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Are you ready to turn over a new leaf? Award-winning art quilter Pat Pauly is coming to town in October to teach a workshop for MPS called “The New Big Leaf.” Pat, who lives in Rochester NY, is known for her strong compositions. She creates contemporary works of art that have a modern sensibility yet maintain a connection with traditional quilts. Bold colors and unusual combinations of fabric are hallmarks of her work in fiber arts. Both Pat’s quilts and her workshops are described as “energized, spontaneous, and artistic,” In this workshop for MPS, Pat will teach you how to build a large graphic leafRead More →

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Karla Alexander was the featured speaker at the July 28 MPS meeting. Karla, who lives in Salem, is a nationally known quilt designer, author, teacher, and designer of specialty rulers. Her patterns are available under the name Saginaw Street Quilt Company. MPS members were treated to a trunk show featuring many of the quilts pictured in her eight books, including her latest book Stack, Shuffle and Slide: A New Technique for Stack the Deck Quilts (That Patchwork Place, 2014). Karla’s “stack the deck” method of cutting layers of fabric and rearranging them in various clever ways results in colorful one-of-a-kind quilts. Some of the cutting is done freehand whileRead More →

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And you don’t want to miss the opportunity to spend some time with this talented quilter! Karla will be speaking at the Metropolitan Patchwork Society’s July 28th meeting with a presentation called “Lift the Quilts out of Your Stash”.   She will encourage us to view our stash in a whole new way as she leads us on an exploration of the traditional and untraditional methods we can use for our quilting projects.  She will also inspire us to put our personal stamps on our quilts by exercising our own creativity.  She speaks to all experience levels, making her discussions enjoyable for both beginning and long-timeRead More →

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Sally is coming to Portland during April, 2015.  She will give a presentation to the Northwest Quilters Guild followed by two days of workshops hosted by NWQ.  She will then close out her Portland visit by leading a No-Sew lecture and demonstration which will be hosted by us, the Metropolitan Patchwork Society. The two guilds have joined forces to bring Sally to town and all activities are open to members of both guilds.  The members of both NWQ and MPS will also enjoy each guild’s own “membership” pricing for everything.  What could be better?!! On Monday, April 13th, at 7:00 PM, Sally will talk aboutRead More →

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Q.  What has 16 thumbs and is showing some beautiful quilts in West Linn? A.  The MPS small group, Quilters On The Edge (QOTE) Yes, the small group has several quilts hanging at the West Linn Library in the Community Room.  These quilts are the result of their many group projects and will be displayed through the entire month of January.  There is a lot of diversity in their projects, so you will see a lot of different kinds of quilts. The group members are Becky Bohlinger, Candy Fullaway, Claudia Evers, Jacque Ervin, Jan Shipman, Jean Kelly, Judy Liebo, and Lisa Roberts. These women areRead More →