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Now that the MPS Quilt Show has wrapped up, it’s time to turn our creative focus toward the 2025 MPS Quilt Challenge! This year’s theme is the word “Grateful.” What does grateful mean to you? Whether it’s a feeling, a person, a moment, or a memory—let your interpretation guide your design. There are no specific parameters other than one important note:If you’d like your project to be included in the 2026 MPS Outdoor Quilt Show, it must be no larger than 70″ x 90″. Challenge Quilt Reveal:Mark your calendars! We’ll unveil all the challenge entries at our General Meeting on the evening of November 25, 2025.Read More →

Rosalie "The Star We Make Together"

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Before we get too far into 2025, let’s take one more look back at 2024 with our final 25th Anniversary celebration.  On November 26th, at our General Meeting, our members revealed the final results of our 2024 Quilt Challenge.  In keeping with our anniversary focus for the year, Ruth T challenged us to make something using 25 of anything–be it 25 fabrics, 25 threads, 25 seams–you get the picture. All of our members were given a fat quarter of silver fabric to use in our challenge projects or any other way we wanted. Over a third of our membership embraced the challenge, and we revealed 42Read More →

Old Photos in a Box

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Submitted by Dianne McD. At the latest MPS Guild Meeting on Tuesday, November 28th, our 2023 Challenge Quilts were revealed.  It was a great evening of gazing upon beautiful and unique quilts made by the members that decided to take part in the challenge. As a reminder, our theme for 2023 was “Heritage on a Small Scale”.  We were encouraged to think back on our heritage and create a small, but meaningful quilt that represented what we saw as our heritage.  Some of participants looked to their heritage that came from foreign countries.  Others chose to represent the areas where their roots first took hold. Read More →

Norton quote

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Submitted by Dianne McD. Every time I hear someone say “You need to move out of your comfort zone…”, I want to gnash my teeth.  I’ve set up housekeeping in my comfort zone and I’m very happy there, thank you very much! On Tuesday, January 24, 2023, MPS hosted Frances Arnold as our speaker for the evening.  She spoke to us on the “Challenge of Challenges” and took us along on the journey of her challenge quilts beginning in the 1980’s to her latest quilt that was accepted in the 2023 Quilt Con show.  Before she began, she shared this quote from Richie Norton: It’sRead More →