In celebration of Canada’s 150th birthday, the Canadian Quilters Association invited quilters/sewers across the country to participate in the nations biggest quilting bee with a goal of collecting 1000(!) quilts for Ronald McDonald Houses. The project will wind up at Quilt Canada in Toronto June 14-17, 2017.

At the Dryden quilting retreat April 7-9, the 75 participants were asked to build slab blocks for this worthy project. About 80 blocks were completed.

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It was fun to watch the wall fill with colour as the weekend went on.

At subsequent gatherings of the guild, several quilt tops were assembled.

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And one was quilted and bound.

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An additional 7 blocks will be included along with these quilts. For more information about this national project check out canadianquilter.com

Well done!!! #bigquiltbee

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