upcoming Lectures & Workshops
April in-person guild meeting:
Featuring lorraine woodruff-long
Thursday, April 17 @ 7:00pm, Multnomah Arts Center
Quilts as Commentary: A Source of Healing, Expression & Action
Lorraine will share the inspirations for, and creation of, her ongoing Commentary Quilts series. Sharing artists and creators that have provided inspiration, she will discuss how to use quilting arts to express beliefs, frustrations and aspirations for you community, country and the world. Find out how using your own quilt art practice can provide both a creative outlet, and source of healing and action and how to share your message and art for greater visibility.
Attendees will gain ideas on how to repurpose textiles into statement art, seek sources of inspiration, and use quilts to express concerns and beliefs as well as take action publicly and online.
Website: quiltinginthefog.com
Instagram: @quiltinginthefog
You’re Getting Warmer: Rising Global Temperatures 1850-2022
Roe, Roe, Roe
Wildfire
San Francisco Air Quality Fall 2020
April In-person workshop:
Express Yourself! Creating Text for Quilts
$85 for members / $95 for non-members
Saturday, April 19th, 10am-5pm
PeerSpace: 3703 SE Cesar E Chavez, Portland, OR 97202
Learn how to create and use custom applique lettering in your quilts and sewing projects. From the mundane to the shocking, using text to express your creativity adds a personal touch to your quilts. Great for expressing everything from “Happy Birthday” to “Smash the Patriarchy” - just make it yours! What will YOU say?
Participants will learn how to plan, trace, and cut detailed letters using standard alphabet templates and fusible paper backing on fabric. Learn how to plan, center, layout, and iron your text to a quilt or pillow cover, and finally, learn how to sew/secure your custom text to your quilt using your sewing machine to ensure it stays put.
MAy online guild meeting:
Featuring bianca Spring
Thursday, May 17 @ 6:00pm on Zoom
Join Bianca Springer, author of “Represent! Embroidery, for an inspiring and transformative discussion about diversity in the craft world. In this engaging lecture, Bianca will address the systemic lack of representation in crafting spaces and share her personal journey of breaking through barriers to create an inclusive space for crafters. Highlighting her groundbreaking book, Bianca will showcase how it uniquely innovates by offering culturally relevant hair and skin embroidery techniques—approaches often overlooked by other authors. These techniques provide an enriching way for readers to see themselves and their communities reflected in their craft.
Bianca will delve into the significance of visibility and representation, emphasizing why it's critical for marginalized people to feel seen and acknowledged in all facets of life, including creative expression. Whether you’re a seasoned embroiderer, an advocate for inclusivity, or curious about the intersection of creativity and identity, this lecture promises to educate, empower, and inspire.
Website: https://biancaspringer.com
Instagram: @thanksimadethem
MAy online Workshop:
Scrappy Patchwork Embroidery
Saturday, May 17 @ 2pm
Join Bianca as we embark on a creative journey where the timeless art of hand embroidery meets the eclectic charm of scrappy patchwork. In this workshop, you’ll learn a variety of hand embroidery stitches to add texture and depth to your patchwork. Using these skills and optional purchased stencils, you’ll have the opportunity to upcycle a ready-to-wear garment. Explore a variety of fabrics, threads, and embellishments that will transform simple scraps into stunning patchwork. This class is open to enthusiasts of all levels who wish to explore the intricate beauty of embroidery and create unique, personalized works of art. You’ll also discover new ways to repurpose orphan blocks and treasured fabric scraps, breathing new life into existing garments. Techniques covered will include raw-edge applique, reverse applique, crazy quilting, and traditional embroidery—all stitched together in a creative environment.
Required Supplies:
The garment you to embellish
Assorted fabric scraps or orphan blocks
Seam ripper
Embroidery hoop (6" or larger)
Small embroidery scissors
Assorted embroidery flosses
½ yard of double-sided fusible web for applique
Past Lectures & Workshops
March Guild Workshop
Brandon Wolff's Biscotti Online Quilt Workshop
Session 1: Sunday, March 23 10:00 am-1:00 pm
Session 2: Sunday, March 30 10:00 am-1:00 pm
Learn from Brandon Wulff from the comfort of your own sewing room! Brandon will lead us through his own Biscotti Process, an innovative quilting technique that focuses on a unique quilt top construction. In Session 1 you will be introduced to the Biscotti technique. Then, using 10 (or more) fat quarters, you will be guided through step by step instructions to complete a 27” x 27” (approx. size) quilt top. In Session 2, you will learn the advanced Biscotti technique of configuration and reconfiguration. This will include cutting and rearranging your quilt top from Session 1 along with tips for the reconfiguration of your quilt. Finishing techniques and design options will be discussed to help you complete your own Biscotti quilt!
Both sessions of this workshop will recorded, in case you cannot make it to one of the sessions.
February online guild meeting (due to snow):
featuring Teresa Coates
Teresa Coates is nationally known sewing educator, accomplished quilt maker, travel writer, pattern designer and relentless adventurer. She designs her own line of patterns at Crinkle Dreams, including patterns for beginners and more experienced sewists. Teresa is the host of "Make with Teresa Coates," a monthly live sewing show and was host of “Sew Together Tuesday™” from 2020-2024. She has inspired her audience to fall in love with sewing at nearly 100 local quilt shops in 42 states since 2016—the LQS is her favorite place to be.
Her lecture will be about quilt coats, which are everywhere these days. But did you know that quilted clothing has been around since the 14th century? With a long history and several periods of popularity, quilt coats have both evolved and stayed remarkably the same. This will be a fun discussion of what has come before, ways to incorporate quilt making into your garment sewing and how you can make a quilt coat that will not only keep you warm, but show off your quiltmaking skills.
Website: crinkledreams.com
Instagram: @teresacoates
in person workshop: From quilt to coat
Saturday, February 15, 2025 from 10am-5pm (6 hours with a one hour lunch break)
Multnomah Arts Center, 7688 SW Capitol Highway, PDX
This workshop is now sold out, but you can join the waitlist in the shop.
Do you love the look of quilt coats, but don't know where to start? Join us to make your own quilt coat that is not only beautiful, but also beginner-friendly! Don’t worry if you haven't made garments before, Teresa will walk you through her pattern and you'll have a great time creating the quilt coat of your dreams. The Elemental Coat works with well-loved quilt, quilted fabric, linen, kantha cloth or canvas. You can also choose the sleeve length and coat length that best suits you. We'll work through layout, cutting and constructing your coat, then you'll bind on your own.
Note: You will need to purchase the Elemental Coat Pattern separately for this workshop. You can find the pattern here.
JANUARY online guild meeting:
Featuring Carolina Oneto
Thursday, January 16 @ 6:00pm
Lecture: Playing with Color Value
During this lecture we will talk about many different topics related to color, especially about what value is and why it is so important when is time to choose and pick your fabrics for a new project. I will show you through different examples how you can create movement and sequences using color value to design your quilts, creating interest, contrast and fluidity.
Geography and the rich textile traditions of Latin America have certainly influenced Carolina’s work as she has lived in Santiago, Chile, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Mexico City, Mexico.
In Buenos Aires, she had the incredible opportunity of learning patchwork with Teresita Leal and Cecilia Koppman, known Argentinian quilters. She makes sure she is able to travel to Quiltcon each February to take classes and learn from other international quilters. She also studied «Color Interaction» with Professor and artist Eduardo Vilches in the Universidad Católica in Santiago, Chile.
Her quilts have been exhibited in many Quilt Festivals around the world, including Quilt Week, Quiltcon, and Festival of Quilts. Additionally, her work has been featured at art centers and galleries in Europe, USA and Chile.
online Workshop: Color & transparencies
Held Saturday, January 18, 2025 from 10am-2pm (4hrs) online via Zoom
In this workshop the participants will make a mini-quilt top, where we will design it from scratch. Then we will talk about Color Theory and how we can create a Transparency effect with color and fabrics. I will teach you how to cut fabrics with complex shapes and to join these curved shapes by machine.
Website: https://carolinaoneto.com/
Instagram: @carolina_oneto
Workshop Cancellation Policy
Many PMQG workshops will be offered as Virtual Classes via Zoom.
If you cancel your workshop more than 5 days before the workshop, you’ll receive 100% refund as long as we find another member to fill your spot.
If you cancel with less than 5 days notice, no refunds will be given.