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Star Spangled Cabins   That’s right—it’s finished and ready to travel!  This patriotic quilt features Civil War reproduction fabrics in a log cabin design, and is 90” x 90” in size.  It was designed by our own guild member, Becky Swick, and was constructed by herself and many members of the Metropolitan Patchwork Society.  The only thing missing for this masterpiece is the explanation of how it came to be.  So a quick call was made to Becky last week and the following is the story of Star Spangled Cabins: Becky has always designed her own quilts because 1.) she wants her own “take” on herRead More →

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Oh what a night!  We had another action-packed evening together as a guild. Keeping Your Resolution to Reduce (Your Stash) For our evening program, Vickie Rooks and Dawn DeLong presented the joys of scrap quilting.  Vickie shared the stash-organizing techniques that she learned from Joan Ford’s Scrap Therapy.  Joan has two books out:  Cut The Scraps and Scraps Plus One.  She has 7 steps to get your stash organized, and Vickie shared three of them with us:  Get Started  Cut scraps into 5″, 3 1/2″, or 2″ squares Sort your squares any way you wish, ie: by color, value, or style During her presentation, VickieRead More →

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It’s been a long time since we last met–November 26th, to be exact– and we won’t be together again until the 28th of this month. So, to get back in the swing of things, let’s review what happened a couple of months ago… Thirty-one members participated in the Secret Santa program that actually started way back in June when we were given the opportunity to take home a sandwich-sized bag and pack it with fabric from our own stash. We also included our name and a wish list. In July and August, each participant was secretly given someone else’s fabric-filled bag. Then it was timeRead More →

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Who Are We? We are a group that loves quilting.  We love to quilt.  We love to learn about quilting.  We love to teach about quilting. 2013 Raffle QuiltDesigned by Jan Cornutt We are over 100 members strong. Our ages vary greatly.  We encourage each other. We love to get together once a month.  Smaller groups of us try to meet regularly throughout the year.  Some of us love traditional quilts. Others of us are fascinated by art quilts.  Some of us are all about modern quilting. We show our quilts to inspire others. What Is This All About? This space will be about ourRead More →