Useful Terms

CAQG Newsletter – check your email for monthly guild news. This is the most accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date information from our President, Dariel Dent. Contains Upcoming Events and Useful Resources (Membership list, and much more, listed at bottom of email).

Zoom Meetings – Our guild will sometime host workshops, speakers, and meetings via Zoom. Meeting invitation and links are in your CAQG Member Info email.

Facebook – join the PRIVATE FB group for guild members only. You will then have access to Guild Program registration for retreats, workshops, announcements, photos and Files (supply lists, patterns, etc.)

There is also a public page to Like/Follow http://m.facebook.com/centralalbertaquiltersguild/

Website – centralalbertaquilters.org for membership renewal, upcoming events registration, and Quilt Show information. Contact web administrator at wa.caqg@gmail.com.

Membership List - a link located at the bottom of the CAQG Member Info email. Please keep this list confidential as it contains personal contact info.

Quilt Show – An annual event organized and managed by the CAQG held each year in the spring at the Westerner grounds. Featuring quilt judging and display, vendor market, demonstrations, etc. Contact Quilt Show Leadership quiltshow@centralalbertaquilters.org

Show and Tell- bring your completed quilts and show them to our membership! This is a favorite feature of our meetings… we have an opportunity to appreciate the talent in our membership and learn ideas we can use on our next quilting project.

Care Quilting – quilted projects made for those in need. Contact Shirley Mills.

Retreats

Join us for a sewing retreat! We gather once in the fall and once in the spring for a long weekend of sewing, fellowship and catered meals. These are held at a location usually within 30 minutes of Red Deer. Contact Susan Apperley.

There are also Sleep in Your Own Bed retreats throughout the year (SIYOB). Location is usually within City limits. You eat breakfast at home and bring a lunch and some participants go out for dinner. Contact Susan Apperley.

Virtual Retreats “Sew X” – watch Facebook, contact Program Committee.

Click here for more info. What to bring to a retreat!

Interest Groups – watch Facebook for announcements about occasional groups such as embroidery, hand stitching and others.

Social Meet Up – virtual meet-up every Sunday afternoon. Contact Tannis

Christmas Quilt – members make a block according to a supplied pattern. A quilt is constructed from all the blocks and the top is raffled off to one lucky guild member. Guild pays for quilting and recipient keeps the quilt! Contact Bev Close.

UFO Challenge – (Unfinished Objects) Our guild challenges the Stettler guild to completing (sometimes years old!) unfinished projects. Contact Tannis Porter for information on how to enter this challenge.