Twenty-six people attended the first business meeting of the fall season for the Rivers' Edge Quilt Guild.
The program for 2016-17 will include a quilt exhibition that will provide a treat for the community of the Battlefords, as the artistry and skill of guild members is on display at the Chapel Gallery from Nov. 9 to Jan. 8.
In the meantime guild members will be busy preparing their special contribution to the exhibition, be it a quilt, table runner or other project. Other activities planned before Christmas include pillow case making, comfort quilts for local care facilities and the Empty Stocking Fund, placemats for Meals on Wheels, as well as colour theory instruction.
Following the business meeting, those assembled enjoyed a show and tell, with what must have been one of the largest number of quilts and projects displayed at one time, attesting to sewing machines busy during the summer months of July and August.
If you should happen to be at the Don Ross Center, do check out the display cabinets to see the Artist of the Year award given to the guild in April by the Rivers West District for Sport, Culture and Recreation, and at the same time note the quilt blocks used to identify our organization which also serve as a tribute to Louise Nykiforuk, a one-time guild member now deceased.
Please join us at 1p.m., Friday, Oct. 7 in the Don Ross Craft Room for the next business meeting, or for more information call June at 306-445-3337 or Irene at 306-937-3318.
