Category: Meetings
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Improv Quilts
Post by Colette At our last meeting Shevvy talked to us about Improv Quilting. This is a popular way of working amongst Modern Quilters, the freedom to create, change your mind, not worry about matching seams and perfect points and to be led by the fabrics and colours is very appealing. Many of Shevvy’s improv pieces come to…
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Luke Haynes | “Quilt; as quilt, as art”
Luke Haynes visited the LMQG at our habitual meeting place the Star Tavern, Belgravia, on 12th on the October 2014. He brought with him stories, perspectives, bales of ideas that would shame the even his “Goodwill” fabric hunting grounds, and of course quilts. As quilts. And quilts as quilts, as art. Luke loved Purple. Purple…
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February’s Meeting round up
This month marks the second in our traditional block made modern challenge. Each block should be 12 1/2 inch square and we will be using them to make up charity baby quilts. If you’d like to join in, bring along your 12.5 inch block to the next meeting, on the 2nd March. We had a…
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Charity Quilts – The Octavia Trust
This week another large bundle of quilts have flown off to the Octavia Appeal at the Royal Brompton Hospital, all wrapped up and labeled. I thought I’d share photo’s of the 2nd lovely batch to be sent. Thank you so much for all your hard work.
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meeting with Liberty
Next Sunday is our regular meet up, with a special guest from Liberty coming to get our views and feedback on the Liberty Lifestyle quilting range, amongst other things. If you’re interested in coming along and for further information, please email us at londonmqg@gmail.com. Space is limited, so after our members have reserved their places…
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An Afternoon at Liberty
By Elena from Modern Olivia. This September, the LMQG had the pleasure of meeting with Sholto Drumlanrig, designer of the new Liberty Lifestyle Collection of quilting cottons. We met at the Heritage Suite within Liberty itself where Sholto, and sales/business manager Virginie, walked us through their process of creating and designing the new line. Sholto shared how…
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April’s meeting
We had a lovely spring day for this month’s meeting, held at once again at Tricolette. With 19 members, all getting settled, we had a surprise visitor – Aneela Hoey. Pennie had befriended Aneela upon discovering that they lived not too far from each other, and invited her to join us. Aneela shared her story of…
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February’s meeting
It snowed in London on Saturday night, just in time for Sunday’s second meeting of the London Modern Quilt Guild. So while we might have been a smaller group than we’d hoped, for those who did brave it through the snow (and for those who’s mode of transport was still running allowing them to), we…
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First London MQG meeting
The London Modern Quilt Guild had its first meeting today! We met in Soho at Le Pain Quotidien and afterward some of us wandered over to Liberty to shop for fabric – would have been rude not to… We have a great group and it was a really fun meeting. We planned our dates for…