Princess Mary Block Workshop - Saturday Stitch and Chat

The Saturday 21st September stitch and chat will be a workshop to learn how to make the Princess Mary quilt block.  It's a neat block, and it makes different patterns depending on which way you turn it.

The cost if you want to participate in the workshop will be five dollars per person.  Or you can just stitch and chat like normal, gold coin donation.  Open to everyone, club members and non-members alike.

Come along to Cherry Park House on Landing Road, Kerikeri, from 11am till 4pm.

Bring the usual - your lunch and your projects and your happy smiling face!

Requirements for the workshop:  

Four 8 inch squares of plain coloured cotton fabric and four 8 inch squares of a contrasting patterned cotton fabric,

General sewing requirements like thread, scissors and your sewing machine,

Rotary cutter, rulers (particularly a 12 inch square) and cutting board if you have them.

If you have questions, leave them here and I will try and answer them for you.

Saturday Stitch and Chat

Kerikeri Patchwork and Quilting Club is having another Stitch and Chat Saturday. 

This will be held the third Saturday of every month and this month it's Saturday 20th July, at Cherry Park House on Landing Road, Kerikeri. 

We'll be there from 11am till 4pm so if you're interested, bring a gold coin to contribute to room hireage and bring your own lunch. Tea and coffee provided. 

This is open to anyone who wants to come along - beginners, experienced, or never-done-it-before-how-do-I-get-started?!

May 2013 Show and Tell and some newsletter stuff.

MAY’S SATURDAY STITCH AND CHAT was a great day for our first one.  We had half a dozen regular members, a couple of members who can’t make the Tuesday meetings and some brand newbees.  There was a 11 year girl who left all fired up to start making quilts!  Fantastic to see some beginners getting enthused.  Let’s hope they come back in June.

JUNE SATURDAY STITCH AND CHAT
Saturday 15th of June will see us at Cherry Park House from 11am till 4pm to stitch and chat and hopefully help out some beginner quilters.  Bring your own lunch and $1 to pay for tea and coffee and room hireage.  All skill level's welcome - bring along a friend who's never quilted and lets get them started!

SPRING RETREAT

Spring Retreat will be held at Lonsdale Park, Friday October 4th till Sunday October 6th.  Give your name to Judith or Steph E.

REMINDER!!  July’s meeting is to be held the FIFTH Tuesday of the month.  That will be Tuesday 30th of July.  This is to avoid a conflict with Taupo Symposium.  Hopefully we will have an enthusiastic round up of Symposium by those members who attended.  We will also be having the Community Quilts sewing day.  This is where we work on quilts that are given to the community, so bring your sewing things and lots of enthusiasm and we’ll see how many quilts we can get done. 

Darryl's quilt made for a challenge.  She's used the Storm at Sea block and all the orange blocks tell a story.

Steph's been making a really big bag to hold all her sewing bits.

Donella's quilt has lots of special bits of embroidery and crochet etc. 

Isn't Diane's  I spy quilt fun?!

This is Helen's first quilt, she was asking for help on how to quilt it.

Love these funky aprons of Alison's.

Carol's getting in early for Santa!

Stand still Ingrid!  It has a penguin in the centre for her St John juniors.  A penguin is their emblem. 

See you next month!

April Show and Tell

Welcome to April's show and tell for the Kerikeri Patchwork and Quilting Club.

Daryl made this very effective quilt - just the binding left to sew down. 

This was made for Community Quilts and is a true scrap quilt, but the consistent use of lights and darks helps it stay cohesive.  Donella quilted it with big circles and diagonals (click on it for a closer look).

This is a lovely quilt made by Carol d R. from donated fabric from the generous Caroline P.  It was so lovely that it was picked specially to give to Lonsdale Park (the facility where we hold our twice-yearly retreats) to help them raise money as they celebrate 75 years.

The photo above and below show the two sides of a really neat quilt made for a male relative of Judy's.  Denim on one side and flannel on the other.  A true reduce, reuse and recycle quilt.  

The next three quilts below were all made by our very own Shirley (ok, so we share her with Whangarei).  Shirley had a lovely two-page write up on her quilts and her quilting life in the latest edition of New Zealand Quilter.  For that matter, there was also a nice article written about our Club's January exhibition.  So if you haven't seen the articles, head down to your local bookshop and pick up a copy.

The background fabric on the quilt above is discharge dyed, and the leaf fabric was one of those 'can't resist' purchases.

Gaylene showed these cute sets of placemats, tea cosy and coasters made from scraps that no-one knew what to do with.  They'll be for sale at the Kaitaia exhibition (I'll try and find out dates etc).

And here's my little gremlin holding up a kereru wallhanging I'd completed (he didn't stand very still for the photo!)

Now in other news:

Saturday Stitch and Chat

Kerikeri Patchwork and Quilting Club are organizing a monthly Saturday Stitch and Chat. 

Are you a quilter but can’t make the club’s Tuesday meetings?  Are you a beginner who needs some help?  Would you like to learn to make quilts but don’t know where to start?  Are you an accomplished patchworker who is willing to share their knowledge?

Come along to Cherry Park House on Landing Road, Kerikeri from 11am till 4pm on Saturday May 18^th to join in.

All welcome: members, non-members, traditionalists, modern patch-workers, hand-quilters, art-quilters, male or female, beginners, dabblers, obsessed….

Bring your own lunch, your project to work on (if you have one) and $1 to help cover room hire and tea and coffee.

For more info, please email Charlotte (address is on my profile)