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PO Box 57-099 www.coastalquilters.org.nz Mana 5247 Email: [email protected]
President’s Piece
Another great afternoon together sharing expertise and viewing the
wonderful work our Members do. It is fantastic to look out and see
the Hall packed tight with enthusiasts. If you know someone who
hasn’t been for a while share some of our Speakers with them and
endeavour to entice them back into the fold so they don’t miss out.
The enthusiasm shown for the Block of the Month this year is really
exciting and wonderful Quilts are being made as a result. Thank you
to all those taking part and of course there is always room for heaps
more.
We were all blown away as we shared Sheryl’s quilting journey an
amazing quilter with so much talent. If you have any ideas for
Speakers please let us know. We try to get a variety of folk and your
input is valued.
Sit n stitch on the 4th Saturday at St Andrews is a smaller gathering
where you can really get to know others in a lovely atmosphere of
stitching, talking, laughing and sharing. Give it a go. If it hadn’t been
for these days I’m not sure I would have become so involved.
As you will see in this Newsletter there are some wonderful
opportunities to really enjoy our quilting together--- make the most
of these, especially classes and trips they are magnificent. Our next
meeting is a Work day so bring your machine, hand sewing and
laughter and join in a great day. Be aware of the change of date.
Happy stitching everyone
Raewyn
Quick Guide
Next meeting: 19 May
2018 Workday Doors Open at 10.30 am
more information page 2.
Next Sit ‘N’ Stitch: 28
April 2018 10-4 St Andrew’s Hall.
Contact Lesley Hall for
more information.
Inside this issue:
President’s Piece 1 Next meeting 2 Classes 2 30th Anniversary 2-3 Duties 3 Committee 4 Neonatal 4 BOM 5 Shop Hop 5 Class review 5 Retreats 6 Exhibition 7 Shut-in Stiches 7 Coast to Coast 8 Welcome Quilts 9 Stitching groups 9 Notices 10 Yearly subs 10 Calendars 11 Show and Tell 13 Tawa Classes 13 BOM instructions 14 Membership Form 15 Mini-Retreat Form 16 17
April 2018 Newsletter
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Next Meeting – 19 May 2018 Workday
The next Coastal Quilters meeting will the third Saturday because the Tote and
Gloat bus trip will be on the 12 May 2018. There will be no library at the
workday but there will be books that have been retired from the library for sale.
Our work day is going to be a busy one this month, Milton Wright will be with us
as well as Dianna Carroll is selling some of her material for $5.00 a half metre
(good deal).
Also, Lou McDonald will also be with us for some part of the day selling material
that has been donated to Mary Potter Hospice. So, come along and see what
materials maybe you, just can’t do without. Although we wont have our usual
club raffle, there will be Coast to Coast raffles.
Up-coming classes
FULL - Crazy Quilt As You Go – Sarah Hooker – 17 June – There is a waiting list in case of cancellations.
This is a great class to dive into your scrap bag
for a scrappy quilt or you can choose a range of
selected fabrics or collections. Your chosen
fabrics are pieced into square or hexagon panels which is padded
and backed.
This class will be at Plimmerton School starting at 9.30 am.
The course cost for members is $35 and non-members is $50. Please
include your name and what class you are paying for when doing
internet banking.
Almost FULL - Charmed Bag – Dianne Barnden – Sunday 19
August. 9.30am Plimmerton School.
This is an ideal project to show off charms squares that are just too
gorgeous to cut up, team them with your favourite fabric and you
have a wonderful bag to carry all your bits around in. Add an
embellishment that reflects your personality and you will be the envy
of your friends. So why not make them all one too!
The course cost for members is $35 and non-members is $50. Please
include your name and what class you are paying for when doing
internet banking.
30th Anniversary Year! This year Coastal Quilters is celebrating its 30th anniversary. The main thing that we have planned is
to have a celebration day at our October work day. More details and itinerary for the day are to
come. We will have a 12"x12" challenge (see below), a shared lunch, an afternoon tea and a few
other things (don’t want to give it all away!). So, if you haven’t set aside the October workday in your
calendars yet, maybe make and note and plan to be there.
Meeting
Checklist:
Main project to
work on.
Side project for
when you finish or
get sick of your main
project.
Mug for a cup of tea.
Lunch.
Pocket full of money
for fabric, Coast-to-
Coast raffles, second
hand library books.
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Challenges for 30th Anniversary
As part of our 30th Anniversary year (for more details see above). We are holding three challenges.
They will be handed in and shown at our October work day where they will be displayed and there
will be a people’s choice vote and prize’s in all three categories. You can do one, two or all three of
the different categories.
The details:
• The three categories are: “Coastal”, “30” and “My first quilt”
• The size of the work must be 12"x12".
• It must be three layers.
• For hanging there will have to be a hanging sleeve (3 ½ inches finished, ie cut 8 inches, fold in half and sew on with a ¼ inch seam).
Save your scraps!
The scrap tub was a success at the last meeting. Keep on bringing in the little bits of things that
would otherwise go in the bin. This may be a good source of fabrics for this months “Block of the
Month”. Also remember to check the bin and take what you need out of it.
Meeting Duties
May 2018 - Workday June 2018
Hall: Janice Emery and Linda Fahey
Kitchen: Alison Burrell and Frances Burrus
Everyone pitches in and lends a hand. Raffles: Bobby Duncan
Sales: Ruth Cameron and Glenys Campbell
Frames: Janine Armstrong and Alz Armstrong
Library: Caroline Bees
Holder: Susan Butcher and Raewyn French
PLEASE SWAP WITH ANOTHER MEMBER IF YOU CAN’T DO YOUR DUTY, or if this is not possible call
Anne-Marie Dunlop in plenty of time for her to get a replacement.
Please arrive at the hall at 12.45pm if you are on a duty that sets up the hall/tables. If you are unsure
of what your duty involves, talk to Lesley or Gayle when you arrive. Thank you in advance for doing
your duties! They really are important and your efforts are gratefully recognized.
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Join the committee
To keep running the club needs a committee and the committee needs you. You don’t need to have
been in the club for a long time. People have joined the committee in the first year of joining the
club. If you have been on the committee before there is nothing to stop you from coming back on.
There are a variety of different tasks and responsibilities to suit you. There are great advantages
including: reduced fees, early knowledge of what is happening and new acquisitions, get to see the
magic behind the curtain and you get to work with a great group of people.
Sharon Ferguson (Chief Tea Lady), Linda Wakefield, Christine Blitz, (Library), Marge Hurst and
Christine McKenna (Welcome quilts), Lesley Hall (Greeter, Mini-retreat, Sit ‘N’ Stitch), Alz and Janine
Armstrong (Frames & photos), Rachel-Mary Perry (Almoner)
Valued workers: Thank you!
Neonatal Quilts Wellington Area neonatal units are getting low on quilts for premature or ill newborn babies. If you
are looking for a small charity project perhaps consider making a quilt for the neonatal unit. There
are some exact requirements for these quilts. They must be no bigger than 27”x27”. The batting
must be cotton. There cannot be any buttons or bits that could easily come off.
Committee Members President Raewyn Hill 234 7543 [email protected]
Vice President/BOM Alison Spurdle 232 4597 [email protected]
Secretary Prue Cooke-Willis 027 3373493 [email protected]
Treasurer Christine Johnco 234 7018 [email protected]
Membership Anne-Marie Dunlop 299 1469 [email protected]
Retreats Julie Elliott 232 7045 [email protected]
Classes Daphne Daysh 977 2055 [email protected]
Newsletter Editor/Website Neroli Ayling 021 158 4434 [email protected]
Librarian Virginia Ramsay 233 1730 [email protected]
Sales & Raffles Lindy McKeown 237 0400 [email protected]
Sales & Raffles Leza Marfell 021 023 08899 [email protected]
Greeter/Speaker liaison Gayle Carmichael 027 602 7888 [email protected]
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Block of the Month
You are all amazing for having a go at the Blocks of the Month! Thank you so much for your support
and response!
The Split 9-Patch blocks were given to Verena Coleman and
Florence Hodder whose names were drawn. Both these ladies are
graciously piecing together the blocks and donating the tops to
Welcome Quilts. Thank you ladies! The next BOM for you to try is Stripes and Scraps. It's another fairly
easy block where you can use up some of your scraps. And you
have two months to do it in, so why not do one for each month!
Some of us don't have a lot of Stripey fabric, so a suggestion is to
bring some along to Sit 'n Stitch and the Work Day in May to swap/share. You could also use our
Yahoo groups to advertise if you have spare or are in need.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to get in touch.
Thank you again!
Alison Spurdle
Shop Hop and Bus Trip Save the date, and your pennies, Shop Hop Bus Trip will be 4th August. The specifics of the cost, the
times and the places we will be going is still being worked out. It is likely to follow the same sort of
line as last year. For anyway new to the club, or haven’t been on the bus trip before, what happens
is that we hire a bus and go around a number of quilting shops in one day. There is lots of fun
activities and it is a great time. We do the bus trip to coincide with a Shop Hop event. A shop hop is
an event where you can sign up and pay for a “passport” to do a quilt. Then you have to visit all of
the participating quilt shops in the designated time to pick up all of your packs to make the quilt you
chose. This year there are going to be nine participating quilt shops. More information to come.
Triangle Party Class Review There was quite a demand for Shelia’s class as
many of us wanted to learn her technique of
complicated triangle piecing with no y-seams. A
few came along to make some blocks for
cushions or a table runner but by the end of the
class were well on their way to making a quilt, a
smaller project long forgotten. A number of new
blocks were invented and Shelia showed us some
of her ways she designs her blocks.
Sheila also brought along a few items from her shop, quilters Lane and a number of us took this
opportunity. The class had a good hum all day, yes some reverse sewing but a lot of eureka
moments. Most of us went home with 4-5 blocks finished but with a happy smile on our faces.
A must-do class in my book even for the beginner. Sheila is a natural teacher and a talented
designer. Thank you Daphne for the organising of this class and the outstanding sultana cake that
energised us. It was a lovely collection of quilters who brought a variety of different fabrics to make
the pattern unique
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Mini-retreat
The next mini retreat is coming soon - 22 and 23 June at St. Andrews Church
Hall, Steyne Ave, Plimmerton. The retreat starts at 10am on Friday and ends
after dinner on Saturday evening. You go home to your own bed on Friday
night around 8.30/9pm and come back on Saturday morning any time after
8.30am ready for another day of sewing.
Bring along hand or machine sewing or both. You can bring your own sewing
table or use the ones at the hall. It is a great time to get out those projects
that need finishing. Remember this is an opportunity to work on your ‘mini’
projects, rather than that king size quilt. Mini-retreat is lots of fun with loads
of inspiration and encouragement. This is a good way to get to know other
club members while making progress on your project/s
Catering for the weekend is shared - bring a plate for a shared dinner on
Friday night and a plate for either morning or afternoon tea on Saturday. We do takeaways (or
sometimes leftovers) on Saturday evening – there are 4 local options in the area to choose from.
Come for both days ($20) or just one ($15). Fill out the registration form sent with the newsletter
and make payment to the Club’s bank account (number on the registration form or see page 10 of
the newsletter).
Any enquires to Lesley Hall [email protected], phone 233 8194.
September Retreat
This is advance warning of the September retreat at the end of
the year. The dates will be 21-23 September 2018. Retreats are a
great way to get to know fellow club members and to have some
concentrated sewing time. Thimble and Threads is also just down
the road for any emergency sewing supply. If you need help or
advice there are lots of different people to call on that are happy
to help out. The March retreat was great fun, come along to the
September one if you are able. If you are unable to attend this
one, the dates for next year are 29-31 March 2019 and 30 August
-1 September 2019. The 2020 dates have also been booked and will be 1-3 May 2020 and 28-30
August 2020.
Rimu Court at Silverstream Retreat is a great facility with
good lighting, hotel-style bathrooms, and delicious meals.
There's also a huge table quilts can be pinned on. The
accommodation is shared bunk style rooms - we only use the
bottom bunks. A short stroll across the carpark gets you to
the dining room. You can either live-in for the weekend
(Friday from 2pm to Sunday 3pm) or just come for the
Saturday, (~ 9am to after dinner).
The price and cost for the retreat will be finalised closer to the date.
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Exhibition
Cre8: diversity
Odlin Gallery, Myrtle St, Lower Hutt
11 – 22 July 2018: 10am - 4 pm
Open Day /Meet the Artists: Sunday 15 July 10am – 4 pm
Established in 2012, Cre8 is a group of 6 textile artists who share a common interest in expanding their
artistic horizons. Margaret Davidson and Gayel Downes come from Upper Hutt, Karen Johnston and
Brenda McPartlin are Horowhenua residents and Pam Lorimer lives in Carterton. Rebecca Staunton
lives in Brisbane, keeps in touch by email and comes across the Tasman once or twice a year.
Collectively, the group have many years’ experience as traditional stitchers and/or quilters.
Cre8 artists work with paper, silk, cotton, wool, linen, thread and wire. A feature of the exhibition will
be the joint project entitled ‘8 Days’. Previous joint projects have included upcycled linen tea towels,
reconstructed wool lamb jackets, wire dresses and fabric manipulation. Cre8 was the featured group
in the June 2016 edition of Australian ‘Embellish’ magazine.
This is the third time Cre8 have exhibited at the Odlin Gallery and the title ‘diversity’ reflects the current
range of work of the six artists.
Everyone is welcome. Entry to the Gallery is free. Work will be for sale.
Shut-in Stitches Volunteers needed
The Shut-in Stitches is a programme that has been running for 24 years teaching quilting (Saturday mornings), to two different groups of women at Arohata Woman's prison (Tawa).
The volunteers in the programme happily share their passion for quilting and are proud of the achievements made by the members of the classes.
“It is very rewarding to see the prisoners' enthusiasm for sewing, and they are so proud of their completed quilts”.
One class runs in the Drug Treatment Unit (20 participants) and the other group is run in Mainstream (8 participants).
We are looking for new tutors to join the group. Time commitments vary depending on the tutor’s own wishes but each session is approximately 3-1/2 hours.
Please contact either: Linda Kemp 0272888780 Capital Quilters or Tricia DuBern 0275888825 Wellington Quilters / Pinestream Quilters if you would like more information
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Coast to Coast
July 21st 2018 9 am – 4 pm
Kapiti Coast Community Church
57 Hinemoa Street, Paraparaumu Things are progressing very well with the planning of Coast to Coast. We now have our raffle tickets
and Coast to Coast tickets for sale at each meeting and some posters to put around the community.
Tickets for Coast to Coast will available for sale at each meeting and will
also be available at Aimee’s Fabrics Village Books and Crafts, Busy Bee
quilt shop and Fibre Flair. You can also send a self-stamp addressed
envelope to Kapiti Quilters P O Box 286 Waikanae and a ticket will be sent
back to you. Payment can be by internet banking or cheque. We would
you prefer you didn’t send money by mail. Tickets are $15.00 each.
If you pay by internet remember we are using Kapiti Quilters B/A and
their number is:
01-1167-0013764-00
Raffle tickets will be available at upcoming meetings and are $2.00 each.
We went to Wellington Guild on Thursday evening and sold our last lot of
challenge fabrics. The response to the challenge fabric has been great and we look forward to seeing
some wonderful ideas put in the form of a quilt from all guilds around the Wellington, Kapiti and
Hutt Valley areas.
Coastal Quilters and Kapiti Quilters Challenge Quilts are due back at the July meeting which I will
collect at upcoming meetings.
Pinestream Quilters, Capital Quilters and Wellington Quilters will need to return their challenge
quilts at the June meeting which I will collect at your June meetings.
Please remember to put your phone number on the back of the quilt. When you hand over your
quilt, we will take your name and you will be given a number to claim your quilt back and the other
number will stay with your quilt. Also remember the Velcro strip on the back, so we can hang your
quilt at Coast to Coast.
If your challenge quilt needs special care, please let me know and we will take care of it.
I will be putting some lists out asking for volunteers to help on the day at Coast to Coast and at
ongoing meetings.
Apart from our raffle quilt we are also having two raffle baskets, one filled with fat quarters and
another filled with luxury items. If members could assist us with donations that would be great.
Thanks everyone
Anne-Marie
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Welcome Quilts We seem to be getting requests for more quilts than we did in early 2017 and in 2016, so would appreciate any help you can give to keep a good supply of quilts on hand. Thanks in Advance. We will have a Welcome Quilts Stitch Day at St Andrew’s in Plimmerton on the 30th of June so please put this date in your diaries. This is a great time for us to pin up quilts in preparation to quilt and some members bring their machines and do some quilting. If you have some tops you would like to quilt for us we can cut you some batting for them. Thanks to all for the help you have given over the years. Marge and Christine
Informal Stitching Groups Stitch days in Pukerua Bay
Stitch Day at Marge Hurst’s house is temporarily suspended until further notice. Some repairs are
being done and things are in some chaos as storage is being replaced and stuff is sitting on most
horizontal surfaces with very little seating left. If someone else would like to host the Stitch Day for a
few months it would be much appreciated. But if not, then an announcement will be made when
repairs are completed.
Sit ‘N’ Stitch – 28 April 2018
New to the club? Consider coming along to Sit ‘N’ Stitch. It is a
great way to meet the people in the club on a one-to-one level.
As the name suggest, you bring along something to work on.
Hand-stitching, machine work, knitting, embroidery, anything.
We have a morning and afternoon tea break with tea and
coffee provided. You can either bring your lunch or there are a
number of cafes around where you can buy your lunch. It is
usually held on the fourth Saturday of the month (unless there
is a mini-retreat). It is from 10am-4pm at St Andrew's Church
Hall, Plimmerton. It is also a good opportunity to use the
resources of the Lightbox and the Sizzix machine.
Tea and coffee are provided; a shared plate for afternoon tea is appreciated.
Enquiries to Lesley Hall 2338194 or [email protected]
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Notices
Yearly subs Hi All, that time of the year is approaching for payment of yearly subs which remain at 25.00
• All members must have paid their subs to vote at the AGM in July
• Memberships are due on the 1st June 2018
• Subscriptions not paid two months after the Annual General Meeting shall (except for new
members) be subject to a surcharge of 20%
• Members will be reminded when their subscriptions are overdue
• Members joining between January and June will pay 50% of the annual subscription for that
year
• Our preferred method of payment is by internet banking online BNZ - 02 0524 0056822 00.
Remember to include your name in the details so we know you have paid. Cash and cheques
are also accepted
• I will be available at the June and July meetings accepting payments and have authority to
access our bank account to check internet payments
Thank you all in advance for your payments it’s a busy time of year getting memberships information
updated and membership lists ready to send out to members
This year we are changing members badges to white. I haven’t decided on the colour for committee
members yet.
Membership forms will be attached to the end of the newsletter for you to fill in and update any
information
Thanks
Anne-Marie
Suggestion Box
Have you got an idea for a class or a speaker? Do
you have an idea for the website? The committee
would love to hear from you! Or, you can pop
your suggestion into the ‘Suggestion’ box which is
on the sign-in table in the foyer.
Almoner
If you know of a member who has suffered a
bereavement or illness please contact
Rachel-Mary Perry ([email protected])
and a card will be sent on behalf of the club
to let them know we are thinking of them.
Have you changed your address? – snail or email?
If so please let Anne-Marie Dunlop know so she
can update lists and keep you in touch with
Coastal Quilters. You will also have to re-join the
email list by accepting an invitation from Yahoo.
Or you can create your own Yahoo account and
change the details whenever you need to.
Coastal Quilters Bank Account Number
Payment of classes, retreats, subs, bus trips etc,
please include your surname and the reason for
payment eg subs, Bus trip, class name.
BNZ - 02 0524 0056822 00
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Calendar
CQ Events Calendar
2018
April 28 Sit ‘N’ Stitch
May 12 Tote and Gloat Bus trip
19 Coastal Quilters Workday – Wrights Fabrics
26 Sit ‘N’ Stitch
June 9 CQ Meeting
17 CLASS – Crazy Quilt As You Go – Sarah Hooker
22-23 Mini-retreat
30 Welcome Quilts Stitch Day -St Andrew’s Plimmerton
July 14 CQ Meeting - AGM
21 Coast to Coast
28 Sit ‘N’ Stitch
August 4 Shop Hop Bus Trip
11 CQ Meeting
19 CLASS – Charmed Bag – Dianne Barnden
25 Sit ‘N’ Stitch
September 8 CQ Meeting
21-23 Silverstream Retreat
29 Sit ‘N’ Stitch
October 13 Coastal Quilters Workday – 30th Anniversary Celebrations and
Wrights Fabrics
27 Sit ‘N’ Stitch
November 10 CQ Meeting
23-24 Mini-Retreat
December 1 CQ Christmas Party
2019
March 29-31 Silverstream Retreat
August/
September
30-1 Silverstream Retreat
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Please note that this information is taken from a number of sources.
While all care has been taken to ensure that it is correct Coastal Quilters cannot guarantee the details therefore please check if possible before attending events
2020
May 1-3 Silverstream Retreat
August 28-30 Silverstream Retreat
Events Calendar
2018
May 12 Tote and Gloat, B & M centre, Palmerston North, Speaker:
Lynette Anderson
25-27 Aotearoa Quilters International Challenge Quilt Exhibition,
Capital Gateway Motor Inn, Newland
July 11-22 Cre8: diversity Exhibition Odlin Gallery, Myrtle St, Lower Hutt
13-19 The Centre of Things Embroidery Conference, Nelson
21 Coast to Coast, Kapiti Community Church
August All Shop Hop – 9 participating shops
11-12 Quilted by Capital Quilters Exhibition, Hutt Exhibition centre,
Lower Hutt
September 13-16 Memory Makers – Wairarapa Quilters 30th Anniversary
Exhibition, Carterton Events Centre
October 5-7 Rangitikei Country Quilters Exhibition
6-7 Celebration of Quilts –Rose City Quilters Exhibition,
Palmerston North Girls High School
December-
January
Pinestream Quilters Exhibition, Expressions, Upper Hutt.
2019
October 1-6 National Quilt Symposium, Auckland
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Awe and Inspiration Show and Tell from the February Meeting.
Reminder: If you don’t want your quilt to be photographed and put into the newsletter, please tell
the photographer when you display your quilts for Show and Tell.
Quilting Classes at Tawa College BEGINNER STAR SAMPLER – Di Barnden
Starts Thursday 3 May and runs for 10 weeks from 7-9pm on Thursday nights. Fee
$130
Want to learn about Patchwork? This course will teach you all about blocks, how to
use a rotary cutter, piecing, colour ways etc. Also great for those who want to
extend their skills.
MACHINE QUILTING - Di Barnden One day class on Sunday 27 May
from 9am-4pm. Fee $85
This is a beginner’s class and during the course of the day we will cover
all aspects of quilting including; marking your quilt design, batting,
basting, setting up your machine, thread, straight line quilting and free
motion quilting. A chance for you to learn to complete your quilt.
Enrolments and needs list on tawacomed.co.nz or contact Judith [email protected]
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