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The Windsor Quilters’ Guild is a group of quilters who meet for a time of friendship, learning and to work on projects in quilting.

Join us on the 1st Wednesday of the month (September – June)*
Royal Canadian Legion Hall Branch 594
5030 Howard Avenue

Visitors are welcome, generally for free but occasionally there is a $5 fee for special programmes. Doors open at 9:00am. Business meeting begins at 11:00am. Whether you are new to quilting or have been quilting for a number of years, we feel confident you will enjoy what we have to offer.

Come and watch a special demo, visit with our vendors, pick up some new fabric, enjoy a guest speaker, pick up a comfort quilt project to complete, share your latest project at show and tell, or borrow a quilting book from our extensive lending library and meet some new quilting friends.

If you decide to join our guild, membership fees are $55 for first time members and $45 for renewing members.

If you are looking to do some charity quilting with your fellow quilters be sure to join the Comfort Quilts’ Sit ‘n’ Sew group on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of every month at Maryvale from 8:30am to 2:30pm. (Read more about Comfort Quilts under the Community Work tab.)

Come and see what we have to offer!

*Occasionally (in September or January) the first Wednesday falls on a non-school day. In that case we meet on the second Wednesday of the month.

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About Our Meetings

Windsor Quilters’ Guild is a group of women and men who meet once a month to learn new quilting tips, to share ideas, and show their finished quilt projects.

The morning session is a chance to visit the vendors who bring the newest and latest patterns, gadgets, fabrics and books to sell at reasonable prices, to visit and catch up with quilting friends, to pick up a comfort quilt project, to check out a library book and to purchase tickets for the guild raffle or the 50/50 draw.

There is a new demo each month, to refresh your memory on a variety of quilting techniques.

Windsor Quilters’ Guild Demonstration
A Demo time

The business meeting begins at 11:00 am when the business of the guild is presented. All of our active committees update us on their activities and if and how we can get involved. This is the time set aside to handle the day to day issues that come up regarding the guild. Often we have time to do our Show and Tell before we break for lunch at noon. Our contract with the Legion requires us to respect their “No outside food or drinks” policy and so we are offered a good deal on lunch from the on-site caterer. After lunch our meeting resumes at 1:00 pm for the planned programme. Programmes vary and include “trunk shows”, guest speakers, teaching times, and theme celebrations.

Windsor Quilters’ Guild volunteers
Hanging up a quilt for display
Windsor Quilters’ Guild Vendor
Vendor table

Worried that you aren’t a skilled enough quilter to join the group or you can’t “hand-sew” well enough?  Well, don’t be. No matter what your sewing ability we can find a project and a spot for you! In our group we all share and learn from each other.

SO COME ON OUT AND JOIN US!

History

How It All Began – Our Wonderful Past

In 1976 it was brought to the attention of Budimir Library that there might be some interest in creating a quilting group. So a library flyer and article in the newspaper invited interested parties to attend an adult program on September 16, 1976 at Budimir Library called “On Pins and Needles”. The presenter was Maureen Laporte who showed some quilts and talked about quilting. The group seemed interested in making a quilt, so on September 23, 1976, Maureen taught “Cathedral Window” quilting.

On October 4, the group returned to the library and with scrap fabrics began working on a “Dresden Plate” quilt. This was set up on a frame in the library and for every hour you quilted you received a raffle ticket. When the quilt was complete a ticket was drawn and the first quilt winner was Helen Janisse.

On October 11, 1977 the group completed a “Log cabin” quilt again out of scraps. The winner was Angelina Facchinato.

By now the ladies attending were enjoying the idea of quilting. So they began meeting regularly, and decided to form a guild, which came about on April 3, 1978 with 25 members: Stelle Boucher, Kenlyn Bryant, Jacqueline Burrell, Irene Chartrand, Ruth Danyluk, Angelina Facchinato, Doreen Glenn, Enise Hunter, Helen Janisse, Maureen Laporte, Edna Littlehales, Mary Longson, Agnes Mahaffy, Mary A. Manherz, Dorothy McMurdie,  Anne Milani, Ruth Mizzen, Mary Anne Pierre, Adeline Quaggiotto, Kay Ridgewell, Betty Rymerson, Bev Setterington, Jean Smith, Jean Speiran, and Joan Switzer.

On May 15, 1979, the Windsor Quilters’ Guild held its first Quilt Show. It was a one day event at Oakwood Community Centre,  from 11:00 to 4:00pm. One hundred quilts were shown. There was also a quilt raffle of a blue and white sampler. The show was free and the quilts were hung over hockey racks and tables.

Who would have guessed that all these years later we would still be following in the footsteps of these first ladies? To those founding members who remain, we THANK YOU and hope we can continue to bring love, joy, pride and fellowship to the Guild that you started.

The Windsor Quilters’ Guild was founded in 1978