January meeting, a starman joins the EMQ

I like to think David Bowie would have approved of the Edinburgh Modern Quilt Guild. We are artistic, creative challenging in a constructive manner and occasionally a little bit disruptive :-)
First up was a goodly selection of house blocks for Sheena, can't wait to see how this comes together!

Jaquie didn't manage to get to the last meeting where we recieved our swap quilts from Melbourne, here is the one she recieved! What a stunner!

We welcomed a lovely new member! Welcome Ruth! Ruth is relatively new to quilting, but has been creative for many years in other crafts. We loved her show and tell, a beautiful jelly roll quilt made in William Morris fabrics. It was a present for her father who was delighted that it was going to be in a show and tell. We were delighted too, thank you Ruth.

Here is another of Ruth's current projects, big blocks showing off these lovely Japanese fabrics. Watch this space to see what this becomes?

Janice always has lovely different things to show us and this week was no exception. Charming sashiko sampler, done in her usual immaculate style.

Jo is doing a mystery block class, this is an example of what the first block will be. Two places left if you want to sign up!

A newer recruit, Sue is showing a really wonderful way with colour, just look at this quilt, charm packs and cathedral Windows, we want this pattern!

Robin is fast becoming Queen of the improv, you may have seen this on Instagram, it's for a swap. Lucky lucky partner.

Not content with that wee stunner, Robin showed off this beautiful hand pieced top, love the monochrome palette.

Here is Jaquie again with her ornament from the swap at Christmas.

Sheena with a fab jelly roll top, just waiting to be quilted, I have a feeling you may be seeing this again very soon ;-)

You know that feeling when you want a pattern and just can't find one? Not a problem for Audrey, she just makes her own!! What an amazing umbrella hanging! Very topical too ....

Cast your mind back to December when we made blocks for Fiona for a table runner. We made so many it turned into this ace table cloth!

We all know Tatyana is an angel, and to prove it she brought this in, her very own cute wee Tilda skating Angel.

What's this? Well I didn't have a show and tell but I knew we didn't have many mugs at the school venue so I whipped up a wee mug bag to take my own one along. Pattern is here if you want it.

Barbara brought along these lovely little dresses, they are heading off to an orphanage in Malawi. They are just so sweet, just like Barbara.

You can't see her but Jaquie is behind these geese, this is a wedding present. I often think the family and friends of quilters are very lucky people!

Poor Margaret was poorly, hope you are feeling better now! This is her swap mini from Melbourne, another beaut!

And that's it! See you next month.

International swapping part two!

Phew! To say Decembers meeting was full on is an understatement. Do you remember our international swap with the Melbourne modern quilt guild? The mini quilts they sent to us arrived in time for the December meeting.

 

I can't really describe the levels of excitement when unwrapping the box!

It would have been impossible to get everyone's names and swap partners, the ladies were way to eager to see their (quite frankly amazing!) minis.

A huge thank you to all the ladies of the Melbourne modern quilt guild we loved swapping with you!

I will leave you with the pictures I did manage to get of the ladies enjoying their wonderful minis.

 

 

 

 

 

Group shot!

 

 

 

December meeting - Even our cake is patchwork!

Go on, you are totally jealous aren't you :-) how awesome is our patchwork cake!! Decembers meeting hit new standards of fabulousness. We were having our traditional Christmas get together. Audreys patchwork cake did steal the show, which is saying a lot because our members baking is as good as their sewing!

 

 

Katy's Oreo cookie chocolate balls were pretty awesome too, as were Janes little salmon prawn nibbles. All in all a great gastronomic evening!

We had a show and tell too! Helens beautiful porthole quilt, all hand quilted too.

Do you remember Audrey's block was a flying geese strip in neutrals? Well here is the finished version! So lovely and soft.

Ok I will have to put my hands up and say I have no idea who made this! (Edited, the lovely Sue made this!) Honestly things were going fast and quick and I couldn't keep up with who had done what! But hey it's gorgeous and I know someone will tell me whose it was so I can correct this.

 

Robins bag, made from the improv portrait block taught by Jo at the stitchgathering.

Nope I didn't manage to get a note of who did this either!! Oh dear and I only had one glass of wine as well! Beautiful Liberty ornaments, I think these might have been part of our ornament swap. I didn't manage to get many pictures of those, but I think this was one of them.

Ahhhh! Janice! My notes say this was Janice?? Bother my notes also say that Sue did a stocking! Sooper pretty though I'll bet the recipient was well chuffed with this.

It's ok ta over must be Janice as here is Sue with her stocking! Both beautiful.

 

 

Janes show and tell was this box! She made it for our ornament swap

Beautiful twin needle quilting from our uber talented Tayana, a lovely you've got mail mini!

Awwww sweet hazel cushion from Barbara.

Lesley showed us her progress on the modern medallion quilt, fab colours.

Fiona asked for a Christmas disappearing nine patch block, I'm amazed at the variety of fabrics chosen, all super!

I mentioned we had a Christmas ornament swap! Because we all opened them at the same time I was a bit rushed to get pictures of them all, and boy there were some amazing ones, not least my very own one from Jaquie! It now has pride of place on my tree.

 

Talking of the lovely Jacquie I have to finish with this beautiful quilt. It has been mentioned in previous blog posts that Lesley is expecting a new addition to her family. Jacquie very kindly suggested that she use her bee block month for us all to make blocks for a quilt for Lesely.

 

And here it is! I haven't been able to fully capture the lovely teddy bear quilting done by Tatyana. But you know her work is awesome don't you!

 

And of course there was the delivery of the quilts from our swap with the Melbourne modern quilt guild but that's a whole other blog post!

Have a lovely Christmas!