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Take A Tour Of Our New Website!

Welcome! The new Mahone Bay Quilters' Guild web site is now live and waiting for you to explore. In this post, we'll offer you a guided tour – but don't hesitate to explore on your own. Plans for the new site have been percolating for a bit, and we are very pleased to finally invite you to take a look.…
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3 May 2022
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Merry Christmas 2019

Merry Christmas to all our Guild members and friends. Thanks to everyone who has made this year another great Guild year full of activities, workshops and wonderful programs. Thanks to all who made it possible, especially the members of our executive who make it all happen with the help of many volunteers. Where would we be without volunteers? We held…
Guild Blogger
28 December 2019
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October 2019 Meeting

Gaff Point by Laurie Swim Our October meeting sure was a busy one. Many thanks to Alicia who stepped up to chair the meeting (and did a wonderful job) as Pam was away. We had a full house which meant we were scrambling for chairs! The church hall is under going renovations, did you notice the new floor? Some of…
Guild Blogger
16 October 2019
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September 2019 Meeting

Despite Hurricane Dorian affecting many of our members, we had a good turnout to our first meeting of the Guild year. The hall has a lovely new floor, we have a (sort of) new seating arrangement and new sew and tell. Please bear with us as we tweak a few things! Next month be sure and take the time to…
Guild Blogger
17 September 2019
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New Members Tea 2019

Our third annual New Members Tea was held on Monday September 16, 2019. The tea is hosted by the executive, Christine polishes her silver service and it always adds such "glamour" to the table. We were delighted to have 3 of our new members, Judy Cooper, Janet Joyce and Isabel Burgess (Isabel who is from Paradise in the Valley, won…
Guild Blogger
17 September 2019
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Did You Know?

Happy New Year! Yes, our new Guild year is about to start - Monday September 9 (one week from today), 7pm at Trinity United Church Hall in Mahone Bay. The hall opens at 6:30pm. We are happy to welcome new members ($30 membership dues). Guests are welcome to come to a maximum of 2  meetings to check us out, after…
Guild Blogger
2 September 2019
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May 2019 Meeting

First of all I want to thank the members (and friends) of the Mahone bay Quilt Guild for their generous donations of 103 preemie quilts that have been donated to the NICU at the IWK Children's Hospital in Haliax. This project has been going for 12 years now and I estimate that we have donated approximately 1500 quilts...so far! It…
Guild Blogger
19 May 2019
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Slow Quilting at the Biscuit Eater Cafe

Sandy, Ann, Linda N, Rose and a visitor At our Guild meeting in January I suggested we start a "Slow Quilting" group that would meet at the Biscuit Eater Cafe in Mahone Bay on the second and fourth Monday afternoon, we would bring any hand sewing/quilting/embroidery project and we would stitch away for a couple of hours enjoying each others…
Guild Blogger
19 August 2018
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April 2018 Meeting

There was snow on the ground but that didn't deter a big crowd coming out for our April meeting! And we have four new members - welcome Gail, Kimberley, Marlene and Elizabeth! Plans for our 18th Extraordinary Quilter Dessert Party and workshops with Janet Barker (from Calgary) are coming up fast, April 25-28, 2018. There are just a couple of…
Guild Blogger
11 April 2018