27th Tote & Gloat

This Saturday, 5 May 2012, the annual Tote & Gloat is on.
Entry is with a pre-bought ticket at $15.00.
Lots of merchants this year - 12 of them to tempt your $$$ from your wallets!
Rose City Quilters quilt challenge is inspired from a fat 1/4 of fabric.
Challenges will be judged by our guest speaker, renown New Zealand quilter, Hazel Foot from Auckland.
A full-on day starting with show and tell - all those quilts made over the past year. Brought along to be wowed over, hung and enjoyed by so many people!

Final Category of Challenges at Tote & Gloat

Anything Goes: (open class - could be anything so long as it was quilt related and weighed no more than 5kg)

Dianne Southey's 'lamp'

1st:  Liz Gates

2nd:  Sheryl Meech

Sheryl Meech

Ngaire Chappell

Moana Woods' book

Lauren Francis' dress

Congratulations to all entrants for a high standard of imaginative work.
Congratulations to all prize winners!

More Challenge Quilts from Tote & Gloat

Advanced: (have won at Intermediate level at T&G)

Helen Cocker

Carol McGillivray

2nd: Liz Gates

Merit Award: Best Interpretation of Subject: Emma Vandenberg

1st: Sonja Revell

Sonja also won Viewer's Choice for the above quilt.


Professional: (has had a quilt selected for national or international level, and/or teaches quilt classes)

Dianne Southey

Wendy O'Neill

Rhonda Ellery

1st equal: Barbara Pritchard

Anne Adams

Merit Award: Best Use of Colour: Lorna Newsome

1st equal: Erilyn McMillan

Challenge Quilts from Tote & Gloat

The challenge was to be inspired by a page from a children's book.
First Time Entrant: (never entered a challenge before)

1st:  Sue Hayward

Joan Petterson

Novice or Beginner: (have entered a challenge previously)

Nancy Hazeleger

Linda Torwick

2nd: Raewyn Clayden

1st: Liz Halligan

Merit Award: Most Humorous Interpretation of Theme: Caroline Noaro

Caroline also won Sponsor's Choice with the above quilt

Sue Clapperton-van Weers

Intermediate: (have entered a challenge and won an award previously)

Sandie Butcher

2nd: Amiee Torwick

Cherie Clapperton

1st: Debbie Jacques

Tote & Gloat 2011

It's our 26th Tote and Gloat this year. I hope you have your ticket - we don't sell them at the door - they need to be pre-bought. The Cloth Shop (Victoria Street) and Village Books & Crafts (College Street) still have a few tickets for sale ($10.00)
Show and Tell in the morning.
Challenge quilts to view and vote for your favourite, and this year we have a new category - Anything Goes - so long as it is quilting related!
The challenge this year is a page from a child's non-fiction book. Those who wanted to enter, had to pick an envelope with the page inside.
Maximum size is 2m square and in the Anything Goes category it can't weigh more than 5kgs.
Our guest speaker is Yvonne Brown from the UK. She has been holidaying in New Zealand since the end of Remarkable Symposium. Yvonne is also taking two classes on the Sunday and Monday after T&G - one is Creative Machine Trapunto and the other is Celtic Cutwork.

First Club Meeting for 2011

The first meeting for the year will be on Monday 24th January, which is Wellington Anniversary. We will have a panel discussion on 'Borders' as our 'guest speaker.
Hope you can make it! Bring along all those quilts you have finished over the Christmas/New Year break.

The Wheels on the Bus ...

go round and round. Some of the RCQ members on a bus trip to Wellington to see the Pinestream Quilters Exhibition in Upper Hutt and the Wellington Quilter's Guild 20th Anniversary Exhibition Under covers at St Patrick's College, Kilbirnie (finishes tomorrow).

We had a lovely day and the selection of quilts shown was a lovely mix of traditional, contemporary and a few art ones.
Thanks Wellington quilters for the opportunity to see your works!