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Old 02-03-2014, 10:42 AM
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Shelbie
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Location: Ontario, Canada
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For charity projects we have a Community Projects Committee (5 members). They select projects, store and organize fabric and patterns, arrange monthly work sessions, prepare "kits" to take home and stitch and return, find places to donate the finished quilts, write publicity reports for the local paper and Guild Newsletter and generate enthusiasm for all of this with other guild members. We have a large guild (135 members) and make over 100 quilts each year as well as placemats for Meals on Wheels and pillows and caps for the Cancer Society. We meet at the local Agricultural Fair Grounds for our general meetings and pay rent. If we have small groups (20) we can use the board room at our local Credit Union free of charge as long as we don't leave pins and thread on the carpet! Our guild is twenty years old and has gradually built up funds largely by the big quilt show we put on every three years which has made us $5000 + each time it has been held. We also have quilter's auction sales, quilt raffles, fees from workshops and other smaller fundraisers. Money isn't a problem for our guild now but it certainly was in the early days.
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