Quilt Block

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Submitted by Liz M. 2020 is a long year! I wrote in early spring about struggling to be productive in my sewing room during the lockdown. I puttered around with masks, tidying my sewing room, purging my stash and getting organized. One area I worked on was my UFO projects. I have had four tops quilted and they are now bound. One has been gifted, one is a Christmas quilt for our home and two others are waiting to be gifted later this year. I have made a 20 x 20 quilt for the MPS challenge, a VOTE wall hanging, sewed backs for several otherRead More →

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Submitted by Dianne McD with the help of Rosalie Movius and Sheridan Collins. This month brings the third annual Portland Textile Month. PTM aims to engage the textile community in a month-long festival of events.  The theme for this year’s events is Repair and Reuse. As part of PTM, the Oregon Historical Society will display the Afro-American Heritage Bicentennial Commemorative Quilt.  While Portland was dealing with it’s issues of racism within the city, 15 African-American women from the area came together in 1974 to decide which historical events and success stories to include in the 30-block quilt.  This quilt is owned by the OHS andRead More →

Light Bulb

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Submitted by Dianne McD. You know how, sometimes, when you’re browsing through quilting YouTube videos and you see something that looks like a fantastic idea?  So you watch the whole thing and then implement the idea.  After you’re done, you wonder what you missed that could have clued you to the fact that it’s probably not the greatest idea ever. No one?  Just me? Here’s what happened.  A couple of years ago, I saw a video from Sew Very Easy by Laura Ann Coia.  She had a great idea for making a smooth surface for free-motion quilting on a domestic sewing machine.  She uses snowRead More →

Grateful

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Submitted by Ruthann Marquis Ruthann is a member of MPS.  She was recently on the receiving end of someone’s extraordinary generosity and she wanted to share her experience with all of us.   I want to share something really nice that someone did for me!  On my quest to finish all of my PIPs (projects in process-I just made that up!), I needed more background fabric for making some additional blocks from Dawn White’s class on the Secrets of the Quick Curve Ruler, taught in July of 2018. (Of course, my quilt was getting bigger!) I looked at three different shops and when I went to AlohaRead More →

College

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Submitted by Dianne McD. Every year in May, our Guild presents “Quilt College” for our monthly meeting.  However in 2020, we were thrown a curve ball by the world pandemic and had to cancel our meetings beginning in March.  During the next three months, the MPS Board held monthly virtual meetings to plan how the Guild could continue to meet monthly and what programs would work the best under these new circumstances.  We’ve come along way since March and the Guild has been meeting virtually beginning in June. I’m also happy to report that we were able to hold our annual Quilt College at ourRead More →