Community Outreach

The Community Quilters is a group of YHQG members who meet once or twice a month to create or complete quilts for donation to community organizations or individuals, adults and children, who are with a care facility.

Community Quilts

One way that the YHQG reaches out to the community is through our Community Quilt Workshops. We receive many requests from charitable organizations for quilts. Some quilts are auctioned by the organization to raise funds for their charitable projects. Others are requested for children and adults in special circumstances to enjoy as their very own.
The workshops provide a time for caring, generosity, socializing and learning. For those who cannot make time during the day for the workshops, kits are prepared and a quilt may be made at home and returned to the group. We will let you know where it goes. You are important to the group’s success.

The Community Quilters group was formed in 2000 and continues to grow in size and scope. Your thoughts are always welcome.

This workshop always welcomes new members. This year, it will be held again at the Stan Wadlow Senior Centre, 373 Cedervale Ave, East York. The Clubhouse is on the right. Enter through the front door; we meet in the large auditorium on the right. The room is set up for us. Please bring a machine, a sewing kit (including needles, neutral thread, pins, scissors and a rotary cutter and ruler). Bring a lunch to the workshops. Coffee and a cookie are available at the Clubhouse for $1. This is a source of revenue for them. If you prefer, bring your own and a mug. There is a kitchen and a kettle. We meet from 11:00am to 3:30pm on the Mondays listed below--

Community Quilts Meeting

All guild members are invited to participate in the Community Quilters night in January. This social evening is a chance to meet new people and have fun working together sewing blocks while enjoying refreshments and the good company of other quilters. Smaller groups or individual members transform the blocks into quilts which we donate to selected organizations in the community for fund-raising purposes. If you would like more information on how to apply for and receive a YHQG community quilt for your fund raising project, please refer to the Community Quilts Policy.

Community Quilters at Work

The pictures below were taken at the first sewing session in 2009-10 at Stan Wadlow Center.

Debra Cooper Burger, President and CEO of the Unionville Home Society is shown receiving one of our quilts for their fundraising auction.

Guild Meetings

Speaker/Workshops | Quilter of the Month | Library | Block of the Month |

Photo Gallery:

Click on 'Dreaming of Kyoto' above by Janet McGoey to get to the photo gallery.

"Friends are like fabric - you can never have enough."