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KZN Quilters’ Guild
Newsletter No 100 February 2014
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EDITOR’S NOTE
For our new members/visitors, KZNQG is a
Greetings from your new Editor! History is
quilt meetings/shows annually. This is to
being made for KZNQG as this is our first
raise awareness of the craft of quilting in
electronic issue, our first foray into the
our province and to showcase quilts designed
digital world. It is a steep learning curve for
and made by members throughout our
non-profit organization that hosts four large
many of us and at the outset I encourage any of you to mail or phone anyone on the committee with any ideas for improvements, suggestions, constructive criticism and more. We need to know so that we can create a magazine that reflects the members - your quilting activities/achievements/struggles/ successes and interests. We hope to grow from strength to strength and to improve with each edition. Grateful thanks to LeighAnne van der Veen for undertaking the enormous task of setting up the template and for helping me with much of the computer work. It has been time-consuming and she has been generous with her time and skills. Go well in 2014.
province.
Our members
are from beginners to ‘experts’. The guild also invites various speakers from within the community to come and give a talk at our meetings on various topics, e.g. last year we had a speaker from the Alzheimers’ Association who explained what a sensory quilt would consist of in order to keep the five senses active in their patients. This is how we give back to the community. At each meeting there are shops/vendors selling their goods, as well as demonstrations throughout the morning. We have many
Judy Zingel
visitors and currently proceeds are focused on fundraising for the 2015 National Quilting festival. The dates for our 2014 meetings are: 8 March, 31 May, 6 September and 1 November. The venue:
Cover Quilt: “Celebrating my Family” by our own Sue Cameron; it is also part of the SAQG Travelling Exhibition.
Durban girls High school. Glenwood (Penzance Rd entrance). The contact person is Pauline Law: 082 806 9149
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KZNQG COMMITTEE Title: CHAIRLADY Name: PAULINE LAW Cell: 082 806 9149 Home: 031 208 3615 Email: paulineannelaw@gmail.com
Title: SAQG REP Name: MARLENE TURNER Cell: 082 494 2620 Home: 033 396 3009 Email: marlene@iafrica.com
Title: VENDORS Name: ANNETTE LEE Cell: 082 213 8955 Home: 031 201 7506 Email: annette@hackey.co.za
Title: QUILT DISPLAY Name: SANDRA REDDY Cell: 082 851 1990 Home: 031 578 4550 Email: sansreddy@telkomsa.net
Title: TREASURER Name: LYN GONZAGA Cell: 082 806 9149 Home: 031 208 3615 Email: lyngon@telkomsa.net
Title: CHAIRLADY Name: TIIU EXCELL Cell: 083 642 2006 Home: 031 764 1106 Email: tiiu.excell@gmail.com
Title: MARKETING Name: TARA HARTSLIEF Cell: : 083 876 5499 Home: Email: tarahartslief@gmail.com
Title: SALES TABLE Name: VIJAY RAMADU Cell: 083 778 3123 Home: 031 262 0833 Email: vijay.ramadu@zanampak.co m
Title: REGISTRATION Name: LORETTE KERR Cell: 083 520 3926 Home: 031 464 2017 Email: lolkerr@gmail.com
Title: NEWSLETTER Name: JUDY ZINGEL Cell: 083 783 1073 Home: 031 267 1073 Email: zingelj1@yebo.co.za
Remember our AGM on 8 March 2014
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FROM THE HOT SEAT Welcome to our new online magazine and to the 2014 quilting year, which promises to be full of exciting things. A few years ago I heard a conference speaker say that the world would soon be "covered in a digital skin". Well I think we can safely say that the moment has arrived! Everyone under the age of 40 'lives' their life on the Internet, and a large percentage of those over that age are increasingly doing so. If we don't exist there, we don't exist at all for many, especially younger, people. So please DO support us when we ask you for information and pictures to put onto our website. We MUST make it inviting and informative, and give people a reason to come back to it again and again. We will have teething problems as we are new at this, but it will be as successful as YOU make it, as we cannot do it without your input. We encourage you to forward this newsletter to as many people as possible. The more people who hear about us, the more chance we will have of them coming to a meeting/looking at the website/learning to make a quilt and becoming a part of this exciting world. My BIG CHALLENGE to you this year is......... Start planning / working on a quilt for the 2015 Creative Energy exhibition! I have put together a few thoughts for you, things I wondered about when I entered my very first quilt show. I hope you find them helpful. 1. Decide that you will enter a quilt, big or small. 2. Any quilter can enter. You do not need to be a master quilter, but you do need to do the very best work that you are capable of at the moment. 3. The categories and rules are on the Festival website. If you don't understand something, ask another quilter, or phone me. 4. Although the quilt show is called "Creative Energy", you do not have to do a quilt based on the theme except if you are entering the Challenge category. 5. You can use an existing, new[ish] quilt if it fits into one of the categories and sizes. The only 'no no' is if you have shown it at a previous national festival. Read carefully. 6. It is NOT about winning, it is about taking part and showing the public what we can
8 do. They are always very impressed and even the simplest quilt is beautiful. After all, isn't that how WE were drawn to quilting in the first place? Seeing a lovely quilt and saying 'I want to do that!" 7. Do not be put off by the fact that you will get a comment sheet from the judges when your quilt is returned. They are always very helpful, and constructive advice is given. I have learnt a great deal from judges' comments over the years and as a result my techniques and finishes have improved enormously. I still don't always get carefully matched points, but for me, that is not the most important part of quilt making. I love the hand quilting part, and I am delighted when I get a positive comment about that! 8. Your inspiration can come from absolutely anywhere!
I often start with a colour and take out all my fabric in that colour range. Then I find a block I like and just start making blocks. You can think about layout and design as you go along. Or start with a picture in a magazine or a photo, and use that for your colour inspiration. You can choose fabrics that are like the textures in the picture. Choose something you are interested in like birds, stamps, music, shells, gardening etc. and find fabric or a block that would go with your 'theme'. You may see a lovely block that excites you. Or something that could easily become an applique design. You may want to make a quilt for a special person or event.
9. Just do it! And if you have already got a quilt you have made recently, please will you consider putting it on to the Royal Show this year? See details elsewhere in the newsletter. You can then enter the same quilt in the 2015 festival! Happy Quilting!
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SAQG REPORT By Marline Turner – KZNQG representative to SAQG During these last months the Tutors have been extremely busy compiling the Teachers Accreditation Course. It is a wonderful course and as all of us have said “we just wish we had something like this when we all started teaching”. It is indeed a very comprehensive course that has taken months to set into motion. There is a record number of teachers who have signed up for the course and 16 from Kwa ZuluNatal! We wish them all well and hope that they gain lots of experience from it. Good luck every one. TRAVELLING EXHIBITION When the Exhibition was taken down after our last meeting it was displayed in several venues. We were most grateful to Sew Many Things who displayed it for several weeks until Christmas. I then packed and sent it off to Newcastle where it was displayed before being sent off to Johannesburg in February. Thank you to the many KZNQG ladies for signing the Visitors Book after viewing the quilts, a reflection of a record number of names of those who saw the lovely quilts. These photos (at right and below) are of 4 quilts from the travelling exhibition.
Morag Scordillis – “Reflections…: Playing on the Beach”
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“Kaleidoskoop van Kwetterene Vinke in ‘n Bos” by Mari Claase
“Silk Ice Cream” by our own Pauline Law
“Flower Garden” by Christa Khoury
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THE ROYAL SHOW – 23-31 May 2014 We encourage you to enter this show. Last year several of our members did very well. The categories are: Class
110 Traditional (pieced and/or applique) - Large: no side longer than 250cms 111 Traditional (pieced and/or applique) - Small: no side longer than 150cms 112 Innovative - Large: no side longer than 250cms 113 Innovative - Small: no side longer than 150cms 114 Wholecloth Quilt: no side longer than 250cms 115 Miniature – no block must be more than 10cms and should be a scaled down version of a large quilt – no side longer than 60cms 116 Wearable Art – all garments should be wearable 117 Group Quilt – a quilt worked on by 4 or more people - no side longer than 250cms 118 Crazy Patchwork
Closing date for all entries – 25 April 2014. Closing date for delivery of exhibits – all exhibits, except where otherwise stated, must reach the Secretary’s office at the Show grounds by not later than 8 April 2014. Entry forms from Phil Fisher at our meeting on 8 March 2014 For further details contact Marlene Turner or Judy Zingel.
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FROM OUR LAST MEETING….. The KZNQG committee showed its appreciation to members Annette Lee and her mom, Joan. They each received a bunch of flowers to show our gratitude for their years as Editor and Assistant of our hard-copy newsletter. Joan was unfortunately not able to be at the meeting.
Kathryn Harmer-Fox, our speaker, in front of her stunning quilted wall-hanging of wild dogs. She calls herself a “fabric artist” and acquired her love of fabric from her mother who taught her to sew at an early age. She described to us how she mostly loves to do free-style sewing and embroidery, actually “drawing” with her machine. She stressed that we are creating memories, and told us of an album she has made of her childhood using only fabric. Leoni told us that she has “an inordinate love of fabric and of chairs”, and she has used the latter in her work. She advised us to “Use what you have got – to the limits!”. Google her name for some wonderful websites on which you can see her work. She ended with her three most important pieces of advice: “INSPIRATION is found everywhere around you – LOOK and SEE; REPETITION is important-the more you do it, the better you become at it. It takes WORK to create a quilt; Honour the YOUNG GIRL in you – laugh, play and don’t ever forget to enjoy yourself. “
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KZNQG members’ quilts displayed at our last meeting
“Flowers” by Clare Smith
“SA Take 2” by Liesbeth Groenewald
“Free Spirit” by Jane Renton
Amber Kirk - made at Quilt Academy
“Foliage” by Moira Ryder
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Special Quilt Show 10 May 2014 Grassroots Quilters Guild, Village Quilters and Kloof Country Quilters will be hosting a quilt show. Members will be bringing their quilts to display. There will be a tea garden, and we will be having the merchants/shops selling their quilting and related goods. We will also be having an AMBERICAN AUCTION where members of the public can bid for the quilts which will be on auction. These quilts will be made for our members and there will also be “Invitational Quilts� from well-known quilters from all around the country. In addition to this, there will be demos throughout the day. All proceeds will go towards the QUILT FESTIVAL in 2015.
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OUR NEXT MEETING NOTICE OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING In accordance with the Constitution, members are hereby given due notice of the
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING To be held on Saturday 8 March 2014 at 12h00 Venue: Durban Girls’ High School Members are reminded that subscriptions are due at or before the A.G.M
NOMINATION FORM KZNQG COMMITTEE 2014 Name of Person Nominated…………………. Nominated By……………………………………………………….. N.B. SUBS HAVE BEEN REDUCED TO R150.00 both for LOCAL MEMBERS as well as for COUNTRY MEMBERS. (Door fee no longer applies). VISITORS FEES are now R40.00.
BANK DETAILS FOR PAYMENTS. Please put your name as reference. Name of account Bank Branch Branch code Account number
KWA ZULU NATAL QUILTERS GUILD ABSA HILLCREST 632005
912 315 2361
Please bring your deposit slip to the AGM to be given your receipt.
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KZNQG OPEN DAY PROGRAMME: 8 March 2014 Venue: Durban Girls’ High School, Penzance Rd Glenwood 9-12
Quilt Exhibition
Quilts by: Tollgate Guild; Jeanette Gilks, St Matthews Guild. Demos: Vereker Munro – Surprise Alison Moorcroft – Machine Cording Debbie Becker – Piecing 12h00
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AFTER AGM General: Pauline Law: Chairlady Guest Speaker: Phil Fisher – Borders and Finishing Touches
Speaker: Phil Fisher Topic: “BORDERS & FINISHING TOUCHES”
Phil’s ”advertisement” for her presentation on 8th March: “We are all guilty at some time in making a quilt and as we put that last stitch/block in before the borders/bindings, we heave a sigh of relief and say: finished. WRONG! You are far from it. Borders and finishing touches can make a quilt as much as ruin a quilt. Hopefully my talk/demo will make you rethink and inspire you to put in as much time and money into the borders and edgings as the main body of your piece and finish your quilt in style.”
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Raffles on Open Day Tickets for the following raffles will be sold at the Open Day in the foyer, so bring your cash!
PFAFF HOBBY 1142 SEWING MACHINE A HANDMADE, SLEEVELESS, KNEE LENGTH JACKET WITH GOLD EMBELLISHMENT MADE BY MARGE GATTER. GRASSROOTS HAMPER – BAKED GOODIES PLUS BAKING TOOLS. GRASSROOTS HAMPER – BABY PRODUCTS. THE TYPIST CHAIR (see right) COVERED IN PATCHWORK FABRIC.
SOMETHING NEW: DISCOUNT
FOR MEMBERS
The stores below have agreed to give members of KZNQG a 5% discount on all purchases over R200.00, both at KZNQG Meetings and at their stores. To qualify for the discount: 1. You will be required to produce your current, paid-up, SIGNED membership card. You will be asked to sign a document at the store. NO membership card- no discount! 2. This will be valid for ONE YEAR - until 28 February 2015. SEW MANY THINGS BERNINA KLOOF BERNINA MUSGRAVE BERNINA DURBAN NORTH Our grateful thanks to these Quilting stores for offering us this discount.
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I LOVE RHINO competition Bernina is currently sponsoring a challenge: sew a Rhino creatively onto the front of a t-shirt. There are very specific categories and rules and amazing prizes. Entry fee is R20 and entries need to be left at Bernina shops on or before 7 March. Give it a go! All the info you require is found on:
http://www.bernina.com/en-ZA/Whats-New/Promotions-Offers/SouthAfrica/I-love-the-Rhino-Competition
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SPOTLIGHT ON…. ODETTE TOLKSDORF (Honorary Member of KZNQG) Odette Tolksdorf is well-known to many of you as she has been entering shows and teaching quilting both in South Africa and internationally for many years. She has a distinctive style – her work is colourful, different, very creative and eye-catching. As a person, she is a gentle, passionate, humble and has a great sense of humour. As a quilting teacher, she is inspiring, encouraging and hugely committed to getting the best out of the pupils in her classes. Growing up in Australia, Odette enjoyed drawing (mainly patterns) and other creative activities. Her mother taught her to sew when she was young. Odette did art for matric in Cape Town and always knew she would be involved in the art and design field. She started studying Graphic Design after school and after a break of several years, she completed her studies and graduated in Vanderbijlpark when she was married and had two children. She came to Durban 32 years ago when her husband, an optometrist, came to work in Durban. A quilting course with Nina Lawrence followed soon afterwards and she has been a passionate quilter ever since. Quilting combined many media and processes she loved – designing, creating, working with fabrics, colour and texture and sewing. Interaction with like-minded people was also an important and enjoyable part. Odette was inspired to learn as much as she could in this wonderful world of quilting. She read quilting books as there was no internet then, attended courses and shows and had her work published, both here and overseas. Her long and fruitful teaching career also started which she finds very rewarding. In 1989 Odette and a few quilting friends travelled to America to attend courses with Nancy Crow and others and learned an enormous amount from them. This included recognizing the exciting possibility of being a professional
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artist using stitched textiles as a means of artistic expression, as well as being a professional quilting teacher.
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Odette’s first quilts were very textured, using many upholstery fabrics. However she soon began using mainly cotton fabrics but she often includes other types of fabrics like silks and barkcloth. She likes to experiment with various techniques and styles, from abstraction to realism, using both hand and machine stitching, depending on what is right for each work.
As we can see from her work, Odette is fascinated by colour, texture, pattern and design. Her quilts could be called “art quilts” and she always designs her own work. Although she admires many of the traditional patterns, she likes to transform and build on to tradition by creating new designs. Her quilts are often a commentary and interpretation of what she sees and experiences in her daily life and several ideas usually merge together in one work. Teaching design is a passion of Odette’s: all of her classes include some aspects of design. She has taught all over southern Africa and in the USA, Australia, New Zealand and Germany. An important part of her quilting journey has been her involvement with Fibreworks, which started about 15 years ago and she was a founding member. This group was begun mainly as a platform to exhibit together, for experienced and practising textile / fabric artists. Odette found a wonderful group of like-minded people and she makes an effort each year to contribute to their exhibitions.
REMIX AFRICA In addition to this, Odette now has a new interest. She co-organizes Arts and Craft Tours for international groups. She works with Nancy Crow and her son Nathaniel, and also Canadian Valerie Hearder, who bring people to see the wealth of art and craft in South Africa. Odette first did a tour guide course to acquire insight into the travel industry. She arranges visits to various people
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and places in South Africa to see embroidery, printing, ceramics, art, woven pots, woodwork etc. as well as wonderful tourist sites.
Some of the places they visit are Mapula embroidery group outside Pretoria, the Vukani museum in Eshowe, Kaross embroideries and Madi A Thavha in Limpopo. Have a look at the websites of Nancy Crow and Valerie Hearder to learn about their tours. It is evident that Odette is “proudly South African” and her work has over the decades been inspired by our country’s colours, people and problems and its art and artefacts. She has done much to promote our country internationally for many years with her quilts and her teaching. She strongly believes in PENTIMENTO empowerment of women and the art and craft tours that she now organizes, help to uplift countless women who sew, embroider, bead and carve and receive recognition and fair payment for their distinctive work. She finds this new venture very rewarding although it does reduce her quilting time! Odette is a talented and special person and we are fortunate indeed to have her as an active and committed member of KZNQG. We wish her well as she continues her quilting journey.
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FESTIVAL NEWS By Twig (Chairlady)
15 months to go to Quilt Festival 2015! We are gearing up to a bumper Festival, to be held here in KZN from 3rd to 7th July 2015. For up-to-date information on the Festival, please visit: http://festival.quiltsouthafrica.co.za/
Competition:
We have posted the Categories and Rules on our website. Have you decided to make a quilt? There is a category to suit your style. We also have a “BAGS” category for the people who want to make something unusual. Challenge packs will be available for sale at the next meeting on 8 March for R150 each. They are sold on a first-come first-served basis, so hurry All categories will have CASH PRIZES awarded!
Teachers: We have secured 4 overseas teachers - One of whom is KAFFE FASSETT! He is a master of colour in quilting, knitting, fabric design, needlepoint.
We have received exciting submissions from our local teachers, and are in the process of fine-tuning our selections. Teacher & Class information will be available in the 4th Quarter 2014. Booking for classes will open soon after 15 January 2015 (date tbc)
Help: We are currently looking for sponsorship by local KZN businesses. If you have any contacts, please call Niri on 0837774007 nirimoodley@gmail.com Please keep the LLL’s coming in! We also need Inchies and ATCs. Please bring 5 inch squares to the Sales table – we want to collect 20 000! Every one counts! Start saving now to attend Festival 2015!
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Donations to Festival funds 2013/2014 Grateful thanks to the following: All students who attended Quilt Academy All who donated to the tin collection Bernina Durban North Bernina on Musgrave Bernina Kloof Raffle Bunny Cottage Patch Grassroots Quilters Guild KNQG Sates table Marge Gatter Tea Mary Chapman Mother/Daughter Tea Oranje Quilters, Bloemfontein Phil Fisher Pleasuretime Queensburgh Quilters Ruth Archer Scottburgh Quilters Sheffield Night Owls Sisters, Pietermaritzburg South Coast Quilters Teas at Bloemfontein Festival Tollgate Quilters Vreker Munro Village Quilters Many thanks to Village Quilters for compiling this recipe book with KZNQG members’ favorite recipes. For those of you who have not already bought a copy, it will be on sale (R90 per copy) at the March meeting. Proceeds are for festival funds.
Do you like a Challenge? The Festival Committee has issued a Challenge to you to make a quilt with specific parameters. This is for the 2015 Festival, and involves purchasing a sealed Challenge Pack (R150), which includes the rules and some part/s to be included in the quilt. These packs will be available from Marline Turner at our Open Day on 8thMarch from 9am. Packs are sold on a first-come, first-served basis, so be sure to be there early to buy yours! We look forward to showcasing these quilts at Festival 2015.
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Quilting on the Web Tiiu Excell The World Wide Web or Internet, as it is known, is full of wonderful things for the quilter to explore. Over the next few issues I am going to share some of the things
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Quilters’ Calendar March 8
AGM KZNQG
March 29
Quilt Academy
May 10
Quilt Show Kloof Civic Hall (Grassroots, Village Q & Kloof Country)
May 23 – 28
Royal show
May 24May 31
Quilt academy KZNQG –Open Day
June 14
SISTERS Quilt Show PMBG
June 28
Tollgate quilt shoe GO GREEN
July 24-26
IQC- Gauteng
July 26
Quilt Academy
Sept 6
KZNQG Open Day
Sept 12- 14
IZOTCHA
Next Quilt Academy Class Quilted carry bag with paper pieced flower design taught by Ann Oberholzer on 29 March 2914
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GUILD NEWS Grassroots Quilters Guild Our third hamper of quilting fabrics and notions was won by Colleen Roberts. We raised R1213.00 with this raffle.
Thanks to everyone who took tickets.
In October, Phil Fisher explained to us how she goes about making an art quilt, from start to end. How she gets her ideas for the quilt, the fabrics she uses etc.
We all learned a lot and were very inspired.
November – we had our Christmas party. The ladies were given menu items, and each one chose what they wanted to make, and what a feast we had. Thank you to all the ladies – the food was excellent. The Tafta Revellers entertained us. What a treat. They truly are an inspiration, and showed us that age is irrelevant. If only we could all be as active as they are. We took up a collection of toiletries and presented them with 2 shopping bags full of toiletries. They were delighted. January – we have decided to make a group quilt to enter into the festival and we were shown what we have to do, and were inspired by a powerpoint presentation. Well, we had a great 2013 and 2014 promises to be even better. We have a quilt show coming up in May, in collaboration with Village Quilters and Kloof Country Quilters.
LYN GONZAGA
All proceeds in aid of festival funds.
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Kloof Country Happy new year from us to you as we start 2014. This year, as with every year, the Guild is issued with a Chairlady’s Challenge. The challenge for the year is for everyone to make a table runner – a minimum width of 10 inches and a minimum length of 30 inches. They also have to use their Initial to decide on a colour or block – so this should be very exciting. I cannot wait for Show and Tell in August. It seems like a challenge year. When Jacqui Robertson moved back to Dubai she left me with a HUGE bag of scrap fabrics. After many days of sorting fabric and cutting out all the 5 inch squares for Festival, I divided the remaining scraps into two bags – 3kgs each – and we will get two groups of ladies to make scrap/strip quilts. One will be donated to Festival to raise funds and the other will be given to a charity of our choice at the end of the year, so they too can raise funds for their organisation. Wonderful what can be done with all our scraps. Looking forward to a wonderful year with all our quilting friends. Desny
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Quilters by the Sea “I know nothing, I’m from Barcelona!” Well the first bit of the heading is true!! The second bit ( the “Barcelona” part is not, and apologies to Faulty Towers). What am I on about? Well, Quilters by the Sea long-standing Chairlady, Dixie Benn has stepped down from her post after looking after the group for years, pending a move to Pretoria. We wish her well and good luck in finding a new quilting group to join. No, whichever group she finds will be the lucky one, given her vast knowledge and experience. She will still join us until the final move, but will be missed dearly. So, back to the “I know nothing………” I have been voted in as the new Chairlady, I am not sure why, and am an absolute novice, not having finished my first quilt! My first meeting for the year will be a very democratic affair, asking the members what they would like to do, learn, share etc and from there we will start to move forward. Some of the more experienced members have assured me they will be there to prop me up, in this new venture, and I sure will be tapping into the wealth of knowledge and experience. Our group has grown to 32 at last count, which is a 50 percent increase from when I first joined. It is great to see so many skilled, generous and creative people. We have thrived on the social aspect of the meetings and Brenda Meyer’s additional monthly lessons, further strengthen the friendships which have been forged. So, here’s to an enjoyable 2014, and happy quilting to all Sandy Wood
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Tollgate Quilters 2014 has arrived with plenty of “Big Bangs” and we wish all quilters a healthy, happy and pieceful 2014. May quilts flow from your fingers (and keep those LLL’s coming). Tollgate Guild has come on board to assist Beth Barkus in the LLL portfolio for 2015. It was with great sadness that we heard of the passing of Lin Simpson. She was an award winning quilter who was very glad to share her knowledge with the quilting world. She will be sorely missed by all. The Greyville Sewing Knitting & Craft Show was, once again, a resounding success and our members did us proud. Thank you, Beth for again organizing this event. At our Sept meeting Glenda Kirkiridis gave us a taste of the wealth of information available on quilting on the internet and in Oct Phil Fisher demonstrated Foundation piecing – from simple strip piecing to much more intricate Snails Trail, Log cabins etc. Our Nov meeting was our Christmas party and great fun was had by all. Prize winners received a small bag of goodies which they have to use to make LLL’s with. Phil showed us how to make a beautiful Poinsettia cushion. At our Show & Tell’s each month we have seen the beautiful quilts that our members have made – many of them at Izotsha and the Quilt Academy. How lucky we are to be able to attend these events and make lovely quilts. We are looking forward to another fantastic year indulging in our passion – QUILTING!!
Mary Chapman
ilters Guild
Wedding quilt for her son & daughter-in-law by Annette Lee
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Queensburgh Quilters As I sit writing this report in the sweltering heat of our Durban summer I am so grateful for the invention of air conditioning and refrigeration and even with these marvellous inventions, we still find it hard to sit and quilt at this time of year! Luckily for our group, I volunteered for us to make 1000 items for the goody bags for our Festival! These items are small and far easier to manage than a huge quilt at this time of year!! I am not sure that everyone in our little group sees my logic but if every Guild, small or big, makes something for the goody bags, ours might compare well with those we got in Bloemfontein! We started our year off as usual with a lovely weekend spent by some of our group at Val Madsen’s Zinkwazi beach cottage. A few of us could not attend for various reasons, but those who did attend were as productive as usual and even managed to drag themselves away from their sewing machines to have a dip in the sea! We will have our AGM at the first meeting of the year in February when everyone will be present. Lorette Kerr Queensburgh Quilters
LIST OF TEACHERS 2014‌ Name Judy Fennemore Talia Griffin Mary Chapman Glenda Kirkiridis Odette Tolksdorf Carol Hodsdon Ann Ober? Rosalie Dace
Area Various Waterfall Hillcrest Westville Westville Hillcrest Uvongo Berea
Telephone 031 262 7258 031 762 2280 031 762 2508 031 266 2823 031 266 2978 031 172 2562 084 625 9937 031 201 0819
Email chrisfen@webstorm.co.za Mary.stan@telkomsa.net amafu@iafrica.com odettet@iafrica.com hodsdon@telkomsa.net ann.thequiltery@gmail.com
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Sew Wot? Quilters (in Hillcrest) What a year 2013 was! Some of our members became grandparents. Some of us went to the Festival in Bloem which was amazing! We did a needle turn appliqué class with Marline Turner. It was a lovely day and at least we learnt how to thread a needle!! Thank you to those non-members who joined us to make up numbers. You’re welcome to join us anytime! One of our dearest members was diagnosed with cancer. We have taken this journey with her as she’s kept us all up to date with her progress, her pain and her heartbreaks. We love you, our dear friend, and thank you from the bottom of our hearts for giving us the kick start we needed to go for our mammograms and other uncomfortable tests we avoid! Your strength and honesty are an inspiration. We hope and pray that you will get better soon so that you can join us for the exciting year we have planned ahead. After a year filled with LLL’s and monthly technique classes, it was wonderful to relax at Jenni Scott’s home to enjoy the scrumptious Christmas lunch she conjured up! We gave each other Christmas decorations as gifts and we all went home a little fatter and happier. As there was no one waving their hands in the air yelling “pick me, pick me!” when asked who would be our chairlady this year, I reluctantly agreed for the fourth year running to be in the hot seat. (Last time ladies!). To take the pressure off me, we have decided that every alternate meeting a different member will organize a guest speaker, a demonstration, class or a presentation to keep us all fixated on this wonderful hobby that keeps us out of trouble with the general public but in trouble with our husbands!!!! To start us off in February, it is our own Energizer Granny, Doreen Hood, who will teach us everything she knows about landscapes. It should be a lovely class. I, for one, cannot wait! If anyone is keen to join our merry group we’d love to have you. We meet on the fourth Tuesday evening of every month at Sew Many Things at 7pm. If you call the shop, they’ll let you have the details. 031 765 4715. For 2014, I wish all of us lots of time to quilt, loads of wonderful courses to attend, mountains of beautiful fabrics to play with and good company to stitch in. Have a great year. Sue Cameron
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VILLAGE QUILTERS, KLOOF Our September 2013 meeting featured a wonderful show and tell by May-Gene Terblanche. What an array of quilts she produced for us – and some so big! This was followed by the inimitable Marline Turner, who kindly explained to us how Maria van Riebeeck was instrumental in bringing quilting into SA, as well as showing us lots of other interesting(and more believable) items, including how to make diamond shapes and a clever Drunkard’s Path method. Marge Gatter also had a sales table of her ‘junk’ (other people’s treasures?) to raise funds. Our October meeting started off with a show and tell from, among others, Bev Essers, who had made yet another clutch of Luscious Little Layerings, using Bali prints. She’s well on the way to scoring a century with her LLL’s! We also marked the passing of member Lin Simpson, who will be sadly missed by all quilters. Our guest speaker for the month was member Marie-Jo Assounga, who gave us a fascinating and informative slide show of some of her off-the-beaten-track (well, to most of us, anyway!) travels. Starting in the Cape Verde Islands, we journeyed with Marie-Jo to Dakar in Senegal, to Brazzaville in the Congo, then on to Prague, Milan, Hong Kong, Istanbul and Traben-Trabach in Germany, before ending up in Paris and Monpellier. We finished on Marie-Jo’s ‘own island’ of Martinque in the Caribbean. What a fascinating trip, as well as a thought-provoking one as we examined some of the places connected with the slave trade. She also does amazing animal paintings – a talented and stylish lady! November was our AGM, followed by our speaker, Ros Haesloop. Her husband was born in China of German immigrant entrepreneurs who were involved in the beginnings of the Astor Hotel in Beijing. To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the founding of the hotel, seven members of the Haesloop family travelled out to China for a fascinating visit. Ros brought a tableful of Chinese items for us to admire, including wonderful embroidery. The year ended for Village Quilters with our Christmas Party, held again at Colleen Roberts’s home. During the course of our merrymaking (enlivened by Nikki Mommen and Winnie Hartzenberg’s antics!) we handed Joey Dixon (another stylish lady!) a wallhanging made by members of the guild to mark her 80th birthday – a very happy note on which to end the year! Brenda Morris
Quilters, Kloof
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Quilting@Home, Ixopo First of all we would like to wish you all a very happy year of quilting in 2014. Next we wish Judy and her team all the very best in this new venture and let's hope all us "old" quilters can keep up with the new technology! The quilters of Ixopo, although a small group, are still meeting regularly and at the moment are being kept busy by Denise Muldal who works very hard to find interesting projects to work on and once again an entry for the Royal Show is in the making. We hope to see many of you at KZNQG and the other quilting events planned for the year - the Festival committee are doing wonders at keeping us country members in the loop - good luck to you too as you keep up the hard work 2015 does not seem so far away now! Clare Smith
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GUILDS AND GROUPS 2014 Area
Guild Name
Contact
Telephone
Monthly Meeting Date
Time
Venue
Amanzimtoti Balito/Salt Rock
Cottage Patch Sheffield Night Owls
Hazel Nunes Frances Hawkins
031 916 1906 031 525 3144
nunesha@gmail.com hoppityh@hotmail.com
9-12
Toti Library Various homes
Durban
NQG
Pauline Law
031 208 3615
paulineannelaw@gmail.com
1st Monday 1 Saturday/mont h Quarterly
9-pm
Durban Girl’s High School
Durban North
Tiuu Excell Sandy Wood
083 642 2006 082 068 9459
tiiuexcell@gmail.com sandywood21@gmail.com
1st Wednesday
9:30am
Glenwood
Quilters-bythe-Sea Tollgate
Phil Fisher
031 266 6602
fisher2000@worldonline.co.za
3rd Tuesday
7-9pm
Hillcrest
Sew Wot
031 783 4194
ashsue@iafrica.com
4th Tuesday
Hilton
Midlands
Sue Cameron Jane Renton
083 558 2682
jan@rietvleilandscapes.co.za
3rd Thursday
79:30pm 9-12
North Dbn Lion’s Den Frere Rd Presbyterian Church Sew Many Things
Howick
Meander
033 330 8117
nomajuba@telkomsa.net
Last Thursday
Ixopo
Quilting@Home
Lindy Briscoe Clare Smith
033 343 2999
awhsmith@telkomsa.net
1st Saturday
Kloof
Kloof Country
Desny Littlejohn
031 701 3529
littlejons@mweb.co.za
1st Tuesday
1:45 – 4pm 10am 3pm 9-12
Hilton Methodist Hall At Luke’s Hall Howick Muldal’s home Veteran Car Club, Village Rd
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Guild Name
Contact
Telephone
Monthly Meeting Date
Time
Venue
Kloof
Village Quilters
031 767 2239
colleen@robert.co.za
2nd Monday
9:30=12
Magate
Hibiscus
Colleen Roberts Jinks Brokensha
039 315 6436
Jink-snpeter@telkomsa.net
4th Tuesday
9-12
PMB
St Matthews
Last Tuesday
Truro Quilters
0333 396 3009 033 3913072
marline@iafrica.com
PMB
Marline Turner Asha Soni
Asha.soni@gmail.com
1st Tuesday
2:304pm 9am
Queensburgh
Queensburgh Quilters Richmond Country Quilters Pleasure Time
Lorette Kerr Maureen Harper
031 464 2017
lorkerr@gmail.com
1st Monday
7-10
Methodist Church, Kloof Village of Happiness, Margate St Matthews Church Truro Community Hall Various Homes
033 212 3060
gor-don@ambaorganics.com
4th Wednesday
2-4
Richmond Bowling Club
sharley@furturenet.co.za
3rd Wednesday
2pm
Underberg Patchwork Guild Grassroots
Cathy Knox
033 701 1710
cathyk-nox@futurenet.co.za
Dutch Ref Church Scottburgh Underberg
Lyn Gonzaga
031 764 5045
lyngon@telkomsa.net
4th Wednesday
9-12
Westville Library
Richmond
Scottburgh Underberg Westville
Sally Harley
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