Oklahoma
The Sooner State

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• Altus
  Southwest Oklahoma Quilters Guild. We have about 40 members who pay $15.00 a year dues (over 70 yrs. free). We meet at 1:00 on the first Thursday of the month at Our Savior Lutheran Church in Altus. We have a block of the month drawing, fat quarter drawing, instructional programs, workshops, trips, quilting bee, and annual charity projects. Contact xmas74@hughes.net  for more info.
• Anadarko
  Oklahoma Prairie Quilters Guild,  Meets the 3rd Monday of the month at 10:00 am and 7:00 pm at the Presbyterian Church corner of Broadway and West third in Anadarko. The guild has 30 members. Dues are $12.00 per year. Exciting programs including local and guest speakers, show and tell, secret pals, charity quilts. Guests welcome, come quilt with us! For more info contact Bernadine, Liz, or Terry at 405-247-7377 or e-mail apex@tanet.net
• Ardmore
  Southern Oklahoma Quilter's Guild.  For more information, contact Sandra at iquiltfrogs@yahoo.com
• Atoka
  Pieces 'n Patches Quilt Guild. We average 15-20 members who pay $15 per yr in dues, $10 after June for new members. We meet on the first Thursday of the month at the PSO Building in Atoka. Annual activities: Quilt Guild show, 2 donation quilts for local charities, 2-3 quilt show trips. Monthly meeting activities: Show and Tell, Block swaps, Secret Pal, Guild BOM, demonstration, and pot luck lunch. Louisa Betts lrranch@wildblue.net
• Bartlesville
  Jubilee Quilters' Guild, Inc. meets on the 2nd Friday of each month at the First Church of the Nazarene at 9:30 am. We are a national Guild, 100 members strong. Guests are welcome.
• Cherokee
  Piecemakers Quilt Guild We meet on the first Monday of each month. We have about 25 members.
• Claremore
  Country Fare Quilters' Guild. We have about 80 members. We meet at 9:45am on the fourth Thursday of the month at St. Cecelia's in Claremore. We have a challenge block format that makes up our donation quilt each year. We make quilts for charity and we have a show each year. We also have a Bee group that meets at 10:00am on the second Thursday each month at St. Cecelias'. Contact Carol at CarJanT@aol.com.
• Clinton
  Western Oklahoma Quilters Guild. We have about 75 members who pay $15 a year in dues. We meet the 4th Monday of each month at 7pm except in December (no meeting). At 10 am each meeting day, we sew either on our own projects or one for guild, your choice. We have different projects going every year, have great programs, and continue to sew baby quilts for the women's shelter as an ongoing project. We sponsor a local quilt show in the even years.
• Cushing
  Piecemakers of Cushing meet on the 3rd Thursday of every month at 7:00p.m. at Mila's Fabrics. We have many block exchange projects, Secret sister and most of all we just have a lot of fun. Dues are $12.00 per year.
• Duncan
  Stitching Memories Quilt Guild. We have about 47 members who pay $15 a year in dues. The guild members meet at 6:00 PM on the third Monday of the month at the Duncan Senior Citizens' Center, 1110 North 7th. Since we were recently formed in March of this year, we are in the process of creating a country store to sell quilting notions at the meetings or events, preparing for a December Holiday Tea at a local historical site, and most importantly, getting ready to celebrate Oklahoma's Centennial in 2007 with a centennial quilt made by members. Contact quilt_girl@sbcglobal.net for more information.

• Edmond Quilt Guild is a relatively new guild in the central part of Oklahoma. We meet the third Tuesday of each month and have 125 to 150 members. Our charity quilts are donated to local organizations and range from placemats for Mobile Meals to lap quilts for foster children. We do a variety of fun things that have included block lotteries, challenge quilts, fashion shows and quilter's garage sale. Alice Kellogg WonderLand48@cox.net

• Enid
  Cherokee Strip Piecemakers Quilt Guild meets at 7:00pm on the third Monday of the month at Central Christian Church, 1111 W. Broadway in Enid. We have block of the month drawing, show and share, community service projects, workshops and speakers. Contact Shirley Sims, ssims@fullnet.net

• Eufuala
  Piecemakers Quilters Guild Eufaula, Oklahoma This is an organization made up of people with a similar interest: fine quilt-making. We meet once a month, on the 3rd Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. Our meeting place is the Highway 9 Community Center, 5 miles southeast of Eufaula, Oklahoma. Our sister guild, A Stitch in Time, meets the following Thursday evening at 6:30 p.m., at the Eufaula Public Library. We are very fortunate to have among our growing membership several master quilters---some have been making quilts for 50 years--- who freely share their art and craft of quilt-making. They provide inspiration and help to the rest of us. At our meetings we learn from one another and also from our guest teachers or speakers. Annual dues are only $15. This helps pay the expenses of the organization. If you are interested in becoming a member, this is your invitation to visit one of our meetings. You will be greeted by lots of friendly women eager to share their love of quilts and quilt making. Contact pbmartin@cwis.net
• Grove
  Grand Lake O'the Cherokees Quilt Guild. We have over 60 members who pay $15 a year in dues. We meet at 10 am, on the first Friday of the month at the Grove Community Center in Grove. We offer classes and trips and a donation quilt to benefit charities. We also have a biennial quilt show in Grove over the fourth of July weekend. Contact grandlakecqg@sbcglobal.net  or website
• Guymon.
  Panhandle Piecers Quilt Club. We have about 25 members who pay $10 a year in dues. We meet at 7:00pm on the last Thursday of the month at different members homes, or sometimes in Church Halls. We just finished a block of the month, which we may start again next year. We have a quilt show every 2 years, and our show is listed in the Quilt Show section of this site. Contact panhandlepiecers@hotmail.com   for more information.
• Lawton
  Wichita Mtn. Quilt Guild, INC. meets on the 2nd Monday of every month at The 1st Presbyterian Church, 13th & A Ave., Lawton, Ok at 7pm. Annual dues are $15. We have a newsletter sent out every month or emailed if requested. We have various programs each month and at least two nationally known teacher each year. We sponsor a quilt show in February every other year on odd years. We are a NQA Chapter with around 80 members. For more information contact Carol Capshaw at Souper0000@mac.com , visit our website or write to WMQG, PO Box 7094, Lawton, Ok 73506 Come join the fun!
• McAlester
  Kiamichi Quilt Guild meets on the 2nd Thursday of each month at 6:30 p.m. (refreshments prior to meeting at 6:00 p.m.) at the old High School, McAlester, OK. Our dues are $15 a year. We have programs each month, block of the month, sew and tell, secret pals, charity projects, and an annual quilt show. Contact McAlesterKQG@yahoo.com  or visit our website.
• Miami
  The Calico Quilters'Guild is only two years old and we already have 42 members, including one gentleman! Members pay $10 a year in dues. We meet the first Friday of each month at 6:00 pm, at the Community Room of The First National Bank & Trust Company of Miami. We have an annual Donation Quilt program to benefit charity organizations, special classes in quilting techniques and mimi-demonstrations, fat quarter challenges, a Secret Sister program, and we make and donate quilts and other items to local charity and crisis centers. We have a lively show and share session during our meetings. Visitors are always welcome to our meetings. For more information about our Guild visit our website. 
• Midwest City
  Mid-Del Stitchin' Sisters Quilt Guild. We have about 100 members who pay $20.00 a year in dues. We meet at 7:00 p.m. on the second Tuesday of the month at the Douglas Boulevard United Methodist Church in Midwest City. Block of the month, nickel squares swap, guest speaker and vendors at each monthly meeting. Since the inception of the guild in June, 2004, over 1,000 quilts have been made and donated to area shelters, family services, Tinker AFB, area police and Sheriff's departments. Please come join us. Contact President, Cheryl McGinley at chemac48@cox.net or at 672-0791.
• Minco
  The Minco Quilt Guild is "In Stitches" with around 30 members, dues are $12 for the year. The Guild meets the 3rd Friday of the month at the United Methodist Church off Highway 81 from 6:30pm to 9:00pm. We meet to peice, quilt, and have fun. Contact darowe_3@msn.com for more information.

• Muldrow
  Kozie Quilters are a non-profit quilting bee of aprox 18 ladies from the community. The mission of our group is to make little 'Kozie Quilts" for children in need. We give quilts to the police department, school nurses, backpackprograms, and various other projects in the community of Sequoyah county. There are no dues required. We meet every Wednesday from 9:00am to 12:00noon at the Trinity Methodist Church in Muldrow, Ok. Once a month we have potluck and do fun projects. All levels of quilters are involved. We fund the projects by raffleing quilts yearly and obtaining local donations of money or fabric from the community people and businesses. We have made and donated over 400 quilts since our beginning in Sept 2001. The Kozie Quilters may be contacted via jennettabarrow@yahoo.com

• Muskogee
  Muskogee Area Quilters Guild meets at 7pm on the second Thursday of each month at the First Presbyterian Church, 5th and Broadway. Dues are $15.00 per year. An annual Quilt Show is held each April in conjunction with the Muskogee Azalea Festival. Reaching Out, a outreach program in the Guild makes quilts for children in crisis and/or need, meeting once a month they produce over 200 quilts a year. We also make Donation Quilts for organizations to use as Fund Raisers. Guests are welcome. Brenda Haxton
  sewsew7@suddenlink.net

• Newcastle
  The Newcastle Nightime Needlers Quilting Guild meets at 7:00 every Tuesday night at the Woodland Hills Baptist Church. The church is located about 1/4 mile South of Hwy 130 on Hwy 76. Dues are $15 a year. We work on Community Projects the 4th Tues of the month. Whenever there is 5 Tues. in a month we usually have a workshop. We have a quilt show every April. Contact Pmays90288@aol.com for more information
• Norman
  Norman Area Quilters Guild We have about 140 members, dues are $20.00 a year. We meet at 7:oo pm on the third Monday of the month at McFarlin Memorial United Methodist Church. We do block swaps, fat quarter raffles, programs and make donation quilts for local organizations. We have a quilt show every other year. Visit our website for more information.
• Oklahoma City
  Central Oklahoma Quilters Guild meets on the 4th Thursday of each month at 10 AM and 7 PM. We now have a membership of over 400 members. St. John's United Methodist Church at 1755 N. Meridian in Oklahoma City is the place where we meet for all activities of the guild. For more information visit our website or contact Linda Jones at Lintole@cox.net
• Okmulgee
  Okmulgee Quilters. Meets monthly on 3rd Thursday, 10:30 a.m. to noon, with a potluck lunch, at Town & Country Christian Church. Some members stay into the afternoon. Meetings are informal, with a show-and-tell, block of the month, and an occasional speaker. Visitors welcome.
  
  Scrap Happy Quilter's Guild. We have 45 members and we meet the 2nd and 4th Thursdays at 1000am. There are no dues and we are open to new members who share a love a quilting and stitching. The first meeting of the month is a business meeting with show and tell, the second meeting of the month is a working meeting for member's projects and a pot luck lunch. Of course we have show and tell and there are ongoing fun activities to participate in! This guild was established in 1998 and we have about 50 members. The guild meets at 10am on the 2nd & 4th Thursdays of the month, except December. There are no dues. Our 1st meeting of the month is a business meeting and the 2nd meeting is a quilting/working and Potluck Lunch. We always have show and tell, charity quilting, and ongoing projects to participate in. We are open to new members. You may contact Rogene E Ashford at ronnieashford@yahoo.com  for more information. 
• Owasso
  Trails End Quilters Guild began in January 2005. We meet the 4th Thursday of the month at St. Henry's Catholic Church, 6:30 - 8:30. We have show and tell and several speakers throughout the year. Dues are $20 per year. Come and see what we are about. Visitors are welcome. mittomus@cox.net
  
  Owasso Guild.  Our guild meets on the 4th Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m.. We meet at St Henrys Catholic Church At 86th St N & Hwy 169. We Formed out guild in Jan. 2005 we have 90 members & going strong we welcome any one to come & visit & join our guild. Our dues are $20.00 year. We have fat quarter frenzee every month we also exchange 6" blocks every month. we have quarterly workshops. We month workshop on the Egg Money Quilt.  Aryln Rippy silver12@cox.net
• Perry
  Cherokee Strip Quilter's Guild. We have about 25 members who pay $12 annually in dues.  Meetings are are held the third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 pm at the First Christian Church in Perry, 7th & Holly Streets.
• Ponca City
  PM Patches and Pieces Quilter's Guild. Meets the 4th Mon. of each month (except for May). We meet at 6:15pm for mimi-lesson and the meeting starts at 7pm. Cost is $10 to join for the quilt year. We are a fun, laid back group of quilters and quilter-wanna-be's! We have block of the month, challenges, workshops, stitch groups, yearly donation quilt raffle, etc. contact: lpatter@cableone.net  for more information

  Pioneer Area Quilters Guild meets the lst Monday of each month with business meeting starting at 12:30 p.m. Stitch and Assist begins at 10:30 a.m. Meetings are held at St. Paul's Methodist Church, Pecan and Hartford, Ponca City, OK

• Prague
  Heartland Quilters is dedicated to preserving the art of quilting. We meet the 2nd Thursday of each month at the Prague Art Center building, 7:00 p.m. The club offers a block of the month, fat quarter drawing, demo's and much more. Beginner to expert, join and be part of the fun.
• Pryor
  Pryor Patchers PPQG is a non-profit organization which has been in existence since 1998. Our membership is at is 50+ and yearly dues are $12.00. Meetings start at 6:30 PM the 4th Tuesday of the month at Mayes County Extension Building at the fairgrounds on old highway 20 in Pryor. We offer a Quilting 101 class & a Mini Instruction Class at 5:15 PM prior to the guild meeting & are free & open to the public. We will have 3 day-quilt-camps and several Sew-In-Days. We make quilts for DHS, Hospital & Senior Resident Centers. Check our website for additional information. HousleySharon@aol.com
• Sand Springs
  Quilters United Guild meets the second Tuesday of each month at StAndrew Luthern Church 3210 S. 113 W. Ave Sand Springs(Prattville) Ok. We started our guild in Jan. of 2008 and we now have 61 members. We have guest speakers and show and tell and member demonstrations at almost every meeting. For more information email TheGuild08@cox.net  or call 918-245-7522
• Seminole
  Patchwork Quilters Seminole, Oklahoma Meeting is on the first Monday of the month Dues: None Contact: Marsha Poplin 405-382-0646
• Shamrock
  ArtQuiltersPuckerHillPiecers, Meet at The Shop,5 PM on Tues/Thurs, Other Meetings to be on different nights for UFO's ,Swap UFO's, Quilt Challenge and Secret Sisters. Dues N? Ya'll Come!!!  BelleJean  Xmaskiss2001@Yahoo.com 
• Shawnee
  The Spinning Spools Quilt Guild meets the first Thursday of each month. Dues are $15.00. Please contact --Doris Williams Wise dwquilt1@sbcglobal.net, for more information.
• Stillwater
  Cimarron Valley Quilters' Guild (CVQG) meets the first Tuesday of each month at the First Church of the Nazarene, 1023 E. Will Rogers Dr, Stillwater, OK. The day meeting is held at 10 a.m. and the evening meeting is held at 7 p.m. For more information, write to CVQG at PO Box 1113, Stillwater, OK 74076 or email us at CVQG@yahoo.com.
• Tulsa
  Green Country Quilters Guild. An educational, non-profit organization whose purpose is to stimulate an interest in quilts and promote the art of quilting in all its forms. We meet the 3rd Thursday every month at 7:00 PM and the following Friday at 9:45 AM at the Martin East Library, 2601 S Garnett Rd.
• Woodward
  Friendship Quilters Guild. We have 35 members who pay $20 a year in dues. we meet at 7 PM on the second Thursday of the month at the Woodward Senior Citizens Center. We have fat quarter swaps, block of the month projects, show and tell, quilt raffle. 

Trivia answer:  The Homestead Act of 1862 provided that a legal settler could claim 160 acres of public land, and those who lived on and improved the claim for five years could receive title.  The Land Run of 1889 began the process of disposing of these Unassigned Lands" which were offered to settlers through a series of "Land Openings" where newcomers initially competed for the land in horse races. People who entered the district illegally to lay claim to lands, before the designated entry time, were called "Sooners."