September Meeting Recap

Our September meeting was all about Telling Your Stash Story and Making Your Quilts Sparkle.

But first, some announcements:

Fabric Depot

  • Our PMQG Business Sponsor Fabric Depot is having their semi-annual warehouse sale the weekend of October 20-22, and PMQG members have early bird access on Friday, October 20th.  A VIP Pass, to get in at 8 am on Friday, was included in the recap email.
     
  • Fabric Depot is having a Stash Swap event on Saturday, October 28th from 10 to 2. You can buy, sell or trade your stash.  If you have fabric to sell, tables are $10 and can be shared.
         First Kiss by Latifah Saafir

         First Kiss by Latifah Saafir

  • Fabric Depot is bringing Latifah Saafir back to Portland to teach her Glam Clam Quilt on Saturday, December 9th.  If you missed taking a class with Latifah when she came to PMQG in June, here's your second chance.  You can sign up here.

 

 

The Modern Quilt Guild

  • The Modern Quilt Guild is holding its second international mini swap. They are looking for swap fairies now, and participant sign ups open on October 1st.  The swaps will happen at 2018 QuiltCon if you’re going, or by mail in February if you’re not.
     
  • The MQG is conducting a member content survey.  What do you want from your MQG membership?  Take the survey here.
     
  • The MQG's 2016 Annual Report is now available for download.
     
  • The deadline to submit quilts to 2018 QuiltCon is November 30th.

Voting

PMQG members will be voting electronically in October on three matters:

  • Election of 2018 Officers
  • Adoption of Amended Bylaws
  • Should PMQG remain part of the Modern Quilt Guild? 

Four people have stepped forward to serve as officers in 2018, so we just need three more!  Check out the Recruitment Page on our website to read about being next year's:

  • Secretary
  • Vice President of Membership and Procurement or
  • Programs Coordinator for Workshops

If you don't feel like you can make the commitment to be an officer (it's fun, though!), how about being a Volunteer Coordinator?  Read all about the available positions here. 

Look for an email from the Guild on October 6th, which will contain your electronic ballot and voting information, including the proposed Amended Bylaws and a fact sheet on MQG membership.

Upcoming Events

Submit your quilts today!

  • PMQG member Mathew Boudreaux, aka Mister Domestic, will be the guest speaker at our November meeting.

  • PLEASE NOTE that our December meeting is earlier than usual.  It's on the first Thursday of December - December 7th.  

  • For this year’s Holiday Swap, the theme is Containers: any thing that holds other things. It can be a bag, a box, a wallet, a journal cover, etc.  You don’t need to sign up or supply fabric in order to participate.  All you have to do is make a container of your choice and bring it to our December meeting.   We'll assign each item a number and then put a tag with that number on a tree.  At the break, everyone who brought an item will take a number.  The swap items will then be passed out by a Santa-like figure.  No pressure, no stress. Just make one, take one.

Quilts We're Making

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  • The pattern and instructions for the final block in our 9-block Block of the Month series have been posted to the website.  We love seeing your blocks in person and on social media!  Please continue posting your blocks and quilt tops on Instagram under the hashtag #pmqg2017BOM.  

    We'll have a grand show and tell of completed BOM tops and quilts at our December meeting. There might be a prize involved, so keep working on those BOMs!
     
  • Meredith Hobbs gave a presentation about quilting words into quilts - a good tool to use in our Word Quilt Challenge quilts.
     
  • Our current charity projects are quilts for Legacy Hospice and for the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Doernbecher Children's Hospital. We're also making large zipper bags filled with full-size toiletries for Embrace Oregon. Come make quilts with us at September Charity Sew Day on Thursday, September 28th from 10 to 4 at Modern Domestic.  Just bring yourself, and come for as little or as long as you like.
     

Sandra Clemons

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Author and pattern and fabric designer Sandra Clemons spoke to us about how she uses color in her quilts and showed us all of the quilts from her first book, Scrap Patchwork: Traditionally Modern Quilts.  A visual recap of Sandra's lecture can be found here.



Wrapping Up

We had three fantastic raffle prizes:

Cath and part of her prize

Cath and part of her prize

 

Garden Lattice by Terri Torke

Garden Lattice by Terri Torke

 

We finished up the meeting with our always amazing Show and Tell. Photos of the Show and Tell quilts can be found on Flickr.

 

 

 

 

Don't Miss

Meeting Slides