July 2025 Show & Tell

Today, we hosted “Pres” and “Dent” plus their entourage from Rangitīkei Quilters and it was a fabulous meeting. Pres and Dent (who are sisters) gave a highly entertaining talk showcasing their quilts from first quilts to most recent. I didn’t take photos, but I wish I had because the quilts were stunning, three huge bags of them. Some of us started playing guessing games as to who made the next quilt out of the bag. Their individual styles became evident as we viewed their work. Thank you ladies and your support act for a memorable, entertaining time. Thanks also to all our members who brought a “plate” for morning and afternoon tea. Well, it was more like continuous grazing such was the quantity of yummy food available.

Our own Show & Tell started with the latest quilt for Te Awhina. This top was donated by Maureen and quilted by me. Frances kindly stitched the biding on for me.

Next up are the results of the mug carry bag class taught by Carol at our last meeting. We are trying to encourage everyone to bring their own mugs to cut down on washing up at our meetings. Yvonne, Carol Linda and Hanna had a lot of fun making them.

Maureen constructed this bag with a scarf she bought when she was in Edinburgh. The tartan is Mulled Dress Blue Stewart and she used a pattern found on Pinterest.

Maureen also made this tote bag, along with a matching mug carrier bag and see through project bag. I love the fabric choices.

Maureen has been very productive, making this elephant door stop using a pattern from Homespun Magazine, June/July 2020.

Lastly from Maureen, a quilt made from Wellington Symposium blocks won by (and shared with Maureen) our dear late Annette.

Caroline made this bed runner from a jelly roll. It has been claimed by her cat as the place to sleep.

Rosie did a Wensleydale class at Fox’s Cottage using all Tula Pink fabrics. It was quilted by John Neilson.

Wensleydale, a Jen Kingwell pattern, has proved to be very popular.

Rosie’s next quilt was made for a great grand child. Rosie was working on stitching down the binding at club today, which is why it has clips around the edges.

Aimee’s Homestead Quilts issued a row by row challenge for the recent Rose City Quilters Tote & Gloat.

Yvonne did a Kaffe Fasset fabric quilt. Yvonne says it gave her the excuse (as if any quilter needs such a thing) to try several of Kaffe’s patterns without doing a whole quilt of each and to showcase the fabrics. She also tried different styles of quilting in each row.

Veronica chose a more muted palette and her quilt is also stunning. Each entrant to the challenge received a participation ribbon.

Yvonne returned with her finished Glitter quilt, another pattern by Jen Kingwell. I think this one was hand pieced. She started the quilt in a Symposium class, did lots of piecing at club meetings and quilted it on her Q16 machine.

Yvonne’s next quilt was also started in a Symposium class with Katrina Hadjimichael using her Ashbourne Mill pattern. This one was foundation paper piecing with a lot of blocks being completed here at COQ and was also quilted by Yvonne on her Q16.

Judy Y recently returned from visiting family in Australia and returned with several pieces of needlework from a deceased estate. These pieces were not sold at auction and were destined for the skip. Well done Judy for rescuing them. This piece is an antique hexagon quilt, maker unknown but she was the mother of the lady whose estate was being sold or otherwise disposed of. It must be at least 80 years old.  It is made using beautiful silk and silk velvet fabrics.

Judy also showed us the By Annie travel bag she made to take to Australia and it will also accompany her on her upcoming European tour.

Next up is Batik Blue made by Madeline for her great niece who is turning 10. The niece is very keen on lifesaving and waterskiing, so a blue quilt is just the ticket.

Madeline also made this jelly roll quilt in our recent Half Nighter class and she was working on finishing the binding today.i love the colours.

This fusion was made by Lesley using an embroidered panel rescued by Judy Y. Such beautiful colours. Lesley stabilised the embroidery before making it into the cushion. She used beautiful fabric she spied at Philp Wrights to complete it and the fabric couldn’t be a better match. Lesley says the cushion is for show only.

Frances made the following quilt for her soon to be born great grand daughter using an unfinished chook embroidered centre from one of the early Australian Patchwork & Quilting magazines. The pattern, if I remember correctly, was by Matched & Hatched. The square centre was donated to the Te Awhina Quilt Project but it was deemed to be unsuitable to be made into a quilt for an adult. A great result, Frances.

Frances gave it a more modern flavour on the back using this wonderful floral fabric with a matching stripe to make it the correct size.

Another pattern by the ever popular Jen Kingwell is this Winki Star quilt, also made and hand quilted by Frances. Great fabric choices in this beautiful quilt.

To finish off we had more Show & Tell from Pres and Dent’s Rangitīkei Country Quilters entourage. I didn’t get all the details of these quilts but it was lovely to see them.

Thanks, ladies for rounding off a great day of Show & Tell.