Showing posts with label swaps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label swaps. Show all posts

Friday, March 28, 2014

Pincushion Swap for April Meeting

Faux Cathedral Windows from Diary of a Quilt Maven

Everyone needs another pincushion, especially if it's super cute!

We'll have a pincushion swap at our April meeting (Thursday, April 24). Here's how to participate:

1. Make a pincushion.

2. Put it in a brown bag. (The mystery makes swapping more exciting!)

3. Bring it to the April meeting.

4. Pick a bag and get a pincushion to keep!

Need some inspiration? Here are some pincushion tutorials to get you started. Share the links you like using the blue button below!


Double Tulip paper-pieced pincushion from sameliasmum.com


Jar pincushions from Doodle Craft


Also, try looking through your sewing books--they often include pincushion patterns.






Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Swap Details

For those first time Holiday Swappers bring your item unwrapped with a to and from tag attached. To see some items from last years swap check out this post




We're getting the fabric ready for the Madrona Road challenge and looking forward to celebrating the holidays with you all. 


While we wont have our normal presentations this month we will still be doing a show and tell.

 See you all tomorrow!
  Pétra

Click here for the free printables via Kelli Murray's Art and Design. 

Sunday, December 9, 2012

Ready, Set, Renew!

It's time to renew your membership for another year of quilty goodness--brought to you by your Portland Modern Quilt Guild.

As a special incentive to become a member in 2013, we'll have special "members-only" give-aways at our December meeting. Some of the items on our list (checkin' it twice) include:
  • "Modern Log Cabin Quilting" book by Susan Beal
  • "Sweetwater's Simple Home" book
  • "The Liberty of London Home Sewing" book
  • "Transparency Quilts" book
  • Goodie bag from Bolt
  • Comic book cardboards for fabric organizing
  • Fat quarter set from Sew, Mama, Sew
  • Gift certificate for quilting at Just Quilting from Nancy Stovall
Membership in the Portland Modern Quilt Guild is $25 per calendar year, beginning on January 1 and ending December 31, 2013. The fastest and easiest path to membership is through our website. Just click on the Membership page and use the Buy Now button.

Modern Log Cabin Quilting


New for 2013! PMQG Membership Directory. In response to requests from our members, you'll have the option of adding your name and e-mail address to a members-only directory. Only your name and e-mail, and only if you choose.

Your Portland Modern Quilt Guild
  • You can find friends who "get" it, who share the thrill of the {fabric} hunt, your latest treasure, and the finally(!) finished project.
  • Monthly meetings are chock full of quick tutorials, timely presentations and the much-anticipated "Show & Tell". And treats!--thanks to generous members.
  • Special guests like Kathy Miller, Angela Walters and Lisa Anne Logan, bringing the wide world of quilting to you.
  • Members are eligible for the free fabric challenges--in 2012 we had three!
  • Members can show with the guild--in 2012 our guild was represented at Sisters' Quilt Show, NW Quilt Expo, and special exhibits at Island Quilter and Quiltworks quilt shops.
  • Sew Days! This year we hosted six, including a special sew&swap day at Staver Locomotive.
  • Swaps, meet-ups and field trips with other Modern Quilt Guilds; this year included Kansas City, Vancouver BC, Bend, Seattle, Eugene, and Bend.
  • Special discounts at local fabric shops, PNCA classes and QuiltCon!

During our December meeting, you'll be able to renew your membership as part of the general festivities, and you can play along with your smart phone. If you want to avoid the rush, surf on over to our Membership page and click on the Pay Now button. Here's to another great year of quilting!

Saturday, December 8, 2012

December Party

We can't wait until THIS Thursday, the 13th to celebrate the Holidays and end of the year! We will meet in Room 101 at 7pm!  We will be providing beverages (wine, cider, and water) served by a server from PNCA. Please remember to bring a sweet or savory appetizer or dessert to share.

Ale's Christmas Pillow 
If you swapped fabric with a secret buddy last meeting, our Holiday swap will take place too, so don't forget to sew up that gift for your partner. (Perhaps even this weekend!)

Also, we are really excited to announce that we will be holding a raffle at this party for two prizes....our Michael Miller linear and improv quilts!! We will have two different colored tickets (coordinating to the quilts), each ticket is $5 and at the end of the night, two lucky winners will walk home with a beautiful quilt! All proceeds benefit Bradley Angle House and Children's Relief Nursery.
We will be accepting, cash, check, and credit cards via (square).

Finally, we'll have a special membership drive for next years membership (Nancy will have a post up on Monday explaining the details). As a reward and because we've loved serving you this year, we'll have lots of special end of the year prizes for everyone who signs up for membership for 2013!

Hooray! Can't wait to see you all and your Christmas sewing projects!!

Friday, October 19, 2012

October Meeting Announcements

For those of you who couldn't make it, or want to mark your calendars or donate to this months charity...Here are the October Announcements!

All-Day Sew Oct. 20! Fabric Depot - 9am - 9pm - Stop on by any time throughout the day! Bring your machine and projects! 

Call for 2013 Officers! Click here for details on each position. Deadline for applying is November 1.

October charity: Treats 4 Troops, supporting the 697th Engineer Corp. out of Fort Hood, currently deployed to Afghanistan. Shauna McCain of St. Helens is requesting gifts of small quilts, one for each of the 40 members of her husband’s platoon – any donations greatly appreciated. The shipping deadline is the second week of November.

Cotton Couture Challenge
As part of Quilt Con, we will be entering one of the three Michael Miller quilts into the collaborative quilt category of the quilt show. We will have a poll on the blog soon, to see which one we should send! There are many more categories with amazing prizes - click here to check it out!



Holiday swap!
Fill a sandwich size bag with your favorite fabric to be used in a gift made especially for you! Bring your filled bag to the November meeting with the following information attached to it. 
Your name: 
Blog/Flickr: 
Ideas: 
At the November meeting we will switch bags and then bring your gift to the December meeting! 

Michael Miller Challenge!
Everyone's projects were jaw-dropping and inspiring!! More pics coming soon to the meeting re-cap! 


As always, if there are any questions, please email us: portlandmodernquiltguild at gmail dot com
Thanks!


Monday, August 20, 2012

August Meeting Recap

We had quite a packed meeting this month! It started with our pouch swap with the Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild. There were so many beautiful pouches it was hard to see them all. Thank you Vancouver!!





  Are you going to Quiltcon? Our guild is a Gold Needle Supporter! This means when it's time to register for Quiltcon all of our paid members will receive a 10% off code to use. This will be specific to our guild and is not to be shared on blogs or any other media. Registration is August 30th  and we will be receiving our discount code August 23rd. 

Heather and I shared a recap from the Pacific Northwest Modern Quilt Guild Meet-up. You can read our previous post here

Susan shared about the Denyse Schmidt class she and other members recently took, her post is here

We have two charities this month first member Teresa Cotes shared about Pho for Three. 



This post gives you all of the details that can be found on her Crinkle Dreams blog. Please head over and if you can sew a straight line you can help! Teresa is looking for little dresses, shorts, pencil pouches, little messenger bags, and a simple diaper wrap with the first batch of items heading out September 30th.




Second is Action Kivu.

This ends tonight at midnight so head on over to Alissa's blog so you don't miss out on her fundraiser. Portland members Susan Beal and Elizabeth Hartman have contributed prizes along with many other people. You will be entered to win if you make a donation to Action Kivu through the fundraiser. Action Kivu is run by Cate Alissa's twin sister and is a nonprofit that helps women who are victims of the conflict in Eastern Congo by teaching them to sew at a sewing workshop. Action Kivu also pays for children to go to school. If you are reading this post after August 20th you can find out more about Action Kivu and still help on their website.




We had a visit from Lisa Anne a Portland guild member who has transplanted to Colorado to work for Craftsy. If you haven't checked out Craftsy yet it's a fun online community where you can take classes of all kinds of craftiness. Member Elizabeth Hartman will be starting her first series of classes soon you wont want to miss it! Lisa also shared about Craftsy's affiliate program and ideas about working with Guilds.

Wholecloth Quilts



Our Treasures Nancy did a wonderful talk on the history and evolution of Wholecloth quilting. I think this needs to be a future post on the blog so you can see all of the beautiful photos she had to share so stay tuned. Above are pieces by members Ale Kloch and Jen Carlton-Bailly.

Show and Tell
Joy Ruplinger with her lovely Scrap Table Runner

Lara Giles brought 2 quilts to share her Linen and Cotton Baby Quilt.
Also her Surfer Quilt for her daughter. She and her daughter have been collecting fabrics for the quilt for some time. Lara's daughter chose the pattern and theme to match her room then she moved out...
Back where you can see some of the palm tree quilting details.

Wacked Log Cabin by Cris Pera.

Amanda shared her version of the Ron Swanson quilt. This is from a quilt along by member Monica Solorio-Snow. 
Also from Amanda her Twin Quilt.
Back

Gretchen Bertman shared her Architecture Boom. This is a memory album quilt made for her son when he graduated college. 
Detail showing each block with drawings or writing from Professors and friends.

Linda Nussbaum brought 2 quilts. First for Baby Girl Hamlin a pastel block baby quilt.
Second from a Jane Sassaman workshop her unfinished applique poppies. Linda's on flickr as Linda Beth.

Kory Keller shared her Windows improv wedding inspired table runner.

From Megan Dye blocks for Cocorico bee. These are paper-pieced quilt blocks for a flickr bee.


Sara Quigley brought her Cowboy quilt top.
 Detail of red work.
It's own travel bag!

Christin Ritz shared her small to Big Zig Zag Quilt.
Back. You can find her on flickr as see.ritz.

Ann Marie Cowley shared Swoon Leftovers from her Swoon quilt scraps.
Back but you can't really see the beautiful quilting details go to her blog and check it out.

Nancy Kennedy made this quilt from a pattern in Sweetwater Simple Home. 16 different red prints! 
Back with quilting by Nancy Stovall.

Maria Cardenas shared her Floral Lap Quilt.
Back

Jolene Knight brought her Selvage Edge quilt.
Back quilted with her new machine!

Marcia Mersky Solids!
Back

Mims shared a vintage quilt.
And 194 Lessons a half square triangle quilt for her daughters bed.
Back

Cherri shared Wonky Stars her Sparkle Punch quilt. Quilted by Nancy Stovall featuring a concatenation technique which blends many different patterns.
Back

Renee Neustrum brought her Modern Crosses baby quilt made from a pattern in Susan's Book Modern Log Cabin Quilting.

Teresa shared a miniquilt made with linen samples, old pants and new Alexander Henry fabric. 

Heather Lott shared a Senior Quilt.
And Ocean Boardwalk her first all solids quilt.
Back an enlarged version of the pattern.

Heather Davidson shared her Flower Garden Baby Quilt top made for her best friend.

Mary Ann Morrette brought her Red, White, Black, and Gray All Over Baby Quilt. She is on flickr as maremare312.

Thanks for sticking around until the end it was a great meeting and we'll see you next month on September 20th.

Pétra