For the best experienceDownload the Mobile App
App Store Play Store
More than 300 quilts a year: This tiny Oregon club is doing big things with a needle and thread
More than 300 quilts a year: This tiny Oregon club is doing big things with a needle and thread
More than 300 quilts a year: This tiny Oregon club is doing big things with a needle and thread

Published on: 04/10/2026

This news was posted by Oregon Today News

Go To Business Place

Description

Quilts made by members of the Hugo Ladies Club/Schoolhouse Quilters are on display inside the club's one-room schoolhouse in southern Oregon’s Hugo.Members share quilting techniques while making machine and hand quilts, piece traditional and modern patchwork, applique and embroidery.“Join us,” said club president Larsja Peterson. “We sew starting at 9 a.m. on Fridays and we gather on many Tuesdays to make comfort quilts and work on personal projects, and there are lots of social activities.”The club’s oldest member, Mary Baird, 92, makes scrap quilts to donate to Dorcas Community Service, which offers food, clothing and and low-cost bedding to those in need in the Grants Pass area.Betty Bassett makes quilted flap bags, miniature dollhouse beds and other pieces that incorporate the color purple.Quilts made by members of the Hugo Ladies Club/Schoolhouse Quilters are on display inside the club's former one-room school house in southern Oregon’s Hugo.Quilts made by members of the Hugo Ladies Club/Schoolhouse Quilters are on display inside the club's former one-room school house in southern Oregon’s Hugo.Members of the Hugo Ladies Club/Schoolhouse Quilters meet each Friday in a former one-room school house in southern Oregon’s Hugo.Betty Bassett makes quilted flap bags, miniature dollhouse beds and other pieces that incorporate the color purple.Members of the Hugo Ladies Club/Schoolhouse Quilters meet each Friday in a former one-room school house in southern Oregon’s Hugo.Members of the Hugo Ladies Club/Schoolhouse Quilters meet each Friday in a former one-room school house in southern Oregon’s Hugo.Members of the Hugo Ladies Club/Schoolhouse Quilters meet each Friday in a former one-room school house in southern Oregon’s Hugo.Members of the Hugo Ladies Club/Schoolhouse Quilters meet each Friday in a former one-room school house in southern Oregon’s Hugo.Members of the Hugo Ladies Club/Schoolhouse Quilters meet each Friday in a former one-room school house in southern Oregon’s Hugo.Betty Bassett makes quilted flap bags, miniature dollhouse beds and other pieces that incorporate the color purple.Members of the Hugo Ladies Club/Schoolhouse Quilters meet each Friday in a former one-room school house in southern Oregon’s Hugo.Members of the Hugo Ladies Club/Schoolhouse Quilters meet each Friday in a former one-room school house in southern Oregon’s Hugo.Members of the Hugo Ladies Club/Schoolhouse Quilters meet each Friday in a former one-room school house in southern Oregon’s Hugo.Members of the Hugo Ladies Club/Schoolhouse Quilters meet each Friday in a former one-room school house in southern Oregon’s Hugo.Kathy Goff, left, and another members of the Hugo Ladies Club/Schoolhouse Quilters were talking in the schoolhouse kitchen on a recent Friday gathering.Members of the Hugo Ladies Club/Schoolhouse Quilters meet each Friday in a former one-room school house in southern Oregon’s Hugo.Kathy Goff, left, and another member of the Hugo Ladies Club/Schoolhouse Quilters held up a recent quilt.Members of the Hugo Ladies Club/Schoolhouse Quilters meet each Friday in a former one-room school house in southern Oregon’s Hugo.Members of the Hugo Ladies Club/Schoolhouse Quilters meet each Friday in a former one-room school house in southern Oregon’s Hugo.Members of the Hugo Ladies Club/Schoolhouse Quilters meet each Friday in a former one-room school house in southern Oregon’s Hugo.Members of the Hugo Ladies Club/Schoolhouse Quilters meet each Friday in a former one-room school house in southern Oregon’s Hugo.Members of the Hugo Ladies Club/Schoolhouse Quilters gathered inside a former one-room schoolhouse, built in 1894.Members of the Hugo Ladies Club/Schoolhouse Quilters meet each Friday in a former one-room school house in southern Oregon’s Hugo.

Stitch by stitch for almost a century, members of the Hugo Ladies Club/Schoolhouse Quilters have been creating community and quilts in the rural southern Oregon community of Hugo, north of Grants Pass.

News Source : https://www.oregonlive.com/living/2026/04/more-than-300-quilts-a-year-this-tiny-oregon-club-is-doing-big-things-with-a-needle-and-thread.html

Other Related News

Looking for the best Alfredo in Portland? Readers say this restaurant serves it better than anywhere else
Looking for the best Alfredo in Portland? Readers say this restaurant serves it better than anywhere else
Looking for the best Alfredo in Portland? Readers say this restaurant serves it better than anywhere else

04/10/2026

Last week we asked whats the best place for pasta in the Portland area for The OregonianOr...

Oregon has more than $1 billion in uncollected criminal justice debt and advocates say it's keeping people trapped in poverty
Oregon has more than $1 billion in uncollected criminal justice debt and advocates say it's keeping people trapped in poverty
Oregon has more than $1 billion in uncollected criminal justice debt and advocates say it's keeping people trapped in poverty

04/10/2026

Oregons patchwork system for collecting fees fines and restitution from people facing crim...

‘I might,’ Kamala Harris says of a 2028 presidential bid. ‘I’m thinking about it. I’ll keep you posted’
‘I might,’ Kamala Harris says of a 2028 presidential bid. ‘I’m thinking about it. I’ll keep you posted’
‘I might,’ Kamala Harris says of a 2028 presidential bid. ‘I’m thinking about it. I’ll keep you posted’

04/10/2026

Kamala Harris stopped short of committing to a 2028 presidential bid on Friday but the for...

FAA wants video gamers to become air traffic controllers as it rolls out new hiring campaign
FAA wants video gamers to become air traffic controllers as it rolls out new hiring campaign
FAA wants video gamers to become air traffic controllers as it rolls out new hiring campaign

04/10/2026

The Federal Aviation Administration is recruiting its next generation of air traffic contr...

Husband of woman missing in the Bahamas also fell overboard while in custody, lawyer says
Husband of woman missing in the Bahamas also fell overboard while in custody, lawyer says
Husband of woman missing in the Bahamas also fell overboard while in custody, lawyer says

04/10/2026

Lynette Hooker vanished over the weekend after her husband told investigators she fell ove...

ShoutoutGive Shoutout
500/500