Notice to All Retreat Attendees
For those members attending the 2025 Retreat at Aldersgate who were not at the February Guild meeting because of the weather, we have extended the last date for payments in full to the March Guild meeting, March 13, 2025. If you do not know how much you owe or if you owe, please contact Barbara Kinzel.
“Get ‘Er Done” Missing Prizes A funny thing happened on the way to awarding our prizes for the project-of-the-month finishers yesterday: The prizes went missing! They were located on the table in the back of the room, next to the free tub of items from Community Quilters, so it’s no mystery how this could have happened. . . .
If you inadvertently picked any of these up, please bring them back, as we’ll need them for next month’s prizes. This project has no budget, and the prizes were donated by the Quilt Show from last year.
They are: Two spools of Aurifil thread, two packs of magic pins, a magnetic grabber, an iron cleaner, small mat, etc. All items are in new packaging.
Please email or call Nancy or Jane to let us know, or bring items back to the March Guild meeting. Thanks.
Jane and Nancy
Newport quilt shop now open as Patchwork Oasis (new sign coming soon)
Patchwork Oasis is now OPEN
Our local quilt shop, formerly known as Quilter’s Cove, is now open under the new management of Guild member Bonnie Robinder.
Documentation Committee Update
The Documentation Committee has scheduled several dates for 2025:
Saturday, March 22: Newport Public Library -1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Saturday, May 3: North Lincoln County Historical Museum 9:30 am to 3:30 pm
Saturday, October 11: Pacific Maritime Heritage Museum 9:30 am to 3:30 pm
Joanne Sedlacek, Documentation Committee
Notice for Oregon Quilt Festival Raffle Table Volunteers from Coordinator Treda McCaw
Set up is Wednesday, February 26th, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm.
You may set up on Thursday, but you must be done before the 10:00 am start.
We provide a table and two chairs.
Your responsibility during the show will include protecting the quilts in your area from being handled, as well as interacting with the show visitors. Because of this, we request three volunteers per shift to support your guild table.
We will provide white gloves so only the guild members will handle the quilts. Please leave the gloves at your table for the next shift. There will be a total of eight guilds at the show, so at any one time this means eight white-glove volunteers. You will be able to determine from the crowd size where to have your members hang out and how to assist the guests.
Volunteers should check in at the front reception table for free entry. Park in the Oak Grove across the street from Columbia Hall for free parking.
Move-out must be complete by 8:00 pm on Saturday, March 1st. No access to the building will be allowed on Sunday as a new group is moving in.
Information from Ellen Hawks, assistant to Marianne Geiger, the Raffle Committee Chair:
Marianne is unavailable this month, so I am helping out. My contact info is:
Landline: 541-563-2346 (I don’t have a cell phone)
We currently have only two volunteers per shift and only one on the Friday 1:30-5:00 shift. Treda said two volunteers will be okay. I will be at this week’s meeting. I am the one carrying a “I Stand With Ukraine” bag. I am not currently planning on going to the Quilt Festival, as I have fatigue problems and cannot drive that far; nonetheless, if someone feels they will need help on their shift, can give me a ride, and doesn’t mind someone falling asleep in their car, I can be called upon in an emergency. Rhonda Stitz will have all items needed to set up.
“Get ‘Er Done Finishers for February’s Project
Eleven members got more of their UFOs finished this month. I wonder how many will end up in the Quilt Show this year?
POM #3 – Kathleen RitzmanPOM #3 – Jan McQueen – PillowcasesPOM #3 – Jean Amundson – Sunshine and Shadows QuiltPOM #3 – Jacqueline Lund – Illusion Quilt from September Workshop
Reupholstered Chair for Sale
This swivel rocker is quilted, overstuffed, and very comfortable! Please contact Rhonda Stitz. $350
February Guild Meeting Program and Valentine’s Day Workshop
Jill Huntington, a Portland native and owner of Huntington Quilt Design, will share her passion for quilting with a Trunk Show of her work at the regular guild meeting on Thursday, February 13.
She will also share with us her improv foundation piecing techniques at a Valentine’s Day workshop on Friday, February 14, from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm at the Atonement Lutheran Church, 2315 N. Coast Highway in Newport. Workshop fee: $40 for members/$45 for nonmembers.
Beginning students will enjoy adding a new skill to their toolbox, and experienced makers will appreciate the open-ended possibilities that this fun technique offers. There are still spaces available for the Improv Roses Galore workshop. No pattern is required, and students can bring their own fabric or purchase a kit at the class for $20.
For more information or to reserve your space in the class, contact:
I am reaching out to quilters who want to help in the opening of my new store, Patchwork Oasis.
I am finding that I need a little help with the purchase of things like new signs and inventory and such. I have a lease, insurance, and all the utilities set up, and I’m ready to go except for the final items.
I have included a GoFundMe link for anyone who might be willing to help.
As soon as everything is in place, I plan on having a guild opening afternoon.
Thank you,
Bonnie Robinder
A Friendly Reminder . . .
To all the February Birthday members. If you plan to bring a snack or treat to share at the February 13 Guild meeting, please contact Laurie Downing at lhdown@yahoo.com. All contributions will be gratefully accepted!
Oregon Quilt Festival Wants Your Quilts!
Oregon Quilt Festival February 27 – March 1, 2025 Oregon State Fairgrounds Columbia Hall
We are excited about the 3rd annual Oregon Quilt Festival. The 2024 show had over 300 quilts on display and 30 vendors. Attendance was over 3000 for the three day event.
The guest speaker will be Rob Appell, he will hold workshops and show his new fabric lines. There will be many other speakers and workshops, the complete list is online. We will have a display titled Then and Now as well as a display of donation quilts from many of the area’s community quilting groups. Local Guilds and special interest groups will be on hand to interact with our guests.
Online registration of quilts is open too. Please check out the website for more information. www.oregonquiltfestival.com. This is not a juried show, so all quilts are welcome regardless of when created.
Please encourage your members or customers to enter quilts in shows. So often when asked, quilters will say that their quilts aren’t good enough to enter in a show. This is absolutely not true as new or novice quilters need to see an array of quilts. Often they will look at a simple quilt and think…I can do that! Or they may have already created a quilt from a pattern they see at a show and marvel at how different it looks from their version. Fabric selection changes everything.
Seeing a new technique will encourage them to try something new or sign up for a class to learn. Every quilt has value and guests to quilt shows want to see what other people are creating.
I started entering quilts in shows after attending a local show for several years. I looked at all the beautiful quilts on display and thought to myself…mine are just as good! Now I’m hooked on quilt shows and am on the committee for Oregon Quilt Festival.
Thank you, feel free to contact me with any questions.
Treda McCaw
Oregon Quilt Festival Guild Coordinator oqfguilds@gmail.com
971.322.5720
Lynn Moody (r) and granddaughter Savannah with donated items from OCQG
I delivered 22 baby quilts, 2 flannel receiving blankets, 45 burp cloths and 5 knitted caps to the SPCH Labor and Delivery Department in Newport today.
The nurses were so excited, as they had run out of quilts. There were 30 births in December, which is higher than usual. Their average is 15 per month. They are again well stocked.
Thank you to everyone who is participating in this community project. I will have more kits ready for pick up at the February meeting. Keep on stitching!
Lynn Moody
February Workshop
Quilters,
Have you been thinking about roses lately? Have you been wondering how to incorporate them into your quilts? There is still room in our Improv Roses Galore class. Contact Pamela to reserve your space!
Improv Roses Galore with Jill Huntington
February 14, 9:00-1:00, $35 Sign up now to reserve your space!
Measures 36″ x 59″ open, 36″ x 13″ folded down. Cutting mat and ironing cover included. Three pieces sold separately retail for $319.97 at JoAnn Fabrics. New, the table comes unassembled, so you get the advantage of having it assembled. Located in Yachats, you haul.
I am buttoning up the Membership Directory and need a little help, please. If you are a committee chair and have not already done so, please send me a text or an email with the names of your committee members for 2025. Thanks!
lMPROV ROSES GALORE WORKSHOP with Jill Huntington Sign up now to reserve your space!
“There is simply the rose; it is perfect every moment of its existence.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a Portland, Oregon native, the beautiful “City of Roses” inspires much of my work in textiles. In this one-day workshop, I’ll share my love of flowers with you as we make lmprov Rose blocks. We will cover:
improv foundation piecing techniques
tips on fabric choices
color consideration (value, contrast, color relativity)
several approaches to color placement
project ideas using lmprov Rose blocks
Beginning students will enjoy adding a new skill to their toolbox, and experienced makers will appreciate the open-ended possibilities that this fun technique offers!
No pattern is required. You can use your own fabric, or for convenience, purchase lmprov Rose Kits containing a curated assortment of fabrics ($20 kit makes 2 roses, available in several color options) – please see the Workshop Supply List for details. I look forward to seeing you in class and growing a garden of roses together!
Note from Patti: Bonnie Robinder has joined the Guild, and she is working on opening the quilt shop in Newport soon. She wrote this:
“I have finally settled on a name, Patchwork Oasis Quilt Shop, and if all goes well, I will be opening on February 14th. (Just have a few more details to finish up and get approval on.) I hope to hold a “Guild Special View” on the 13th.
If you would please let the membership know that I am open to new pattern designers and fabric lines. If members know of any they would like me to consider, I would love to hear any and all suggestions.
I look forward to attending meetings and being involved.”
Phillis sent along some information about her finished project: This quilt is for donation – Will be part of the donation in Lancaster County Pa in February. Most likely recipient will be a client of “Off the Streets” – a local nonprofit.
Quilt is “I Spy” blocks. Pieced by me. Long-armed by my daughter, Dianna. Bound by me. Size is about 56” square. Quilt design on peach background is seashells and shown on second picture.
In case you missed it . . .
Guild Meeting Birthday Treats . . . with a Twist
I will be the Hospitality person this year, doing coffee and snacks at meetings, and I would like to make a suggestion going forward in 2025:
How about members who have a birthday in each month (and who are willing and able to) bring a snack to share at the meeting for that month? For example, if you have a January birthday, you would bring a dozen cookies or cupcakes or a small loaf cake or whatever snack you would like to share to the at the guild meeting that month.
We usually go through about six dozen snacks during each meeting, and while contributions are always generously made and appreciated, the Birthday Treats would be a fun way to acknowledge members’ birthdays and give members a new or different way to participate at guild meetings. Snacks can be purchased or homemade.
If you would like to bring a snack, just let me know. If you want to help out and cannot do snacks, consider volunteering in the kitchen for either setup or cleanup. We always need more helping hands!
Quilt Guild Members Exhibiting in Nye Beach Galleries
The exhibit Imagine It, Stitch It runs January 11 through March 30, 2025; Exhibits Fiber Flair and Woven Worlds run January 11 through March 1, with the Opening Reception on Saturday, January 11, from 1:00 to 4:00 pm.
We hope people can stop by!
Janet Webster
Gloria Zirges
Susan Cronenwett
Linda MacKown
Tina McCann
Marie-Lise Best
Glorious Sweatshirt Class:UPDATE Friday, January 10, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm.
Folks, we’ve had some cancellations for the jacket class. If your heart is really set on taking this class, but you thought you couldn’t get in, we have some openings.
You’ll have to do the prep work before class. This includes buying your sweatshirt, washing it, removing the cuffs and band, and preparing your fabric pieces to sew on the jacket. Please contact Pamela at quilterocqg@gmail.com
Program and Workshop Committee
Oregon Coast Quilters Guild
Upcoming Programs and Workshops
January 9 Meeting and Workshop
Meeting Topic: What to do with our Quilt Estate?
Lynn Moody and Penni Myers will lead us in an exploration of this essential topic.
Come say goodbye to SewAnn Quiltington and learn how she planned what to do with her quilt estate!
Our Valentines Day half-day workshop on Friday, Feb 14, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm.
The class will cover improv foundation piecing techniques, tips on fabric choices, color consideration (value, contrast, color relativity), several approaches to placement, and project ideas using improv Rose blocks. For beginner and advanced students.
March 13 Meeting and Workshop
Diane Harris will present Building with Bricks: Scrap Basket Magic
Friday Workshop: Community Quilts Workday…Come, bring sewing machines and necessary tools (and maybe some of your favorite scraps) and have lots of fun!
3rd Annual Oregon Quilt Festival
OCQG Members: Following is the announcement re the above event. Please consider entering a quilt for this Quilt Show: We will have our Raffle quilt there. Please sign up to sell raffle tickets at the January Guild meeting.
Oregon Quilt Festival February 27 – March 1, 2025 Oregon State Fairgrounds
Columbia Hall
We are excited about the 3rd Annual Oregon Quilt Festival. The show this year had over 300 quilts on display and 30 vendors. Attendance was over 3,000 for the three-day event.
The guest speaker will be Rob Appell. He will hold workshops and show his new fabric lines. There will be many other speakers and workshops. A display, entitled “Then and Now,” as well as a display of donation quilts from many of the area’s community quilting groups, will be exhibited. Local Guilds and special interest groups will be on hand to interact with our guests.
Online registration of quilts is open, too. Please check out the website for more information at www.oregonquiltfestival.com. This is not a juried show, so all quilts are welcome regardless of when created.
Please encourage your customers and members to enter quilts in shows. So often when asked, quilters will say that their quilts aren’t good enough to enter in a show. This is absolutely not true, as new or novice quilters need to see an array of quilts. Often, they will look at a simple quilt and think . . . I could do that! Or they may have already created a quilt from a pattern they see at a show and marvel at how different it looks from their version. Fabric selection changes everything.
Seeing a new technique will encourage them to try something new or sign up for a class to learn. Every quilt has value and guests to quilt shows want to see what other people are creating.
I started entering quilts in shows after attending a local show for several years. I looked at all the beautiful quilts on display and thought to myself . . . mine are just as good! Now I’m hooked on quilt shows and am on the committee for Oregon Quilt Festival.
Thank you, and feel free to contact me with any questions.
Treda McCaw
Oregon Quilt Festival Guild Coordinator
I will be the Hospitality person this year, doing coffee and snacks at meetings, and I would like to make a suggestion going forward in 2025:
How about members who have a birthday in each month (and who are willing and able to) bring a snack to share at the meeting for that month? For example, if you have a January birthday, you would bring a dozen cookies or cupcakes or a small loaf cake or whatever snack you would like to share to the January 9 Guild meeting.
We usually go through about six dozen snacks during each meeting, and while contributions are always generously made and appreciated, the Birthday Treats would be a fun way to acknowledge members’ birthdays and give members a new or different way to participate at guild meetings. Snacks can be purchased or homemade. We ask that if you intend to bring something, you email or text me, so I can let you know when we have enough.
Quilt Guild Members Exhibiting in Nye Beach Galleries
The Fiber Arts Exhibit includes three separate shows all going on at once: Imagine It, Stitch It at the Olive Street Gallery in the Performing Arts Center; Fiber Flair at the Upstairs Gallery; and Woven Worlds at the Runyan Gallery, both in the Newport Visual Arts Center.
There are five of us quilters participating in the Fiber Arts Exhibit put on by the Oregon Coast Council for the Arts (OCCA):
Janet Webster
Gloria Zirges
Susan Cronenwett
Linda MacKown
Tina McCann
The Exhibit runs from January 11 through March 30, 2025, with the Opening Reception on Saturday, January 11, from 1:00 to 4:00 pm.
We hope people can stop by!
Get ‘Er Done Latecomers
Want to join the Get ‘er Done project? You can! Just write down names of 6 unfinished projects (due at guild general meetings from January through June) or 5 unfinished projects (if you want to start with the February guild meeting).
Randomly draw project names out the bag and number them #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, and #8. (If you want to start in February, your project #s will be #1, #2, #3, #4, and #8 , skipping project #5 that was previously drawn and due in January.)
Keep your projects with numbers together. Then, if you’re doing all six remaining projects, finish your Project #5 for the January meeting for prizes.
Let’s get our projects done for the Quilt Show next year! If you can’t attend the meetings in person, you can email a picture of your finished project to Nancy Nash to be placed into the drawing for prizes.
I’m off to get #5 done!
Jane Szabo
A HEARTFELT THANK-YOU
Dear Guild Members,
This quote from a recent card says it best: “The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” And I would add . . . quilting. I can’t begin to tell you how grateful I am for your care and support. The dozens of cards, emails, and well-wishes have been a real boost to my spirit.
The surgery on 12/10 in Springfield was successful – all margins and sampled lymph nodes were clear of cancer. I am not a very patient person, so the healing process has been slower than I would like, but every day is a step forward and an opportunity to enjoy the friendship and caring of others. I am looking forward to getting back into the swing of things soon.
Advent 2024
I needed a creative challenge to help me through all of this forced rest, so I am working on a small (24” x 24”) quilt for the Advent theme at my church. May you all have a wonderful holiday season.
Love,
Nan
FOLDING CUTTING TABLE FOR SALE $150.00
Measures 36 x 59 open, 36 x 13 folded down. Cutting mat and ironing
cover included. Three pieces sold separately retail for $319.97; the
three pieces are on sale at JoAnn Fabrics right now for $186.45. New,
the table comes unassembled, so you get the advantage of having it
assembled. Located in Yachats, you haul. Call Viki at 541-914-5542 or
email at bogie07@comcast.net.
I will be the Hospitality person this year, doing coffee and snacks at meetings, and I would like to make a suggestion going forward in 2025:
How about members who have a birthday each month (and who are willing and able to )bring a snack to share at the meeting? For example, if you have a January birthday , you would bring a dozen cookies or cupcakes or a small loaf cake or whatever snack you would like to share to the January 9 Guild meeting.
We usually go through about six dozen snacks during each meeting, and while contributions are always generously made and appreciated, the Birthday Treats would be a fun way to acknowledge members’ birthdays and give members a new or different way to participate at guild meetings. Snacks can be purchased or homemade. We ask that if you intend to bring something, you email or text me, so I can let you know when we have enough.
Quilt Guild Members Exhibiting in Nye Beach Galleries
The Fiber Arts Exhibit includes three separate shows all going on at once: Imagine It, Stitch It at the Olive Street Gallery in the Performing Arts Center; Fiber Flair at the Upstairs Gallery; and Woven Worlds at the Runyan Gallery, both in the Newport Visual Arts Center.
There are five of us quilters participating in the Fiber Arts Exhibit put on by the Oregon Coast Council for the Arts (OCCA):
Janet Webster
Gloria Zirges
Susan Cronenwett
Linda MacKown
Tina McCann
The Exhibit runs from January 11 through March 30, 2025, with the Opening Reception on Saturday, January 11, from 1:00 to 4:00 pm.
We hope people can stop by!
Get ‘Er Done Latecomers
Want to join the Get ‘er Done project? You can! Just write down names of 6 unfinished projects (due at guild general meetings from January through June) or 5 unfinished projects (if you want to start with the February guild meeting).
Randomly draw project names out the bag and number them #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, and #8. (If you want to start in February, your project #s will be #1, #2, #3, #4, and #8 , skipping project #5 that was previously drawn and due in January.)
Keep your projects with numbers together. Then, if you’re doing all six remaining projects, finish your Project #5 for the January meeting for prizes.
Let’s get our projects done for the Quilt Show next year! If you can’t attend the meetings in person, you can email a picture of your finished project to Nancy Nash to be placed into the drawing for prizes.
I’m off to get #5 done!
Jane Szabo
A HEARTFELT THANK-YOU
Dear Guild Members,
This quote from a recent card says it best: “The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” And I would add . . . quilting. I can’t begin to tell you how grateful I am for your care and support. The dozens of cards, emails, and well-wishes have been a real boost to my spirit.
The surgery on 12/10 in Springfield was successful – all margins and sampled lymph nodes were clear of cancer. I am not a very patient person, so the healing process has been slower than I would like, but every day is a step forward and an opportunity to enjoy the friendship and caring of others. I am looking forward to getting back into the swing of things soon.
Advent 2024
I needed a creative challenge to help me through all of this forced rest, so I am working on a small (24” x 24”) quilt for the Advent theme at my church. May you all have a wonderful holiday season.
Love,
Nan
In case you missed it . . .
Quilter’s Cove Preparing to Close January 31, 2005
Quilter’s Cove in Newport is having a 50% off sale beginning December 26 through January 2. This includes EVERYTHING in the store: fabric, patterns, kits, etc.
The store will be closing at the end of January and (hopefully) reopening on March 1 under new ownership. Please stop by and say hello to Bonnie!
NOTE: I stopped by Quilter’s Cove on Thursday and encouraged Bonnie (Robinder) to join the Guild. Hopefully, we’ll see her at a guild meeting in the Spring when we are back to evening meetings!
At our wonderful December Potluck, a dear piece of cutlery was lost, part of a set of silver that has been in OCQG-member Sandra Hostetler’s family for 50 years! Will members who attended the potluck take a look to see if it accidently ended up in your take-home stuff in the rush of the meeting’s take-down activities? Sandra provided pictures (below). Please give Sandra a call if it’s found.
Quilter’s Cove Preparing to Close January 31, 2005
Quilter’s Cove in Newport is having a 50% off sale beginning December 26 through January 2. This includes EVERYTHING in the store: fabric, patterns, kits, etc.
The store will be closing at the end of January and (hopefully) reopening on March 1 under new ownership. Please stop by and say hello to Bonnie!
NOTE: I stopped by Quilter’s Cove on Thursday and encouraged Bonnie (Robinder) to join the Guild. Hopefully, we’ll see her at a guild meeting in the Spring when we are back to evening meetings!
At our wonderful December Potluck, a dear piece of cutlery was lost, part of a set of silver that has been in OCQG-member Sandra Hostetler’s family for 50 years! Will members who attended the potluck take a look to see if it accidently ended up in your take-home stuff in the rush of the meeting’s take-down activities? Sandra provided pictures (below). Please give Sandra a call if it’s found.
For 2024, we had 175 members. As of December 9, only 74 members have renewed. PLEASE renew as soon as possible. If you don’t renew, you are not included in the membership directory. Dues are $25, and you may pay by check, cash, or credit card. Patti can also process credit card payments via phone.
Directory production is underway, and we really need dues received by December 31, so it doesn’t hold things up.
If you meet in a satellite group, please spread the word!
If you are a committee head and have information that needs to go in the directory, please email it to Patti Stephens.
Thanks to all of you for your continued support of the Oregon Coastal Quilters Guild.
For 2024, we had 175 members. As of December 9, only 74 members have renewed. PLEASE renew as soon as possible. If you don’t renew, you are not included in the membership directory. Dues are $25, and you may pay by check, cash, or credit card. Patti can also process credit card payments via phone. You can find the Membership Application here: Sep 6-2024 membership application (PDF)
Directory production is underway, and we really need dues received by December 31, so it doesn’t hold things up.
If you meet in a satellite group, please spread the word!
If you are a committee head and have information that needs to go in the directory, please email it to Patti Stephens.
Thanks to all of you for your continued support of the Oregon Coastal Quilters Guild.
Merry Christmas, everyone!
“Get ‘er Done” Project of the Month
Nine members share their finished project #7s this month.
Kathleen Ritzman’s finished quilt project #7
At December’s OCQG general meeting, members displayed more finished projects in the second month of the “Project of the Month” challenge to clear out those UFOs! The next project to complete by the January 9, 2025, meeting is Project #5 on your list. Good luck!
Introducing New Members Risa Northway and Julie Hughson
Risa Northway
Risa was born in Tillamook and lived in Oregon City for 27 years with her husband Mark and their two children, one of whom now lives in Corvallis and the other way across the pond in England. After many years visiting the Coast and camping out at Beverly Beach, she and Mark decided to move to Newport and finalized their move just last month in early November. Risa says that “quilting is in her blood”: Her great-grandmother carried quilts with her as they made their way from Michigan to Oregon in the pioneer days; her grandmother was a long-time member of the Jolly Stitchers Quilt Guild in Sweethome. Risa and her mom quilted during the pandemic and finished lots of quilts during that time, including a quilt for Risa’s daughter that she had started ten years previously when her daughter was only 14! While she learned to sew early on by watching her mom and grandmother, Risa’s first quilting class was a gift from a friend over 20 years ago and far from home–in Anchorage, Alaska! Welcome, Risa!
Julie Hughson
Julie was born in Portland and lived in Beaverton for 30 years with her husband, Scott. She loves the Coast from her many visits with family to visit an aunt over the years, so when Scott retired, they relocated to Lincoln Beach, where they’ve lived for about 3-1/2 years now. Julie started quilting in 2005, after her friend Ruth “tricked” her into taking a quilting class at a shop in Sherwood. “Meet me at 9:00 am,” was all she was told, and when she got there, she had been signed up for a beginning quilting class! Quite intimidated by selecting fabric for the first time and using a strange sewing machine, she muttered under her breath to her friend: “Ruth, I’m going to get you . . . ” As it turned out, they had such fun doing the quilts that she was bitten by the quilting bug and has loved it ever since! Welcome, Julie!
Coming Up in January and February 2025 from the Program and Workshop Committee
January 9 Meeting and Workshop
Meeting Topic: What to do with our Quilt Estate?
Lynn Moody and Penni Myers will lead us in a exploration of this essential topic.
Glorious Sweatshirt Class: This class is full! Those who signed up: Be sure to do the prep work….
Our Valentines Day half-day workshop Improv Roses Galore
The class will cover improv foundation piecing techniques, tips on fabric choices, color consideration (value, contrast, color relativity), several approaches to placement, and project ideas using improv Rose blocks. For beginner and advanced students.
Visit the website for our 2025 Program and Workshop Schedule.
Documentation Committee
Documentation is currently looking for a new location to host their meetings and will post their 2025 schedule once that is finalized.
Our Valentines Day half-day workshop Improv Roses Galore
The class will cover improv foundation piecing techniques, tips on fabric choices, color consideration (value, contrast, color relativity), several approaches to placement, and project ideas using improv Rose blocks. For beginner and advanced students.
Watch the website for our 2025 Program and Workshop Schedule!
2025 Quilt Retreat
We now have 48 members registered for the inside rooms; so, unless three of you want share a room (and they are a little small) or you want to bring your RV, the 2025 retreat is full. However, since life often gets in the way, there are usually some cancellations, so we are starting a waiting list. As with registration, the waiting list is on a first come, first served basis, so if you want to be put on the waiting list, email Viki West at bogie07@comcast.net.
November 2024 Executive Board Meeting Minutes Available
The November 21 Board meeting minutes have been posted on the website.
Trips & Travels: Guild members are challenged to construct a quilt depicting a trip that they have taken.
Criteria:
Maximum size: 120″ circumference
Must include a 4″ hanging sleeve
Must include at least 1 button on the front of the quilt (additional embellishments allowed as desired).
Must include the “story” of the quilt. When/Where was the trip? The occasion for the “travels.”
Timeline:
A picture of your completed quilt must be submitted to ???? (Nan) by 6/1/2025.
Quilt must be available for display at the June 2025 meeting (either bring it to the meeting or get it to either of the Challenge Coordinators prior to the meeting so that they can bring it to the meeting).
Quilts will be displayed at both the June and July general meetings. Voting will be online.
Questions??? Contact either of the Challenge Coordinators:
Our 2024 quilt guild year is coming to an end. Time to celebrate! Plan to bring:
Something yummy for our celebration
Your placemat and table setting
An “orphan” block
A nonperishable food item for the Food Bank
We will have fun games and great door prizes!
January Class: Glorious Sweatshirt Jackets!
Sweatshirt Quilted Jackets – Upcoming January Workshop
Gloria Zirges leads this workshop on making elegant jackets from sweatshirts. Thanks to those of you who wore your sweatshirt jackets to yesterday’s meeting!
Class participants will need a long-sleeved, crew neck, medium-weight sweatshirt with set-in (not raglan) sleeves. The ribbing should be removed from the cuffs and the bottom of the sweatshirt. Students will also need about 20 different fabrics in the palette of their choice. Some of the fabrics should be cut into 2.5 x 3.5-inch rectangles before the class. Scraps and “jellyrolls” work well. It’s important to have a variety of fabrics.
When you sign up for the class, you will get a handout with specific directions for preparing your sweatshirt and fabric before class.
Friday, January 10, 2025, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Atonement Lutheran Church
2315 N. Coast Highway
Newport, Oregon 97365
Cost: $35
Bring your lunch!
November Projects Done!
Get ‘Er Done Project
Thirteen people participated in the Get ‘Er Done Project of the Month for November, displaying their happily-finished small and large quilts, baskets, and table runners at the meeting yesterday. The Get ‘Er Done raffle winners were Lisa Taylor and Jan McQueen.
The lucky (or not) project number for display at the December meeting is #7 on your project list. Remember, if you can’t be at the December meeting, you can still get chance at the raffle: just give your project to a friend who will be at the meeting or send a picture of your completed project to Jane or Nancy.
One down! And as always, remember: “Finished is Better than Perfect!”
Some folks love applique, some folks are indifferent, and some folks are terrified by it. So, we asked some experienced applique folk to teach us their favorite techniques.
Julia Bailey: Wool applique
Lynn Moody: Applique, using interfacing
Ruth Hutmacher: Applique, using freezer paper and spray starch
Penni Myers: Machine applique
December Meeting: Annual Holiday Potluck
Our 2024 quilt guild year has come to an end. Time to celebrate! Plan to bring:
Something yummy for our celebration
Your placemat and table setting
We will have fun games and great door prizes!
January Class: Glorious Sweatshirt Jackets!
Gloria Zirges leads this workshop on making elegant jackets from sweatshirts. We will have a fashion showoff at our November meeting. If you have already made one of Gloria’s sweatshirt jackets, please wear it to our November meeting.
Class participants will need a long-sleeved, crew neck, medium-weight sweatshirt with set-in (not raglan) sleeves. The ribbing should be removed from the cuffs and the bottom of the sweatshirt. Students will also need about 20 different fabrics in the palette of their choice. Some of the fabrics should be cut into 2.5 x 3.5-inch rectangles before the class. Scraps and “jellyrolls” work well. It’s important to have a variety of fabrics.
When you sign up for the class, you will get a handout with specific directions for preparing your sweatshirt and fabric before class.
Friday, January 10, 2025, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Atonement Lutheran Church
2315 N. Coast Highway
Newport, Oregon 97365
Cost: $35
Bring your lunch!
A Gentle Reminder: Get ‘Er Done Project
Are you working on your #6 project? Are you done with it yet? Number 6 was drawn at the October Guild meeting to work on this month. If you get it done and bring it to Show and Share OR send us a picture of it, finished, you will be entered into a drawing for two wonderful prizes.
We will be drawing a new number at the November Guild meeting to work on in the next month, so let’s get those November projects finished! (I’ve been gone for the last three weeks and still hope to finish my #6, which is a Silent Auction donation, before the meeting on November 14, 12:30.)
And, remember, as Rob Appell once said, “Finished is Better than Perfect!”
