The Summer Round Up - Part 1

The Edinburgh Modern Quilt Guild has not been on holiday.  The silence belies how busy we have been.

The scarcity of updates is due to our Empress of Communication (and that is the official title) handing over to somebody (me) who has little ability to workout how to write a blog. So a huge thank you to Sheila for her great blogs and I hope I can measure up.

So what exciting things have the EMQG been up to?

In August, we raffled our Quiltcon 2017 charity quilt along with other great prizes in aid of Richmond's Hope raising £350 to help with their fantastic work. Winners have been notified.

We shared our favourite sewing notions from scissors to (empty) chocolate boxes, plus some gorgeous makes:

Mags' kaleidoscope of pinwheels had our heads turning in awe. 

Helen's amazing crosses inspired gasps front and back!

Now as I write this the little girl destined for this beautiful quilt has arrived, but Irene was patiently waiting for her grand-daughter back in August.

The incomparable Jo Avery shared her improv landscape which uses all the colours
from her recently released Aurifil thread collection - what a stunner! 

The final make I have a picture for (sorry I will get better at this!) is Ann's bonny blue cushion... A stunning use of solids!

Finally we had our Bee Blocks, due to summer holidays the blocks are coming in over a couple of meetings so we'll have to wait with bated breath to see the quilts bring them all together. I can't wait!

Yes, Pauline is being super organised for a Christmas quilt.

Shuffle forward in time to September, and we have a jam packed meeting with bee blocks, swap blocks and a bountiful audit of UFO/WIPs all to be seen in the Summer Round Up part 2.