OCQG Weekly Posts through Friday 12/13/2024 (5 posts)

Published by Nancy Nash on 14 Dec, 2024

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!

“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 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 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….

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.