October 2026 Show & Tell

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A small and select Show & Tell at this month’s meeting.

First up is this beautiful table runner by Diane H. She was exploring using Japanese yarn-dyed fabric with machine appliqué and quilting. Lovely soft colour palette.

Caroline B completed the binding on her Lupine and Laughter quilt. This pattern was last year’s Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt and was Caroline’s first foray into doing mystery quilts. This year’s mystery is starting soon with the colours and fabric requirements posted at the end of October and the actual mystery clues starting at the end of November. Weekly clues for 6 to 8 weeks. Free via the Quiltville blog.

Veronica whipped up this jelly roll rug during our recent retreat weekend. She cut her own jelly roll and used the instructions given by Clara’s Creations on Facebook. Clara gives very good hints and tips to make rugs and bowls.

This tote bag was made by Beverly Casey from free fabric that was available at the last club day. The gold ribbon was from free stash at P.N. Embroidery Guild Stand Stitch.

This bag is also made by Beverly. She wanted something to sew by hand while she was on holiday in Cromwell. It took longer than she thought and there were a few details missing from the pattern. It was started last school holidays.

Beverly also made this advent calendar from a panel bought at Cushla’s in Devonport about 8 years ago and just finished.

Jenny H has completed her Wensleydale quilt, pattern by Jen Kingwell. Beautiful colour choices.

Madeleine M made the centre of this round robin quilt which was completed by members of Riverside Quilters. She is keeping this one as a lap quilt for herself.

Diamonds and Dots was also made by Madeleine and is a good way to use up 2 1/2” squares made into blocks.

Blue & Green Should Never Be Seen is another Madeleine creation to use up scraps.

Last, but not least, this lovely folded star cushion was made by Leslie A. She was inspired to have a go at folded star patchwork by the late Nola Morris who lent Leslie the instructions. Nola had made a pot holder.

September 2026 Show & Tell

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We have a lovely variety in our Show & Tell this month. 

First up are 4 more blocks for our current community quilt. I love the variety of effects in these blocks.

Caroline started Sebby’s Big Bed quilt lat year at a retreat. It was  want to be finished for when he moved into his big bed a few months ago but we all know how quilt deadlines can be very elastic!

Leslie A made this House pillow cover. She meant to bring it for last month’s meeting for the 

Leslie purchased a book of curtain fabric samples from the remnant bin at Philip Wrights and made this bag.

Carol made this quilt for a new great niece, Isla Ocean Bristol. She lives in Australia and Carol titled the quilt The Ocean Between Us. It was quilted by John Nielson.

This lovely retro Sun Bonnet Sue quilt was made by Beverly C. It was started around 2000 when Beverly lived in Costa Rica. She quilted it herself. 

Here is another lovely double wedding ring retro quilt called Memories. Made by Trish S and Marie G. Trish pieced the top and Marie hand quilted it.

The following small quilts are Little Blankets of Love for babies in hospital, all made by Trish S.

Cats in Pyjamas was made by Judy P from a pattern by Elizabeth Hartman. It was made for Judy’s cat mad grand daughter, Aroha. She absolutely loves it. Quilted by John Nielson.

No Waste quilt or blanket jacket. Yvonne is not quite sure what she will make it into. She says she is doing an Anna Hicks class at the upcoming National Quilt Symposium and decided to use a wool blanket, embellished. Yvonne found the pieced hexagons at an op shop in Taihape and she has machine appliquéd then over the holes in the blanket.

This is Yvonne’s scrap Potato Chip Block quilt. Aotearoa quilters had a challenge to sew something every day in August and the suggestion was to get into your scrap box. Yvonne hadn’t done this block before. She has now made four 12 block quilts for her great nieces and nephews. I’m willing to bet her scrap pile has not reduced by much (if my scrap pile is anything to go by.)

We had a couple of very welcome visitors from Rose City Quilters at the meeting. The following quilt is Lorna N’s Lucy Boston reproduction. She started with traditional,hand English paper piecing but her hands didn’t enjoy it, so she ‘reverted’ to her machine by butting up the paper covered pieces and zig zagging with invisible thread. She then appliquéd the blocks to the background squares and devised sashing to mimic the original. I love the colour palette.

Anne A’s quilt is called Linens Revisited. She was given 4 cloth serviettes that needed some embroidery on them with the embroidery patterns being sourced from Pinterest. Other old linens were used for backgrounds and borders.

This is the back.

Perfectly Imperfect is also by Anne A and was made from a vintage table cloth which she machine quilted to give it new life.

Lesley M made the following for her granddaughter Lillies’s 21st quilt. Lillie likes shades of brown, yellow and pink and likes it snuggly.

This is Lesley’s Couch Caddy made in a workshop with Sandra.

I think the following quilt was made by Karen C. Please let me know if I have this wrong. I don’t seem to have a recording slip for it.

August 2026 Show & Tell

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Our next club meeting is this coming Saturday so I thought I had better post the photos from the last club meeting before then 😂

Some of our Show & Tell are quilts from our re-visit theme where we encourage members to bring quilts they have made in the past to give them another airing. August’s theme was quilts with houses.

Donna made this house quilt along with her late friend (and COQ member) Carey. They took turns to choose a row to make.

Donna also made all these blocks from Sue Spargo’s Houses pattern. She didn’t complete the quilt but, instead, used some of the blocks to make bags for her retreat buddies.

Veronica made this beautiful quilt from a Yoko Saito block of the month pattern that was published in Quilts Mania. It’s stunning and beautifully quilted.

This Japanese bag was also made by Veronica from a pattern by Jenny Hunter.

Veronica’s also made this armchair caddy in a work shop with Sandra.

Home is Where the Heart Is was made by Trish..

The Houses on Thursday Street was also made by Trish during stitching with a very special girlfriend every Thursday. Trish loves house quilts.

The Little Red School house is also by Trish. She loves red and white school houses.

Pauline made this quilt in her colours plus a surprise.

This was made by Pauline from a Jinny Beyer kit.

Pauline also made this lovely quilt from a 5” pack of Kaffe Fassett fabrics. A nice fresh colour palette.

The Little Houses was made by members of Whanganui Embroidery Guild for their recent conference in Palmerston North. Many of the Embroiderers Guild are also COQ memebers. The quilt was finished by Diane H.

Lesley A is the maker of this Red Peace Lily wall hanging. The pattern is from a Love Patchwork and Quilting magazine.

I’m not sure who made this red and white quilt. I seem to have lost the recording paper. Can someone let me know, please and I will edit this post.

Madeline made this I Spy quilt for her great nephew Basil.

Odds & Scraps was also made by Madeline to use up scraps. She makes pet blankets, dolls quilts and quilts for the hospital’s children’s ward and for premier babies.

The following pictures are from Show& Tell but I seem to have lost the recording papers for them. Please let me know who made them and I will edit the post.

Judy made this top for her nephew. It was quilted by John N and has been taken to its new home in Australia.

Lastly are three quilts for Te Awhina made by May. The first two use the same blocks but in a different arrangement.

This one is Churn Dash Star.