June 2013 Closing Dinner

Sandra Roch's "Star Surprise". Our 2012-13 year of meetings and workshops has come to a close. The Guild has had an active and busy year with some terrific programs at our meetings and workshops to tempt all levells of quilters. We are so fortunate to have such a dedicated membership who come out and support our Guild's activities. Thanks to…

Guild Blogger5 June 2013

Meetings Members

May 2013 Guild Meeting

Helen's quilt from Linda's Star Surprise workshop. What a wonderful turnout to our meeting last night! It was a picture perfect spring day in Mahone Bay and the hall was filled with busy quilters. As ever we are a busy Guild. The show and tell was wonderful with lots of variety and interesting quilts. Be sure and visit our Flickr…

Guild Blogger7 May 2013

Meetings

April Meeting with Elaine Quehl

The MBQG was delighted to bring Elaine Quehl to Mahone Bay for a 2 day workshop. She stayed on to do a one day workshop with the Mariner's Quilt Guild (Dartmouth) and then came back to Mahone Bay to do a trunk show and slide presentation. We had pretty much a full house along with five guests. The hour and…

Guild Blogger9 April 2013

Inspiration Meetings

March 2013 Meeting

We had a wonderful turnout at our March meeting of members, new members and guests. Our guest speaker was renowned knitter Lucy Neatby from Darmouth NS who talked to us about colour. It was a wonderful and inspiring talk. Lucy shared with us her approach to colour and stories about her knitting and design work. As well we had a…

Guild Blogger7 March 2013

Meetings Workshops

February 2013 Meeting

The weather played havoc with our originally scheduled meeting on February 4 but we managed to reschedule for February 11. Despite the forecast for snow later in the evening we went ahead and had a decent turnout with 49 members. It was a tricky drive home for everyone when the snow arrived much sooner than forecast! Thankfully everyone made it…

Guild Blogger16 February 2013

Meetings Members

MBQG Glossary

It has been brought to our attention that at meetings a lot gets talked about and that there are members both new and old who don't know what we are talking about! We have a lot of new members and we thought it would be useful to have a "glossary" which would explain things such a Cuddle Quilt Day, the…

Guild Blogger21 January 2013

Meetings Members

January 2013 Guild Meeting

Luck was with us last Monday, the weather cooperated and it was a beautiful evening, clear and cold. Almost half out members came out for our first meeting of 2013. Debbie and Pam (from the workshop committee) share what they found out about pressing seams to one side or pressing them open. There was lots of chatter, lots of sharing…

Guild Blogger10 January 2013

Christmas Party Meetings

December Pot Luck Dinner and Christmas Party

Almost 60 of our members, that's mre than half, came to the hall Monday night for our annual Christmas Pot Luck Dinner and party. Many were dressed in their best festive finery! Mollie and Christine - a cats and dogs Christmas! They came laden with delicious appetizers, main courses, salads and of course desserts. We are known for our delicious…

Guild Blogger5 December 2012

Meetings

November Guild Meeting

We had another packed house at our Guild meeting this week with 68 members, 2 new members and 1 guest! What a wonderful turnout! The Guild will once again be offering two $500 scholarships to help two members go to the Mayflower Quilters Retreat in September 2013. The winners just have to be prepared to pay the balance of the…

Guild Blogger9 November 2012

Meetings

Welcome Back

We had a wonderful turnout to our September meeting with 68 members present plus 4 new members and 2 guests. Welcome back everyone, I hope you will all enjoy the year and participate in lots of Guild activities. The year is getting off to a big start with our Quilt Show coming up in a couple of weeks - September…

Guild Blogger14 September 2012