2025 Showcase Quilters

As a celebration of our 50th Anniversary, we have invited our Central Oregon Guilds to each celebrate with us via their special exhibits.

They were given the choices of three different exhibit themes:

Log Cabin

Golden Anniversary

Sisters, Oregon

We are pleased to exhibit these collections on Quilt Show Day:

East of the Cascades Quilt Guild

Central Oregon Modern Quilt Guild

Redmond Quilt Guild

Crook County Quilt Guild

Mt. Bachelor Quilt Guild

Mountain Meadow Quilters

Central Oregon SAQA

Be sure to look for these exhibits on display throughout the town of Sisters on Quilt Show Day.

My husband and I have lived in Central Oregon for 55 years.  Most of those years have been spent quilting in my spare time. My husband’s 81 year old grandmother introduced me to quilting in 1965. Quilting for me brings peace. Quilting has brought with it amazing friendships and lots of travel fun experiences. I started quilting using cotton and just piecing. Then I became interested in applique. It took five different women at varying times to try to teach me how to do needle turn applique.  I just could not get it until finally the fifth person and I just clicked and I have never stopped appliqueing since. During the last 15 years I have gravitated towards wool applique. I love embroidery and embellishment and fancy stitches and collecting old buttons, etc. which lends itself to wool quilts. Finding wool is an obsession.  If I am in a mall or on the sidewalk and someone walks by with a wonderful wool coat or shirt or skirt, I  want to reach out and touch it and cut off a piece.  I have not given in to that impulse yet but it is there.  I probably need therapy.   

I like to repurpose wool and find the best wool at thrift stores, garage sales and friends who share their wool stash.  Using repurposed wool allows you to work with many different patterns that you cannot find in purchasing new wool.  You are working with different weights,  weaves and knaps.   I found a jacket that was made in Russia and it was fascinating feeling and working with that wool because it was so different in what I was use to.  I am adventuring out and have designed some of my own quilts in the last couple of years.  I like combining existing quilting pattern  elements into a quilt making an entirely new design.  (I am not an artist.  I cannot even draw stick figures).   I cannot die because I have so many patterns I just have to make and a fabric stash that calls to me every time I walk by the room it is stored in.

Mari’s quilts will be on view inside FivePine Lodge during Quilt Show Week: July 6 - 13.

Throughout the town of Sisters on Quilt Show Day, join us for a tour of 50 years of quilting with Jean. Celebrating our founder and her vision of sharing, celebrating and inspiring with quilts throughout the years.

These exhibits will be mapped for you to enjoy your journey of quilting over the years with Jean.

Stop by the east wall of the Stitchin’ Post to admire their Employee Challenge quilts. In celebration of the 50th Anniversary, the employees chose the Log Cabin pattern for their celebration quilts. These will be on view for all to enjoy on Saturday, July 12 - Quilt Show Day.