unfinished puzzle

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Submitted by Dianne McD. A friend once said to me, “I have the top done and I need to finish the quilt; but I’m done with it in my heart.”  Do you ever feel that way?  Boy, I sure do!  In fact, as we speak, there is a finished quilt top in my studio that I have worked very hard on.  I love how it turned out and I am anxious to see it as a finished project.  But I can’t seem to make myself put a backing together so I can get it quilted and bound.   (Cue the violins…) However, maybe there’s hope forRead More →

Rosalie "The Star We Make Together"

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Before we get too far into 2025, let’s take one more look back at 2024 with our final 25th Anniversary celebration.  On November 26th, at our General Meeting, our members revealed the final results of our 2024 Quilt Challenge.  In keeping with our anniversary focus for the year, Ruth T challenged us to make something using 25 of anything–be it 25 fabrics, 25 threads, 25 seams–you get the picture. All of our members were given a fat quarter of silver fabric to use in our challenge projects or any other way we wanted. Over a third of our membership embraced the challenge, and we revealed 42Read More →

Quilting Tools

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Linda G sent an article posted by the American Quilter’s Society.  They surveyed their followers to find the most popular quilting tools, and this article gives the results.  The “Extra Aids” were especially enlightening. You can read this short article by using the button below. Just curious…What is your favorite tool?  How many rulers do you have?  Who counts tablets, computers, or other tech gadgets in their favorite quilting tools?  Let us know in the comments below. Thanks, Linda, for bringing this to our attention!Read More →

vintage quilts

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What would you do if you had a “hoard” of old quilts and a craft shed that needed furnishing?  Well, Emily of “Style by Emily Henderson” decided to use hers to upholster her benches and stools in her newly refurbished art barn. Ruthann recently sent us this article that shows how Emily acquired the quilts and how she then used them to brighten up her new craft shed.  It’s an interesting read, and will make you think about old quilts in a new light.  You can read the article by clicking this button. And if you’d like to take a trip down the proverbial rabbitRead More →

Wonky Square blocks

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This year has been one big celebration here at the Metropolitan Patchwork Society (MPS) as we marked our 25th anniversary! Back in March, we invited everyone—MPS members and anyone else with a passion for sewing—to create some “Wonky Square” blocks. These quirky, playful blocks were to become part of a special quilt project, and as more and more blocks poured in, we soon realized we had something big on our hands. What started as one quilt quickly became four! The design we selected, called Tipsy City Quilt, was chosen by Marcia S and Michelle N from Quilting Modern by Jacquie Gering and Katie Pedersen. ThanksRead More →