One of the highlights for quilters in Quebec is the opportunity to get together with other quilters in the province to attend to the Annual General Meeting of Courtepointe Quebec Quilts( CQQ) association. This group formed in 1988 meets on the first Saturday after Canadian Thanksgiving. During the business meeting which is transacted in the two official languages we make quilt blocks for a specified design. By the end of the day we have enough blocks for next years raffle quilt and have all practiced our hand piecing . In the part 21 years we have gone from 5 to 48 quilt guilds .
Each guild brings their quilted banner to put on display some of which are pictured below. To the left of the banners you can see one of my Star quilts displayed in the corner where I was doing appraisals and selling our book. During the meeting bursaries are awarded to guilds to help with costs of charity work and costs of instructors. I was delighted to sign a complementary copy of our book given as one of the door prizes,for dedicated member of Loose Threads Guild,Roz Agulnik . Information was given out about our biannual exhibit Salon 2010 which will be held May27-30 at College Andre-Grazet 1001 Boul. Cremazie Montreal. The workshop co-ordinators Karen Desparois and Arians Hipsagh took advance registratations , pictured below holding a project. When quilters meet food is necessary ,we brought our own sandwichs and the dessert goodies were wonderful with crisp apples fresh from Cassidys orchard on Covey Hill.
Part of the fun of the day is Show and Tell where we get a chance to display our recent projects. I was delighted to see a selvage tote bag made by a member from Crompton using co-author of Canadian Heritage Quilting, Karen Neary's pattern, published in McCallsQuilting, October2009.
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