June '09:

2009 Exhibition Raffle - WOW! See what prizes are on offer, read how to buy some tickets...
In case you missed the story on Helen Godden from ABC TV Stateline, have a look... ABC TV - ACT Stateline - Helen Godden - Putting Art before the Craft.

May '09:

• Workshops, workshops, workshops! WOW! These look great! Come and join in the fun... Workshops...
• The new constitution is available on the About Us page. It was ratified at a recent meeting, thanks to all involved in updating it.

April '09:

• 2009 Members Exhibition Entry Pack is now available on-line. Download the forms and get your entry in before the closing date - 5 June...
• Check out the lovely display of quilts at the Erindale Library Exhibition!

March '09:

• The Satruday 'Arvo Skillshare Workshop (Denim Jeans) scheduled for April, has been postponed. The new date will be advised as soon as possible.
• Come along to the Quilting Market Day - 4 April, Weston Creek Uniting Church, Parkinson St, Weston, 1.30pm to 4pm. You might pick up a bargain!
• The Member's Annual Exhibition pack is in the March Newsletter, check out the Conditions of Entry and fill in your Entry Form!
• Seems to be a slight error in the March Newsletter with the dates for the Daytime Meetings for April. Southside Meeting is the 3rd Wednesday of the month - 15 April, and the Northside Meeting is the 4th Friday of the month - 24 April, maybe you can come along?

February '09:

• Welcome to the new year with our first Evening Meeting tonight (5 February)! Will there be lots to Show and Tell?
• Hopefully everyone has been madly quilting over the holidays, maybe you're started your quilt for the 2009 Canberra Quilters Exhibition.

November '08:

• The 2009 Membership Form is now available, join up to join in the fun!
• Workshops for 2009 are being organised, have a look at what's upcoming and book in now!
• The Erindale Library Exhibition has been updated, have a look at what's on display...
• NZ - National Patchwork and Quilting Symposium in Queenstown New Zealand in 2011. Are seeking expressions of interest from Australian Tutors. The Symposium is scheduled for 18-23 April 2011, further information can be found at: www.remarkablesymposium2011.org.nz

October '08:

CONGRATULATIONS to Helen Godden!!!

Helen has been awarded three top prizes at the International Quilt Association festival in Houston as follows:

• First Prize, Painted Surface Category - Screeching Cockatoo
• Second Prize, Painted Surface Category - Mother Earth
• Inaugural World of Beauty award ($7500) - Seasonal Sisters, a collaboration with Gail Thomas and Annette Hendricks

September '08:

GREAT NEWS!!!!

Late last week we were contacted by the ACT Government to be told we have been allocated 128 square metres (that’s equivalent in area to a small 3-bedroom house) in what was the Cook Primary School. Please see the Press Release from the Deputy Chief Minister and Minister for Disability and Community Services, Katy Gallagher MLA. We have been told to expect a formal offer some time after October. The school is to be refurbished and a lift installed, with the estimate for occupation about mid-2009. So we won’t be moving in for a while!!

We have been told the space is one big area on the second floor, which we can subdivide. Some members of the Committee hope to be able to inspect it in the next few weeks.

Cook is fairly central and is reasonably easy to access from all parts of Canberra. Of course, some of us will have a shorter distance to travel to meetings and some of us will have longer – but the advantages of having space of our own which is truly ‘Canberra Quilters home’ will far outweigh the disadvantages.

Just think – access to the library, flexibility for QFO, a drop-in place, friendship group meeting place, small group exhibitions, workshops...........the list goes on.

Your input is important. Now is the time for you to let the Committee know your thoughts and ideas on the HOO (Home of Our Own) and the HOOT (Home of Our Own Transition) – so talk to them, email them, phone them...

August '08:

• Congratulations to Jenny Bowker, whose Quilt Hashim was judged Best of Show, Congratulations to all winners and entrants, what an awesome display! Photos of the winning quilts are available on our Exhibitions Page...
  
• Workshops have been updated, have a look at what's upcoming and book in now!

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(Last updated May 2009).