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Mission

The Common Threads Quilt Guild's mission is to promote community and foster the art of quilting by encouraging members to share their knowledge of creating, preserving, and appreciating quilts.

Quilt by C. Gynn

About The Common Threads Quilt Guild

The beginnings of this Guild can be traced back to when two past members, Kathy Myers and Connie Bell, discussed that there was no quilt guild on the east side of Columbus.  They started the guild, briefly known as "Near East Side Quilt Guild." It quickly moved to a larger meeting space at Bexley's Jeffrey Mansion, and then a small church in north Bexley. In the early years of the guild, members shared their expertise with each other, presenting programs on an aspect of quilting in which they excelled. This important sharing of expertise has evolved to dedicating a meeting each year to "Quilting Divas."  As membership increased and funds allowed, the guild was able to host many national speakers, including:  Carol Doak, on paper-piecing; Mary Koval, on antique quilts; Laura Wasilowski, on fusible applique; Vikki Pignatelli, on curves in quilting; Mary Huey, on adapting patterns; Bonnie Hunter, twice, on scrap quilting; and many other authors of quilt books and winners of major national quilting awards.

Service Programs

We support several different types of service projects throughout the year, including Project Linus, Stitching Sisters, Rogue Blanketeers, and Snuggled in Hope. Members are typically able to piece the quilt tops, offer their services in binding or quilting the projects, or can join us at a Charity or Social Sew event to work together on our Service Program projects.​

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In exchange for members’ help with our service projects, they earn raffle tickets for a drawing at the end of the year.  Three raffle tickets are available for each quilt – one each for piecing, quilting, and binding the quilts.

This scrappy quilt features alternating blocks of bright colors with white, showing off the art of quilting.

Quilt by C. Paul

Past Service Programs include the following :

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  • 2010

    • 52 baby quilts to the GRADS program​, 1 quilt for Quilts of Valor, 81 pillowcases to the 1 Million Pillowcase Challenge

  • 2011​

    • 14 kids quilts to KidsNKamp​, 5 Quilts for Quilts of Valor

  • 2012​

    • 82 pillows to Jefferson Elementary School​, 32 baby quilts to Moms2Be, 1 quilt for Quilts of Valor

  • 2013​

    • 116 quilts to Moms2Be​, 42 quilts for Quilts of Valor, 119 pillow to Jefferson Elementary School, 2 quilts to James Stitching Sisters

  • 2014​

    • 63 quilts to Moms2Be​, 6 quilts for Quilts of Valor, 225 pillow to Jefferson Elementary School

  • 2015​

    • 93 quilts to Moms2Be​, 8 quilts for Quilts of Valor, 251 pillows to Jefferson Elementary School (Children's Hospital)

  • 2016​

    • 83 quilts to Moms2Be​, 3 quilts for Quilts of Valor, 254 pillows to Jefferson Elementary School (Children's Hospital)

  • 2017​

    • 320 pillows to Jefferson Elementary School (Children's Hospital)​, 102 baby quilts to Moms2Be, 7 quilts for Quilts of Valor

  • 2018​

    • 348 pillows to Jefferson Elementary School (Children's Hospital)​, 102 baby quilts to Moms2Be, 7 quilts for Quilts of Valor

  • 2019

    • 125 baby quilts to Moms2Be​, 6 quilts for Quilts of Valor

  • 2020

    • 315 baby quilts to Moms2Be​, 3 quilts for Quilts of Valor

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