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Below is the correct link for the Membership Application for 2025

Membership Application here: Sep 6-2024 membership application (PDF) 

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.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

A Gentle Reminder from the Membership Committee

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!

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“Get ‘er Done” Project of the Month

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!

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Introducing  New Members Risa Northway and Julie Hughson

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….

February 13 Meeting and Workshop

For our February Meeting Jill Huntington from Portland, Oregon (https://www.huntingtonquiltdesign.com/ ) will present a trunk show of her 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.

2025 Quilt Retreat

Program and Workshop Committee

You’re Being Challenged . . . 

2025 Guild Challenge

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:

Darcy de la Rosa: 541-270-5234 (Darcy.delaRosa@gmail.com)
Joy Johnson: 530-368-2072 (JoyOJohnson1956@gmail.com)

Worth Repeating: Program and Workshop Committee

December Meeting: Annual Holiday Potluck

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!

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!

 

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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!”

Jane Szabo and Nancy Nash

 

 

Program and Workshop Committee

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!”

Jane Szabo

2025 Membership Renewal

Correction of link to revised membership application (Sept. 4, 2024) below:

Once again it is time to renew your membership with the Oregon Coastal
Quilters Guild. We are a volunteer organization and rely on our members to
help keep our guild able to provide activities for us. It’s also a great way to get
to know more people in the guild. Dues are $25 for one year (starting Jan. 1,
2025), and if you would like to have your membership directory mailed to you,
it is an additional $4. Dues should be received by December 31, 2024, so that
production of the directory can get started.

Please download and fill out a Membership Application (even if you are already a
member), and select any committee boxes that you are interested in
participating in.  If you have no changes to your printed information since the
last directory, just write in your name and write in large letters, “No Change,”
and you don’t need to fill the top section out any further.

You can mail your payment and Membership Application to:

Patti Stephens
PO Box 1471
Philomath, OR 97370-1471

I am also able to accept credit cards, but need a text or phone call first to make
sure I have the Square set up. My phone number is 541-760-9380.

Thanks!

Patti Stephens
Membership Committee

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Free Grace Quilting Frame

Mary’s River Quilt Guild in Philomath is offering a wooden frame for hand
quilting to any quilter or group.  The frame is adjustable for quilts from King to
Crib size. And, the price is right — Free!

Contact Marcia Gibson at mgquilter@alyrica.net or call her at 541-740-5831.

 

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Quilting Machine For Sale

From Lucinda Taylor, Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity of Lincoln County:

When we held our home dedication this summer, I shared appreciation to the
Quilters Guild for the quilts you donated to the family.  One of our volunteers
heard this and recently approached me to see if I could connect him with you.
He has a 14’ quilting machine that he wants to “practically give away.”  I don’t
know how much he wants for it, but he said it’s about 20 years old and hasn’t
been used for about 5 years.

If you think this is anything someone in your group might be interested in,
please reach out.  His name is Jeff Green and his email is coastalview65@gmail.com.

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Once again it is time to renew your membership with the Oregon Coastal
Quilters Guild. We are a volunteer organization and rely on our members to
help keep our guild able to provide activities for us. It’s also a great way to get
to know more people in the guild.

Dues are $25 for one year (starting Jan. 1, 2025), and if you would like to have
your membership directory mailed to you, it is an additional $4. Dues should be
received by December 31, 2024, so that production of the directory can get
started.

Please download and fill out a Membership Application (even if you are already
a member), and select any committee boxes that you are interested in
participating in.  If you have no changes to your printed information since the
last directory, just write in your name and write in large letters, “No Change,”
and you don’t need to fill the top section out any further.

You can mail your payment and Membership Application to:

Patti Stephens
PO Box 1471
Philomath, OR 97370-1471

I am also able to accept credit cards, but need a text or phone call first to make
sure I have the Square set up. My phone number is 541-760-9380.

Thanks!

On October 23, 2024, I delivered a donation from our Community Quilters
project to the Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital Labor and Delivery
Department.  The donation consisted of 18 quilts, 12 receiving blankets, and 13
burp cloths.

Thank you to all of you who have supported this project by making these
wonderful items.  My granddaughter Savannah says the new moms are so very
appreciative of our gifts.  Your continued support is greatly appreciated.  I will
have more quilt kits available at the November guild meeting.

Upcoming Workshop 

Ladies, it’s almost time to go Clamming with me: Friday, October 11, from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm.  You will need to bring the following:

Clips; Thread to match your fabric; Stiletto (If you don’t have one, let me know; I have a few extra.); Ruler; Scissors and/or Rotary Cutter; Flex Pen; Lunch. Don’t worry if you don’t have all of these things, because I will have mine with me and I will share.

If you don’t mind, would you please take a picture of the fabric that you quilted that I gave you? I have misplaced some of the pictures, and I need to make sure I have your coordinating fabric to go with the pieces.

Look forward to Clamming with you! Just a warning! These bags are addicting!

Thank you all!

Penni

NOTE: CLAM BAG CLASS is full! Penni will send out details about what we need to bring to class on Friday, October 11. Looks like we will be having great fun!

Workshops and Programs

MY QUILTY LIFE
Alex Anderson will be the featured speaker at our October 10 Guild
meeting. She is a quilter, television series host, and is the author
of various quilting books and fabric lines. She has also developed an
award-winning magazine. Anderson is a former host of HGTV’s “Simply Quilts,”
which aired for 13 seasons. She has also hosted a web series and a podcast.
She will be speaking about, “My Quilty Life.”

BOXES AND BEYOND!
Last month we delighted in hearing from Colleen Wise about her amazing
work with shadows to give a three-dimensional look to our quilts. Those of
us who took the class worked diligently with light, medium, and dark
contrast to create Boxes and Beyond! If you took the class, please bring
your work, finished or not, for show and tell.

Worth Repeating: 2025 Guild Retreat

It’s that time!  Starting October 1, 2024, you can sign up for the 2025 Retreat, which will be held at the Aldersgate Conference Center in Turner, Oregon.  The dates for the retreat are April 22 – 25, 2025.

Really good news: The lighting has been upgraded, and the auditorium where we sew is much, much brighter.

The cost for a room, nine meals, and all the fun is $360 per person.  RV spaces with full hookups are $190 and include all the meals and fun.  If you choose the RV option, it is still $190 per person.

We will take in-person sign-ups at the October, November, January, and February meetings.  A $50 deposit will hold your place; you must be paid in full by the February 2025 Guild meeting.

The Guild website has the updated information and a fillable registration form (at the top of the Retreat page).  A completed registration form is required with your deposit.  If you are unable to print the form from the website, we will have paper copies at the meetings.  If you mail in your form and deposit, please send it to:  Viki West, PO Box 349, Yachats OR 97498.  When you fill out your form, please indicate any dietary needs and whether you want to participate in the Jewel Tone 2-1/2” Strip Exchange.

The 2025 Retreat is also offering a challenge: When you sign up, if you want to participate, you will get a piece of fabric to use in anything you want to make.  You can add as many other fabrics as you want, and your item does not have to be a quilt or quilted.  The only requirements are that the fabric we give you has to be visible and the item needs to be completed when you arrive at the retreat.  If you are sending your registration in the mail and want to participate in the challenge, we will mail you the fabric.

Any questions, please email Viki West at bogie07@comcast.net.

Community Quilts 

Thursday, October 3rd,  will be our first meeting at our new storage at the St. Luke’s by the Sea Episcopal Church in Waldport.  Stop by anytime from 10 am to 2 pm to see what we’ve got going on.  Address is 1353 Hwy 101 South.

2025 Guild Retreat

It’s that time!  Starting October 1, 2024, you can sign up for the 2025 Retreat, which will be held at the Aldersgate Conference Center in Turner, Oregon.  The dates for the retreat are April 22 – 25, 2025.

Really good news: The lighting has been upgraded, and the auditorium where we sew is much, much brighter.

The cost for a room, nine meals, and all the fun is $360 per person.  RV spaces with full hookups are $190 and include all the meals and fun.  If you choose the RV option, it is still $190 per person.

We will take in-person sign-ups at the October, November, January, and February meetings.  A $50 deposit will hold your place; you must be paid in full by the February 2025 Guild meeting.

The Guild website has the updated information and a fillable registration form (at the top of the Retreat page).  A completed registration form is required with your deposit.  If you are unable to print the form from the website, we will have paper copies at the meetings.  If you mail in your form and deposit, please send it to:  Viki West, PO Box 349, Yachats OR 97498.  When you fill out your form, please indicate any dietary needs and whether you want to participate in the Jewel Tone 2-1/2” Strip Exchange.

The 2025 Retreat is also offering a challenge: When you sign up, if you want to participate, you will get a piece of fabric to use in anything you want to make.  You can add as many other fabrics as you want, and your item does not have to be a quilt or quilted.  The only requirements are that the fabric we give you has to be visible and the item needs to be completed when you arrive at the retreat.  If you are sending your registration in the mail and want to participate in the challenge, we will mail you the fabric.

Any questions, please email Viki West at bogie07@comcast.net.

Executive Board Meeting Minutes

The September 19, 2024, Guild board meeting minutes are posted on the Meeting Minutes web page.

Finishing School

We invite you to join us on September 26 from 10:00 am to 3:30 pm at the Carriage House at the Lincoln County Historical Museum at 545 SW 9^th St. in Newport. Come at any time and stay as long as you’d like! Bring a sack lunch or go out–whatever you would rather do.

It is a great time to work on a project without being interrupted. You may bring your machine or hand work, and we will have an iron there for you to use. It’s also a great way to get to know other guild members and get help on a project that you need advice on.

Finishing School is a fun time for all!

If you’ve never done a byannie bag, this is your chance!

$45 will get you a complete kit, including pattern and everything else you’ll need to make the bag, plus a full day of FUN! This is a fun and easy bag to start with and a great gift idea. Christmas is around the corner.

You will need your sewing machine and regular supplies, including the following:

• Lunch
• Wonder Clips
• Thread
• Stiletto
• Small Ruler
• Scissors and/or Rotary Cutter
• Flex Pen

I’d love to have you join me!

Penni Myers

September 2024 Guild Meeting Minutes

The latest guild meeting minutes are posted on the Meeting Minutes web page.

A Gentle Reminder: 

Our guild general meetings will go back to monthly daytime meetings starting with the October 10 meeting:

Meeting: 1:00 to 3:00 pm. Table Walk: 12:30 pm

Same Place, Different Time

A gentle reminder: Our guild general meetings will go back to daytime meetings starting with the October meeting: 1:00 to 3:00 pm. Table Walk: 12:30 pm.

“Get ‘er Done” Project-of-the-Month

We challenge our Guild members to get those UFOs done! We know it is sometimes hard to motivate yourself to finish old projects or start on a project that is intimidating. We want to help you get over the hurdle and help you create and enjoy the satisfaction of a finished project!

From October through May, we will choose one project a month–out of eight projects you select from your unfinished or yet-to-be-started projects that you would love to complete in 2024-25. Here’s how it works:

1) Choose eight projects in SEPTEMBER and make a list, numbering the projects 1 through 8. This way, you’ll know exactly what they are. You can list the pattern name or the kind of fabric you’ll be using, or any other comments you’d like to make about the project.  Bring your list to the October guild meeting.  NOTE: You can choose fewer projects, just number 1-?, but will only participate in the month that your number is chosen.

2) Find a convenient way to store your projects, so they are accessible and easy to find. As you know, it’s very easy for things to get lost in the sewing room! (I have my projects in shoe boxes or bigger containers, if needed, each with a number taped to the box.)

3) At each monthly Guild meeting, starting in October, we will randomly select a number from 1-8 and that is the project you will work on during the month. Some will be easy-peasy (I’m thinking pillow cases); others will be a challenge to complete in a month. Even if you don’t get a project all finished, you’ll be way ahead of where you were on that project. If you finish it, you can celebrate and maybe win a fun gift!

4) Bring your finished project to the next Guild meeting to share and celebrate your accomplishment. Each member who finishes their project-of-the-month on time will go into a monthly drawing for a fun prize (two winners). In addition, everyone who finishes their challenge for the month will go into a grand prize drawing in June. The more projects you complete on time, the greater your chances to win!

Let’s have fun and get these done together!

Jane Szabo and Nancy Nash

Reminder: If you have a challenge idea, please bring it to the September 19 board meeting at 10 a.m., via Zoom.  Please contact Nan, and she will send the Zoom link to you, if you don’t already get it.  See article below.

You’re Being Challenged . . .  to Challenge the Guild!

It hardly seems possible, but it’s time for another challenge to be selected by the Executive Board! Please join the meeting, if possible, so that the Board can clarify any questions, and it would be helpful to send a copy of your idea to President Darcy de la Rosa before the meeting so that she can send it out with the agenda.

Usually, challenge entries are size-limited (20”- 30” on a side) so that there will be room to display them in the quilt show. There are special ribbons for first, second, and third place. The participation ribbons are often handmade, but that’s not a requirement. Remember, if your challenge is selected by the board, you must coordinate the submissions by:

–Communicating the “rules” and requesting entries at each meeting;
–Accepting the entries at the June meeting;
–Displaying them at the June and July general meetings. (Voting will be online.)
–Hanging them at the quilt show in August (with a helper or two); and
–Attending Executive Board meetings as Challenge Chairperson.

OCQG has had some wonderful challenges over the years, and hopefully 2025 will carry on the tradition. Questions? Ask a former challenge coordinator (Diane Tillotson, Becky Mershon and others) for answers. Please—challenge the guild with your challenge!

Jean Amundson

Quilt Show Co-chairs Needed

The Guild needs new co-chairs for the 2025 Quilt Show.  It takes two to three members to make it easier. The Guild already has lots of volunteers continuing on their subcommittees.  Please consider rounding up your friends for this job.

Your first duty will be to choose the next Featured Quilter to be revealed in December.  There is a lot of helpful info available.

Chat with Jane Szabo or Darcy de la Rosa for more information and to sign up.

Leftover Sale

The Guild has some leftover notions from the Quilt Show: pins, thread, Steam-A-Seam, and more will be for sale at the September 12th Guild meeting.

Check out the bargains during the 5:30 pm Table Walk, bring some extra cash, or charge (with an over $10 purchase).

These bargains won’t last long.

This is our last evening meeting for the year, so come and enjoy Colleen Wise talk about adding depth to your quilts.

Jane Szabo

I Goofed!

In the article last week asking for challenge ideas, I should have said that the participation ribbons are often handmade . . . I wrongly typed that the challenge quilts are often handmade—a big error! It’s the ribbons, folks, not the quilts! (See revision in bold below.)

Jean Amundsen

You’re Being Challenged to Challenge the Guild!

It hardly seems possible, but it’s time for another challenge to be selected by the Executive Board!  If you have a challenge idea, please bring it to the September 19 board meeting (10 a.m., via Zoom). Please join the meeting, if possible, so that the Board can clarify any questions, and it would be helpful to send a copy of your idea to President Darcy de la Rosa before the meeting so that she can send it out with the agenda.

Usually, challenge entries are size-limited (20”- 30” on a side) so that there will be room to display them in the quilt show. There are special ribbons for first, second, and third place. The participation ribbons are often handmade, but that’s not a requirement. Remember, if your challenge is selected by the board, you must coordinate the submissions by:

–Communicating the “rules” and requesting entries at each meeting;
–Accepting the entries at the June meeting;
–Displaying them at the June and July general meetings. (Voting will be online.)
–Hanging them at the quilt show in August (with a helper or two); and
–Attending Executive Board meetings as Challenge Chairperson.

OCQG has had some wonderful challenges over the years, and hopefully 2025 will carry on the tradition. Questions? Ask a former challenge coordinator (Diane Tillotson, Becky Mershon and others) for answers. Please—challenge the guild with your challenge!

Community Quilters Move to New Location

If you are planning to come to help Community Quilters move on September 5th, Thursday, please text or call, so Lindanne knows you are coming.

You’re Being Challenged to Challenge the Guild!

It hardly seems possible, but it’s time for another challenge to be selected by the Executive Board!  If you have a challenge idea, please bring it to the September 19 board meeting (10 a.m., via Zoom). Please join the meeting, if possible, so that the Board can clarify any questions, and it would be helpful to send a copy of your idea to President Darcy de la Rosa before the meeting so that she can send it out with the agenda.

Usually, challenge entries are size-limited (20”- 30” on a side) so that there will be room to display them in the quilt show. There are special ribbons for first, second, and third place. The participation ribbons are often handmade, but that’s not a requirement. Remember, if your challenge is selected by the board, you must coordinate the submissions by:

–Communicating the “rules” and requesting entries at each meeting;
–Accepting the entries at the June meeting;
–Displaying them at the June and July general meetings. (Voting will be online.)
–Hanging them at the quilt show in August (with a helper or two); and
–Attending Executive Board meetings as Challenge Chairperson.

OCQG has had some wonderful challenges over the years, and hopefully 2025 will carry on the tradition. Questions? Ask a former challenge coordinator (Diane Tillotson, Becky Mershon and others) for answers. Please—challenge the guild with your challenge!

Meeting Coordinator Volunteers Needed

The Guild is in urgent need of a new Meeting Coordinator.  Their duties include:

–Arriving early to the meetings to make sure the setup is correct (the church sets up chairs and tables and puts them away);
–Unlocking the doors, opening the blinds, turning on the lights and getting out the speaker system (a moving cart is provided), and turning on the TV;
–Making sure everything is put away at the end of the meeting, although each committee puts away their own things.

Instructions are all laid out in picture form to make it easy.

It would be a great two- to three-person job, so ask your friends to help you, then you have a backup if you can’t make the meeting.  I know most people come early to the meetings anyway.

The Zoom meeting person is also looking for help when they are gone.  You just need a laptop and to know how to sign into Zoom, easy.  Instructions are provided.

Please talk to Jane or Darcy for more details and to volunteer.

Jane Szabo, janeszabo@yahoo.com

OCQG  Board Meeting Minutes

The minutes of the July 18 and August 15 Executive Board meetings of the Guild are available on the Meeting Minutes page of the website.

Lap App for Sale

Cheryl Kramer has a gently-used Lap App for sale. $35. Those interested can check out an informational video on The Lap App here.