The Quilters of Alachua County Day Guild, Inc. (QACDG) serves the community through donations, education and extensive community outreach. We offer our members several quilt bees, programs, workshops, myriad activities and an annual three-day Quilters’ Day Camp.
As a member of QACDG, you’ll enjoy our monthly members’ program with stimulating speakeers and presentations, workshops taught by well-known quilters and talented members and a warm, friendly community of fabric artists.
Highly experienced quilters, newcomers to quilting, traditional needleworkers, machine- or hand-embroiders, quilting historians or those pushing the limits of fabric art — you’ll find a place here.
We are a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to preserving the heritage of quilting and related arts for individuals of North Central Florida through education, inspiration and information.
Since you can’t take the website with you, download our flyer by clicking on flyer QACDG Flyer 2-pages
NEED TO CONTACT US? Theresa Morales, President, PO Box 357012, Gainesville, FL 32635-7012
Join Our Guild
Fill out our QACDG MEMBERSHIP REGISTRATION FORM and bring it with your dues payment (see below) to a general meeting or snail mail them to Marie Davis, Vice President of Membership, PO Box 357012, Gainesville, FL 32635-7012.
DUES: If you join between January 1 and June 30th, dues are $25 per year; on or after July 1st, dues are $15.00. Please make checks payable to “QACDG” and include them with your registration form.
Quilting Bees
- Beyond Beginners
- Community Service
- Fiber Art
- Hand Embroidery
- Hand Quilting & More
- Kuhimino
- Newbie Bee
- Machine Embroidery
- Mini Quilts
Quilters’ Day Camp (held each February)
Three days of workshops! Most Day Camp workshops are half-day (so you can take several) and taught by our members. Learn something new, get to know our guild members outside of the monthly meeting and have a LOT of fun!
Community Service
Since our founding in 2003, our members have made and donated quilts, tote bags, stuffed animals, pillow cases, medical dolls, and doll quilts. The list grows every year, thanks to our generous members!
Click here to see links to directions on making our Community Service items.
Community Service Donations
| Donated 2013-2020 | 2021 Goals | |
| Quilts | 2,678 | 200 |
| Pillowcases | 3,263 | 300 |
| Totes | 1,542 | 150 |
| Medical Dolls with Hospital Gowns | 766 | 50 |
| NICU Hearts (sets) | 854 sets | 100 sets |
| Special Projects | ||
| 2013 – 2020 | 2020 | |
| Teddy Bears | 685 | |
| Cloth Face Masks | 1,741 |
Where We Donate
Organizations that have received our community service products include: Alachua County Fire Rescue, Alachua County Senior Recreation Center, Arbor House, Family Church, Art Initiative, Family Promise of Gainesville, Fisher House, Florida Baptist Children’s Home, Grace Marketplace, Guardian Ad Litem, Healthy Families Alachua County, Interfaith Hospitality Network, Partnership for Strong Families, Peaceful Paths, Quilts of Valor, Ronald McDonald House, Shands Hospital, Waldo Fire Department, and many non-profit organizations.
Under our community outreach program, members have taught quilting to children through the Foster Grandparent program, worked with Arbor House to teach quilting skills to their residents, held free quilting programs in the county libraries and conducted other activities that take QACDG into the community to share our love of quilting.
Guild members are invited to help, and new ideas for reaching into our community are always welcome.
