Old Photos in a Box

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Submitted by Dianne McD. At the latest MPS Guild Meeting on Tuesday, November 28th, our 2023 Challenge Quilts were revealed.  It was a great evening of gazing upon beautiful and unique quilts made by the members that decided to take part in the challenge. As a reminder, our theme for 2023 was “Heritage on a Small Scale”.  We were encouraged to think back on our heritage and create a small, but meaningful quilt that represented what we saw as our heritage.  Some of participants looked to their heritage that came from foreign countries.  Others chose to represent the areas where their roots first took hold. Read More →

Envelope and Daisy

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Dear MPS members, At this time of thanksgiving and as the “big day” is only a day away, I hope that we can appreciate all that enriches each of our lives.  We are rich with family and friends. We all enjoy an abundance of creativity and probably a bounty of fabric choices within our stash.  We drink up opportunities to learn, as well as to share what we are working on and have plans to tackle.  We revel in the generosity of our fellow guild members and Board that help us grow vibrantly as quilters.  We bask in the colors and textures of works inRead More →

Telephones

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Submitted by Dianne McD. Don’t you just love problem solving with a group of creatives?  I sure do!! Never do I ever hear the phrase, “I don’t know…” The MPS Board members meet over Zoom once a month to handle the business and decision making for our Guild.  As we were winding up our October 2023 meeting, I just happened to mention that I thought the committee that I co-chair with Marcia S needed an updated name. When I first became part of the Board, we were called the Website committee.  Then as we expanded to areas beyond the website, we changed the name toRead More →

Mini Diamond Blocks

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Submitted by Dianne McD. At our last MPS guild meeting held on September 26th, 2023, we welcomed Krista Moser as our guest lecturer.  Krista introduced us to a new Creative Grids ruler that she designed, and then she took us on a whirlwind virtual tour through her trunk of quilts! At the end, many of us had visions of angular quilt blocks dancing in our heads. Her ruler is called the 60-degree Diamond, and the Big comes in an 8 1/2 inch version and the Mini in a 4 1/2 inch version.  With this ruler, one can cut diamonds, triangles, trapezoids, parallelograms, and even hexagons. Read More →

Book Cover

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Submitted by Dianne McD. Have you ever heard of a Hope quilt?  I hadn’t until the other day when the author of a new novel called “Scraps” reached out to MPS to tell us about his newest novel.  Dr. Ted M. Moore was inspired to write this novel by the Hope quilt that his mother had made for his father while he was flying missions during World War II.  In fact, the photo on the book cover is of the actual quilt his mother made. Dr. Moore summarizes his novel in this way: Jake Conner has spent the last three years fighting a war heRead More →