2025 Annual Fall Meeting

Please RSVP by October 29th!

Call the Museum at 541-565-3232 or email director@shermanmuseum.org.

The November 7th Quilt Documentation Day has three sessions available, and you will need to reserve your time slot. This is a free workshop.

The November 8th event is our Annual Fall meeting with a presentation by our guest quilt expert, Leslie Nelson, and dinner. $20 for a ticket.

Leslie is currently the Classroom Coordinator and Teacher Liaison for Pioneer Quilts in Portland, Oregon. She teaches Beginning Wool Applique and Embellishment, Japanese Traditional and Koki Sashiko, English Paperpiecing, Beginning Quilting and Dating of Quilts.

Her quilting legacy began at age 5 watching Grandma Margaret’s ladies quilt at the big frame in the basement. The “Quilting Bug” hit her after taking her first class with her mom at Daisy Kingdom in 1987. They quilted together from that time on.

In 1995 she was the Saturday Morning KGW News Quilt Lady, taking the ugly ties sent to the weatherman and creating a reproduction of an 1880’s fan quilt that was auctioned on-air for $10,000 for Doernbecher’s Children’s Hospital.

On a missions trip to Latvia in 2007, she raised funds to purchase sewing machines, fabric and quilting tools to teach a group of women how to quilt and helped them start a cottage industry to support themselves through their quilting.

And now as grandma, she is passing her love of quilting to her youngest granddaughter, Miss Harper, who is more of a perfectionist than she is, taking Blue Ribbons at the County Fair for her quilts since she was 8.

Quilting to her is a gift from God for it is “a little glimpse of what it must have been like to create our world by taking little pieces of nothing and creating a masterpiece.”

She loves all aspects of quilting from design inception to completion and has a real passion for restoring old quilts and writing quilt histories for them.

From the past to the next generation – through sharing her love of quilting - she believes you can teach key, honorable lessons for successful living that will carry you through life.