Night Meeting
Our evening meetings are a slightly more formal affair than our day meetings and include a show and tell of work by members and wonderful speakers or demonstrations. Our meetings start with a cup of tea so members can meet and greet. Our wonderful library is also on display for members to borrow and return books. Be in to win one of our three raffles - $2 for 3 tickets.
Next evening meeting will be on Thursday April 4th 2024
Meetings 2024
Last month in March We had The Big Destash
This was our stash sale meeting. Members came along with their surplus fabric patterns etc to sell. Lots of people turned up and we had a lot of tables booked. Plenty trading going on!
Show and Tell for February and March can be seen on our Show and Tell page click here
April 4th 2024
One Hundred Days of Colour- A Talk by Sara Boland
Inspired by a lifelong love of colour, texture and pattern Sara’s art practice occupies the boundary between traditional craft and Fine Art. Combining stitching, painting, drawing and collage techniques her works explore personal thought and imagined possibilities.
Living in Waikanae with her husband and daughters Sara works from her garden studio. Visit during the Arts Trail to get inspired, explore the studio filled with fabric, thread and collected curiosities.
Sara is a project-based multi-media artist with a Diploma in Visual Arts and Design
sarabolandartist.com
May 2nd - Skills Sharing Night
Several club members will be demonstrating quick and easy tips or making a simple piece, eg velcro cord holders, jar openers plus a few extras.
If you have any hints and wrinkles you would like to share or learen about please contact Donna at kcqclasses@gmail.com
More info will follow.
Skills ideas shown here are for illustration only!
AGM June -6th - Polly Lind
She is showing us her work in a different type of applique and other bits and pieces she does. More info will follow.
Previous Speakers
February Speaker
February 1st - Lorraine Jones.
Lorraine came to our retreat last year. Some of us heard about her regular trips to Bali where she has identified lots of Batik sellers over the years. She will talk about her Bali fabrics and her travel experiences and she will bring batiks to sell. Lorraine will bring her fabric to sell at our Stash Sale in March.
Photos - Lorraine at our retreat and some of her fabric
November Speaker
David Scheepers from Anomaly, sewing machine repairers.
This is from the Anomaly website -
"We are the Scheepers family and we have a passion for sewing machines. A strange affliction, to be sure but one that has interested and shaped us as a business. David is the main technician, the 3rd generation of sewing machine technicians in his family, trained from a young age by his grandfather. Being a sewing machine technician is definitely a family affair with Grandad, two uncles, a cousin and Father in the business, David is now also training his son the craft.
Our main goal is to provide knowledgeable assistance from experienced technicians who specialise in sewing machines and overlockers. Also to do everything we can to not let any old sewing machines end up in a landfills.
We now have a workshop in Petone and one in Paraparaumu with plans for a 3rd workshop in Porirua. Additionally we have 3 collection points with plans to add more over the next year.
The idea behind the (photos at right) is to provide a visual experience behind our business and show the people behind the scenes.
For more information about Anomaly and machine repairs click herel: admin@nzanomaly.com / We
October 2023 - Lisa Call
Lisa Call was one of the Judges at our exhibition. She is a quilt artist. Lisa started quilting in 1980 and won numerous awards on the quilt show circuit in the USA. She became a quilt artist in he mid 1990s and she has been living in NZ since 2015. Lisa showed the quilt on our newsletter page as an example of her work at our exhibition.
Some other pieces of her art work can be seen on pinterest click here
Also printed below is an article from the NZ Herald about Lisa when she was commended in an NZ art competition in 2022
September 2023 Speaker - Pat Webster
Kaffe Fassett and "The Power of Pattern" Exhibition,
at the Dovecote Studios, Edinburgh.
Earlier this year when KCQ member Pat was visiting friends in her hometown of Edinburgh, one of them, knowing how much she enjoys quilting, took her along to see a Kaffe Fassett exhibition, "The Power of Pattern".
Pat says "The exhibition was so impressive and exciting. It showed how many skilled quilters from around the world combined their creativity and design skills with Fassett's ebullient fabrics. I was buzzing when I left"
The experience prompted Pat to learn more about Fassett and his development from an artist with paint to a designer of colourful knitting, tapestry and finally quilts and fabric design. Pat will show and talk about some of her photos from the exhibition.
She would love it if anyone has a quilt or two made with Kaffe Fassett fabric or even just some fabric that they could bring along to the meeting. She has also overheard people talk about having been to classes given by Fassett and would love them to share their experiences.
August 2023 Speaker - Mary Self
Mary Self is well known to Kapiti Coast Quilters. She owned Nancys Stitch Studio (formerly Nancys Embroidery Shop) for nearly 22 years, Those years have given Mary time to indulge in a wide range of textiles and craft areas. She began designing needlepoint designs after having attended a design class with Jennifer Pudney in 1988. Mary then went on to complete the Textile Design Degree at Victoria University Wellington in 1998. During the 1980s and 1990s, Mary exhibited Textile Art at the NZ Academy of Fine Arts. Her work is in the Hawkes Bay Art Gallery and other private collections. More recently her piece “Fly Away” won Judge’s Choice at the 2022 Quilt Symposium.
Now she has started a new phase. She has sold the retail shop to make more time for what she really loves - designing and stitching. She continues to run online stores at maryself.nz, jenniferpudney.co.nz and thestitchsmith.co.nz, selling the kits that she manufactures and also sells wholesale. She is working on series-based textile art works. Sometimes inspiration or new ideas can be challenging but working in series’ allows one piece of work spark an idea and a “what if” for the next piece.
Mary will inspire you with a range of samples of her work.
July - Mary-Jane Sneyd
Mary Jane is a self-taught textile artist. Her background is predominantly in science and medicine and until January 2022 she worked as a cancer researcher.
She is particularly interested in the portrayal of the human form and all parts of the human body. In 2014 after discovering Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) online, and retiring from viola playing, she began an exploration into portraiture and nudes. She creates realistic textile works, predominantly nudes, people and portraits, and sometimes incorporates social commentary based on the human form.
She is an artist member of the Otago Art Society, a member of Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA), Gondwana Textile Artists, and Aotearoa Quilters.
She currently has 4 fabric artworks touring in the USA and Australia/New Zealand, and 4 have recently returned from touring. Two artworks have been selected for a book about art inspired by birds to be published late 2023. She won the viewers’ choice award in the National Cleveland Art Awards in 2021 for ‘Bertie and Mac’, ‘Black Panther’ won an award in the Cat exhibition at the Otago Art Society in 2021, and she received a Special Commendation in the Hope and Sons exhibition, 2022 for ‘Sundown’. Her work is in private collections in France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Hong Kong, China, the USA, the UK, Australia and New Zealand.
Mary Jane won 1st place in the Members' Challenge "LINES" at Aotearoa Quilters Great New Zealand Quilt Show in Rotorua in May this year with the quilt on the left. Mary Jane is also running a class for us on Saturday 8th. You can see more examples of Mary Jane's quilts here
July Speaker - Mary Jane Sneyd
June 2023 - Jane Bloxham
"I grew up sewing garments and making craft items, learning to embroider and make ceramics, as well as learning to become a technical drafting engineer in a Telecomms company in the UK.
I then used these skills to open a business in bridalwear after studying pattern making and design at City and Guilds level and subsequently a degree in applied arts.
Over the years I have made curtains for clients, and costumes for theatre, ballroom dresses for dancers, a giant chicken, and hippos, elephants and bears for a holiday camp, “Freddie” costumes for a Queen tribute band, and to top it all, many beautiful silk wedding gowns.
In my time in New Zealand from 2003, I have been teaching in both tertiary and secondary education as I really wanted to pass on the tips and tricks I have learned over the years and maybe do a little to keep the art of craft sewing and making alive; paying it forward to a younger generation."
Wendy Welsh
Wendy is a quilter, embroiderer and knitter from Wellington. She blogs weekly at https://wendysquiltsandmore.blogspot.com/ and is active on Instagram and Facebook.
Wendy loves wool felt applique, hand piecing and hand quilting and teaches classes to guilds on request.
She has been busy in the four years since she last spoke at Kapiti Quilters, so will share some of her recently finished quilts, plus bags, cushions and even some cross stitch.
Donna Jordan - A passion for bag making
Kay Coolbear - Crafting Threads of Aotearoa
Individuals Helping their Communities One Stitch at a Time
Crafters who are keen to make a difference
Crafting Threads of Aroha is a registered charity that enables the supply of hand crafted and repurposed items to numerous charities and organisations who provide support to people and communities in need. We have over 500 members and regularly distribute hundreds of items across the Greater Wellington region.
Our members are all volunteers, who are knitters, crocheters and sewers. They make items that local charities have identified as needed by their communities. Our network of local drop off places is set up to make it easy for members to get their contributions to us. Volunteers pick up and deliver these items to the charities we support.
Sometimes our charities identify particular items their people need. Such requests have included: blankets, singlets and booties for newborns; scarves, gloves and slippers for school children; and beanies, hand warmers and toilet bags for adults. We’ve had wonderful responses when we put out these challenges to our members and the charities are overjoyed to receive the donations.
February 2nd 2023:
Anna Hicks
Anna is a sustainable textile artist who loves getting inspired by waste fabrics and creating textile art & sustainable fashion pieces. She holds a Bachelor of Design in Fashion & is a passionate advocate for the health benefits of creativity. Anna spends her time creating, teaching, speaking and is always learning something new. She was recently a tutor at the Quilt Symposium and will be our first class tutor of the New Year. To see more of Anna's innovative work on her website - click here
November 3rd Meeting - Guest Speaker: Bronwyn Angela White
Bronwyn began serious cross stitching some 40 years ago, quickly working on her own designs. She enjoys making patterns as well as “pictures” and mixing up unusual elements.
In the past decade, Bronwyn has experimented with a mix of cross stitch, embroidery stitches and fabric on tapestry and rug canvas, creating framed “fibre art” and practical items—so an iPad, phone or glasses case can double as a clutch purse or pouch. Her first experimental works were submitted to the Creative Fibre “Pot o’ Gold” Challenge in 2019, and she won a prize for one of her entries—as well as selling her first scrumble-and-freeform knitted shawl entry in the Creative Fibre National Exhibition.
As well as crafting, Bronwyn has participated in a number of creative writing workshops and published several books .
When she’s not gardening, knitting, reading or playing with her grandsons’ Lego, Bronwyn makes bead jewellery, increasingly specialising in elaborate floral necklaces and earrings.
Her works can be seen on Felt website here and also www.bronzshowcase.com
October Guest Speaker: Trish Armour
Trish lives and works in Wellington and has been weaving tapestries for over 30 years. She has held three successful solo exhibitions in Wellington, and has tapestries in private collections in the USA, Japan, UK and New Zealand.
Trish teaches tapestry weaving, and with a group of her students, has established a very successful weaving group which meets regularly in Wellington. She exhibits regularly in group exhibitions in New Zealand and internationally, and has written articles for weaving magazines, and online. In the 2018 she participated, by invitation, in exhibitions at the William Morris Gallery in London, UK and in Oakville, near Toronto, Canada. She has been invited to exhibit in the UK again this year..
When designing tapestries, Trish uses photographs, paintings, collage, and prints to convey a sense of light and atmosphere. her inspiration comes from the human form and face, ancient mythology and the art of the Pre-Raphaelites. Working to convey an ethereal quality, she hopes that viewers will read a personal meaning into her tapestries, discovering ideas or attributes for themselves. Trish tries to convey human emotions and experiences through her work, by bringing together the authenticity of tradition and the vitality of contemporary to produce a contemplative work of art.
September Meeting - Clare Smith
Clare is a Textile artist, quilter and costume maker who specializes in surface design (dyeing and printing on fabric). She has a Graduate Diploma in Visual arts from Whitireia art school and a Diploma in Costume Construction from Toi Whakaari. (the New Zealand Drama school). She is currently currently studying Raranga (Maori Weaving) at Te Wananga o Aotearoa.
Clare has been teaching fabric dyeing, screenprinting, fabric collage and machine quilting since 1996. She currently teaches a block course in costume dyeing and finishing at the New Zealand Drama school and exhibit her quilts and wallhangings. Over the last 3 years she has also been weaving kete (basket weaving) which she loves.
Clare brought a selection of quilts, dyed wall-hangings, costumes and kete along for the talk.
25th Anniversary August 2022
Slides from the talk by Tania Preston and Sheila Adin please scroll through
Tania & Sheila Presentation.pdfMarg Hutchison AGM June 2022
Suzanne Sage
Allsorts Colour & Design Project
Camilla Watson
Debra DeLorenzo from Towrags
Ruth Nicholas from Pinestream Quilters speaks about her trip to the 2020 Tokyo Quilt Show
Clare Smith & Chris Kenna - Our judges from the exhibition
Robyn from Fox's Cottage
Mary Self from Nancy's in Wellington - Threads through her Quilting Journey
Speaker - Diane Barnden - Days for Girls - an international organisation that makes sanitary product kits for girls and women in third world countries.
August - Dorothy Devane and her amazing bag collection
July - no speaker - social meeting, AGM and Lockdown Show & Tell
March Meeting - Fyvie Murray
February Meeting - Richard Stewart - franchise holder for Pfaff and Husqvarna in NZ
November Meeting - Birgit Moffatt - Fibre Artist
October Meeting - Judy Boyle - Her quilting journey
August Meeting - Wendy Welsh
July Meeting
Speaker
In July our speaker was Valmai Copeland who earlier this year travelled to Vanuatu with a Kiwanis group to teach women how to sew as part of the "Threads Across the Pacific" project. This project aims to create opportunity and skill for women to make an income using machines funded by Kiwanis. You can read more about the project at
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June Meeting
Began with two minutes silence and a photo celebration of Wendy Hatley, our convenor, who sadly passed away on May 24th.
This was followed by a poem read by Chris Bongiovanni
Presenters
Jill Hammonds presentation of the exhibition at Paducah Quilt Museum during her trip to Kentucky in 2018. I don't want to load this on Youtube so members can access the video on the link below. You can pause throughout the movie and be sure to set on full screen mode as above.
Alison Tierney - Her Quilting Journey
Bobby Duncan outlines the things we quilters need to focus on when preparing quilts for an exhibition
Bobby has shared her notes for people to review further as we prepare for the 2019 Exhibition. Remember these are a guide to help you - NOT a requirement and we want everyone to enter at least one quilt.
Download a copy here:
Adrienne Walker - Quilt Designs
Diane Barnden - Indian Textiles
An evening with June Nixie - September 2018
August - Wendy Hatley - Her quilting journey
July - Susan Claire - Designing quilts
June 2018 - Kathie Petrie
April 2018 - Lisa Call
March 2018 - Sara Boland
Bernina Sewing Machine Presentation - key messages - applicable to all quilters and all machines.
Be sure to watch in full screen mode and you can download a pdf version to read at your own speed - scroll down below the bottom of the page.
Xmas dinner December 2017
Photos from the November meeting - Sheryl Meech with photos from the Birmingham Quilt Festival
Photos from the September meeting - Anna Sullivan - Turkish Rug Repairer
To hear more from Anna you can check out her advertisement video below.
Photos from August meeting - Dianne Southey
Photos from July meeting - Diana Carroll
