG is having a Quilter's Yard Sale, Saturday May 4 at Trinity United Church Hall in Mahone Bay from 10am to 12 noon. Free admission, no early birds please! Members wishing to book space should contact Ann Phelan at aphelan@eastlink.ca There will be lots of bargains - fabric, notions, quilting books and magazines, other fibre related items and 2…
Guild Blogger
19 March 2013