October 21 - 23 2011 saw the British Quilt Study Group's annual seminar located in Mid Wales for the first time. The group of over forty enthusiastic quilt historians called at Minerva to view some of the Association's collection on Friday.

Three of the trustees joined the Welsh Heritage Quilters for a trip to Ceredigion Museum on 7 September 2011. Museum staff had arranged a special "show and tell" of quilts from the collection, focussing on some beautiful Welsh quilts.

Visit Llanidloes this extended holiday break and drop in at The Minerva Arts Centre.

Yale College welcomed quilt making specialists and Welsh Assembly Government representatives in early March 2011 to share the opening of their “Quilt-Making Project”.

The Quilt Association is pleased to be supporting Yale College, Wrexham, by loaning quilts from its Heritage Collection for use by the students.

Trustees Susan Levett and Jackie Newey attended the annual seminar of the British Quilt Study Group on 29 - 31 October at Macclesfield in Cheshire.

Quilt Association trustee Doreen Gough demonstates dyeing in a jam jar to the local quilt group - Welsh Heritage Quilters.

Quilt Association member Dorian Walton is a prize-winner at this year's Festival of Quilts.

Quilt Association trustee, Millie Thomas, demonstrates her patchwork and quilting skills to visitors at this year's summer show.

The Quilt Association has been awarded £5,000 from Potters Waste Management under the Landfill Communities Fund.

Research Associate Dr Philip Sykas, from Manchester Metropolitan University, ran a two day workshop at The Minerva Arts Centre in early October 2009.

The Quilt Association has received a grant of £5000 from the lottery-fund grants programme ‘Awards for All Wales’ for a research project focussing on quilts from its Heritage Quilt collection.

The Quilt Association’s successful project is called “Warming Minerva”. The organisation plans to extend the central heating system in the Centre, which currently only serves Gallery 1 at the front of the building, into Gallery 2.

Volunteers welcomed textile conservator Alison Lister to The Quilt Association’s base at The Minerva Art Centre in Llanidloes in October 2008.

Four of the Association’s trustees attended the BQSG weekend in late October 2009.