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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

Veterans Quilt Project

Veterans quilts were presented to 12 Lincoln County veterans at our last meeting on February 19. Friends and family attended to support their vets and expressed gratitude for acknowledging the service of their loved ones. You can view more pictures here.  Enjoy!

Welcome to Patchwork Oasis!

Our new quilt shop is open and you’ll be surprised at the new look inside the store. On first glance, you’ll notice the space seems more roomy, a design that was intentional by the new owner and operator, Bonnie Robinder. “One thing I knew that I wanted to do immediately was to make the walkways in the store more open and accessible to quilters using wheelchairs or walkers! Making the store safe and available to all quilters is dear to my heart.”

Bonnie spent her younger years in Portland, but moved  to Florida after her first husband passed away, traveling with her daughter and two friends, all of whom needed a change. She later married one of those friends, her husband Kevin, and relocated to Texas, where his parents lived, and they ended up staying there for over 25 years. They returned to Oregon this past July, and after a disappointment over their pre-arranged long-term rental (it was a scam), they decided to give Newport a second chance and stayed. She soon found Quilters Cove and before she knew it, she was purchasing the business and hasn’t looked back.

She’s really liking it so far. “I like helping people, helping you find fabric is one of those things that I seem to do really well.” A self-taught quilter, Bonnie has been quilting for 30 years. “I really wanted to learn to quilt when I was a kid, and my Aunt Lorraine used to have this summer camp for all the cousins. She had a big frame that she trundled up to the ceiling. She could get 15 people around that frame and kids as young as 5 or 6 were underneath, threading needles and pushing them up from the bottom.” She got to do it once and has always remembered it.

Her mom sewed clothes and she used to “steal” her scraps and sew them together, but nothing ever major until her kids were older,  and that’s when she picked it up. “I checked a book out of the library in the little town where we lived, the Leander Public Library. It was Quilting for Dummies. I checked it out
72 times, and the 73^rd time I checked it out, the lovely librarian, looked at me and said,  ‘You’ve checked this book out more times than anybody else has checked a book out in this whole library. This is yours. Keep it.’ And I still have that book.”

Bonnie considers herself a traditional quilter. “I make bed-sized quilts. I like the big ones, the queens, the kings.” She does everything, piecing and quilting. She doesn’t do applique, but has plans to learn that from Judy, a friend who helps out in the store and is responsible for the applique pieces you’ll see hanging in the store. Judy is excited about their plans to provide lessons at the store in the future, starting with an applique class.

But, first things first. They’re slowly getting things put together. The whole venture happened pretty fast: Sign a promissory note on this day and sign the bill of sale next day. “That two weeks was a whirlwind for us.” For now, she’s waiting for their official store sign to be installed and looking forward to being part of the quilting guild and the Lincoln County community.

Newport Quilt Store Open for Business

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

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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.

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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

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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:

EllenHawks@hotmail.com

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.

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“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?

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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:

Pamela Potter, Program and Workshop Chair, at quilterOCQG@gmail.com.