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Recent and Current Efforts Include:

National Quilting Day Festivities
March 15, 2008
AQG will give a quilt to every baby born on March 15 in Mission Hospital System.
AQG donated a quilt to a new home owner in habitat For Humanity

Quilt In A Box Project for K-12
This is an outreach project to bring the fun, art and history of quilting to young people in our community.

Super Saturday Class - Fall 2007, Spring 2008
AQG offers a quilting class in the UNCA Super Saturday Program. Super Saturday, a program for children identified as Gifted and Talented, is offered each fall and spring for 6 week sessions. Innovative and unique learning opportunities offer these young people a chance to learn outside the box and challenge themselves.

National Quilting Day Festivities
March 17, 2007
Eight AQG quilts were hung in the Asheville City Hall.
AQG had quilts hanging in all 12 Buncombe County libraries.
AQG gave a quilt to every baby born on March 17 (ten!!) in Mission Hospital System.
AQG donated a quilt to the Buncombe Couty Commissioners for display in a prominent place.
...Quilt pieced by Mckenna Linn, quilted by Donna Faber
March 17 was proclaimed "National Quilting Day" by Asheville Mayor Terry Bellamy.

butterfly pillows

Asheville Quilt Guild members Joyce Fong (l.) and Ellen Levine (r.) with butterfly pillows. Guild members made 95 pillows in January 2007 for CarePartners Hospice.


Holiday 2007 Holiday Luncheon
 Donated $1260 to Meals On Wheels from raffle baskets and Pennies from Heaven collection.

SPRING 2003       9/11 Bravest Fund Quilts
AQG members constructed 40 Bravest Fund Quilts from kits
provided by Cranston Village.
These quilts will be donated to firehouses
in the five boroughs of NYC
for permanent display.
A total of 250 kits are being constructed by various guilds.

Bravest Fund Quilts made by AQG Members

9-11 Bravest Fund Quilts made by AQG members

Bravest Fund Quilts made by AQG Members

Close-up view of fabric used in quilts

For more information on this quilt, go to
Cranston Village "Bravest Fund Quilt"

NC ARBORETUM       continuing
Quilt Wall on 2nd floor
A permanent, rotating exhibit of member work
Sales possible.
WCU Mountain Heritage Center       Jan. 1 - Mar. 31, 2003
Exhibit of member quilts - friendship, album and signature quilts.
BILTMORE ESTATE       October 2002
Exhibit of member quilts during the Michaelmas Festival.
ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL       December 2002
Holiday exhibit of member quilts.
WCU Traveling SCHOOL QUILT BOX Project
AQG donated its $500 host award from the NCQSI as well as a matching amount from the guild.
This project brings awareness of mountain heritage and quilting to schools in the region.
Contact GUILD PROJECTS CHAIRMAN (see Officers & Chairs )
for more information or to volunteer or donate