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.