HAVQG Meetings
Monthly guild meetings are held on Sunday afternoons from 2:30 to 4:30 pm. Meetings in September, December, January, February, March, and June are held on the second Sunday of the month.
The locations for the meetings may change from month to month when a meeting site needs the room for a prior obligation. Check carefully each month as to where the meeting will be held. Some meetings are held via Zoom.
Guests are always welcome and encouraged! Non-members may attend individual guild meetings for a fee of $5 per meeting. There is plenty of parking, and the building is handicap accessible.
NOTE: In the event of inclement weather, the guild president will decide by 9 a.m. that morning whether or not to hold a meeting. A cancellation will be announced on NEWS40 Storm Trackers WGGB-TV and on this website.
PROGRAMS 2026-27
Summer Break: There are no meetings in July or August 2026.
September 13, 2026: Our “welcome back” meeting’s program will include guild members Debbie Lovejoy and Tracy Whelan talking about their quilt journeys; enjoyment of and prizes for red, white, and blue quilts made for our summer challenge; and show and tell of members’ latest quilts of all kinds.
October 18: Pam Weeks of New England Quilt Museum: “Soft Protests,” a lecture on the history of story telling, raising social awareness, and protest in textiles and quilts. Stories were quilted into bed coverings as early as 1400, and protests quilts go back to 1830!
November 7: Community Projects Day at Mt. Toby
November 8: Quilt Clinic with Nurse Nancy and Nurse Lynn. Be entertained as they diagnose and treat all kinds of quilt conditions, including how they saved “problem quilts.”
December 13: Holiday get together, with refreshments and a “make & take” project
January 10, 2027: Zoom meeting with Brita Nelson the Questioning Quilter. Brita’s lecture is titled “Every last crumb, an adventure in scrap quilting.”
February 14: HAVQG members will give demonstrations of quilting techniques.
To include Sara Fredette (wool applique) and others, TBD
March 13: Workshop with Amy Friend about “On Point Paper Piecing” Signups will begin in October for the six-hour workshop (Cost: $50)
March 14: Amy Friend (duringquiettime.com) Lecturing on “All Things Petal + Stem,” will explain how her book offers endless mix-and-match possibilities and ways to make quilts your own.
April 11: Hands All Around 20 Pre-Quilt-Show meeting. Members of the Show Committee will discuss what is needed a successful show.
April 24 and 25, 2027: Hands All Around 20 Quilt Show
May 16: TBD; several options are being explored
June 13: Year-end Wrap Up, with refreshments and TBD activities