We have lots going on at PMQG, so if you missed tonight's meeting or want to check out some of the announcements mentioned. Here they are:
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Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show!
We are so excited about going to
Sisters for the July 14 Outdoor Quilt Show! We will host a casual
meet-up in our special exhibit space for the Oregon modern quilt
guilds, including Eugene and Central Oregon, in the late afternoon.
Hope to see you there!
Marilyn Ulrich of the QuiltWorks shop
and gallery in Bend has invited the PMQG Sisters special exhibit to
do an encore show with quilts from the Central Oregon Modern Quilt
Guild! The show will open with a reception on August 3 and run the
entire month.
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Seattle Sew + Shop Hop this summer!
The PMQG-SMQG-VMQG meet-up for a
shopping and sewing weekend is officially planned for August 10, 11 +
12! We’ll be shopping for fabric at Quilter’s Loft, doing a
collaborative charity quilting project at Island Quilter, and having
mimosas at Drygoods Design with lovely guild members from Seattle and
Vancouver, BC. Please fill out a quick online form if you’re planning to go, so Heather can organize the weekend!
We’ve reserved a block of 20 hotel
rooms at the Executive Hotel, 400 Spring St. Seattle. The cost
is $129 + tax a night and they are all doubles. Parking is available
across the street for $22 a day or $29 for valet. To book
your room call 206-623-3900 before the cutoff date of July 10.
After that date our block will be released.
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Charity Quilting
June’s charity quilting opportunity
is the Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative. The
organization is collecting new mini-quilts, which can be up to 9” x
12” and in any style, which are sold or auctioned to raise money
for research. This would be a perfect way to use Michael Miller
improv blocks, or any others you’d like to give! Michelle Freedman
has offered to collect blocks or tiny quilts this month and register
them for a group donation.
Please email us at
portlandmodernquiltguild@gmail.com if you’d like to donate blocks
or a mini quilt, or work on a collaborative project.
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Michelle also attended the
Oregon Quilt Project workshop in Salem this month representing
PMQG, and historian Mary Bywater Cross taught guild members from all
over the state how to best document our quilts and share their
stories.
Michelle and Bill
Volckening (aka Willy Wonky) are working to organize a PMQG quilt
documentation day at the Pendleton Woolen Mill Store in the fall, and
we’ll be in touch about that when it’s set!
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Northwest Quilting Expo
PMQG has been invited to do a second
special exhibit at the NW Quilting Expo here in Portland, September
20-22. Quilts need to be submitted by August 15 to be part of the
exhibit, and we’ll have more info on the blog soon, as well as at
the July meeting.
We can show a total of
20-40 quilts and there’s no fee to enter (unless you want your
quilt to be part of the competition, which is $10 per quilt). We have
forms here, or they’re on the NWQE website.
Two vendors are looking
for help in their booths all three days of the show - $10/hour in
cash plus free entry. Email us if you want to get in touch to apply!
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More quilt shows!
The Oregon State Fair is accepting
quilt entries for their 2012 show and competition through June 29,
and the Washington County Fair is also open for quilt submissions on
July 21 and 22. Thank you to Ann-Marie Cowley (who’s won lots of
ribbons at both fairs!) for encouraging the rest of us to enter our
quilts.
Stitches in Bloom is accepting entries
for their 2013 show (January 25 and 26), and offering a 3-day
pictorial appliqué workshop as well (which is discounted through
July). Mary from the Oregon Garden said that she’d love to see
entries from us and that modern quilts are her favorite! Deadline is
January 4, 2013.
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PMQG has signed on as a gold needle
QuiltCon sponsor! That means all of our members will get 10% off
workshops and conference registration, plus we’ll get two free show tickets to raffle off! More details coming soon, but you
can check out quiltcon.com for lots of info on workshops, shows and
events – and mark your calendars for February 21-24, 2013 in
Austin, Texas.
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Next month's meeting will take place at Laurelhurst park! Bring a picnic blanket, something to snack on, and quilts for show and tell! We'll be in picnic site A at 7pm.
