kznqg newsletter october 2014
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Celebrating our
Anniversary
Newsletter No 103 http://kznquiltersguild.co.za/
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EDITOR’S NOTE Greetings to all quilters . Here we are at the end of our first year of a digital newslet-ter. It has not been without complications, but it is an achievement to have joined the 21st century. Importantly, we have saved the printing and dis-tribution costs which could be used for ”our” festival. Ser-endipitously, we have achieved this in the year of our 25th an-niversary, which we will be cele-brating on 1st November at our next meeting. We encourage you to attend and to join in the celebration of this milestone. Even though we still make tra-ditional quilts, we have seriously gone from the ‘old’ to the ‘new’ in the sphere of the newsletter.
Be well and sew well- Judy
Cover Quilt: Toni Schorn from QUILTERS by the SEA made this magnificent quilt which was Viewers’ Choice at our August meeting.
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KZNQG COMMITTEE
Title: CHAIRLADY Name: PAULINE LAW Cell: 082 806 9149 Home: 031 208 3615 Email: [email protected]
Title: SAQG REP Name: MARLINE TURNER Cell: 082 494 2620 Home: 033 396 3009 Email: [email protected]
Title: GENERAL Name: ANNETTE LEE Cell: 082 213 8955 Home: 031 201 7506 Email: [email protected]
Title: QUILT DISPLAY Name: SANDRA REDDY Cell: 082 851 1990 Home: 031 578 4550 Email: [email protected]
Title: TREASURER Name: LYN GONZAGA Cell: 083 4637 729 Home: 031 764 5045 Email: [email protected]
Title: SECRETARY Name: TIIU EXCELL Cell: 083 642 2006 Home: 031 764 1106 Email: [email protected]
Title: MARKETING Name: TARA HARTSLIEF Cell: : 083 876 5499 Home: Email: [email protected]
Title: STALL HOLDERS Name: ALANNA CHAPMAN Cell: 073 134 4750 Home: 031 762 2508 Email: [email protected]
Title: GENERAL Name: LORETTE KERR Cell: 083 520 3926 Home: 031 464 2017 Email: [email protected]
Title: NEWSLETTER Name: JUDY ZINGEL Cell: 083 783 1073 Home: 031 267 1073 Email: [email protected]
Title: SALES TABLE Name: LIZ REED Cell: 072 187 7578 Home: 031 716 8507 Email: [email protected]
Title: REGISTRATION and DATABASE Name: MIRANDA FENNELL Cell: 083 765 6118 Home: 031 8229807 Email: [email protected]
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FROM THE HOT SEAT Many of us living in SA today have our children and grandchildren scattered all over the world. There is always a degree of heartache that they are so far away, but sometimes, when we are fortunate enough to visit them, we find there can be advantages too.
As I write this, I am in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the USA visiting my daughter and her family. The FALL has started and the colours are amaz-ing! Around every corner there is a new sight, each one as beautiful as the one before. Reds, or-anges, rusts, pinks and yellows – the variety is incredible. The pictures will stay in my head forever and I hope come out one day into a quilt!
I have been reading Ingrid Seward’s latest book “The Ultimate Guide to Art Quilting” and would highly recommend it. Our very own Odette Tolksdorf fea-tures in the book with her quilt ‘Afro-Kimono’. Seward’s book is a treasure trove of information, as was her 1st step-by-step book covering the basics of quilt making ”The Complete Book of Patchwork, Quilting and Applique”, pub-lished 25 years ago.
In South Africa, also 25 years ago, Odette, along with Rosalie Dace, the late Shirley Groenewald and others, decided to start the Natal Quilters Guild. This quarterly guild soon became a favourite meeting place for quilters from all over Natal. We shared quilts, ideas, skills and shopped up a storm!
In the 1970s and 1980s most of us were familiar with the following –
Drafting our own patterns and graph paper Cardboard templates and later, templates made from bleached x-ray plates Cutting out fabric with scissors Tacking quilts with thread, a very laborious but necessary process. Hand quilting with all manner of threads, my favourite being crochet cotton. Poly-cotton fabrics were plentiful, but not fine quality cottons.
Then the 1980s saw the introduction of rotary cutters and our lives changed forever! Gradually quilting threads, cotton fabrics and more and more tools filled our world, and sewing machines became more geared towards the needs of quilters.
Red Square by Pauline
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The popularity of quilting grew exponentially and this visit to the USA has con-firmed that it continues to grow as quilters stretch the boundaries with new and exciting techniques and materials. Well known author Marianne Fons says “There has never, ever, been a better time to make quilts than right now”.
A Modern younger generation of quilters is finding its own way and style in the quilting world today. These quilters are inspired by tradition but use all the technology available to them today to learn and share and create.
As we share our RETRO Quilt Show with you, we all need to be reminded of the following –
We all started somewhere, and were once beginners! The quilts we made re-flected not only the times we lived in, but also the materials and tools available to us, our skills, the fashions and stages of our lives. They also reflect the envi-ronment around us i.e. the colours, textures and light.
Quilts are fragile and the more they are loved/used, the more they disinte-grate. If you want a quilt to become an heirloom, you will need to store and pro-tect it carefully, and probably not use it at all. Our speaker in September, Neil Stuart-Harris mentioned 7 deadly problems in fabric preservation. Take careful note of them!
Fabric choices are very important and many of us learnt that too late! Some poorer qualities will fade badly and even disintegrate over time. Evenness or density of quilting all over a quilt is important for long term good wear, as is the amount of quilting on an item. Some of the best preserved quilted items in mu-seums are Voortrekker quilted ‘kappies’ which are extremely closely quilted. The weight and quality of the quilting thread are also crucial.
We hope you will enjoy the show. Look carefully and learn. And have a few laughs too!
Here’s to the next 25 years! May you all go from quilting strength to quilting strength, and enjoy the journey.
Happy Quilting!
Pauline
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IZOTSHA ESCAPE 2014
98 excited quilters arrived at Skogheim on the 12 September 2014 for the 18th Great Izotsha Christian Escape, loaded up with everything conceivable for a won-derful weekend of quilting, fun and good eating (it is always good if you don’t have
to prepare it!!!)
Classes started as usual after a deli-cious lunch on Friday and all the cut-ting and preparing started. We had 6 classes this year. Vereker’s Mystery by Mistake ladies had us desperate to see lovely quilts eventually unveiled.
Square Dancing with Thalia & Mary ended up a great mystery as well be-cause how could “that block” be creat-ed with such a large square? Sur-prise!! See the results below.
Sue Stevenson had her Creative Can-vas ladies beading a beautiful block to mount as a wall hanging or include in a quilt. Sue Cameron had her first time with us and her Talking Texture class
had a wonderful time creating texture to add interest to their quilts. Ann Ober-holzer’s Shadow Applique Baby Quilt was a lovely relaxing hand class where they made a start on beautiful heirloom baby quilts. For the non quilters Wendy Macleod taught Funky Tunisian Cro-chet Bag which was another lovely relaxed hand class with beautiful bags produced. During all of this we laughed, talked and ate delicious meals that we didn’t have to pre-pare ourselves. Heaven!
So it was a lot of very tired but satisfied quilters that eventually set off home on Sunday afternoon. Now, for most of us, out next Quilt get together will be in July 2015 here in KZN for Creative Energy. Can’t wait!!
Mary Chapman
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Pauline Law was abso-lutely delighted to win this chair. As she took so many tickets, to quote her daughter: ”Mom you didn’t win the chair, you actually bought it.”
SEEN AT OUR LAST MEETING
Manu Naidoo won the Circles quilt.
Speaker Neil Harris—Fabric Conservator, introduced us to the 7 Problems of Fabric Preservation
Dust
Acid (from wood and cardboard)
Light
Heat
Humidity
Insects and Rodents
Handling and use Doreen Hood won the jacket made by Marge Gatter
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QUILT DISPLAY at our AUGUST MEETING
Gerda Blaau
Sandy Wood
Tahera Hassan Karodia
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Invites you to enter a quilt competition to
celebrate National Quilt Day, March 2015.
Our theme is Celebrating our Centenary.
Name and Surname:____________________________
Address:______________________________________
Contact number:_______________________________
Quilt Title:_____________________________________
Quilt Size:_____________________________________
Quilts to be handed in by 28th
February 2015
Make a quilt using blocks or designs that are 100 years old. You may use present day fabrics for your quilt. The quilts may be any size.
This will be a judged competition.
WIN a beautiful handmade Rosette and Prizes.
Sponsored by KZN Quilters Guild
For more information Contact Marline Turner Cell: 083 327 4881 email:- [email protected]
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Cost will be R120 in 2015
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Spotlight On….
ROSALIE DACE KZNQG Founder Member
The spotlight in this edition in our 25th year falls on Rosalie Dace as she was one of the quilters who started KZNQG (then called NQG). A few women came together as they felt a strong need to meet together regularly to share ideas, encourage each other and learn from each other with regards to quilting in Natal. They wanted to show their quilting work and organize shows to do so. Differences in style didn’t matter, and their quilts ranged from traditional to avante garde and included eve-rything in between. Rosalie was the first Chairperson.
Rosalie Dace needs little or no introduction to most of our members. She is a teacher and speaker of note and spends at least 4 to 6 months of the year teaching overseas, mainly in United States of America but also in New Zealand, Australia and other countries. Rosalie is a woman of substance, lively, ar-ticulate and passionate about both her craft AND the teach-ing of it.
Her quilting career began in Grahamstown where she and her Linguistics lecturer husband lived. She taught art to at and Art school and was invited to join a small Embroidery Guild as a designer.
Never having seen a quilt in her life, she made her first quilt from a picture in a book – she made her own two inch hexagon template and English Paper Pieced the quilt which became a tablecloth.
She LOVED doing it so her husband bought her a book called McCalls Book of Quilts. Rosalie made a Star of Bethlehem design and devised her own strategies on how to put it together. She used a pink acrylic blanket as batting and a polyester sheet as backing! The latter was too small so she had to add onto it so that it fit the top.
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It was the first and last time she used a book pattern. Written on it is For HALFORD from MUMMY and it has been used and used over the years; she still has it (see picture on pg 14).
Rosalie has never looked back since that quilt; a new career was born and she describes how it has been an extraordinarily enriching and rewarding one.
Rosalie has come a long way since those days. She started teaching as she needed the mon-ey, then went to courses both her and in America to “watch” good teachers and see how to best to teach.
Her passion has become to get the best out of quilters, to draw from them creativity that they didn’t know they had. She aims to inspire people to develop in the direction of their interests, not her’s, and to walk out of her classes with much more than they came in. She describes how quilting is a great leveller and in her classes are people from rocket scientists to housewives; she LOVES the contact with them all.
Regarding her own quilting, Rosalie makes one major piece a year and a few small ones, using both hand and machine stitching. She has now developed her own techniques, and does wish she had more time to make her own quilts, but teaching is a priority.
Every year she makes a quilt for a friend of hers in USA, in return for an all-expenses-paid trip with the friend to a “new” place. hey have visited Alaska, Utah National Parks, Lake Louise in Canada , and many more beautiful places.
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Rosalie says that she is too close to her own work to be able to describe her style, other than it is abstract and “fibre art”. She feels her style has become much freer than it was 25 years ago and stresses that it is always a personal expression of her own experiences in life. She has become obsessed with colour, light and its effect on colour,as well as line. From the outset she has stressed that basic art principles apply in quilting too.
Rosalie describes what she learnt from Nancy Crow (USA) who soon be-came a
friend : *BE COMMITTED to doing your best * DO THE WORK (no sloppiness) *Refuse to accept sec-ond best for your work. She furthermore stresses that quiltmakers owe Nancy Crow a debt of grati-tude for courageously getting the world to take quilting as an art seriously.
It is a privilege to have Rosalie as one of our found-er members : such a dedicated, exuberant and pro-foundly creative person is a marvellous inspiration to us all. We wish her well as she continues to encourage, inspire and “lift up” all quilters with whom she comes in contact.
To learn more go to
http://www.rosaliedace.co.za/about.html
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KZNQG OPEN DAY PROGRAMME: 1 November 2014
VENUE: Durban Girls’ High School, Glenwood
Corner Manning (Lena Arense Rd)/Penzance Rd
9.-12 Quilt Exhibition:
RETRO QUILTS!
Quilts from the 70’s and 80’s
All exhibitors please attach a cloth label with Name, Date
made and anything of interest 9-12 Demonstrations: - two interesting , informative demos
12h00 General (Chairlady: Pauline Law + other speakers)
Speaker : Odette Tokesdorf : 25 years of Quilting Bring your R50 +++ to buy one or more of the book: FROM A QUILTER’S KITCHEN
as gifts for XMAS presents: NB. NOW R50,00 each.
funds raised are for Festival
MEMBERSHIP MATTERS
Discounts—Members of KZNQG are eligible for a 5% discount on all purchases over R200 from the following stores: BERNINA KLOOF, BERNINA MUSGRAVE, BERNINA Durban North , SEW MANY THINGS (Hillcrest)., FABRIX@PARKLANE (10% off; Pmb), BERNINA Dolphin Coast (Ballito) .
(N.B. no card, no discount)
KZNQG account for members' subs and general/advertising
KWA ZULU NATAL QUILTERS GUILD
ABSA
HILLCREST 632005
Acc No: 9 123 152 361
Investment account
KZNQG account for fundraising/donations
KWA ZULU NATAL QUILTERS GUILD
ABSA
HILLCREST 632005
Acc No:9 100 557 263
Investment account
Further donations to Festival Funds. Grateful thanks to the following: Ginny Koumantarakis, TWIG, CPQG, Spar vouchers, Marline Turner, Nashua PMB, Pauline Law, Law / Muller, Luigi and Lyn Gonzaga, Kloof Country Quilts, Mary Chapman
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PHOTOGRAPHING YOUR QUILTS Please note : If you offer your quilts to be displayed at a KZNGQ OPEN MEETING, you are acknowledging the right of KZNQG to photograph your quilt and possibly use it in our newsletter. Other quilters may possibly also photograph your quilt, but they may not use your design.
Richmond Quilters Exhibition 22nd November, at: Blackwood Nursery .
It is in celebration of Richmond Quilters Guilds 25th Anniversary. We are having it in conjunction with Blackwood Nursery who are holding their Christmas Market on that day as well.
In addition to our exhibition which will showcase the work of our members there will be a Christmas Market with many stalls and the nursery will be open as usual. It promises to be a day well worth the trip into the country. There will be a tea garden as well.
There is no entry fee . The Market opens at 9 am and goes on till 4 pm.
Directions
Take Exit 61 from the freeway and follow the boards towards Rich-mond. At Thornville T junction turn left continuing towards Richmond . You will pass the Baynesfield turn off on your right. Continue for some distance (poss 10 km) ; the sign for Blackwood Nursery is on your left. Turn in between the cane fields ( which I think are cut down at the moment.) It is fairly easy to see and I am sure there will be extra signage on the day. If you reach Richmond - you have gone too far.
Barrie Buttigieg (Co Chairlady)
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Visit http://kznquiltersguild.co.za/
There are now several tutorials on a variety of quilting activities. There is a range of levels.
Have a look and spread the word.
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QUILTING ON THE WEB by Tiiu Excell
This issue we are looking back in time. With the Msunduzi /Voortrekker 100 year An-niversary Competition coming up you will most likely be looking for 100 year old patch-work blocks to make.
Antique Geometric, http://earlywomenmasters.net/quilts/index.html , is a non-profit web site that has just what you are looking for. It is a design archive that features over 400 geometric blocks with some history about each one and where it was first published. There are also some animations so you can see how the blocks are con-structed. Note that not all the blocks on this site are old so keep looking till you find the ones that 100 years and older.
Another great place to look is Quilt Index.org http://www.quiltindex.org/contributors.php.
The aim of the Index is to preserve and make available information about quilts from around the world.
If you want to see only South African quilts try this link http://www.quiltindex.org/search_results.php?collection=South%20Africa
Keep clicking till you get to the older ones. There are quite a few Kappies to be viewed as well.
Enjoy surfing!
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FESTIVAL NEWS BY Twig (Chairlady)
Well, the Festival launch is getting closer… If you want to hear about the classes we are
holding before anyone else, make sure that you are at the official launch at the KZNQG meeting on 1 November 2014 – or wake up at midnight on the 2 November and check out the detail on the Creative Energy website: http://festival.quiltsouthafrica.co.za
Bookings open on 15 November 2014, so let your family know NOW what you want for Christmas. Remember also that on-site accommoda-tion is available: single rooms, single cubicles, 2 people sharing, 3 peo-ple sharing and even small dorms. Come on your own, or come in a crowd – but stay with us and you won’t have to cook or clean or wash the dishes! Think of it – the bliss of 5 days in a non-demanding, crea-tive environment.
Watch out also for the evening events, both informal and slightly more so, where you can enjoy the company and camaraderie of fellow quilt-ers from near and far.
We look forward to seeing you at Festival!
http://festival.quiltsouthafrica.co.za
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://festival.quiltsouthafrica.co.za/
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Quilters’ Calendar
November 1 KZNQG Open day : 25th Anniversary celebrations WEAR SOMETHING SILVER PLEASE * Launch of 2015 Festival Programme (at last)
November 22 Quilt Academy Strip Quilt Workshop 2 by Phil Fisher
November 22 SUMMER BREEZE Quilt Display by Richmond Quilt-ers at Blackwood Nursery, near Richmond; also a Christmas Market. City dwellers—plan a day to the country
November 27– 30
Christmas through the home. Queensburgh. Details will follow via email.
2015
February 28 KZNQG Open day and AGM
July 3-7 SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL QUILT FESTIVAL See you there
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Quilting@Home, Ixopo:
Meetings have continued throughout this year and although some have moved away or found themselves unable to attend, two retired teachers have joined and we wish Aileen Le Roux and Sally Bame a happy quilting journey!
Denise Muldal has had a real adventure - a trip to Fiji to see her first grandchild! Her son is working as a chef at one of the resorts and a beautiful quilt went with Denise - it had a real island theme - lush green vegetation came to mind when I saw it. Well done, Denise.
We would like to thank all those who keep quilting alive and well here in Kwa Zulu Natal and especially the com-mittee who are working so hard for the Festival next year. May 2015 be a special year for us all.
Clare Smith
Guild News
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Grassroots Quilters Guild
LYN GONZAGA
In August, we had a series of demos done by some of our members. Always interesting and always something to learn. September, saw Jane Zietsman give us a powerpoint presen-tation of her trip to Namibia. What a fascinating country.
The Grassroots cheese hamper was won by Terry Seaward and the Quilt made by our Community Quilters, called Circles of Time, was won by a Grassroots member, Manu Naidoo.
We are planning an exciting Xmas party in November where we will be finalising Jane’s Magical Mystery Tour quilts. I’m sure it will be great fun. Everyone brings a plate of food (having chosen from a menu which we have made up) and the food is delicious.
With the festival looming large, all members are busy with their quilt entries. I am sure that once we hit the deadline for quilts to be in, things will settle down once again, and we’ll be back to normal.
Lyn Gonzaga
QUEENSBURGH QUILTERS
Our chairlady – Lorette –is away overseas enjoying a lovely holiday so I am doing the honours this time. We are all busy as usual with our quilting - plus – many other fiber crafts!! This winter has seen us all hooked (!) on crocheting and several beautiful cro-cheted blankets have been made by members. I’m afraid we have gone mad about yarn and now have stashes almost as large as our fabric ones!! Anyway, it seems win-ter is finally over so it is time to put the wool away and concentrate on our sewing. Several of us are working on quilts for the festival and are eagerly awaiting the launch of the Festival at the next NQG meeting. We continue to enjoy our meetings once a month and whoever hosts the meeting usu-ally arranges a demo of some sort to make things interesting – it is always fun to learn something new or perhaps get newly inspired. Last meeting we had a production line going to make items for the sales table for the Festival. In no time at all we had a whole pile of kits made and packaged! It seems a bit premature to be wishing all a happy Christmas but seeing that this is the last newsletter for 2014 we certainly do wish everyone a happy wind down to the end of the year with plenty of time for quilting. We are certainly all in for a very exciting year ahead with the Creative Energy Festi-val coming up!!
Rosemary Hurter
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MEANDER QUILTERS’ GUILD
Quilters in Howick have had a busy and productive year and many have been heard to ask where the months have gone and how quickly we’re zooming in on the end of the year.
We have had some wonderful speakers at our meetings and each, in her own way, has inspired us to try something we’d never thought of before.
Our Chairlady’s Challenge this year was to make any quilted item which included a fat quarter of fabric given to members. The deadline is the end of October and it will be fun to see how inventive and creative our members have been.
The Meander Guild traditionally has a charity project each year. This year we decid-ed to support a small pre-school which has been set up in a squatter camp not far from the picturesque Howick Falls. The school is called God’s Little Lambs and is housed in dusty premises (and muddy when it rains) which are barely able to accom-modate the children.
We decided to make an alphabet quilt and the school principal has asked us to sell the quilt or to raffle it to raise funds for the school. Although the quilt would have been perfect to hang up for the children to see, they don’t have the wall space they would need for it. We have therefore submitted our quilt to a website called www.greatergiving.com which is a specialist website for fund raising auctions. If we don’t raise the amount we’re hoping for, we will use the other alternative of raffling the quilt which is pictured here. Quilters are always so generous with their time and we can clearly see that they had lots of fun making this quilt and that it was definitely made with love.
Lindy Briscoe
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COTTAGE PATCH QUILTERS’ GUILD
At our August meeting René’s mini-workshop kept us busy and in September we were all in awe of Mary and Thalia’s treasure trove of quilted items which they have designed and made, over the years.
Influenced by “Desny and the Thursday Ladies”, we decided to hold a knitting and crochet morning during August and October respectively. Daphne’s ‘patchwork’ blanket knitted using only 24 stitches during the process has resulted in many ladies working on colourful knitted blankies. We look forward to our crochet morning. Our workshop in September was facilitated by Arlene. This involved using all kinds of scraps and embellishments to create quilted postcards. Our friends and family will soon be receiving little treasures in the post.
Those members who attended Izotsha reported having an enjoyable and relaxing weekend.
Our Quilt Display at the local Craft Fair was something to be proud of. We hope to have inspired more ladies to enjoy our Guild.
We would like to thank Kloof Country Quilting Guild for lending us six of their stands which were a
great help . Unfortunately the weather did not play ball and was rather wintry and windy and all the ball games scheduled for afternoon T.V. meant that the general attendance at the Fair was rather disappointing for all involved.
Looking forward to celebrating 25 years with you at the next meeting.
Hazel Nunes.
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So, what’s the point?
What is it that draws us back over and over again to our quilters’ guild meetings? Yes, I know it is as opportunity for us to learn and express our creativity, but it is so much more than that……………….
For example, what do you think of our beautiful new logo, dreamt up by Giselle and Elmarie? This was taken further and Brenda Meyer quilted a beautiful banner of the new logo for our meeting this month, we are very proud of it.
We have buddy groups, usually consisting of four or five members, who, every month, dream up some technique to demonstrate, or some application for us to try. Others arrange guest speakers. Sometimes some of the members already know the techniques, but this is where the innovation really kicks our group up a notch.
This month it was the turn of the “Newbies” group to entertain us, and boy oh boy were we entertained! Janis Nicholls was in charge and she had done some amazing
research into the origins of quilting and gave us the most fascinating, as she called
it, a “history lesson” on the origins of patchwork and quilting, - riveting!!!
Congratulations to Toni Schorn, for being award the viewers’ choice award at the last KZNQG meeting, where our club had an exhibition.
The camaraderie in our group, and the help and support we get from one another is outstanding, and here, once again, Toni completed Joekie’s beautiful quilt for her, after she was unable to due to her serious injury.
So, that’s the point……………so much more than a cup of tea and the fellowship.
Sandy Wood
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KLOOF COUNTRY QUILTERS
Our AGM has come and gone and we have our new committee. Our guild has lost some members and gained some new ones. At our September meeting we had Jilly who suffers from multiple sclerosis come and speak to our members on her life journey. What a wonderful experience to listen to Jilly who de-spite her debilitating disease is so positive and full of life and a truly inspiring lady. Jilly lives in a home in Waterfall and after a couple of years she was encouraged by Trish who runs the estab-lishment to start painting - Jilly who is wheelchair bound and is only able to move her neck and head took up this challenge and is now producing the most beautiful cards, bookmarks and original paintings which she sells to subsidise her income. Our members had a wonderful morning of purchasing her cards, bookmarks and paint-ings. Jackie Robertson a member of our guild, now living in Dubai donated a huge amount of fabric to our guild, a large amount of which was cut into 5 squares for festival - the rest was divided amongst two groups in our guild who have each made a quilt. Watch this space for the decision on what will happen to these quilts. Lynn Freshwater
TOLLGATE QUILTERS GUILD
I can’t believe that the end of the year is under 3 months away and we are about to have our last KZNQG meeting for the year. Where has the time gone?
The Tollgate guild has been very busy. Carol Hodsdon was our speaker for our Au-gust meeting. She gave a very interesting talk on tips and techniques for the use of rulers and other quilting tools. I realized that most of us do not use our quilt-ing tools to there fullest potential. In September Phil Fisher showed us a selec-tion of photo’s that she took at the Birmingham Quilt Festival that she attended this year. The quilts were lovely gave us lots of inspiration. It is always so inter-esting to see what quilters are doing in other parts of the world.
Tollgate, once again, took a stand at the Sewing, Knitting, & Craft Show at Grey-ville Racecourse this year. We were very fortunate to end up with a double stand and what a lovely display of quilts we had with plenty of space for the demonstra-tions that Beth did throughout each day. We had a lot of interest shown by the delegates, made new friends and renewed old ones. Ruth Archer was there with her stand of goodies to sell and to promote the Creative Energy Festival in July 2015. There was a lot of interest shown and everyone had received a Creative En-ergy bookmark in their Goody Bags.
Mary Chapman
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VILLAGE QUILTERS, KLOOF
We’ve had only two meetings since the last report, so for once there’s not a lot to say!
These two months have been action-packed, none the less, starting with our August speaker, the in-imitable Jeanette Gilks who gave us a most inter-esting and thought-provoking talk on Aspects of Colour, which she says she put together at the last minute! Wow! it was wonderful! I think we all left feeling we’d finally ‘clicked’ on some of the trickier aspects of colour. Here’s a quote that sums it up: “Colour is not a function of the thing, it’s a function of the quality of light and the eye”. So nothing is what it seems . . .
At the September meeting Elizabeth Woodcock gave us a demo on the Crazy Sudoku 9-Patch technique, which results in a stunning series of blocks. Thank goodness for the printed notes – at least I can sit down quietly at home and replicate it! Then Helga Beaumont showed us pictures of her recent ‘arty’ travels in Australia and filled us in on the various interesting places she’d visited. All very inspiring!
We’ve also had a workshop on creating a still-life picture, which was good fun, we’ve seen loads of Show and Tell quilts from members and have heard all about Knitted Knockers from Ruth Archer.
And now we have GREAT NEWS for you – and bad news for some : a ‘special offer’ on our Fantastic Recipe Books, now selling at only R50 each! This is a vast reduction that will an-noy those of us who paid R90 for the book, BUT we need to sell the books as it is money that the 2015 Festival needs. PLEASE think of them as Christmas gifts for friends and family, take a pile to your bookclub meeting, gym club, braai club, Rotary Anns meeting, kitchen tea , give as a teacher’s gift, take along to a knitting morning, quilting class . . . please just help us to sell them. Also, look out for us on the 1st November at the KZNQG meeting – we will be looking out for you!
A few comments from the converted :
“A fabulous book for busy people who want tried and tested recipes.” – Helga Beaumont
“I am so enjoying the delicious tried and tested, and above all, reliable recipes in ‘From a Quilter’s Kitchen’. The best is that the ingredients are usually in the kitchen cupboard!” – Bernadine Hay
Page 22 – Joey Dixon’s Fresh butternut salad is deliciously refreshing. Page 33 – Carol Hodsdon – Pork fillets supreme – my lunchtime guests raved about it. Page 69 – Peggy Frayne – Date and pecan nut rock cakes – fabulous. Page 70 Arlene Heher – Eileen’s scones – quick, easy, fun and the best. “These are some of my favourites” – Marge Gatter
Brenda Morris
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The Midlands Quilters - Spring 2014
Although we’ve had a dry start to Spring, the azaleas, dogwoods, cherry blossoms etc have flowered abundantly and Hilton is as inspirational as always.
The Sunday Tribune Garden Show, which was held at the Royal Showgrounds in Pie-termaritzburg from Friday 19 September – Sunday 21 September, is over! Phew!! Our Guild always works hard to provide a wonderful platform for quilting and we were awarded a Gold medal for our stand. We had an extraordinary response to our Challenge Quilts, judged by Marline Turner. The theme was “Into the Future”, and as explained previously we were restricted by colour, being limited to paint colour cards that were randomly handed out, two cards per envelope! Our Raffle quilt draw will take place at our October meeting and all funds raised will go to Chrysalis Pro-ject, a children’s educational charity based in Kamberg.
In September we learnt to make “Thumbles”, very ably taught by Carol Hodsdon, who also gave us many of her tried and tested methods and tips, favourite tools and invaluable advice.
Wendy Macleod will be our guest speaker in October and we are looking forward to hearing about her quilting journey. It’s always fascinating and inspiring to hear how people began quilting.
Our end of year Christmas lunch will be held at the home of our very hospitable Chairlady – Jane Renton, near Estcourt. Once a year, our faithful, multitalented Estcourt members don’t have to travel so far, but they pay the price by producing a magnificent lunch for all of us! We hold our AGM at this time too and will be electing a new Committee.
It’s been a busy, happy year in the Midlands – our Guild has grown and we have a number of younger members, new to quilting, which is encouraging and a reflection of the worldwide trend to handcrafts and the recognition of our need to feed our souls through creativity.
We look forward to the very exciting 2015 Quilt Festival to be held at Kearsney College, which is on our doorstep! How lucky are we?
The members of our Guild would love to meet and share with you! Please join us at a meeting, held every 3rd Thursday of the month, 9 for 9:30, at the Methodist Church hall in Hilton.
Jane Renton
Regrettably we are unable to publish the photos with this edition they will be emailed to members at a later date.
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PLEASURETIME QUILTERS' GUILD
In July the Guild stall at the Scottburgh Classic Car Club Show was a great success with many quilts on display as well as a raffle, a guessing competition on our idiom quilt The guild members have been very busy with one group of ladies making 14 quilts for the14 residents of the Esperanza Home outside Umzinto. Two quilts , one of cats and the other of dogs have also been finished now for presentation to the Amamzintoti S P C A at our October Meeting. These 2 quilts have been group projects with different members each contributing a square. Projects for goodie bags for the festival are now keeping the members busy Monthly meetings have included a talk by Phil Fisher on Borders, a demonstration by Elna and a talk to inspire us by Beth Barkus on LLL's. Our monthly workshops of the 1st Thursday continue with learning of techniques and help with problems or sandwiching as necessary. There has been a machine ap-plique and a free motion courses run locally. The Quilt Academy run by Pauline Law on Free Circles was enjoyed by those at-
tending. The next Quilt Acade-my on the 8th November will be by Ann Oberholzer with an ap-plique, embellished Christmas tree.
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