The BQSG Banner

In 2009, the Quilters Guide of the British Isles asked all the regions and specialist groups to make banners to represent themselves. The banners were to be used at the AGM and other event to create a presence for each part of the organisation.

This created a bit of a problem for BQSG (the British Quilt Study Group) because we are a research group rather than a making group and our members are spread across the whole country.

I met this challenge in various ways.

• Our interest is ine social aspects of quilting both tradition and modern so the banner is made up of 6” blocks using both range of techniques from the traditional English Piecing over Papers through to computerized machine quilting and computer printing images onto fabric.
• The latter enabled me to include the two publications for the results of our members research Quilt Studies and Culcita.
• The blocks themselves include references to the 1718 coverlet, various traditional blocks, and Welsh quilting patterns.