Meetings


Our meetings are held at the Freeman’s Bay Community Centre
(unless indicated otherwise)

52 Hepburn Street, Ponsonby.
Doors open at 10am and the meeting starts at 12.00pm.

Quilt events and exhibitions that we know of are listed in our latest newsletter

Challenges

See current details below regarding the latest AQG Challenge! (Should any information change it will be updated here, so please check back regularly).

The Dorothy Collard Challenge: Pounamu / Greenstone.

Hand in Date: 1 June 2024

 

(Note: Where the AQG previously presented the Dorothy Collard Challenge, we will now be presenting the Pounamu/Greenstone Challenge, in honour of the trophy donated by Dorothy Collard’s estate).

Kia Ora, quilters.
In response to many requests  for more time for this project, there is now a later hand-in date. Hand in your Pounamu/Greenstone quilt at the June meeting.

Quilts will be displayed at the July meeting.

Short on ideas?
Bearing in mind that  Pounamu / Greenstone / Nephrite /Jade is a tough durable rock, here are some suggestions:

  • Rocks on a sandy beach or boulders in a river.
  • Consider the beauty, translucency and colour – display the colour range of greenstone, from light aqua through the green spectrum to almost black.
  • Keen edges, as in tools and weapons – show sharp angles.
  • Pounamu is used for decorative objects – vases, bowls, cutlery handles, jewellery (often combined with  gold in Victorian examples).
  • An abstract approach could suggest sharpness and angularity; or be curvilinear as in many Maori designs.
  • A whole panel in the range of greens.

Please follow these guidelines:

  • You may interpret the theme in any way you please.
  • Your quilt should fit within the size 20” × 30”
  • It may have a horizontal or vertical orientation according to your interpretation, and need not be rectangular.
  • The quilt must have three layers and have some quilting.
  • A label on the back with title, maker’s name, phone no. and guild no.
  • Hand in at the June meeting.
  • Judging and prize giving at the July meeting.

Hope this helps your inspiration.
Chris from the Committee

To view showcases of past Challenges please see the Galleries page.

 

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Meetings


Our meetings are held at the Freeman’s Bay Community Centre
(unless indicated otherwise)

52 Hepburn Street, Ponsonby.
Doors open at 10am and the meeting starts at 12.00pm.

Quilt events and exhibitions that we know of are listed in our latest newsletter