Due to COVID-19 safety measures, General meetings are currently hybrid General meetings allowing members to choose to attend in person or via Zoom. Board meetings will take place over Zoom until further notice.
Monthly General Meetings
- Meetings are on the second Monday of each month (except August).
- 5:30-6:00 pm - refreshments are served
- 6:00-8:00 pm - guild business/event topics, door prizes, fat quarter drawing, book raffle, special program, plus Show and Tell. Meetings are held in Bend at various venues. This website should list the upcoming meeting when first opened.
- Please note the earlier time than usual to allow for cleanup.
- Nativity Lutheran Church asks us to contribute to their food bank by donating at the guild meetings and sewing days. In return we get to use their facilities for our weekly sewing days. There is a cash jar and food box on the snack table at the monthly meetings and a cash jar at the church.
- Monetary donations are preferred as they can stretch each donated dollar to the equivalent of $5.00 worth of food. If you enjoy bringing canned food, please continue to do so.
Meeting Refreshments
- Refreshments are currently not being provided.
Name Tags
- Make a fabric name tag and wear it to meetings and activities to be eligible for door prizes!
Sign-In
- Sign-in when you arrive at meetings. Per Standing Rules, you must be a member and wear a fabric name tag to participate in the drawings.
- If you are a member and wearing your fabric name tag, you'll be given an opportunity for door prizes donated by most of the quilt shops in our area.
- If you bring a fat quarter, you can enter the fat quarter drawing. Hand in your fat quarter at the sign-in table.
Fat Quarter Drawing
- The Membership Committee decides on a monthly theme for the Fat Quarter Drawing. Bring a fat quarter in the monthly theme to be entered in the drawing. Fat quarters must be a cut of fabric 18" by 22" in the designated theme.
- Each month's theme is included in the monthly newsletter.
Library
- The Guild Library contains a large selection of quilting books (see the list on our website). The Librarian brings a selection of books to each meeting. Also, you can ask her to bring a specific book to the next meeting. See the Librarian, to check out a book from the library. Return books to the Library at the next meeting.
Membership Dues and Roster
- Annual membership dues are established by the executive board and approved by the membership.
- Member dues are payable at the January meeting.
- Dues are delinquent after February 28, and then delinquent members are dropped from the roster.
- Our Membership Roster is sent to members by email periodically through the year.
- Guests can attend as often as they like. Guest fees are $5.00.
- For more information, contact the Membership team.
Monthly Newsletter
- Our Newsletter contains information regarding the next meeting, future events and guild activities, quilt shop news, and other items of interest.
- It is published prior to the monthly meeting by the Newsletter Editor.
- The Newsletter is sent out by email to guild members and published on this website.
Weekly Community Quilt Gathering
- Volunteers meet each Wednesday at Nativity Lutheran Church at the corner of Knott and Brosterhous Roads to work on community quilts that will be donated to various organizations or to work on their own projects.
- The Wednesday after the Monday Guild Meeting is considered “Community Quilts Day” and all work is on community quilts or we have special projects that day.
- Meetings are from 11:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. each week. The schedule is published in the monthly Newsletter.
- Bring your lunch, sewing machine, and basic sewing supplies (BSS).
- For more information, contact a Community Quilts committee member.
- Our guild is a non-profit organization, which allows us to raffle off a quilt every year. In order to maintain our nonprofit status, we make “community quilts” and donate them to various organizations in our area. We need ALL guild members to participate in the Community Quilts Project. Each guild member is asked to make at least one quilt per year. You can choose to sew your community quilt(s) at home, or you can work on them at our weekly gatherings.
Raffle Quilt
- Mt Bachelor Quilters Guild makes or adopts a raffle quilt each year to raise money.
- The Raffle Quilt Committee selects the quilt design and Guild volunteers may make the quilt.
- Each guild member is encouraged to buy at least $20 of raffle tickets. Raffle tickets are $1 each or six for $5.
- Proceeds are used to support our educational and community service activities.
- Contact the Raffle Quilt Committee or Raffle Quilt Sales Committee for more information about the raffle quilt or to volunteer your help.
Guild Retreat
- We have an annual 3 day retreat that is the highlight of the year for many! This year we have had two daytime retreats at the Elks Lodge.
- Retreats are a special time to work on your own projects in the company of fellow guild members. The price includes most meals, door prizes and all the fun and games!
- Sign-ups and deposits begin in the fall for the next spring retreat.
- For more information, contact the Retreat Committee.
Challenge Quilt
- Mt Bachelor Quilters' Guild has a quilt challenge each year using a special theme or fabric.
- The winning quilts are chosen by secret ballot at the July Guild meeting by Guild members. There is also a Viewer's Choice ballot at the August Quilt Show in the Park.
- Prizes are awarded at the September Guild Meeting.
- For more information, contact the Challenge Quilt committee.
- Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show
- Began in 1975 when Jean Wells, owner of the Stitchin' Post quilt shop in Sisters hung 12 family quilts. It has grown each year since.
- In 2003, a Director was hired to manage the annual quilt show. In 2005, the 501(c)(3) non-profit was formed as the "Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show" (SOQS). Its mission is to "Educate and Inspire the public about the art of quilting and to benefit the school and community groups of Sisters and Central Oregon." SOQS presents the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show on the second Saturday in July.
- To thank Jean and SOQS for support of our Guild throughout the year, we volunteer to help with the annual quilt show. In return for our help, Jean does a program for our guild at no cost to us.
- For more information on how you can help, contact our Sisters Quilt Show Liaison or one of our Guild officers.
- At the show, our guild also sponsors quilting demonstrations to help educate the many visitors.
Quilt Show in the Park
- Mt Bachelor Quilters Guild presents a quilt show at Pioneer Park in August.
- It includes quilts made by Guild members and some non-members.
- The winning ticket of our raffle quilt is drawn during the Guild's quilt show.
- Contact the Quilt Show Committee for more information or to sign-up to help with this special event.
- Help is always needed to hang quilts and help take down quilts and for many other tasks. Plan to spend the day at Pioneer Park – it’s really a lovely event. Invite your families and friends to come and enjoy all the wonderful quilts.
Christmas Party
- Our December meeting is a Christmas party. It is usually a potluck, with members also bringing a small gift for exchange, and possibly a donation for a local charity. Each year's party committee has the ability to change the format to suit them, so please see the December newsletter for all details on the party.
Questions
If you have any questions, please call any officer or chairperson or e-mail us at mbqginfo@gmail.com. We are always willing to answer your queries.
