The nonprofit group’s ninth annual show features about 80 handmade quilts and highlights the diversity of modern quilting.

A triple Irish chain pattern quilt will be raffled off by the Northwest Quilters. (Janet Eastman) Eileen G. Fitzsimons of Southeast Portland cares about quilts. She has been making them for 40 years ...

Gwen Johnson’s latest quilt starts with an eight-point star in brown, slate blue and a neutral pastel. Triangles come next and to finish, she surrounds the block with a frame of blue and brown.

The Petaluma Quilt Guild was founded in 1993 when quilting was enjoying a renewed heyday. Its purpose is to preserve the ...