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NBQA Bus Tours and Field Trips
 

During the course of the year, the NBQA organizes occasional trips to quilting events in the New England area. NBQA Bus and Field Trips are open to the public in the event the bus is not filled by NBQA membership.

Upcoming Trips & Events: 

Saturday November 5, 2011, bus trip to The Gathering in N.H.

NBQA is hosting a bus trip to "A Quilter's Gathering" on Saturday, November 5, 2011.

We will visit the show and then make a stop at Candlelite Quilts in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. The cost is $35.00 and includes transportation, admission to the show, and the driver's tip.

Lunch is on your own at the show.

We will leave the Route 117 Warwick Park and Ride at 8:00 AM and return by 6:00 PM. Deadline for payment is the October 20, 2011 NBQA meeting.

Hope you can join us! Bring a friend or two!

to reserve your spot, email: nbqamail@gmail.com

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Past Trips:

March 31, 2011 - April 30, 2011
2011 NBQA Quilt Shop Hop

Here's how to participate:

  • Print out the special Shop Hop PASSPORT

  • Write your name on your passport

  • Have your passport stamped at every shop that you visit. Participating shops are listed on the inside of this passport.

  • After you visit all shops and have your passport stamped at each one, you are eligible for the grand prize drawings.
    To enter the drawings, turn in your completed passport at the May 19, 2011 NBQA meeting.  A consolation prize drawing will also be held for those who did not visit all shops.

  • A special drawing will be held for all Shop Hoppers who attend the NBQA Bus Trip to Somers, New York on April 30, 2011 (Have your passport stamped on the bus that day)

All shops will be open their normally scheduled hours.
 

April 30, 2011
Rising Star Quilters Show in Somers NY
The fee is $45, which will be reduced if we can fill the bus.
The bus leaves at 7:30 AM from the Route 117 Park and Ride by I95 in Warwick. 
We should return by 8:30 PM to the Park and Ride.

Saturday, October 24, 2010  Ninigret Quilt Show, Westerly, RI  & Shops - Folk Art Quilts & Quilts & More                                                                          

Saturday, November 7, 2010Quilters Gathering, Manchester, NH & Shop - Quilter's Stash

April 25, 2009 - Shop Hop on the Cape to Quilter's Stash, Hethbeat Quilts & Tumbeweed Quilts

November 8, 2008, the bus went to "A Quilters' Gathering" in Nashua, NH.
 

November 10, 2007: The bus went to The Gathering in Nashua, New Hampshire.

November 4, 2006: The bus went to “A Quilter’s Gathering” in Nashua, NH.

March 31, 2007 "Shop Rally" bus trip to 4 Massachusetts Quilt Shops


May 5, 2007 Bus trip to Somers, NY Quilt Show
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Trip Contacts:
Lynda Puglia                       or           Linda Bogdahn
P.O. Box 614                                   
42 Mohegan Road   
East Greenwich, RI 02818                  
Charlestown, RI  02813

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Last modified: 10/23/10