Inspire

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It certainly has been awhile since our last post!  We were having some website issues.  But all is well again and, hopefully, we’ll get back to blogging on a more regular basis. So for our first post-issue news item, I’d like to celebrate our oldest Guild member, Wilma Kribs.  Her New York Beauty quilt was hanging in our MPS quilt show at the Beaverton Library last month.  It caught the eye of Bill Volckening who is a collector of New York Beauties and has written a beautiful book about his collection. He was excited to see the quilt, and even more so when….. Well, it wouldRead More →

Open Book

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“Every Quilt Tells a Story.” That’s the theme of the Metropolitan Patchwork Society’s 2017 Quilt Show.  With that theme, what better place to hold the quilt show than at the beautiful Beaverton City Library located in the heart of Beaverton, Oregon! The quilt show will be held on National Quilting Day which is Saturday, March 18 this year.  It will be open from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM.  And admission will be FREE! There will be plenty of free parking in the library lot. You’ll find all the information about the show on our Quilt Show Page. Details have been ironed out, dates set, andRead More →

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Due to the hard work of our MPS Program Chairs, we have many fabulous workshops to offer in 2017: In January, we are offering a workshop by Sam Hunter.  She spoke to us in October and inspired us so much, we asked her to come back and lead a workshop.  She’ll be teaching us how to make her Dingbat Quilt, and will have the pattern for each student at the workshop which is included in the fee!  No need to purchase the pattern before class. Sam holds an MFA in Fiber Arts and is a quilt pattern designer.  Her mission statement tells us that she’s “aRead More →

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YOU CAN HELP MPS EARN DONATIONS JUST BY SHOPPING WITH YOUR FRED MEYER REWARDS CARD! Fred Meyer is donating $2.5 million per year to non-profits in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington, based on where their customers tell them to give. Here’s how the program works: Sign up for the Community Rewards program by linking your Fred Meyer Rewards Card to the Metropolitan Patchwork Society at the Fred Meyer website. You can search for us by our name or by our non-profit number “90999”. Then, every time you shop and use your Rewards Card, you are helping MPS earn a donation! You still earn your Rewards Points, Fuel Points,Read More →

Fabric Shopper

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What are you doing this Saturday?  How about hitting one or more of the 16 independent quilt shops that are participating in this season’s Sunshine and Stitches Shop Hop?  The shop hop starts this weekend! MPS member, Deb Messina sent us one of the S & S Shop Hop newsletters and it’s packed with all kinds of information about this season’s event.  You’ll find out which shops are participating, about the shop hop “Memory Quilt”, and a list of all the prizes available to some lucky quilters.  And, if you want, you will also have the ability to subscribe to the Shop Hop newsletter and be up to dateRead More →