Welcome to the Coachella Valley Quilt Guild
Our Purpose
Guild Meetings
Centrally located in the beautiful Coachella Valley of Southern California. The Guild shall be a non profit organization established to promote appreciation of quilting, to share and to uphold the heritage of a timeless folk art, and to further the education and skill levels of the members of the guild.
2018 Opportunity Quilt
For more information select the "Opportunity Quilt" page of the website. Click Here
Second Saturday of the month, except July and August
Meeting Times:
10AM to Noon
Doors open at 9:30AM
Membership: 2018 membership dues: $45.00
($35 is dues and $10 is for 2 books of tickets for the 2018 Opportunity Quilt available at the January meeting.)
Guests are welcome at all meetings: $10.00 guest fee
Location:
University of California, Riverside
Palm Desert Campus
Auditorium Building
75080 Frank Sinatra Drive
Palm Desert, CA 92211
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Quilt Guild Dark in July and August
--- See you Saturday, September 8
Coachella Valley Quilt Guild goes dark in July and August but many of the friendship groups are still active. Check out the groups by clicking here.
See you on Saturday, September 8 for our meeting on the Quilts of Valor Foundation. Have a great summer!
Saturday, September 8, 2018
QUILTS OF VALOR FOUNDATION
Meeting begins at 10am
Presentation begins at 11am
The mission of the Quilts of Valor Foundation is to cover service members and veterans with healing and comforting Quilts of Valor. Over 180,000 quilts have been awarded to our brave veterans who have risked their lives in service to our country. The QOVF program gives us quilters an opportunity to say, “thank you,” with gratitude and love stitched into quilts. It’s what we can do. Suzanne Wade, from the QOVF will be talking to us about the Foundation and its programs. More information can be found at the QOVF website: www.qovf.org
Friendship Group Fair
Guild President, Karon Patterson, and Publicity Chair, Cheryl Taylor promote the Guild's June meeting of Friendship Groups on the local television program Eye on the Desert. To see this segment go to www.kesq.com and search for Eye on the Desert.
June Meeting -- Saturday, June 9
Ten of the Guild's thirteen Friendship Groups came together on Saturday, June 9, 2018 to share what they were doing and to invite others to join them. There was talking and sharing and talking and refreshments and more talking. It is always wonderful to meet other quilters!
Coachella Valley Quilt Guild goes dark in July and August but many of the friendship groups are still active. Check out the groups by clicking here.
See you on Saturday, September 8 for our meeting on the Quilts of Valor Foundation. Have a great summer!
Have quilt related items you would like to donate?? Please contact Pene Owens. Your donations will help support our guild's mission to promote and share the art of quilting.
Over 200 quilts to Olive Crest!
Stitches for Kids Friendship Group, Deep Canyon Friendship Group, Rancho Casa Blanca Quilt Club (Indio) and the Coachella Valley Quilt Guild worked together to donate over 200 quilts to the children and families at Olive Crest. These quilts were presented during a spring event and put smiles on the faces of children and families whole receive support through Olive Crest. Pictured above are guild members Patricia Page and Natalie Shonerd who delivered the quilts to Olive Crest. Thank you to all those who helped in this endeavor.
SUMMER QUILT RETREAT
Ten of our guild members attended the summer retreat at Vina de Lestonnac Retreat Center in Temecula. In addition to their own varied projects and playing games, each participant did one or more blocks for a charity quilt. (We also talked one of the quilters from the Orange County group in the classroom across the way into doing a block from the accucut squares and triangle that had been prepared for the quilt!)