Tualatin Valley Quilt Guild - TVQG

01/07/2026

New Year's resolutions...if someone says, "my great aunt was a quilter and we have all this stuff..." If it's cotton, books, tools, magazines, contact [email protected].

01/06/2026

09/13/2025

Our Sept speaker will be Peggy Gelbrich. She has been quilting and helping others learn the joy of
quilt making for over 40 years.
As a quilt teacher, sharing the
art of quilt making is her passion. She has taught quilt making across the United States and in Canada teaching at large guild classes, quilting retreats and small private groups in her home. Her teaching style won her a nomination for Quilt Teacher of the Year sponsored by the Professional Quilter.
Peggy loves making traditional quilt patterns look new again with modern fabrics and techniques. She enjoys trying and learning different techniques in the quilt
making process, always looking for an easier way to conquer those seemingly intricate patterns.
Originally from Oregon, Peggy spent 22 years in Ketchikan, Alaska with her husband, Ron, raising their three children. With the children grown she and her
husband have come back home to Oregon.

08/12/2025

Please join for our August meeting Aug 19 at 7 pm our speaker will be Anya Doll.
Bio - The daughter of an artist and a banker/farmer,
Anya Doll has sought creative reconciliation of
dichotomy through art from a very early age. She
received simultaneous Bachelor of Arts degrees in
Theology and Elementary Education, which taught her
that exploration of life’s dilemmas is much more
effective while finger-painting with chocolate pudding,
and that perhaps children’s book authors and artists are
among our best philosophers.
In 2014, in response to the destructive powers of
mental illness in her family, Anya turned to art as a path
to learning how to love better while walking through the
chaos of the human condition.
Artist Statement
I explore similarities in apparent opposites. This has led
me to both challenging and inspiring places. Chaos is
inherent at all stages of life. I found however that
making art was a far preferable response than
challenging life to wrestling matches. Facing the
tensions inherent in the human condition by lovingly
creating out of the very messiness and even pain of
living has become my passion. In recent years,
navigating deeply challenging places my husband's
mental illness led us, often required more of me than I
could give. Two years before he ended his life in 2015, I
segued from acrylic painting to “painting with thread” -
- that is freestyle machine stitching of collaged fibers.
Pain, I have found, becomes a transformative practice
while creating meditation/prayer tapestries. Initially
inspired by Buddhist Prayer flags in the Himalayas, these
flags can be hung tied together or stand alone and be
framed. Each is made by layering hundreds of fibers and
fabrics to create an effect of colors glowing up from
below. Then I lower the feeder feet on my sewing
machine and move the piece around to sew in the
details. They have frayed edges to symbolize the release
of our intentions to love without the deterioration in the
elements.

04/30/2025

Block of the Month for May meeting. Disappearing Nine Patch. Sorry it is late.

Start with 5” squares. Use a Pastel solid or shows as solid in center, pastlel or light colored flower fabric in corners and white or off white in the other 4 squares.

03/04/2025

Support our local Quilt Shops.

01/30/2025

Great way to support a local guild and had to your stash at a great price.

Quilters Recycle Sale THIS SATURDAY, 9AM-3PM, NORTH PLAINS, ST. EDWARD CHURCH. Look for the blue balloons and QUILT SALE signs. Hwy. 26, Exit #57, Glencoe Road. Left on Commercial & right on 311th (behind Jesse Mays).

01/10/2025

Hope to see you at our January guild meeting on Jan 21 @ 7pm doors open at 6:30 for time to visit.

Our speaker is Susan Scott one of the founders of the guild and one of our early Presidents. She has been piecing for 15 years but isn’t a fan of the quilting part. She starting with apparel sewing but prefer to sew flat things now.

Her topic will be “Finishing a quilt, it’s MORE than binding”.

12/07/2024

Just a reminder! No guild meeting this month. Have a wonderfully Holiday with your family and we hope to see you at our general meeting on January 21st at 7 pm. Doors open at 6:30 for setting up and visiting.

12/04/2024

Finished the quilt that was started at the retreat. The blocks were made my those that attended. This will be donated.