Edinburgh Modern Quilt Guild

It’s November at the EMQG

Another month has gone by and this one marked our return to our New Lanark retreats. It’s been 18 months since the last one, which was 3 weeks before lockdown and the idea that people were fighting over toilet rolls caused much hilarity. Little did we know what was coming! We have a huge function room to ourselves (it is really a very bright room but most of the daylight gets absorbed by the world’s most hideous carpet)

This is the sewing room on Saturday morning, everyone working away on various projects 

This is the sewing room half an hour later when word got round that there’s a maker’s market in the car park

Mags wondering how it’s possible that she’s been here for a day and has only completed 15 projects

 

Sheila’s Halloween project underway. It might possibly be finished by next year 

Lucy’s lockdown quilt is almost big enough to cover the carpet

Lucy looking cheerful despite not being allowed to go to bed until she’s finished the quilting

A really clever idea by Audrey to make this beautiful holly, and one which we’ll all be stealing straight away and claiming we thought of it ourselves

Karen has almost finished another storage container to put some of the the large pile of stuff on her table

Lucy celebrating finally being allowed to go home after finishing her quilt

Everyone trying to hide from the staff as they try to get them to leave 

The misery of having to leave our lovely retreat and the constant feeding of our faces was helped by having guild night to look forward to. And this month we are featuring our favourite lockdown quilts

This is Karen’s finished quilt from the Sheila Frampton Cooper workshop. Please note that there is not a single bird in this piece. We applaud her attempts to break her addiction

This is Catriona, one of our new members. This is her own design

                

                 This is one of Barbara’s many lockdown quilts

This is another of the lockdown QAL quilts. This one belongs to Heather, who not only made the quilt, but also corrected all my quilt maths in the design 

This is an illustration of the ingratitude of people’s children. This lovely quilt by Audrey was made for her french bulldog-owning daughter. She was so delighted with it that she put it straight in a cupboard. Audrey has now repossessed it and is planning to disinherit her daughter

At last! This is the full size and complete finished lockdown QAL by Lucy!

Last seen gracing the carpet from hell as it was dragged from sewing machine to ironing board by the increasingly weary Lucy

                              And this is the fabulous back!

      Juliet’s choice of lockdown quilt was her gynaecologically   themed piece made during Irene Roderick’s Zoom workshop 

This is Helen’s stunning rainbow version of the lockdown quilt

Apparently the Festival of Quilts judges didn’t like the background fabric in Jo’s lovely quilt. Obviously no taste

This is from Avril, another one of our new members. This is her Avery garland quilt which she worked on during lockdown

And this is Mag’s lockdown quilt, and so recently taken off Barbara’s longarm that this was the first time Mags had seen it

And this is Barbara’s other recent piece of work. It’s our Quiltcon community challenge quilt, finally quilted and bound and all ready for it’s trip to Arizona

That’s it for this month. Next month is our Christmas 

party night, complete with our bottle bag (obviously containing a bottle!) swap