OCQG Weekly Posts through Friday 1/3/2025 (7 posts)

Glorious Sweatshirt Class: UPDATE
Friday, January 10, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm.

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!

February 13 Meeting

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

February 14 Workshop, Improv Roses Galore

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.

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 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.

Thank you

Laurie Downing
lhdown@yahoo.com
(541) 270-4251

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.

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!

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.

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