Interested in a challenge?  Your entries will be exhibited at the National Symposium held in Taupo in July this year.  It's being run by Aotearoa Quilters, the National Association of New Zealand Quilters:

RED 12 by 12 Challenge

Now is the time to think RED as we prepare for the Taupo Symposium in July 2013. Aotearoa Quilters are holding a RED challenge at Symposium with the idea the quilts are affordable. Take a piece home by a favourite quilter. These are quick and easy to make so encourage everyone to enter!

Think about: fire engines, lust, hearts, red roses, red marks on your school work, Christmas. The ideas are endless.

Only a small 12 by 12 inch square piece.

Conditions of entry

• 12 by 12 inches square
• open to members and non members
• Quilts must have a hanging sleeve at least 6 cm deep and ending 1/2” from either end of quilt.
• The works do not have to be three layers but must be able to be hung from small nails
• entries must be predominantly red
• all quilts entered are accepted i.e.just send your quilt in
• all entries must be for sale and will be on sale for the same price as designated by  Aotearoa Quilters
• entry fee is $10 per quilt for members and $15 per quilt for non- members
• enter as many as you like
• any unsold entries will then go to Hamilton Quilt and Craft Fair for further display and sale opportunities
• just send the entry form and payment with your quilt to:
  • Anne Read
  • C/- Lithoprint Ltd
  • PO Box 6404
  • Marion Square
  • Wellington 6141
  • or
  • Ann Read
  • C/- Lithoprint Ltd
  • 7 Marion Street
  • Te Aro
  • Wellington 6011
• due by 1st of July 2013

Entry forms are available on Aotearoa Quilters website.

http://www.aotearoaquilters.co.nz/events/red-12-by-12-challenge/

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)

Take Note!

Grandmother's Garden

Whangarei Out n' About

The bigger red van will be making its way to Whangarei next month! Come to the Kamo Soccer Hall on the 8th and 9th of March to see our latest fabrics, kits, books, notions & Block of the Month quilts. We look forward to seeing you there!


When: Friday, 8th March 2013, 12pm – 6pm. Saturday, 9th March 2013, 9am – 3pm.

Where: Kamo Soccer Hall, Kamo Road, Whangarei.

http://www.grandmothersgarden.co.nz/page/5-home

February 2012 Meeting - Guest speaker and show and tell

Sylvie Heasman is an artist who paints on fabrics, dyes, makes lovely art quilts and is generally an all-round talented lady!  She came and gave us a very interesting talk about her fabrics, with lots of interesting snippets  - like dyeing in Mexico!  Sylvie and her products can be found at:

http://sylvie-heasman.fineartamerica.com/

http://www.etsy.com/shop/sylviesartonfabric

We had a busy meeting with our exhibition prizes being given out.  Viewer's choice for a quilt went to Valerie Blight and viewer's choice for a wall hanging went to Beryl Thompson.  First prize in the challenge was Jane Taylor and highly commended went to Ingrid McLennan.

We also had our usual show and tell.  It was a quiet one, which surprised me, but I guess we all spent our Christmas holidays sunning ourselves rather than sewing!

Margaret was busy, however.  Using up bits and bobs.  She made this sweet cot quilt out of a bunch of nine-patches and donated it to community quilts.

She also made these cushions and bags.

And these ones!

We have a new member, Donna, who makes lovely little bags and was able to show us this neat little one.

This bag was made and given to Beatrice by a Japanese friend of hers.  Lovely bits of kimono silks.

Nita found a neat use for old curtain fabric samples.

Darryl's daughter made her this cross stitch called 'The Quilt Shop' and she's had it framed to hang on her wall.

And to top off a great first official meeting of the year, we had a yummy spread for lunch.  See you next month!  

Exhibition 2013 - all wrapped up

Phew!  Lots of work by some lovely volunteers went in to putting on a great show this past weekend.  Thanks to everyone who came along and supported us, we hoped you enjoyed the show.

The hall looked lovely and hopefully we'll have more photos to show you soon.

Viewer's choice for quilt and wall hanging will be announced later - we like to announce it and hand out the prize at a club meeting.

But I'm pleased to be able to announce the first prize winner of our raffle:

TICKET 1032 - ALISON JAMES

and winner of the second prize was:

TICKET 1936 - JANET CAVE

Both these lucky ladies are local Kerikeri-ites - thanks for your support, and better luck next year to everyone else (including me!).

First and second prize quilts.

All photo credits to Suz from http://suz-allthegoodonesaretaken.blogspot.co.nz/

Exhibition 2013

Kerikeri Patchwork and Quilting Club present their 2013 Exhibition.




QUILT EXHIBITION !!!



• Friday 11th Jan 2013 – Monday 14th Jan

• Kerikeri Primary School Hall, Hone Heke Road, Kerikeri

• 10 am till 4 pm daily

• Adults $2 entry, children under 12 free

• Refreshments available

• Plenty of parking



Beautiful quilts to view, quilts available for purchase, merchants to browse, pick your viewer’s choice, raffle tickets that support Project Promise and the Rural Fire Service or you could even join the club!

Christmas Lunch 2012

Every year in December we hold a Christmas Lunch.  A dedicated group of ladies put this together, cooking and making cracker gifts and putting together raffle prizes and it is always a fun day.

Part of the day is a gift exchange.  We work it so that we don't know who is getting who's present and it's part of the rules that it is a handmade gift (it can be made by you or someone else).  So I thought I'd show some of the wonderful presents we gave and received.  Above is an armchair arm organiser.  It hangs over the arm of your chair and has a pin cushion and pockets for scissors etc.

A really bright chenille cushion.

Some delicate handmade tatting (displayed on the back of the above cushion).

Dolores and Vicky were pretty happy with their respective gifts; a Christmas bag with hand dyed fabrics and matching threads and a lovely tree skirt.

A really sweet bag with pockets inside for keys and phones and all things necessary.

A hand stitched address book cover.

A lovely little sewing bag with scissor holder, needle book and thimble pod.

And another arm chair organiser.  

There were plenty of other gifts that I didn't get a chance to snap.  Like the yummy bottle of home-pressed olive oil that I received.

The crew of gorgeous lunch ladies who do an absolutely marvellous job.

The decked out tables waiting for their hungry occupants.

A very happy Edna who won one of the raffle prizes.

Once again it was a wonderful day.  I hope that it will be repeated again next year, and the year after that, and the year after that.......

Merry Christmas!!!