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There are many, many long-arm quilters out there and I have heard the term “quilting by checkbook” cleverly used by those quilters that hire long-arm quilters to do the quilting on their projects. But how many of us have never used a long-arm quilter?  I suspect there are quite a few.  As for me, I had been quilting for many years before I finally decided to have someone else do the quilting for me.  Part of it was a trust issue; but it was mostly not knowing how to go about hiring a long-arm quilter in the first place.  Did I need to do somethingRead More →

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What would you think if you saw this star on a road sign?  As a quilter, my first thought was, “Hey, that’s a LeMoyne Star.”  And then my quilt-shop antenna shot up so fast, it made my head hurt!  However, when you are in Iceland and see that sign, it means there is a Wool (or Handicraft) Center coming up.  (The other two signs indicate an information center and a place of interest.) Icelandic wool is unique.  That’s because Icelandic sheep are unique.  You can see by the photo, they are big and fluffy.  Their outside hair is long, and the fluffy warm stuff isRead More →

Panguitch Sculpture

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Marilyn Henderson saw this article in The Quilt Show newsletter and thought the rest of us would enjoy the story.  This story was also included in the Quiltfolk magazine’s Utah edition.  I’ve included a link to the newsletter article.  I also found another article about the Quilt Walk that includes a couple of videos and photos of a different quilt.  It’s a remarkable story.  Thanks, Marilyn, for passing this along.  Read More →

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MPS has been growing in membership during the last few years, and now might be a good time to talk again about who we are as a guild and how we came to be. DID YOU KNOW…that the Guild has Founding Mothers?  Once upon a time, around the year 1999, a group of women were gathering in a back room at the Mill Ends Store in Beaverton.  They would stitch on their quilts, visit, and learn from each other.  An idea to start a quilting guild on the west side of the river began to percolate and before long, 15 women became the Founding Mothers. Read More →

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Submitted by Liz M. Fifty years ago in July 1971, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City displayed 62 quilts. The quilts were hung on the large gallery walls where paintings and other art had been shown. It marked the first time textiles, and quilts in particular, were offered as precursors to abstract art. I did not grow up with quilters in my family (that I knew about at the time). I was in high school home economics learning garment sewing when I read about this exhibit. It was not the fabrics, but the design of these quilts that drew me in.Read More →