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.
QUILTS FOR RONALD MACDONALD CAMP
Mary French and Linda Blake from the guild's friendship group Quilting For Good Times, La Quinta, gave out three quilts to children at the Ronald MacDonald Camp in Idyllwild.
DESERT GUILDS QUILT SHOW
It is always amazing to see what wonderful talent there is not only in our guild, Coachella Valley Quilt Guild, but also in the other two guilds, Cactus Sewables and Pass Patchers, that we do the show with. On March 2nd and 3rd it was all on display -- from traditional to modern to art quilts to miniatures and of course the challenge -- "Off the Beaten Path". Members of the various guilds as well as the general public enjoyed not only the quilt displays but the variety of vendors that were at the show. Our next show will be in March 2020 so watch for details about that show.
VIEWER'S CHOICE
Everyone at the show got to vote for their favorite Showcase Quilt, Challenge Quilt, Miniature Quilt and Miniature Ary Quilt. This year Coachella Valley Quilt Guild member Pat Siegel won the Viewer's Choice for Showcase Quilt with her English paper-pieced quilt "Passing Time". Congratulations, Pat!!
To view all of the entries from Coachella Valley Quilt Guild and the list of guild members, in addition to Pat, who won ribbons, click here. To see more photos and a complete list of show winners visit the Desert Guilds Quilt Show website by clicking here.