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Last week, we posted Part 1 of our annual wish list and gift guide.  You can see it here.  You can also review our other annual guides by following these links:  2019 Part 1; 2019 Part 2; 2018.  Submitted by Dianne McD. Liz got us off to a great start last week.  Here are some more ideas to add to your wish list or gift guide. You can click the images for a larger view. How about you?  Do you have any ideas to put on our wish or gift lists?  We can do a Part 3!  Just email your idea to us at metropatch@metropatch.comRead More →

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Back in 2018, we started posting an annual gift guide for sewing and quilty things. You can review those guides here:    2018; 2019: Part 1; 2019: Part 2. We’re starting a little earlier this year to give more time for ordering and delivery. We hope you enjoy it. Feel free to leave your own ideas in the comments below. Submitted by Liz M. Hello all! It’s that time of year again! A few ideas to consider adding to your wish list or for gifting to quilting friends. (Click on any image for a larger view) For more ideas, see the websites below. They haveRead More →

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Submitted by Liz M. 2020 is a long year! I wrote in early spring about struggling to be productive in my sewing room during the lockdown. I puttered around with masks, tidying my sewing room, purging my stash and getting organized. One area I worked on was my UFO projects. I have had four tops quilted and they are now bound. One has been gifted, one is a Christmas quilt for our home and two others are waiting to be gifted later this year. I have made a 20 x 20 quilt for the MPS challenge, a VOTE wall hanging, sewed backs for several otherRead More →

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Submitted by Dianne McD with the help of Rosalie Movius and Sheridan Collins. This month brings the third annual Portland Textile Month. PTM aims to engage the textile community in a month-long festival of events.  The theme for this year’s events is Repair and Reuse. As part of PTM, the Oregon Historical Society will display the Afro-American Heritage Bicentennial Commemorative Quilt.  While Portland was dealing with it’s issues of racism within the city, 15 African-American women from the area came together in 1974 to decide which historical events and success stories to include in the 30-block quilt.  This quilt is owned by the OHS andRead More →

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Submitted by Dianne McD. You know how, sometimes, when you’re browsing through quilting YouTube videos and you see something that looks like a fantastic idea?  So you watch the whole thing and then implement the idea.  After you’re done, you wonder what you missed that could have clued you to the fact that it’s probably not the greatest idea ever. No one?  Just me? Here’s what happened.  A couple of years ago, I saw a video from Sew Very Easy by Laura Ann Coia.  She had a great idea for making a smooth surface for free-motion quilting on a domestic sewing machine.  She uses snowRead More →