ACQ is based on three pillars: Educational Opportunities, Charitable Activities, and Fellowship and Friendship.
Educational OpportunitiesEducational opportunities come in several forms, including our monthly guild meetings.
| ![]() Charitable ActivitiesCharitable Activities continue to inspire our members and help our community by making quilts for charities throughout Metro Denver area.
| Fellowship and FriendshipFellowship and Friendship takes many form in our quilt guild. In addition to our monthly guild meetings, we have a Quilt Show that occurs every two years (generally). We also host an annual Virtual Quilt Retreat, community events to bring members and friends together, and Friday Night Sewcials twice a month. . . . and so much more—all with fun, friendship and creativity at the heart of what we do. Join us! |
In 1987, Diane Heinton and Barb Lister were new to Denver. They missed the large active guilds they had known in other locations. With the encouragement of their small neighborhood quilting group, The Piece Corps, they started planning how to organize a quilt group.
As former teachers, they knew how to plan! Hours were spent developing goals and a direction for this new guild. They advertised an organizational meeting to be held in May 1987 at the Castlewood Library
On May 21, 1987 the first meeting of Arapahoe County Quilters was held. At the June meeting, 35 members paid dues of $10 and the guild was off and running.
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Original Logo ACQ was formed in May of 1987. The logo was designed by Janet Robinson and the meetings were held at the Castlewood Library. | Fellowship 1999 There were 50 Charter Members in the first Roster. | Ohio Star Their first Block of the Month was: The Ohio Star. |
Door Prize Ticket The first door prizes were donated by:
| Triangles They started the Charitable Quilt Committee that year and used to get together for sew days. However, they were tying quilts back then. The first workshop was in 1989 and was on Fast Triangles by Joann Rosenberg | University of Denver The name "Festival of Quilts" was submitted by Lois Edwards as the winning name for our Quilt Show and the first show took place on Oct 12 at the University of Denver. There were 80 quilts representing 36 quilters. |
Past Guild Presidents
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