About Us

Mission and History

Country Fare Quilter’s Guild was established in 1982 in Claremore, Oklahoma. Our mission is to stimulate an interest in quilts and to promote and advance the art of quilting in all forms. Please read our guild’s History here.

Membership

Membership in the Country Fare Quilter’s Guild is open to any person with an interest in quilts and quilting. Dues are $10/year, which includes an electronic monthly newsletter (additional $5 for snail mail). Print our Membership Form here (PDF).

Guild Logo

The guild’s logo is the Road to Oklahoma quilt block pattern in red, white, and blue. Members wear name badges sewn with the pattern. Find the pattern here for both 4″ and 6″ block sizes (PDF).

Guild Meetings and Bee Meetings

Monthly guild meetings are normally held each fourth Thursday, January through October, at 9:45 a.m. Meetings include a quilting-related program, Show & Tell, and a short business meeting. Our annual Anniversary Luncheon is each July and our Holiday Luncheon is in early December.

An informal, hands-on Bee meets each second Thursday from 9:45 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. and is open to all members and visitors for sewing, sharing, and fellowship.

All meetings are currently held at Redeemer Lutheran Church, Fellowship Hall, 220 N. Seminole, Claremore, OK. (Directions: Just North of Hwy 20, East of Hwy 66.)

Find complete information for all current meetings on our Meetings & Programs page.

Visitors and new members are always welcome. We hope you will join us!

Annual Quilt Show

Each October the guild hosts a judged Quilt Show with close to 200 quilts to showcase the quilting talents of our members and other area quilters, which includes cash prizes, vendors, member crafts, a small quilt auction, daily apron auctions, prize baskets, bed-turnings, live demonstrations, our annual fabric challenge, food concession, Quilts of Valor, and more. The highlight of our quilt show is giving away our annual Challenge Quilt on Saturday afternoon.

Annual Fabric Challenge

Every year the guild issues a Fabric Challenge to its members to create blocks made using a chosen fabric(s). The blocks are displayed at our annual quilt show for public voting. Viewer’s Choice ribbons are awarded to the favorites. The blocks are then arranged in a quilt, which becomes our annual Challenge Quilt the following year and extra blocks are made into a quilt top, which a member wins at our July Anniversary Luncheon.

Community Outreach

Our primary ongoing community service project is to make and donate “Love Quilts” to a chosen organization(s) with a need for comforting quilts. We are currently providing quilts locally to Safenet and Hope Harbor. In the past, we have also donated many, many quilts to the Oklahoma Department of Human Resources in Rogers County for children in care.