Member Services and Activities

Welcome to our guild. Listed on this page are the activities that our guild is involved in during meetings as well as in our local community.

Archives - We have an archivist who collects articles and other information pertaining to our guild history.

Bus Trips - Be prepared for alot of fun and laughs while we enjoy the comfort of a bus and someone to do the driving for us. We try for one bus trip a year and they are usually to a quilt show.

Bursaries - We offer 2 bursaries of $500 each. One to a graduate of New Beginnings who is continuing her education and one to a student of UCFV who is going into her second year in a fabric related field.

Community Events - The guild has a booth at many events to promote quilting and our charitable causes. This is handled by many volunteers who sit and stitch and chat with visitors to the booth. This committe is always looking for volunteers who would like to help out for a few hours, and also have some fun meeting other quilters.

Executive - Members of the Executive are listed in the newsletter. They meet the third Tuesday evening, except July. All members are welcome to attend but only an executive member may vote on issues.

Friendship - Members of the Friendship Committee welcomes guests that are visiting the guild. Visitors are allowed to attend one guild meeting and then must join if they wish to attend further meetings.

Hospitality - coffee, tea, hot chocolate and sometimes cookies are provided during the "intermission" of each meeting. Bring your own mug for refreshments, please.

Library - Our head librarian and group of volunteers staff the library. The library opens 30 minutes before the meeting starts. There are a variety of books and magazines that you can sign out. Books are returned at the "window" of the kitchen and books are signed out at the entrance to the hall to members with a current nametag. Overdue books will be reported in the newsletter and online each month as a reminder to bring the books back.

Meetings - are held the second tuesday of each month, except in July and August. Morning meetings begin at 10 am and evening meetings at 6 pm. (The library opens at 5:30 pm ). Twice a year, (June and December), we hold a potluck lunch. The annual general meeting is held in June and is an evening only meeting. Elections are held in May at both the morning and evening gatherings.

Membership - Membership committee is responsible for signing members into the meetings as we as enrolling new members. Membership lists are available to guild members in the fall each year.

Newsletter - We publish a newsletter before each monthly meeting. Members are encouraged to submit articles to the newsletter. Submissions must be made by the deadline which is the to the 3^rd Friday of the month. Everyone is encouraged to read the newsletter as it contains a wealth of information about guild activities.

Phoning Committee - Members are notified of urgent or extra special events by email or phone. Call the phoning committee chairperson, Lynne Weisgerber, phone 604-820-3468 with your request and she will take care of the necessary steps to contact the members. Volunteers are always welcome on this committee.

Photography - During Show and Tell, the guild photographer takes pictures of each project. Double prints are made and one print goes into a photo album and the other is available for the maker of the quilt or project displayed in the photo. We now use a digital camera and whenever possible photos are uploaded onto our guild members photo page, attached to this website.

Programs - Both Day and Evening meetings plan programs of interest to members. Program Co-ordinators invite ideas and suggestions from members.

Publicity - this a a bulletin board at each meeting that contains current information of events, letters, advertising and other information of interest to members.

Quilt Show - This event is held every second year. A quilt show committee organizes and plans this event which is our guilds main fundraising and public event.

Retreat - The guild hosts a weekend retreat each year that is reasonably priced and is available for approximately 40-45 members to attend.

Satellite Groups - Along with our regularly scheduled meetings, many of our members have formed small groups for more personal attachments and closer bonds, some of the groups have a specific focus such as working together to create quilts for donation to our We Care program.

Show and Tell - Members are encouraged to bring their quilting efforts to the guild meetings to display and explain a bit about their projects.

Sunshine - A greeting card is send to members who need a bit of sunshine in their life. Members are urged to notify the sunshine committee when they hear of someone that is in need of a card.

Website - Is maintained by Carole Lefler. We are always looking for information for our website.

We Care - This is the part of our guild that looks after promoting, collecting and delivering donation quilts. All quilts need to have a guild label attached and these are available from the We Care committee members. Quilts are donated to the Preemie ward at our local hospital, Victim Services, Women's Shelter, Peardonville House and to a High School Project called New Beginnings. Individual members are encouraged to contribute a quilt to these projects. Reimbursement is available to help defray the cost of backing and batting for those contributing donation quilts.

Workshops - Held at specified times, these are a great way to learn new techniques in quilting, or to start a new project. Workshop samplers are displayed during the meetings and publicized in the newsletter.

Yahoo! online group - our guild maintains a chat group online for members who wish to talk about anything including quilting. See our newsletter for details of how to be a member of this group.