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KZN Quilters’

Guild

Newsletter No 100

February 2014

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Cover Quilt:

“Celebrating my Family” by our own Sue

Cameron; it is also part of the SAQG

Travelling Exhibition.

EDITOR’S NOTE Greetings from your new Editor! History is

being made for KZNQG as this is our first

electronic issue, our first foray into the

digital world. It is a steep learning curve for

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 Leigh-

Anne 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.

Judy Zingel

For our new members/visitors, KZNQG is a

non-profit organization that hosts four large

quilt meetings/shows annually. This is to

raise awareness of the craft of quilting in

our province and to showcase quilts designed

and made by members throughout our

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

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:

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.com

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

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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 Zulu-

Natal! 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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“Flower Garden” by Christa Khoury

“Kaleidoskoop van Kwetterene

Vinke in ‘n Bos” by Mari Claase “Silk Ice Cream” by our own Pauline Law

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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

“Foliage” by Moira Ryder

“Free Spirit” by Jane Renton Amber Kirk - made at Quilt

Academy

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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

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.

Please bring your deposit slip to the AGM to be given your receipt.

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………………………………………………………..

BANK DETAILS FOR PAYMENTS. Please put your name as reference.

Name of account KWA ZULU NATAL QUILTERS GUILD Bank ABSA Branch HILLCREST Branch code 632005

Account number 912 315 2361

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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.”

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 AGM

AFTER AGM

General: Pauline Law: Chairlady

Guest Speaker: Phil Fisher – Borders and Finishing Touches

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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/South-

Africa/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.

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.

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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REMIX AFRICA

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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

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.

PENTIMENTO

BETWEEN No 2

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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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Quilt Academy was established 2 years ago as a

fund-raising project by the Festival committee.

Our KZN Quilters’ Guild is hosting the 18th

National Quilting festival in 2015 and therefore

has to raise the funds to do so. The academy

workshops are held every two months at a nominal

cost of R100 per person (which is also to cover the

hall rental). The workshops are for all levels of

sewers, who have the opportunity to learn many

techniques taught by teachers with many years of sewing and quilting experience. The

teachers offer their services at no charge.

In 2014 the running of the workshops has been taken over by the KZNQG committee.

The dates for 2014 are: 18 January, 29 March, 24 May, 26 July, 4 October & 22

November. Each workshop starts at 9h00 and ends at 15h00. The venue is Glenwood

Presbyterian church Hall (entrance in Evans Road). For more details about the

workshops, as well as to book for the classes and meals, go to

http://bookwhen.com/kznqg-qa

Our next class is “Quilted Carry Bag with Paper Pieced Flower Design” – Ann

Oberholzer.

Contact Person: Tiu Excell on 083 642 2006 or tiiiu.excell@gmail.com

By Tara Hartslief, Marketing

Quilting on the Web by

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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that I enjoy doing on the web, starting with Pinterest. What a lovely site for

inspiration! But it is much more than that. Pinterest is a tool for collecting and

organizing pictures and links to things you love. It’s like a virtual pin board. What’s

great about it is that it takes up no wall space at all.

What’s a Pin? Pins are like bookmarks. Whenever you find something on the web that

you want to keep, add it to Pinterest. Your new Pin will be there whenever you need it,

and will always link back to the site it came from.

Collect Pins on boards. Boards are where you organize your Pins, and you can have as

many as you like. Obviously your first board would be for quilts. But there are so many

other things, e.g., crotchet, knitting, animal photos, travel destinations - if you can

imagine it, someone has pinned it!

Follow boards you love. Follow other people’s boards to get their latest Pins delivered

to your home feed. You can follow all of someone’s boards or just the ones you like best.

Pinterest boards are open for everyone to see but you can make private ones as well.

The idea is to just explore and get inspired.

How to find it. In your browser, just type in www.pinterest.com or Google Pinterest.

Once you connect to it you can just scroll through what you see, which will be people’s

latest pins, or you can type a key word like Quilts into the search box to narrow down

what you see.

If you want to collect your own pins on your own boards you will need to sign up, which

is really easy and free!

The picture below shows some of the pins I have collected on my Quilts board.

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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 24- Quilt academy

May 31

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. All proceeds in aid of festival funds.

LYN GONZAGA

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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.

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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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LIST OF TEACHERS 2014… Name Area Telephone Email

Judy Fennemore Various 031 262 7258 chrisfen@webstorm.co.za

Talia Griffin Waterfall 031 762 2280

Mary Chapman Hillcrest 031 762 2508 Mary.stan@telkomsa.net

Glenda Kirkiridis Westville 031 266 2823 amafu@iafrica.com

Odette Tolksdorf Westville 031 266 2978 odettet@iafrica.com

Carol Hodsdon Hillcrest 031 172 2562 hodsdon@telkomsa.net

Ann Ober? Uvongo 084 625 9937 ann.thequiltery@gmail.com

Rosalie Dace Berea 031 201 0819

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

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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

Group quilt made my

members of Village

Quilters for the 2013

Festival

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GUILDS AND GROUPS 2014

Area Guild Name Contact Telephone Email Monthly Meeting Date

Time Venue

Amanzimtoti Cottage Patch Hazel Nunes 031 916 1906 nunesha@gmail.com 1st Monday 9-12 Toti Library

Balito/Salt

Rock

Sheffield Night

Owls

Frances

Hawkins

031 525 3144 hoppityh@hotmail.com 1

Saturday/mont

h

Various homes

Durban NQG Pauline Law 031 208 3615 paulineannelaw@gmail.com Quarterly 9-pm Durban Girl’s

High School

Tiuu Excell 083 642 2006 tiiuexcell@gmail.com

Durban North Quilters-by-

the-Sea

Sandy Wood 082 068 9459 sandywood21@gmail.com 1st Wednesday 9:30am North Dbn Lion’s

Den

Glenwood Tollgate Phil Fisher 031 266 6602 fisher2000@worldonline.co.za 3rd Tuesday 7-9pm Frere Rd

Presbyterian

Church

Hillcrest Sew Wot Sue

Cameron

031 783 4194 ashsue@iafrica.com 4th Tuesday 7-

9:30pm

Sew Many Things

Hilton Midlands Jane Renton 083 558 2682 jan@rietvleilandscapes.co.za 3rd Thursday 9-12 Hilton Methodist

Hall

Howick Meander Lindy

Briscoe

033 330 8117 nomajuba@telkomsa.net Last Thursday 1:45 –

4pm

At Luke’s Hall

Howick

Ixopo Quilting@Home Clare Smith 033 343 2999 awhsmith@telkomsa.net 1st Saturday 10am -

3pm

Muldal’s home

Kloof Kloof Country Desny

Littlejohn

031 701 3529 littlejons@mweb.co.za 1st Tuesday 9-12 Veteran Car Club,

Village Rd

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Area Guild Name Contact Telephone Email Monthly Meeting Date

Time Venue

Kloof Village Quilters Colleen

Roberts

031 767 2239 colleen@robert.co.za 2nd Monday 9:30=12 Methodist

Church, Kloof

Magate Hibiscus Jinks

Brokensha

039 315 6436 Jink-snpeter@telkomsa.net 4th Tuesday 9-12 Village of

Happiness,

Margate

PMB St Matthews Marline

Turner

0333 396

3009

marline@iafrica.com Last Tuesday 2:30-

4pm

St Matthews

Church

PMB Truro Quilters Asha Soni 033 3913072 Asha.soni@gmail.com 1st Tuesday 9am Truro Community

Hall

Queensburgh Queensburgh

Quilters

Lorette

Kerr

031 464 2017 lorkerr@gmail.com 1st Monday 7-10 Various Homes

Richmond Richmond

Country

Quilters

Maureen

Harper

033 212 3060 gor-don@ambaorganics.com 4th Wednesday 2-4 Richmond Bowling

Club

Scottburgh Pleasure Time Sally Harley sharley@furturenet.co.za 3rd Wednesday 2pm Dutch Ref Church

Scottburgh

Underberg Underberg

Patchwork Guild

Cathy Knox 033 701 1710 cathyk-nox@futurenet.co.za Underberg

Westville Grassroots Lyn Gonzaga 031 764 5045 lyngon@telkomsa.net 4th Wednesday 9-12 Westville Library

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