Big News

It is with great anticipation and some tear-stained reservation that Geri at The Pine Needle is announcing her retirement. After 25 years, she's earned it! We are excited for Geri and the opportunities now open to her, and while this is a bittersweet moment, the rest of us Pinecones are also excited about the adventure ahead.

It has been a wonderful quarter century and we have made life-time friends. All of us at The Pine Needle have enjoyed each and every day that we have shared with you.  It has been our honor that you have chosen to be one of our customers and we value you and your choices more than you know.

We know you will have lots of questions and will try our best to address them all. First off, from Wednesday Feb 21 through Monday Feb 26th we'll have everything 20% off. We've received some new goods and added more of our sample quilts for sale, so come on in!

The shop will temporarily close from Tuesday Feb 27th through March 7th while we are at the Sewing Expo in Puyallup (feel free to come visit our booths there for savings on kits, fabric, and notions!).

This means no Westside Modern Quilt Club meeting in February. In all likelihood, WMQC will go on hiatus for a few months as the shop transitions to it's next inhabitants. We are still planning on having our Black and White special exhibit at expo though, so keep working on your challenge quilts!

Our classes will also continue as scheduled. 

March 8 will mark the beginning of our everything must go final sale, and doors will close on April 1st.

Geri's not going away completely though -- she will run the retreats scheduled for 2018 and plans to devote her time, skills, and boundless energy to more retreats! If you are interested in being added to our 2019 retreat interest list just come on in to the shop before April 1, give us a call, or sign up online here. We'd love to continue the adventure!

Westside Modern Quilt Club - Jan 2018

  Happy New Year!

We've missed our monthly meetings, and with the full house at our January meeting, it looks like you missed us too. 

We started off by talking about our annual challenges. Last year's Transitions exhibit was well received at the NW Quilt Expo and we've been invited to exhibit at the Clark County Quilt Show in April. Our exhibit can include pieces from ANY of our previous challenges. That means it could be a Bridges, The Pearl, Modern Heritage, or Transitions quilt. If you would like to participate, please give your name and phone number to Kristin or Geri and plan on dropping off your quilt by March 15th.

Our challenge for 2018 will be Black and White. You can approach this as conceptually (or not) as you wish. The shortest sides should be no less than 36" and the longest no more than 60." 

Pinecone Kristin was our speaker for the evening. She shared some tips to get yourself organized and Get Things Done in the new year. 

Of course, Show and Tell is the best part of our meetings:

Deslie is the queen of letting the fabric do the work. Her "Wild Bush Flowers" quilt shows off the patterning in the Australian fabric of the same name beautifully.

Karen G showed off her tessellated fall leaves  quilt designed by the inimitable Sandy Rae, a beloved instructor in the shop who may be gone, but is definitelynot forgotten.

Mary Pat brought two quilts to share. The first is color blocks for a recent grad. The ombré fabrics add perfectly to the overall glow .

Mary Pat's second share was a fabulous indigo and taupe quilt who's relatively simple design shows off a fabulous collection of fabrics.

Sandy shared a cute little birdie wallhanging in progress.

Susan B shared her improvisational "crumb" quilt, made up of scraps! Her straight line quilting in overlapping peaks wowed us as well.

Cathy E shared her most recent Modern Baltimore Album oversized block with exquisite machine quilting. She hopes to enter her quilt into a show or two, so it will have to remain somewhat secret for the time being. We wish her all the best!

Please keep your eyes out for our monthly meeting email announcement. We'll be at the Sewing Expo in Puyallup, WA at the end of the month, so we may hold our next WMQC meeting a week early, or skip February. Stay tuned.