25th Celebration

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Happy New Year everyone! This is going to be an amazing year in the life of MPS!  We will celebrate our 25th anniversary in some way at every single meeting and gathering this year.  There is an outstanding team, led by Christie Frey, that is busy planning many fun things for us!  There will be Monthly Mini Celebrations (MMCs) and one grand event on June 25th.  This is certainly a year that you will want to be fully engaged in the life of MPS so that you can enjoy each and every celebration activity! And, as our first meeting of the year is right aroundRead More →

Organized Cupboard

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Submitted by Dianne McD. Organizing…love it or hate it! I think I fall somewhere in the middle.  I do love an organized sewing studio, although there are times you wouldn’t know it by looking at it.  And my stash is organized by color, which works very well for me.  Where I lack organization is in my project ideas.  Every MPS Show & Tell and General Meeting sends way too much inspiration my way and I want to try it all. A couple of weeks ago, Krista Moser wrote about “The Get’er Done Guide” that she created.  It’s clever, cute, and just might be the thingRead More →

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 →