MAY SHOW N TELL

 Our club celebrated the Kings Coronation with a wonderful Morning Tea.

Thank you to the amazing committee.

This is a project bag, made by Carol Burgess and was an Embroiderer's Guild stitching project that she turned into a bag.

Moving Circles by Kim Thornton.  Kim went to Jenny's workshop at Fox's Cottage.

This bag is by Kim as well and was a stitching project through Embroidery Guild.

This striking quilt was made by Donna and is a Bonnie Hunter design and she made it for Robert & Kim's 10th Wedding Anniversary.

These needle cases are a newsletter project that Belinda finds for our members. They are by Glenys, Kim T and Maureen and the non hexagon one is by Annette, she said she does not do hexagons and made a different version.

 

Penny Gallear found this pattern in a Kim Schaffer Book and has called it Birds of a feather.

This as yet un-named quilt is by Annette Bourne and was quilted by Lesley O'Rourke of Quarry burn quilting, Napier.  It was a club block swap in 2022 and she chose light blue and dark brown strip material from her stash and the purple paisley made the quilt sing for her.

The maker of this quilt is Linda Snelling Berg and is called Friendship Fine Wines.

April Show n Tell

 

This delightful Easter bunny was made by Frances. It was made for a child at Woman's Refuge, some members are coordinating with Judy Y for this project. Frances made it from the book Making Luna Lapin, from the District Library.  She made the pattern shorter and smaller than the one in the book.

 

Donna started making this quilt for
Alison's 30th birthday, she is getting it for  her 35th Birthday....  It was a kit from Aime's Homestead Quilts over 7yrs ago.

This is a Bonnier Hunter Mystery Quilt 2022/23. It was made by Maureen.  It was Quilted by John Nielson.

A Baby Quilt by Madeline McCrea for her 1st great Grand Child.

And this embroidered baby gown is to go with it.  Made from the very old Plunket patterns, who remembers doing that , i did 43 years ago...

This stunning wall hanging is called "Fresh Cuts" and is a Sue Spargo pattern.  It was made by Veronica Davidson and quilted by Jacki Karl.

Another Baby Quilt, this one is made by Judy Potts and it was made from her stash for a friends 1st Great Grandson.

This is called "Yucky Dragons Teeth" and is by Annette Bourne.  She had an empty space on her wall above the coat rack and it needed something there.  Her walls are spring green in colour and she used the "jags" out of a book

"Sunshine Daydream" is the name of this wall hanging by Jenny Worsley A kit in Tula Pink fabrics.  Made up of foundation piecing and piecing.  She made this quilt in 10 days whilst on holiday in the far North.   It was a pleasure to make and went together without any hiccups.  Quilted by Debra Birch.

March Show n Tell

This is called "Chilhowie" and is a Bonnie Hunter Mystery Quilt started in November 2022 and finished 2023 and was made by Frances Henderson.  She has made her mystery quilts for a couple of years now and Frances thinks this year she will wait for the finished quilt reveal and then decide if she wants to make it.

 

This wonderful quilt is called The Tea Party, designed by Wendy Williams and was made by Jenny Harris.  She made it as a block of the month through Cottage flair. I actually bought this kit a few years ago, must make an effort to start it.

 

A tuffet, not something you see very often, this was made by Gail Jory.

This quilt is called Scrappy windmills and was made by Yvonne Moore.  she started it in a Chris Jurds class at the Lower Hutt symposium.  She used a lot of her own stash and hopes to have it quilted so it can be shown at Tote n Gloat in Palmerston North this year.

This is a Christmas Tree in Sashiko and is by Carol Burgess and was bought at Annies in Ashburton last March.  It looked superb.

An Apothecary Bag, in vinyl and Linen fabric, the pattern is by Sincerely Jen and was made by Carol Burgess.

This is a mini Chilhowie Quilt and was Bonnie Hunters latest mystery and is by Carol Burgess.

This one is called "Smile for Mustard" and is by Annette Bourne and is the mini Bonnie Hunter quilt that she made with Carol.

Donna made these little projects from our newsletter, one is a mini stitch pattern and an apple coin pouch.

 

Annette made this cup mat, called spot of tea saucer  and was in our latest newsletter.

"Corner Star" work in progress by Karen Carrol and has one more border to add and it was made from her stash.

This bag was made by Rosie Neilson and was made out of hexagons she had made for another project.

 

 

 

Show n tell February 2023

 Welcome back everyone, we have a new President, Donna, and a new committee and have started off the year with a lot of activities organized, so exciting times ahead.

Lots of members were busy over the holiday break so we have a lovely varied show n tell for the month.

"Soft & Bright" made from flannel fabrics that Helen had had for ages.

"Plaid Sisters"  Helen used up plaid squares that she was given quite a while ago.

"Out of the ark" was a mystery quilt made at Aimee's Homestead Quilts about 3/4 years ago.

 

"Shoo fly" using up purple scraps.

"Golden Jewel Box" Heather started this but never got to finish it.  She had made some of the half square triangle units.  Lovely colours, she would of loved it.

"Peaches at the Lake"  was a top made by Frances H. and quilted by Helen.  Was a Bonnie Hunter Mystery from 2017/20118.

"Chocolate caramel, another Bonnie Hunter Mystery, which the designer called Chilhowie.

All of the above were pieced and quilted by Helen P, she was very busy over the holidays, an awesome effort.

 

NZ Postcard, by Carol Burgess.  Another of Heather's (a deceased member) blocks that Carol joined together and added borders.

"Isolation" by Gail Jory.   Gail had cut it all out to sew in isolation when she returned from Australia in April 2021 but never got much done so had now finished it.

"Circles Galore"  by Maureen and is a throw for her couch.

"Homegrown" designed by Sue Spargo.  This is by Diana Jones, wonderful effort, nice and bright.

"Monkey Wrench" by Karen Carroll and was made using up her scraps.

 

"Intertwined Ribbons" another by Karen using up more scraps.  Our scrap pile never gets smaller!!

"Wonky Donkey" a children's quilt by Jo C.  Made from a quilt kit bought on line and quilted by Jacquie Karl.

"My Colourful Garden", another by Jo C and was a BOM from Aimee's Homestead quilts, pattern by Jacquie Karl and quilted by her as well.

Kinchaku Japanese Traditional rice Bag with Boro stitching by Jo C.  Was started at symposium October 2022 Boro class with Australian tutor Jane MacDonald.   Is gorgeous.

"Reindeer & Trees" by Annette Bourne and quilted by John Nielson. She used up all her green/red/white Christmas fabric for this lap quilt.

"Christmas cheer" another by  Annette and quilted by John Nielson.  this  quilt top adorned our COQ Christmas table 2022, definitely time to finish it.  will be a throw quilt for the couch.

 

This group of quilts were a club challenge in 2022, a block swap, wonderful orientation of blocks and beautiful colours.

 

Pieced and quilted by Maureen, the director of the challenge.  Will be for her Sister's 75th birthday.

Frances Henderson made these blocks and as she said she was an over achiever cause she made extra, love it.

This quilt is by Veronica.

Lesley McFarlane made this into an Eye spy quilt for a young boy.

This colourful quilt is a work in progress by Dianna Jones.

 

Veronica popped these delightful blocks in at the end of show n tell, hopefully next month we will see them in a quilt!