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Our Program Chair has been hard at work putting together four wonderful workshops for us.  The classes are quite diverse.  You can create an art quilt, or go more traditional.  You can do something completely different from anything you’ve done before, or you can make a more contemporary quilt.  There is something for everyone.  In fact, you’ll probably be interested in more than one workshop. You can click on any of the images below to see more detail.  All workshops are open to members and non-members alike. On Wednesday, March 28, Laura Jaszkowski will be bringing us her “Sew Your Garden” workshop.  You have theRead More →

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MPS member Jean Kelly, who is also a member of the Portland Modern Quilt Guild, is Queen of the UFOs, a designation she earned at the PMQG’s December meeting last night. How did she earn it and what did she win? Read on. A year ago at this time the PMQG issued a challenge to members to complete their unfinished quilts (UFOs) during 2015. Organized by PMQG member Sam Hunter of Hunter’s Design Studio, the challenge called for members to pay $10 to register the projects they wanted to finish during the year. Participants were to check in with Sam at each monthly meeting. ForRead More →

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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 →