Another talk

Last week I was the guest speaker at Rose City Quilters in Palmerston North, this week I was the guest speaker at Capital Quilters in Lower Hutt.  

Yes, I had a last minute invitation to be the guest speaker at Capital Quilters last weekend.  Unfortunately I couldn't let you know, because like Palmerston North, the meeting was restricted to members only, with a maximum of 100 attendees.  

I hadn't really unpacked from my Palmerston North trip, so it was easy enough to scoop up a few quilts and put them in the car.  I changed my talk up a bit, and included some different quilts including this one:

This is my Scrappy Bear Paw quilt, made to celebrate Capital Quilters 30th anniversary. I love this quilt because it's nice and bright, and I did big stitch hand quilting with Perle 8. 

A lot of members made Bear Paw quilts that year, and we hung them all in the hall at Christmas 2015.  It looked amazing. 

Our guild is going to run a Bear Paw block of the month next year.  Maybe I'll be tempted to make another version when I see all the blocks on the wall.  This is why we chose bear paw.  It's in our logo. 

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Two guest speaker gigs (and the Peacock Party)

What a busy week that was!  I was invited to speak at two guilds within a week. 

First up was Capital Quilters at Lower Hutt last Saturday.  The stitching group that I belong to, The Stitching Cartel, were asked to show some of our quilts.  We have 9 members in our group, but due to work and family commitments, we don't all make it to every one of our monthly dinners.

We had six members at the show and tell, and here's some of what we showed:

A quilt we all made for Adrianne's wedding

A baby quilt for Vic's baby boy

A baby quilt for Adrianne's baby girl.

We have developed a pattern and we use it to make quilts for group members when they have a significant birthday ending in zero - 30, 40, 50 etc.  No one has reached 60 yet.  The birthday girl provides some of her all time favourite fabric, and we make blocks to work with that fabric.  goodness know what I'll choose when it's my turn.  Fortunately I have a lot of years to think about that. 

Here are the four quilts we have made to date:

for Lyndy

for Adrianne

For Helen

For Vicky

We have two more birthday quilts in progress for significant birthdays happening next year.

Two of us have made My Small World, and another person in the audience just happened to have her version with her for show and tell.  So we had 3 My Small World's on display. 

Makers left to right: Marrilyn, Anne, Wendy

After the show and tell the poor piano looked like this:

Then last night I was the guest speaker at Kapiti Quilters at Waikanae.  I took some of my quilts from the Capital Quilters show and tell, but I added more too.  Here are my quilts hanging on the display frames. 

It was lovely to meet more local quilters.  We are fortunate to have so many quilting guilds in Wellington -
Capital Quilters in Lower Hutt
Wellington Quilters in Wellington central
Coastal Quilters in Plimmerton
Pinestream Quilters in Upper Hutt
Kapiti Quilters in Waikanae. 

If you don't belong to a guild, I suggest visiting some and seeing if there's one that's right for you. 

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