Again, sorry for the delay, but I was away, relaxing and buying lots and lots of quilt fabric in Vermont last week. So unfortunately, I missed the last Guild meeting in which Audrey was teaching everyone how to make trivets!!! Hopefully, someone save me all the notes.
But, I was here for our Open House and we were all very pleased with the turnout. We had the room
"decorated" with all our quilts, large and small, and
some of our Quilts of Valour. Here we are with some
of our visitors, hopefully new friends and members.
Many of us had brought work in so we could showour visitors how we worked. It was a fun few hours!!
We even had a visit from a journalist of the new Free
Press, which I understand will be a Montreal West
version!!!
I understand from Mary, our Prez, that 4 new people showed up to our last Guild meeting. Very hopeful!!! Always fun to have new people - new ideas!
Now, on to today's AGM. As you can see
there was a huge turnout!! "Breakfast" was ready
for us when we arrived, served with hot coffee
or tea, and was plentiful!! Les Pointes Folles
hosted this year's event and did a fabulous job.
They even prepared a dessert for all of us, in
addition to all the goodies they had for us when
we came in. No one is going to want to take
on this job next year!!!
We got our instructions to put together the fabric
pieces we had cut before our arrival, and quickly
got to work. Then we had to trade amongst our
own table, or with others, and put them together
four in a row.
Here's where we were this morning,
And here's where we were this
afternoon!
This quilt is
going to be
stunning!!
Very
dramatic!
Here's our happy little group, all busy as bees,
putting together our flying geese!!
Sorry I cut off Mary's head - I'm there too, you
just don't see me!
For those of you who missed the meeting - just a few
little tidbits FYI. I think most of you have received
this already from Anna, but in case:-
This was the 25th Anniversary of the CQQ, WOW
time has flown, and quilters were happy to help
celebrate - there were 29 guilds represented!!
Out of a total of 46 - that's pretty impressive!!
There are 507 members in total, and it sure
sounded like they were all there today!!
Now, here's the really good news! Linda won
a free CQQ membership, and the Guild (Yes,
our Guild) won the Community Service
Bursary for $150. AND the Educational Bursary for $300. Congrats to us!!!
Well, you're pretty up-to-date now. Hopefully next year more of our group will be able to make
the AGM. It's really important for us to support this umbrella-group that takes care of all of us.
Sandra
