Back in June I shared my latest batch of 6 donated Social Bite Village quilts in this post. At the same time I put out a call for some more quilts and you lovely generous quilters answered! Two weeks ago I dropped off 16 quilts! Thank you so much to all the wonderful donors. Now …
Earlier in the year I had been planning a series of ‘Sew-in Days’ at my shop to start making this year’s quota of quilts for the Social Bite Village Quilt Drive, but of course like so many things these couldn’t go ahead. This is a charity quilt drive that I started 2 years ago to …
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 …
Some of you may remember my call out for quilts for the Social Bite Village early last year, and then regular update posts showing all the beautiful quilts I received. You can read the first post here and the post when the village opened here. If you want to see more quilts just enter ‘social …
Last Sunday was the 6th annual Stitch Gathering! Every year I organise this one day event which is held in Edinburgh in October. Around 90 quilters come together for a fun filled day of sewing, chatting, shopping, learning and sharing! This year we had some new teachers such as the amazing Karen Lewis (seen here …
I have six beautiful new donated quilts to share with you but first I wanted to talk about the opening of the Social Bite Village! The official launch happened over a month ago with a gathering of all the folks involved in the project plus lots of media and local dignitaries. I attended with Jonathan …
I have had an absolutely fantastic response to my call-out for quilts for the Social Bite Homeless Village project! Thank you so much to all the quilter’s who have so far sent or promised quilts. So let’s have a look at some of this latest batch of charity quilts, and we’ll start off with a …
Welcome to a new charity quilt drive I am launching today! Some of you may know that my husband, Jonathan Avery, builds Tiny Houses for a living. About 18 months ago he was approached by a very remarkable man named Josh Littlejohn who is the driving force behind Social Bite. You can read all about …
About 18 months I launched a Quilt Drive to make a special quilt for Maggie’s Centre in Edinburgh. It was the brain child of one of my lovely students, Cat, who had recently had cancer and had got through the experience with the help of Maggie’s Centre and Quilting (Cat attended my Beginner’s Patchwork and …