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Schedule of Guild Meetings and Activities  2024-2025

Our fall 2024 and spring 2025 meetings will be in person, and winter (January, February and March 2025) via Zoom.

We welcome guests at our in person guild meetings for a $5 guest fee payable in cash at the door.
A basic familiarity with Zoom is required by attendees of the winter meetings and can be acquired in advance of the meeting using the Learning resources on the Zoom website.  
​To register as a guest for a winter Zoom meeting click/tap here. 

Information about previous meetings, visiting speakers, and other activities can be accessed from the Links page. ​

Archive
​2023-2024 Schedule

Date	Activity	Details
June 18 Wednesday 7 PM	Guild meeting	Summer year end Potluck meeting Members with surnames beginning with A-L are asked to bring a dish to share appetizer, main or dessert Fat Quarter Club colour GREY Location: 257 John Street,  Arnprior Ontario  (Christian Education Centre)
Completed Events
September 25 Wednesday 7 PM	Guild meeting	First meeting of our 2024-2025 year! Bring along your favourite gadget for Gadget Show and Tell. More info in the September newsletter Location: 257 John Street,  Arnprior Ontario  (Christian Education Centre)
October 23 Wednesday 7 PM	Guild meeting	Location: 257 John Street,  Arnprior Ontario  (Christian Education Centre) Skills Demonstrations Shop of the Month: Happy Wife Quilting Fat Quarter Club colour GREEN
October 28 to Nov 1 Monday-Friday	Retreat	Come for 2, 3 or all 4 nights, and quilt from morning until night! More information
November 2 Saturday 11 AM to 2 PM	Workshop	English Paper Piecing (EPP) workshop with Brenda Payer More information
November 24 Sunday 10 AM to 3 PM	Sew Day Via Zoom	Drop in for as long as you d like. Zoom link was sent via Email on Nov 20
November 27	Guild meeting	Guest: Joan O Malley, the woman who sewed Canada s first maple leaf flag Fat Quarter Club colour RED Location: 257 John Street,  Arnprior Ontario  (Christian Education Centre)
December 11	Guild meeting	Holiday Potluck Party Meeting Members with surnames beginning with M-Z are asked to bring a dish to share appetizer, main or dessert Fat Quarter Club colour BLUE Location: 257 John Street,  Arnprior Ontario  (Christian Education Centre)
December 15 Sunday 10 AM 4 PM	Sew Day Via Zoom	Drop in for as long as you d like for an informal sew and chat! Zoom link via Email a few days prior
January 14, 2025 Tuesday 12:30 PM	Renfrew Guild Meeting	The Quilt Guild of Renfrew and Area, has invited our guild members to attend their Tuesday January 14th meeting. Time: Meeting starts at 1pm come any time after 12 noon Location: Horton Community Center, 1005 Castleford Road just outside of Renfrew Program: Phyllis Moody from Mad Moody Quilting Fabrics from Pincourt, Quebec will be our special guest. She will demonstrate some of her favourite quilting tools and have a Pop-up Shop. They will also have some of their members doing different demos.
January 22 Wednesday 7 PM	Guild meeting Via Zoom	Guest: Cyndi McChesney of Cedar Ridge Quilting Title: Panel Palooza  In this informative and entertaining trunk show I'll show you how to take that panel you fell in love with and turn it into something truly unique. You'll experience my good, bad and AH HA moments as I learned how to work with the different styles of panels and how adding interesting block treatments and borders and filling those pesky open spaces with patchwork or appliqu results in a truly special quilt or unexpected project.
January 27 to 31 Monday to Friday	Retreat	Come for 2, 3 or all 4 nights, and quilt from morning until night! More information
February 19 Wednesday 7 PM	Guild meeting Via Zoom	* Note that the date for this meeting has changed to February 19 Guest: Bonnie Rankin Bonnie is a CQA/ACC Certified Quilt Judge, and the National Juried Show Coordinator for this year's Quilt Canada in Toronto in June 2025. In her presentation Bonnie will show and discuss the winners of the 2024 National Juried Show, outlining what judges are seeing at all levels of quilt shows. She'll also point out the most common problems quilters encounter, and provide some tips on how to prevent them.
March 15 Saturday 1-4 PM	Workshop	Urban Runner with Katrina Kahn More information
March 26 Wednesday 7 PM	Guild meeting Via Zoom	Sew Night An on-line sewing challenge for each of us to make a Preemie quilt! More info in the March newsletter
April 11 to 12 Friday to Saturday	In-Town Retreat	Two days of sewing, relaxing, visiting and laughing. More information
April 23 Wednesday 7 PM	Guild meeting	Location: 257 John Street,  Arnprior Ontario  (Christian Education Centre) Program: 3 Snyder Sisters Trunk Show Fat Quarter Club colour YELLOW (YELLOW)
May 20 Tuesday 9 AM -3 PM	Workshop	Star Strip Paper Piecing with Helen Gunn More information
May 28 Wednesday 7 PM	Guild meeting	Annual General Meeting Fat Quarter Club colour PURPLE Location: 257 John Street,  Arnprior Ontario  (Christian Education Centre)