The
Victoria Quilters' Guild donates about 400 quilts
per year to the neo-natal unit of Victoria General
Hospital. Quilts are made by guild members from kits
made up by the volunteer committee. Our special
project is
Comfort Quilts for
babies. Please contact
babyquilts@victoriaquiltersguild.org to learn
more about Community Comfort Quilts and fabric
donations (100% cotton).
We have an
Annual Christmas Sale
in November which supports the purchase of materials
to make these baby quilts.
Donation cheques can be made payable to the
Victoria Quilters' Guild and mailed to
Suite #184 - 1581-H Hillside Avenue Victoria BC
V8T 2C1.
Victoria
Quilters' Guild currently has 400 plus
members.
Membership fees are $40.00 per year (2011)
Victoria Quilters Guild
members, here on Vancouver
Island, British Columbia, vary from
traditional hand quilters to fabric artists.
Our mandate is to promote and encourage
interest in the art of quilting through
dissemination of related information and to
work together in harmony with mutual
respect.
Volunteers also attend the
Saanich Fair in September
to educate the public in the art of
quilting.
Monthly
meetings include a presentation by world
class quilters - from trunk shows & slide
shows to singing quilters. Works shown are
as varying as the quilters - demonstrating
hand stitches, appliqué, piecing, Fibre Arts
as well as long arm and machine quilting.
Please contact Shirley Westaway at
Membership@victoriaquiltersguild.org.
Shirley will be taking
applications for new members
in December but meanwhile
please attend our meetings as
a guest.
In the Beginning..
A gathering discussed the needs and aims of an Island
guild but nothing was decided. Attending from
this area were Cynthia Stanhope, Tricia Ward-Moran,
Gwen Staton, Gail Tucker, Ev Middleton and myself,
Ruby Bauer. (there were possibly others) The
idea of a quilt guild was first born in my mind at a
quilters’ workshop held in Parksville, BC,
April 23-29, 1979. Within the year the group at Parksville became an official quilt guild with their
first newsletter published in September 1980.
It became clear that this was a local group rather
than an Island guild and there was still a need for
some organization in Victoria, even though many
Victorians did and still do belong to PQG.
At an annual quilters’ gathering at Garth Homer
Center April 26, 1982,
Ruby called together those who might be interested in
such an organization. Discussion let to a
meeting at the home of Isabel Stephens May 19,
attended by Cynthia, Isabel, Joy Cowper, Joyce Mild,
Olive Minnings, Jean Konkle, Bonnie Drummond, Tricia
Ward-Moran and Ruby Bauer. Each tossed in $5.00
to form a kitty and a temporary Executive was formed;
President, Ruby Bauer; Vice President, Jean Konkle;
Secretary, Olive Minnings and Treasurer, Cynthia
Stanhope. May 26, at a meeting at Jean Konkle’s home, Joyce Wild agreed to become president.
We decided to supply fabric for a logo contest.
June 16 at our first public meeting, fabric was
distributed for logo blocks.
October 6 was the second public meeting with our
first newsletter published just before that date.
-
Ruby Bauer
