Activities Page Quick Links
Overview
Quilting Workshops
Retreats
Techniques and Demonstrations
General Meeting Demonstrations
Sit and Sew Events
Quilting Challenges
2024 Pizza Box – Block Exchange
2021 Fabric Challenge
UFO Challenge
Fat Quarter of the Month
Block of the Month – Overview
Block of the Month By Date Presented
Block of the Month in Alphabetical Order
Monthly Drawing
Winter Bazaar
Activities Overview
TVQG offers a variety of member participation activities including quilting workshops, two yearly retreats, quilting challenges, quilting demonstrations, and scheduled open sewing days. These activities offer quilters of all experience levels an opportunity to interface with fellow quilters within both the guild and the community.
Quilting Workshops
Throughout the year, TVQG may offer quilting inspired workshops. Workshops are open to the entire quilting community and are not limited to guild members. Occasionally, there is a fee to attend our sponsored workshops. Information about upcoming workshops will be distributed as it becomes available and will include dates, locations, and fees.
Retreats
TVQG holds two retreats each year. One at the Tilikum Camp and Retreat Center and a second fall retreat. Locations for the Fall Retreat are still being considered and will be announced as further information becomes available.
For information retreats please contact the individual retreat coordinator(s).
Tilikum Retreat
2024 Tilikum Retreat Information:
The 2024 Retreat at the Tilikum Lodge is sold out. However, we would be glad to add your name to our Wait List should we experience any cancelations.
Tualatin Valley Quilt Guild is delighted to announce we have scheduled our Annual 2024 Retreat at Tilikum Lodge and Retreat Center in Newberg, Oregon April 18, 2024, through April 21, 2024.
2024 Information and Forms
Retreat Packet
Retreat Form Only
This year’s retreat coordinators are Judi Derry, jdderry63@gmail.com, Sue Capell, capellsue@gmail.com, and Carol Springer, carol.springer@gmail.com. Please contact any member of our team if you have any questions or need further information.
Here are some of the ladies that attended the 2023 Retreat
They are a silly group indeed…
TVQG 2024 Fall Retreat
This retreat is still in the planning stages. We will post additional details as they becomes available.
Techniques, Demonstrations
At times TVQG will offer techniques and demonstrations during Sew Days, or Retreats. Select the links below to view some of the handouts distributed during these demonstrations.
Simple OnPoint Quilt
Easy Tote Bag
No Waste Flying Geese
10-Minute Table Runner
Half Square Triangle Tips
Easy Peasy Chain Stitch
General Meeting Demonstrations
Occasionally TVQG will offer quilting demonstrations during our General Meetings. Following are some of the topics that have been covered at prior meetings:
Tie-Dye Fabric
Baskets & Bowls
3-D Blocks
Quilted Stemware Coasters
Sit and Sew Events
Our Sewing Days are open to anyone in the community who would like to participate. Quilters attending Sewing Days are afforded the opportunity to interface with fellow quilters and have their quilting-related questions answered in a group setting. An informational quilting tip, handout or instructional presentation may be offered during our Sit and Sew Events.
Saturday Monthly Open Sit and Sew Day
The fourth or last Saturday of every month TVQG hosts a monthly Open Sit & Sew Day between 10:00 am and 3:00 pm. Our Open Sew Days are held in the Multipurpose Room of the King City Clubhouse. All TVQG Members, friends, and members of the local community are welcome to join us. There is no cost to attend. Lunch is on your own. We will have ironing stations and cutting tables set up for you to use.
We welcome you to join us based on your schedule. Feel free to drop by anytime during our Open Saturday Sit & Sew Days. You are not obligated to spend the whole day. Don’t feel like bringing your sewing machine? That’s ok – bring a hand sewing project, or the knitting, crocheting, or needlework project you are working on. The focus of our Sit & Sew days is for you to simply join us to chat and enjoy each other’s company. You may even learn a new sewing trick or technique while spending some time with fellow quilters.
So, please mark your calendar to join us on the Saturday of every month. Think of it as a mini-retreat or just to spend an unstructured day interfacing your fellow quilters.
Quilting Challenges
Each year we offer one or more quilting challenges. These challenges are designed to help quilters develop or expand their creative skills. Usually, participants in these challenges are offered the opportunity to receive a prize for their efforts.
2024 Challenges
For 2024 our challenges will involve both a Mystery Quilt a a new Pizza Box Challenge. Stay tuned for details on both of these events.
2024 Sampler Quilt Block Exchange
AKA – “The Pizza Box Challenge”
This anonymous challenge started in March 2024 with our Challenge Team handing out a “pizza box” for the participants to document their preferences and store any preferred fabric.
This challenge consists of your making three different blocks of your choice based on the original participant’s instructions and fabrics (if included). Then each month for the next five to six months quilters will make and add three additional unique quilt blocks to another participant’s pizza box.
At the conclusion of the challenge the original participant will receive their pizza box back filled with an assortment of unique completed blocks all ready to assemble in to a quilt.
If you are interested in participating in this challenge, please visit the “Pizza Box Challenge Desk” at the next meeting.
UFO Challenge
Each calendar year we hold a UFO Challenge. This challenge is meant to encourage our quilters to complete their unfinished projects (UFO’s).
Our current UFO Challenge for began on January 1, 2024, and will run through the December 31, 2024. Prizes for UFO participants will be awarded at the January 21, 2025 meeting. Guild members are not required to turn in a form documenting their current UFO projects. Participation in this challenge is on the honor system and there is no fee to participate. For each completed UFO that is presented during the Show and Tell portion of a General Meeting in 2024, you are eligible to receive a ticket. Prizes for participating in this challenge will be awarded in a random ticket drawing at the January 2025 General Meeting.
And, by the way, if you aren’t familiar with the term UFO for quilters it stands for any UnFinished quilt Object (project).
Past Challenges
2022-2023 Charity Quilt Challenge
This challenge concluded om May 16, 2023 with 59 quilts filtered through the Project Linus organization to CARES NW organization on May 25, 2023.
TVQG would like to present our 2023 Quilt Challenge to our guild members. This challenge consists of creating a book-themed child’s quilt to benefit the CARES Northwest organization.
Challenge Details
- Quilter picks a book
- Find a book that you would like to gift to a child
- The book may be new or used, as long as it is in good condition.
- Quilter makes a quilt that depicts some element from the book.
- Your quilt may be as simple or as complex as you choose just as long as it represents even the simplest details from the book, such as a color.
- Your quilt should be child-sized (infant through juvenile), with a minimum size of approximately 36” x 40” and a maximum size of 45” x 60”.
- Participants will have from January 17, 2023, until the May 16, 2023, General Meetings to complete their project.
- At the May 16th General Meeting quilters will be given the opportunity to present their quilt along with the book that inspired it.
- Donated quilts will then be forwarded to CARES Northwest
- We are hoping to have a Cares Northwest representative at the May General Meeting who will give our members an overview of their organization and receive our completed quilts.
The CARES Northwest organization is one of the various charities TVQG quilters support. CARES Northwest helps abused or neglected children by providing them with a quilt. Their mission is to stop child abuse and neglect through multidisciplinary prevention, medical evaluation, and ongoing treatment in partnership with the community. To find additional information about CARES NW visit their website at http://www.caresnw.org/.
2021-2022 Fabric Challenge
This challenge was introduced to TVQG members at the October 2021 General Meeting and ran until the March 15, 2022, General Meeting. The goal of this challenge was to submit a complete and labeled quilt using a half yard of the featured fabric.
At the March General Meeting, seventeen quilters presented their quilts which were passed on to the Project Linus representatives, Alvera Gaskins and Sue Scott who attended our meeting.
Project Linus is a non-profit organization that provides handmade blankets to children in need. Since 1995 Project Linus has delivered over 860,099 blankets.
For additional details about the challenge, refer to the Fabric Challenge Handout.
FORMER CHALLENGES
Round Robin Challenge
Challenge concluded in February 2020
View Photos of some of the beautiful quilt tops completed in this challenge
CARES NW Quilt-Book Challenge
Challenge concluded in February 2020
View Photos of some of the 57 quilts we donated from this challenge
Jelly Roll Strip Challenge
Challenge concluded in 2019
Fat Quarter of the Month
At each general meeting, our quilters bring in various themed fat quarters. For each Fat Quarter brought in the quilter receives a raffle ticket.
2023-2024 Fat Quarter of the Month List
July 2023 – sunshine, bright sky
August 2023 – beach themes
September 2023 – fall colors: orange, yellow, red, brown, leaves
October 2023 – pumpkins, ghosts, witches
November 2023 – red, green, trees, football, basketball
January 2024 – snowflakes, light blue, white
February 2024 – hearts, love, candy hearts, red, pink, white, Valentines
March 2024 – tulips, daffodils, spring colors
April 2024 – clouds, rain, showers
May 2024 – spring flower prints & colors, pink, yellow, pale orange, pale violets, creamy white
June 2024 – sunshine, baseball
Block of the Month
At each General Meeting, a block of the month pattern is presented to our quilters. Members have the opportunity to increase their skills by making one or more of these blocks. Blocks are brought into the next monthly meeting where they are displayed. For each block that you bring in you’ll receive a drawing ticket. At the conclusion of the Block of the Month presentation, a drawing is held and one lucky winner gets to take home an entire collection.
Marcia Bertalot is our 2023-2024 Block of the Month Coordinator.
About Finished vs. Unfinished Block Sizes
Following are links to access both our current and prior block-of-the-month patterns:
Block of the Month By Date Presented
Block of the Month in Alphabetical Order
Monthly Drawing
Each month two gift certificates are awarded to quilters attending the General Meeting. Everyone attending the meeting, guests included, will receive a ticket for the drawing. Members may earn a second ticket for the drawing, just by wearing a name tag.
Winter Bazaar Information
Winter Bazaar dates are November 10, and 11, 2023.
TVQG is a yearly participant at a local Winter Bazaar sponsored by the King City Lions Club. This yearly event is held at the King City Civic Association (KCCA) Clubhouse located at 15245 SW 116th Ave, Portland, OR 97224. This bazaar features handcrafted items created by local artisans including items created by TVQG’s guild members.
Funds made from the Winter Bazaar help our guild to provide a fantastic array of speakers throughout the year, they offset our operating costs, are used to buy quilting supplies for our charity quilting groups, and allow us to donations to other non-profit organization.
2023 Winter Bazaar Information
Print Large Winter Bazaar Labels
Print Small Winter Bazaar Labels
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