2025 FALL GATHERING
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Hosted by: MQA
Date: October 3 - 4, 2025
Location: First Baptist Church Winona Fellowship Hall
309 Summit Street, Winona, MS. 38967
Registration will open TBA
Hotel Information
Holiday Inn Express
413 SE Frontage Road
Winona, MS.
662-283-9992
Rooms start at $119.00 + tax (9%)
Note: We did not reserve a block of rooms as it was a better rate without the block. You are encouraged to reserve as early as possible.
Comfort Inn & Suites
255 SW Frontage Road
Grenada, MS 38901
662-277-8444
cisgrenadams@gmail.com
Call hotel directly and mention Mississippi Quilt Association when booking room.
King Std. $150.00
2 Queen Beds Std. $160.00
King Suite (with sofa sleeper) $165.00
Queen Suite (with sofa sleeper) $170.00
all rooms also are charged 10% tax per night.
Cancel by September 15, 2025
Vendors
Visit our vendors on-line and they can bring your purchases to the gathering! See instructions for that at the bottom of this column.
Click on the logos to visit the shops virtually before the gathering! You can shop on-line and have your purchases delivered! To do that choose pick-up at store and in the special instructions indicate delivery to MQA event. The Sewing House needs the pickups to be from the Memphis or Collierville Stores.
Social Media
Post on the MQA Facebook page or use the hashtag on your own page.
#MQAFallGathering2025
Visit Winona
Come early, have lunch, and do some shopping before the event. We have lots of good gift stores in Winona. Get some of your Christmas shopping done while in town.
Coffee Shops: Greenhouse Coffee Bar (Highway 51), Delta Bean (across 51 from Sherwin Williams)
Fast Food: Taco Bell, Little Caesars, Subway, Burger King, Sonic, Waffle House (all up by intersection of 82 and I55 highway)
Restaurants: El Cabrito #2(On 82 near the I55 ramp), The Southern Mud Bugs Home Cooking (Middleton Rd), No. 1 Chinese Restaurant (Hwy 51 - take out), el Vallarta Tex Mex (Hwy 51, next door to No. 1 Chinese), Pizza Inn (Summit St) , Bridges (Hwy 51 - In a gas station across from Sherwin Williams with red awning - no sign)
Shopping: Crows Nest and Our Favorite Things (both in shopping center with Sherwin Williams on 51), Hammonds Pharmacy and Gifts (hwy 51), Allen’s Jewelry (Hwy 51), Special Treasures (Summit St), Garden by the Pond and Tin Roof Gift Shop (Summit St), Front Porch Vendor Mall (next door to Pizza Inn on Summit St), and Crossroads Jewelry (Summit St).
Program Information
Friday, October 3
Learning Stations
Bed Turning
Show and Tell
Saturday, October 4
Bed Turning
Speaker
Lunch
Legacy Quilters Presentation
Meals
Friday, October 3
Pulled Pork Sandwich. Cost: TBD
Cole Slaw
Beans
Chips
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