York Heritage Quilters Guild
Members' Challenge 2009
The York Heritage Quilters Guild Members’ Challenge aims to showcase excellence in quilting and to provide an opportunity for members to enter their work in a competition. The challenge theme this season is "Like Night and Day". Click on the theme name to see the challenge fabrics and to get all the details, including the rules and entry form!
CreativFestival was a great success!!
Our booth at the CreativFestival on the weekend of Oct 17th, 18th and 19th was a very successful venture and tons of fun! Our goal was to promote the upcoming Celebration of Quilts X show, and YHQG. Thankyou to the many members who worked the booth, and special thanks to teachers Deb Anger(One Block Wonder); Mary Mullen(Quiltng 101) and Sharon Galna(Art Quilts 101) as well as to our in-booth presenters Joan Hug Valeriote (Mini-quilts from scraps); Jeannie Jenkins (Quilt patis) and Carolyn Flood (Free-motion quilting). Kathy Wylie was kept very busy signing books and chatting to visitors about the quilts on display. We sold tickets to the show and even signed up a new member to the guild!
Congratulations to Valerie Prideaux, our guild historian and quilt show publicity director for all her hard work and effort to raise the awareness of quilting and YHQG. Well done !!
Our Sunday afternoon volunteers at the booth. Click on the Photo Gallery flower at left to see more pictures from the event.
Comfort Quilts
Since 2005, the York Heritage Quilters Guild has been creating Comfort Quilts to be donated to the community. The response of our membership has been incredible.
The destinations have been to shelters for women and children. The Guild recognizes that such a contribution would fulfill our mandate to give back to the community. We want to support women and children who are facing sadness, discomfort and sorrow that many of us can only imagine. We want to let them know that others do care and wish them well in their struggle. The project would also reduce our stash of remnants from the Community Quilt projects. Members and friends have also generously donated fabrics to the Guild.
Kits are cut and prepared with an included pattern in the spring and offered for distribution at our Annual General Meeting in May. Members are encouraged to complete the colourful but easily-pieced quilts over the summer and return them at the September and October meetings. We gratefully accept completed tops if members are unable to finish them; other volunteers step in to complete the process. The quilts are labeled as being crafted by a YHQG member, Toronto and the date. We have donated over 100 quilts in the last two guild seasons!
Val Taylor
Community Outreach
The October meeting of every guild year is the Community Quilts Workshop night, when members offer their time, talent, and fabric, to hand-stitch quilt 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, click here.
