2nd General Meeting - 2

There were some beautiful quilts on display with this beauty from Sonia van Zyl chosen as the Viewer's Choice winner for the day.

In the next installments all about the Bloemshow winners as well as the "Quiltedoor" challenge.

2nd General Meeting - 1

Our second General Meeting of the year was hosted by the Quiltmakers on the 18th of May 2019.  It was another successful birthday party thoroughly enjoyed by everyone who attended it.

All the party goers were treated with yummy sweet treats beautifully displayed.

Members and guests were welcomed with a lollipop.

Our chairperson, Mariëtte Venter welcomed everyone after which Petro Swart opened the meeting. 

As May is a special month for mothers, it was decided by our committee to treat our only mother-and-daughter quilters, Christine and daughter Calista Von Wielligh each with a wooden box packed with goodies.

Chair person Mariëtte Venter and Secretary Christa Gouws did the honors.

The Outreach project for this term was The Christian Seaman's Organization which aims is to bring the Good News of God's Love to each person involved in maritime life.  Our quilters were hard at work knitting 260 beanies as well as scarves and gloves for them for the cold winter weather ahead and adding notebooks, pens and Christian messages to their packages. 

The "Sterkwilters" group who knitted the most beanies, received a bottle of alcohol free champagne while members who knitted 10 or more beanies each received a thank you gift from Mariëtte.

Iessie Steenberg, the group leader of the Sterkwilters, received their bottle of champagne.

Petro Swart and Sonia van Zyl hosted an interesting lecture about French quilting and the art of Trapunto Quilting.  Both of them are judges at the "VLV Sirkel" and is/was lecturers at the University of the Free State.

From left to right - Mariëtte, Sonia and Petro 

Members and guests each received and example to make.

In the next installments all about the quilts on show, the Bloemshow winners as well as the "Quiltedoor" challenge.

2nd General Meeting 2019

You are hereby invited 

National Quilt Day 2019

We held our National Quilt Day on the 9th of March.  Two courses formed part of the day which were brought to us from the girls of Amafu hand dyed fabrics.

Jane Renton taught her students how to quilt a mandala

 and Hanli Burger did a color burst class (when she wasn't selling fabric)...

At tea time we were treated to mouthwatering treats prepared by our own chair person, Mariëtte Venter.

2 Demo's during teatime by Alea Randlehoff from Quilt in Clarens fame taught us how to create perfect round circles as well as continuous prairie points.  I've found this tutorial on YouTube if you want to make your own.

Another successful event!

Travelling Exhibition

You are hereby cordially invited:

12 April to 5 May 2019 @ Oliewenhuis

16 Harry Smith Street, Bloemfontein

For directions

An event not te be missed!  Truly masterpieces.

General Meeting 23 February 2019 - 2

For the first Outreach project for 2019, we chose Batho Primary School.  The school is extremely poor, so Nici Smit (one of the teachers as well as a member of our Guild) decided to start to teach the girls needlework and quilting after school as a means of providing for themselves as well as keeping them of the streets.  So, we ladies donated fabric, haberdasheries and food for her project as one cannot work on an empty stomach.

Nici had to call her husband to bring a larger vehicle to get all the donations home as it was two tables full!

Then we were all blown away by a very talented lady, Marianne Le Roux, who taught us how to make all natural dyes from discarded vegetable peels, rusted items and so forth.  

Below is a vintage picture frame collage she made using a rusted muffin pan

as well as a christening gown made of tea bags and free standing lace

and another made of Bakers Wrapping Paper also adorned with lace..

Elsa de Wet did a short demo on the disappearing 9 patch.

There was some beautiful quilts on display as usual

as well as this beautiful waistcoat

with the winner of Show and Tell this beautiful quilt of Rika van der Merwe.

Although the Fabric Origami Candle Mat demo after the meeting was only attended by 3 ladies, they were quite impressed with their creations.  Below is Nici's daughter stitching away

and Michelle Lorandi's finished wreath for Christmas.