Blue Mountain Quilters Guild
PO Box 41025 V3V 5Z9 Port Coquitlam, BC, Canada

Due to Dr Bonnie Henry's instructions on Saturday we will be cancelling the Parking Lot Get togethers. We will re -evaluate in 2 wks whether go ahead with them again. If you have any donation quilts to be handed in, please contact Dawna Robertson or Maureen Davies. Happy Sewing Everyone.

Several of our quild quilters are presenting in the Ioco Virtual Festival 2020. Brenda and Gail are at 1:51 and Maureen at 3:48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSrtEkh80Zw&feature=emb_logo

Here is the link for the Inclusion Art Show that was mentioned at our meeting tonight. https://www.inclusionartshow.com/

A 10 year, award winning global embroidery project by British artist Kirstie Macleod 2009 - 2019 The Red Dress, a decade long global embroidery project 2009-2019 by British artist Kirstie Macleod is centred around a red silk dress. Seed investment provided by the British Council in 2009 allowed the dress to begin its journey, and it has since travelled around the world being continuously embroidered onto by over 202 different artisans to date. At the heart of the project is a... desire to connect with women from all backgrounds and stages of life, and to create a platform in which they can express, feel empowered and be heard. All commissioned artisans were encouraged to create an embroidery that illustrated an element of their own identity; a story they would like to share. All artisans were paid for their work, and a comprehensive page detailing their embroidery, and unique story's will be coming soon. Embroiderers include refugees in Palestine, victims of civil war in Kosovo, Rwanda and DR Congo, individuals in South Africa, Kenya, Japan, Paris, Sweden and Peru, upmarket studios in Bombay and Saudi Arabia, artists in Wales and Colombia alongside initiatives to support women in poverty such as Missibaba in Cape Town, South Africa, and FanSina working with Bedouin embroiderers based in the mountains above St Catherine's in Egypt's Sinai. https://reddressembroidery.com/

Don't forget to send Debbie your show & tell pictures by Sept 28 for the Oct 2 meeting.