November Meeting Recap — Portland Modern Quilt Guild

Our guest speaker for the November meeting was Audrey Esarey of Cotton & Bourbon. Audrey is from Kentucky and began quilting in 2005 when a relative invited her to a quilting class. Audrey had sewn before, but never quilted, and she was soon bitten by the quilting bug! She set out to exhibit her work in a juried quilt show in 2018 and has been featured at QuiltCon--you can find a list of her awards and published quilts here. Audrey was a fun and engaging presenter who took questions live as members asked them. We enjoyed her presentation very much! Her Watercolor Quilt workshop was sold out with a long waitlist. Another Watercolor Quilt workshop will be offered in January, find out more at our December meeting!

Guild Announcements

Virtual Fabric Fundraiser

This year we took our Fabric Fundraiser online to Instagram. We raised $2500 for Project Lemonade and Rose Haven! Thank you to everyone who donated and placed bids on items. A special thank you to Free Spirit Fabrics, Oliso, Quilters Dream and Alison Glass for their generous donations.

Guild Elections

Ballots went out in November for Board elections and bylaw amendments. Results of the elections will be shared at the December Guild meeting.

Virtual Retreat Volunteers

We are looking for volunteers to be the Virtual Retreat Leaders for 2021. Contact the guild for more information.

Charity Quilt Drop Off/ Pick Up

Charity Quilts - Drop off/Pick up: Email the Guild for location. Donations go to Doernbecher!

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QuiltCon Community Challenge Quilt

Our 2021 PMQG QuiltCon Community Outreach quilt has been named “Stronger Together”. Thanks to everyone who voted!

2021 Membership

2021 Memberships are on sale now! You do not want to miss out on the stellar programming that we will offer in 2021 (More information below!) Memberships can be purchased here. We are also offering a limited number of membership scholarships, please follow this link to apply. 2021 Memberships include our December 10th meeting!

Upcoming Speakers and Workshops

We are excited to welcome back Chawne Kimber as the speaker at our December Guild Meeting. Chawne is an award winning textile artist who has exhibited quilts and embroidery in galleries and festivals all over the United States. When not manipulating cotton, she is a professor of mathematics at a small liberal arts college in the Northeast.

The December meeting will take place via Zoom on December 10th. Due to differences in time zones with our featured speaker, this meeting begin at 6 pm PST. All current 2020 and 2021 PMQG members will have a Zoom link emailed to them before the meeting.