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There was a great turn out of 25 members at James St. Retirement Residence in Bracebridge on April 25, 2008. Due to the fire at Rowanwood in Port Sydney, the organizers obtained this great location on short notice and we had lots of space as you can see by the photos. It was a very productive day thanks to the efforts of many members. Starting with Joanne Kourtz who is cutting a lot of her fabric into 6" blocks and packaging them into 'kits' that are then being distributed at meetings to guild members who are 'volunteering' to take them home and piece the tops. This makes it much more productive at the workshop. Carrol Reid gets a work crew together in advance and they match flannel backs to the tops ready for the Cuddle Quilt workshop.
At the workshop all the stations are set up from the 'sandwich' department, to the sewing machines (which are overheating by the end of the day), the 'birthing' area (pulling the quilts through a 3" opening), back to the 'sweatshop' area where they are topstitched. They then go to our 'hand stitchers' where they are tied and the labels (all made by Sylvia Bouchard since the beginning of this program, some 10 years ago) are sewn on. Needless to say this is a very friendly gathering with lots of laughter and good eats through the day.
The final stage is checking that there are no pins hiding in the quilts and then some are brought to the next meeting for the Guild to see the great results.
Isobel Milne and Leda Story then have the responsibility of storing and distributing between 30-40 cuddle quilts after each workshop.

Another very successful workshop was held on Thursday October 23 at James St. Place. Everyone worked diligently and we will have 27 new quilts to add to our inventory.