Social Bite Village Quilt Drive 2019 – part 2

A few weeks ago I delivered another 11 quilts to the Social Bite Village.  For those of you new to my blog or can’t quite remember what this is about, check out my Quilt Drive Launch post here.

This is the 3rd batch of quilts I’ve dropped off in the past year, totaling 39 donated quilts.

Thank you so much to everyone who has made and donated a quilt to the drive!

I also heard from the village that 6 residents have already moved on to new lives with their own permanent homes and jobs, and of course they were delighted to take their quilts along with them!

 

So let’s have a look at the latest batch of quilts in more detail. The Quirky Quilters of East Kilbride came up trumps again with another 4 quilts!

Three of them with the same ‘square within a square’ pattern

The one below was made specifically by Anne Bruce. What wonderful cheery quilts!

One more  from the Quirky Quilter group, this lovely caramel coloured plus pattern which is by Maureen Bremner. Thank you so much lovely ladies of East Kilbride!

Another very generous quilter who has already  donated to this quilt drive, along with many others, is Sheila Williams (@budsmam on IG).

I love this brightly coloured HST quilt! It’s so lovely and scrappy too.

This next quilt is by a relatively new quilter, Mhairi, who has been coming along to my classes recently.

She made this lovely Disappearing Nine Patch quilt from re-cycled shirts, which has made it extra snuggly!

This very bright and dynamic Scrappy Trip Around The World quilt was made by my sister Jane.

I can’t remember whether Jane did this in a class I taught or whether I just explained how to do it during one of her stays, but I absolutely love it and she did some wonderful FMQ too.

Next up are 2 quilts made by another of my regular students, Paula.

This charming batik in lovely earthy colours, and this wonky cross quilt that Paula started at my Colour Theory workshop.

The first quilt is really Paula’s natural choice of colour palette but I made her step out of her comfort zone to produce this colourful beauty!

And just look at this fabulous label that Paula embroidered for the back of the quilt! What a wonderful message, thank you so much Paula.

Finally we have a couple of quilts that I had some involvement with!

Last Spring when I launched this quilt drive we held a couple of Sew-in days at my studio and I brought in a ton of orphan blocks. These were added to by others attending and these were divvied up by colour and style into enough for quilts.

These next two quilts were then taken away and pieced together by volunteers. The first one was pieced by Pam (@bonngiepam). It contains blocks made by me from my A Month in the Country BOM, and the same blocks but made by another volunteer and regular donator of quilts, Mags Scammell, who started the BOM but didn’t finish it. That large block at the bottom was a test block for a mini quilt I did for the book ’50 Fat Quarter Makes’.

The whole thing has a wonderful Autumnal feel. Well done Pam!

The second quilt is my favourite of all the quilt drive quilts so far, but that’s not really surprising as around 80% of the blocks were made by me! This was put together by Margaret who did a wonderful job and had lots of fun. Both quilts were then quilted by the very generous and talented Kelly Orr on her long arm (Kelly had already quilted 2 others in the previous batch), and then bound by me!

This quilt contains a lot of memories from classes I taught, like the Feather quilt block to the left (not actually my work!), and classes I attended. The Block with a diagonal line across it on the right is actually a quarter of a Union Jack block that I was attempting to make in an FPP class taught by Lynne Goldsworthy at the first Fat Quarterly Retreat!! That was the first time I ever met Lynne IRL 🙂

But I only made 3 of the quarters in the class and never got back to them. At least they live on in this fabulous quilt.

I thought you might also like to see the person patiently holding up all these quilts. It’s my youngest son Jacob!  Some of you might already follow him on Instagram where he posts amazing digital comics under @grebcomics.  He is quite camera shy so it’s amazing I managed to catch him ‘behind the scenes’ mucking around with the quilts!

We will be needing at least 20 new quilts for the Social Bite Village for next year, starting from late Spring and I will put a call out here.  But in the meantime if you have a quilt you would like to donate or are planning on making one, do please read the details about sizes and other things to consider in this blog post, and send me an email to let me know.

A huge thanks in advance if you do decide to donate and thank you again to all our wonderful, kind quilters!