Holiday Party and Membership Info

Join us for our annual CMQG Holiday Party this Friday, December 18th, from 6:30pm to 8:30pm at Block 15 Restaurant in the Game Room! 

This month we're swapping pillow covers. They don't need to be holiday themed but since this is a holiday party, lets wrap them like a real gift instead of the usual brown bag!! 

Please also bring a non-perishable food item/canned good for donation to a local food pantry. 

And lastly, don't forget it's time to renew your current CMQG membership (or join for the 1st time!). Please see our "buy now" option here on the blog to pay online. If you would prefer not to pay online, you can bring cash or check to the party on Friday. Please be sure to renew by 12/31. 

We hope to see you Friday!!

November Meeting

Friday, November 13th

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM 

OSU Craft Center

If you're participating in the swap, be sure to bring your swap item (Hour Basket) in a brown bag. 

Courtney is planning on piecing our QuiltCon Charity Quilt this weekend, so please be sure to bring your blocks!  If you are unable to finish your blocks for any reason (life happens), please let us know as soon as possible so we can arrange for the blocks to be made in time. 

October Sew Day

Sew day is this Saturday! Due to the OSU football game (#gobeavs!) we have a location change this month - we will meet at Market of Choice grocery store in the upstairs meeting room - take the stairs or elevator to the right of the coffee counter. We'll meet at our usual time: 12pm to 5pm. Any questions please ask! We hope to see you there!! (*a note from MOC - no outside food or drink is allowed. thanks!) 

October Meeting

Quilt made by Caroline Press (TrilliumDesign)

Join us for our monthly meeting this Friday, October 9th, 7PM-8:30PM at the OSU Craft Center in the Student Experience Center.  Bring your finished or in-progress quilts, bags, pillows, etc., to share. Our swap this month is a fall-themed mug rug.  If you're participating in the swap, please bring your item in a brown paper bag.  Please remember to bring your charity blocks to this meeting.  We need to get these blocks pieced (by Courtney) and then on to the quilter (Camille and her mom) as soon as possible. 

September Sew Day

CMQG  Sew Day

Saturday, September 26th

12 PM - 5 PM

OSU Craft Center

August Meeting

Here's the plan for this month's meeting on Friday, August 14th: 

Happy Hour/Dinner @ Sky High Brewing & Pub

160 NW Jackson (behind Sibling Revelry) between 1st & 2nd Streets

As they don't take reservations, please reply to either the email that was mailed out today or to our Facebook post (but not both), so that I can give them a number when I arrive around 5:15.  

We'll head over to Riverfront Park across 1st Street at approximately 7:00 PM

Bring a quilt to sit on or share; your EPP, knitting, crocheting, hand quilting, or whatever you want; and something to swap.  This month's swap is "swapper's choice" (thanks for the reminder, Tanya!).  Bring whatever you'd like to swap with someone. Just make sure it's something you'd also like to receive :) Maybe you have some items you've made to have on hand as gifts - bags, napkins, etc.

Let me know if you have any questions, and don't forget to reply to the email or Facebook post to let me know if you'll be able to join us.  

Member Spotlight: Caroline Press

Well, our small guild is slowly growing, and we've welcomed several new members lately.  Guess it's time to start introducing everyone so we can all get to know each other a little better.  

Meet Caroline Press, Secretary 

How long have you been quilting, and who/what inspired you to start? I have been quilting since 2010. I was inspired to start by Tula Pink.  Her fabric line Neptune had just come out and I wanted to make a quilt with it for my mother-in-law who lives at the beach.  The fabrics were just her colors and I knew she would love the quilt for her home. I hadn't ever quilted anything before but I just dove in and did it.  I practiced free-motion-quilting on a few doll quilts I made for my daughter and after that I felt I could complete the quilt. I couldn't have done any of this without the internet and countless bloggers who posted videos and photo tutorials of their step-by-step process. 

What is your favorite part of quilting? Probably choosing fabric. I love putting color stories together and dreaming up the designs. Sewing the first block is always fun but the rest is pretty mechanical. I do like hand-sewing on the binding mostly because I know the end is in sight and I do love pulling a finished quilt out of the dryer for the first time! 

What is one quilting technique that you would like to learn? Trapunto. Never done that before and I do like to play with textures. 

Do you have any other hobbies, crafty or otherwise? Oh yes. I am the craft queen. There probably isn't a craft I haven't tried but I try to limit myself to only a few, simply because I don't have the time for it all.  I do enjoy knitting a lot and always have. Other hobbies include skiing which I enjoy immensely, and interior design. 

Do you have any social media sites? 
Blog: www.trilliumdesign.blogspot.com
Etsy: www.trilliumshoppe.etsy.com
Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/trilliumFacebook
Instagram: http://instagram.com/trilliumdesign
Craftsy: http://www.craftsy.com/user/814093/