OCQG Weekly Posts through Friday 3/7/2025 (3 posts)

Published by Nancy Nash on 07 Mar, 2025

Program and Workshop Committee

Thursday, March 13, 2025, 1:00 pm
Trunk Show with Diane Harris (Online)

For our March meeting, we will host Diane Harris from Stash Bandit, live from Nebraska, who will give us a presentation, “Build a Scrap Quilt: Brick by Brick.” It’s a trunk show of quilts made from one simple shape to inspire your creative efforts. Learn how easily bricks can be reimagined, altered, and combined into innovative designs. These quilts are living proof that simplicity can be stunning and that diverse fabrics can be brought together into unique and beautiful quilts with just a few magic tricks. Buckle up for some stash-busting fun! Here is a link to the Handout.

 

Friday, March 14, 2025, 10:00 am to 3:00 pm
Community Quilts Workday
Atonement Lutheran Church, Newport
Contact: Lindanne at lperdue@potoroo.com

On Friday we will have an opportunity to put into practice what we learned about building scrap quilts using fabric “bricks.” (Print and bring your handout if you choose.)  Bring your scraps, your sewing machines, and your favorite tools for making quilt tops for our Community Quilts efforts. If you don’t have any scraps, some will be available. We’ll also be:

  • Machine quilting small quilts on domestic machines (bring machine, variety of thread, and walking foot)
  • Hand-tying quilts (we hope to complete two)
  • Cutting flannel burp clothes and receiving blankets, and
  • Sewing pillow cases from kits.

Bring your lunch and a treat to share (if you choose).

There will be a sign-up sheet at our meeting or contact Lindanne if you plan to attend. Last minute deciders will also be welcome!

Pamela Potter
Program and Workshop Committee

A Reminder & a Thank you for your Hospitality!

Just a reminder to any March birthday quilters to bring snacks to the meeting if you wish to and a great big Thank You! to those who generously brought snacks last time (and that includes those who were on their way with snacks, but had to turn back because of icy roads!) You know who you are . . .

Many thanks from the Hospitality Committee.
Lauren Downing

Calling All Quilt(er)s

The Documentation Committee has openings in the afternoon at their next meeting on Saturday, March 22,  from 1:30-3:30 pm, in the McEntee Room at the  Newport Public Library.

We’re looking for four to five members for a total of 10 quilts. Your quilts do not need to be old to be documented: They can be those that have just been finished.  We document  quilts for future generations, as well as looking to the past for older quilts.

I was looking at the Oregon Quilt Project website and found several quilts that OCQG had documented in 2015. It was fun to see our own members’ quilts having been documented and posted to that site.

The OQP was a statewide quilt documentation project  that culminated with the December 2019 exhibition, “Stitches and Stories: Recollections from the Volunteers of the Oregon Quilt Project.” You can learn more about the project at The Quilt Index website.

JoAnne Sedlacek
Documentation Project
541-602-7360