The quilters at the York Region Quilters Guild in Newmarket, Ont. stand out for their generosity and willingness to give back to the community. We started off 2020 in our 35th year as a Guild and continue to grow and prosper!
We began in 1985 with 25 members and have grown over the years to a membership of 200! Some of our members are award-winning quilters who have been featured in the Canadian Quilters Association magazine. Some of them have had quilts entered in Quilt Canada!
We hold monthly meetings where an interesting and professional quilter shares their story.
Our Outreach program sees our quilters making hundreds of quilts for needy organizations in our community. Further, we also represent Quilts of Valour and have made dozens of quilts for injured Canadian Military Members.
The guild has a new Youth Program where we encourage young people to learn to sew and quilt. We have several members who go into schools to teach and we also invite children and their parents to come to us to learn.
Our Executive team is 24 strong, making our Guild as high calibre. We have so many dedicated volunteers who currently gear up for our bi-annual Quilt Show in 2021.
Every member of our Guild is valued and celebrated for their contributions. Some of us are beginners and some well past that but all of us love quilting and want to use that skill to give back to our community.
submitted by Sue Sherman