Tri-County Quilt Guild

10/05/2026

Our October guild meeting is tomorrow night, 10/6. See emails for recent updates. Don’t forget to bring door prize donations for the Holiday Bash because we do not have a November meeting.

09/22/2026

The Fall bus trip is coming up on Friday, September 25th. We still have spots available. We will depart from the Fairfield Baptist Church at 8:00 and go to Madisonville and Huntsville. More in the comments.

09/22/2026

Would you like to get more involved in the guild? We are a 100% volunteer run organization and we would love to have some enthusiastic volunteers join us in the open positions for 2027.

Look for members of the nominating committee in the lobby of the church at the October meeting.

There will not be a guild meeting in November and we will have our election at the Holiday Bash in December.

Reach out in advance of the October meeting if you want to talk to someone sooner. The October meeting falls on Tuesday, October 6th.

09/09/2026

Hello to all of our members and prospective members. Our guild fiscal year runs from October 1st through September 30th. That means that we are in the last month of membership for current members.

Early renewal is already going strong. You can renew now for 2026-2027 membership. The direct link is below and I’ll add a few helpful pictures in the comments.

Our current membership chair is Jaine Jewell and she has worked tirelessly to improve this process.

If you’d like to get more involved by volunteering with the guild, please post a reply to this message or send something through messenger. You can also send a message through our website or talk to someone in person at a guild meeting. Our organization is entirely run by volunteers and you know the old saying—many hands make light work. My personal favorite saying on that topic is teamwork makes the dream work! ✨

For more than 20 years, our guild has been building an amazing organization to share the knowledge and love of quilting in Northwest Harris, Waller and Montgomery counties and beyond. Partner with us as we strive for even bigger things in the next 20 years.

Membership runs from October 1st, 2026 - September 30th, 2027. Early sign-up is ready to go! We use Square for all card payment processing. Your payment data is never stored. This is a secure method for handling online payments. Please complete ALL sections on the form. Unfortunately, our system is....

09/01/2026

Attention guild members and potential guests, we are having the meeting tonight. Keep an eye on the weather and decide for yourself if you want to be out and about. Watch for updates by email.

09/01/2026

Keep an eye on the weather! Our guild meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, September 1st.

08/03/2026

Our August guild meeting is tomorrow night, 8/4. We’ll start promptly at 7:00 p.m.

06/13/2026

At our June meeting, Janet Winkler made an announcement on behalf of charity bee that the guild is in need of wheelchair quilts for some of our charitable partners. At today’s meet and greet, Janet was kind enough to bring a selection of completed quilts and tops for us to see. I took pictures to share with everyone and get our members energized about contributing to this need.

Do you have any of the following:

*orphan blocks
*panels or panel components
*pretty large scale prints that you don’t want to cut up
*blocks or components for a quilt that you started and don’t want to finish
*sample blocks from a class that are languishing

If you have any of these items or just regular quilt fabric, then you can help is with the wheelchair quilt project!

The instruction page is in the last picture.

Please remember that our charitable partners serve a wide variety of people. There are children and adults of all ages.

Many times, we are drawn to beautiful floral fabrics and bright colors, but we also need to make quilts that are more subdued and quilts that will be suitable for men.

You don’t have to do the entire quilt from start to finish! You can just make the top, if desired, and turn it in at a guild meeting or at the charity bee monthly work day. Please write your name on a note card or piece of paper and safety pin it to the top, so that when you turn it in we will have those details documented.

If you want to take the next step and quilt it, that would be amazing! We ask that you use flannel for the backing, so that the quilt will more easily stay on the lap of the recipient. You don’t have to be a professional quilter. You can definitely quilt a wheelchair quilt on your domestic machine and straight lines with a walking foot are perfectly acceptable. If you have a longarm machine and want to practice on some charity quilts, that would be wonderful.

For the binding, you can do that yourself, if desired, or leave that to another volunteer. We are very accommodating and understand that not everyone wants to do every step in the process.

Please review the details on the instruction page regarding the additional fabric needed for the pocket. That is the last step of the process for the wheelchair quilts. The pockets are backed with flannel, quilted and bound and then stitched to the quilt. After a label is added, they are ready to be distributed to our partners.

On a prior post, some people commented that some wheelchair quilts are made with angled bottom corners to keep them from getting into the wheels. If you want to do that, please do.

We look forward to seeing a bunch of amazing wheelchair quilts coming in to charity bee over the coming months. Thank you to everyone that is willing to help with this project.

06/13/2026

Are you planning to come out to the meet and greet tomorrow? Hope to see you there! Guild members and prospective members are welcome. Come out to ask questions about being in a quilt guild and meet some of our members. ✨

06/02/2026

Our June guild meeting is tonight! Hope to see you there.