I just came home from the Portland Modern Quilt Guild meeting. I am a newbie to the group. It is fabulous! It's held on the third Thursday evening for two hours from 7-9 pm. It's funny, inspirational, informative, charitable, creative, lovely group of very talented people, various ages from young to old (like myself) and just plain fun! There's many charity projects to get involved with, each month has a speaker or some sort of presentation, always a raffle or drawing of some sort, table of "freebies", challenge projects and a great social outlet. I come home with a new idea and a renewed motivation and inspiration. One thing I have learned is that there is no one meaning for "modern quilting". Tonight we had a great presentation on English Paper Piecing which I learned to do when I was a kid from my Grandmother! Go figure!