Orchard Valley Quilters Guild

The Orchard Valley Quilters Guild meets every Tuesday morning from 9 a.m. to noon from September through May at the Okanagan Mission Hall (corner of Lakeshore and DeHart) in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. Click here for map.

Our meetings provide members with friendship, support, inspiration and encouragement. We welcome quilters and fabric artists of all levels of expertise. Our members practice traditional, modern, hand, machine, and art quilting. Meetings are a great place to learn, socialize and exchange ideas.

For more information see our website: http://www.kelownaquilts.com/ Kelownaquilts on Facebook or #Kelownaquilts on Instagram.

OVQG is supported in part by the City of Kelowna Arts and Culture Grants program.

Guests and new members are always welcome.

Message from our president, Shirley Fox

We meet at 9 am, with the meeting starting at 9:30.

There will be a donation table, library, coffee and goodies. (if anybody would like to bring them!)
Check the binder to sign up for goodies and coffee duties.

Membership fees are $100.00. They can be paid with cash, cheque or etransfer.

Welcome to all our new members in 2025.

Thank you for being a part of the Guild – your support makes everything we do possible!

Shirley Fox
President
OVQG

Program
November 2025
December 2025
For a copy of the Year's Program see your email for
2025-2026 Program
(Will be changed on website when Marie is back.)

November 4
Show & Tell/Block of the Month/ MODley Crew

11
Sewing Day /no library

18
Show & Tell/ smARTies / Member in Focus

25
Show & Tell/ Block of the Month/HANDfuls

December 2
Sewing Day /no library

9
Show & Tell/ Tutorial Longarm Quilting Cottage Quilting

16
Show & Tell, Wrap up and Christmas Pot Luck

Message from the Modley Crew

New project

Message from smARTies

See smARTies page for new fall project.

Message from the Social Committee

2025/2026
Coffee and Snacks Schedule Organized By Surnames
As there are now over 70 guild members, we will be implementing a new coffee and snacks schedule for our weekly meetings starting at our first meeting in September. This will distribute the volunteer tasks more equitably throughout the year. Members of the group responsible for the month will sign up at the beginning of their designated month and choose which meeting they will make and clean up the coffee.
Please arrive at the Mission Hall by 8:30 a.m. to start the coffee set up on the day you have volunteered. Sylvia turns the coffee machine on when she arrives, so that the water is hot enough by 8:30 a.m. to start the coffee brewing. Instructions on how to make the coffee are in the black binder in the coffee cupboard. Make 1 carafe of regular and 1 carafe of decaf coffee. Throughout the meeting, periodically check to see if more coffee is needed. Clean up involves turning the coffee machine off, washing out the carafes and baskets, wiping down the counter, putting the leftover milk and cream in the fridge, putting away supplies in the guild cupboard and locking it. After completion, please pass the cupboard key to the volunteer signed up for the following meeting.
There are two copies of the coffee cupboard key for the volunteers to pass along to each other as needed. You will be responsible for organizing getting a key to the coffee supply cupboard prior to your volunteer day.
Snacks will be managed as before. 2 – 4 people per week from the monthly group will sign up for snack contributions. All sign up sheets for organizing the coffee and snacks are in the black binder.

2025/2026