Make sure you are up-to-date on the happenings at CSQG!

• Makers Market

  We have a very special event coming November 3, 2025. Our Makers Market is a fundraiser for our Guild. We will have handmade items for sale, refreshments, baked goods, raffle baskets, silent auction, and many other fun activities. This is a “Bring a Friend” event. Bring one or more to enjoy our market!

• The winner of the scholarship for the April workshop was Barbara Wells-Roberts.

• A big thank you and “we will miss you” to Karen Summers and Elaine Crawford, our Canadian quilting sisters that are leaving us. They have been with us for many, many winters and they will truly be missed.

• Look for our Opportunity Quilt to be unveiled soon! Jean Bixby is still looking for a volunteer to take responsibility for the quilt and the tickets. We hope to send our quilt to other guild meetings for ticket sales.

• The Desert Guilds Quilt Show will be held March 6th and 7th, 2026. All members are asked to enter a quilt or two in the show. You can enter a show quilt, miniature quilt, and a challenge quilt. Kat Ferguson is the president of the DGQS committee. Information will be on-going at our meetings.

• New friendship group forming! Contact Kate Baron for information.

• Our Hug-a-Bear outreach group needs donations of stuffing and batting. If you can help out, please bring your donation to our next meeting.

• The Desert Guilds Quilt Show has announced the Challenge Project for the 2026 show. We hope everybody is working on their idea for the “Paint Chip Challenge”. If you have questions, contact Kat Ferguson.

• We welcome visitors to our general meetings.

• Visit our “Sew What” table during our regular meetings. You will find great bargains on fabric and sewing related items.

• Please consider working on some projects for our Outreach Program. Hug-A-Bear contact is Dorothy Etz, Unity Home contact is Karen Howes, Seniors’ contact is Chris Hudson. The Pregancy clinic is still in need of a volunteer. All contact information is available in our membership directory.

• Friendship Groups: A small group of Guild members who meet outside of the regular Guild meetings is called a Friendship Group. You might want to get a few of your quilty friends together to meet for special projects or to just sew together. Think ‘quilting bee’! Some of our groups work tirelessly to supply donated items to our outreach programs.

• Also, Friendship Groups play a big role in our “Maker’s Market”. Your group could have a table to sell handmade items to raise money for our Guild. The money raised helps pay for teachers, workshops, special events, and trips. Our next Maker’s Market will be November 2025.

• We know you are all working on beautiful quilts and projects. Please consider bringing them for our “Show and Share”. You can write a brief description for our ladies to read, or you can talk about your creations yourself. This is a real highlight of our general meetings.