Kapiti Quilters Present Prizes – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

Wrapping up the exhibition

From the Kapiti Coast Quilters

Thursday evening saw the final event in the Kapiti Quilters Exhibition with the presentation of prizes for the winning quilt.

Griet Lombard, this year’s judge, was there to comment on the quality of the quilts and to present the prizes. She also commented that we were “a great group with such a good vibe” so if you are looking for a sewing group to join, come along to our next day meeting

~ on Tuesday 16th May, 10.30 am

~ at the Waikanae Bridge Club Rooms in Elizabeth Street.

Or contact Judy Boyle on (04)9042282 to find the date of an evening or weekend meeting.

Let’s hear it for the winners!

The 150 quilts in the exhibition were viewed by over 1000 people during the two day event, and every quilt showed the creativity and skill of our guild members.

Quilts ranged from “quick, easy and colourful” to “very complex labours of love” in both hand sewn and machined.

Winners on the day were:

Best Contemporary Quilt – Sandra Killen

Best Machine Appliqué – Sheryl Meech

Best Hand Quilting – Patricia Fouhy

Best Traditional Quilt – Allison Paris

Best Use of Colour – Judy Walsh

Best Hand Appliqué – Judith Dudson

Best Child’s Quilt – Carol Brill

Best Machine Quilting / Domestic Machine – Margaret Fawcett

Best In Show – Anne-Marie Dunlop

Viewers selections

During the exhibition, all viewers were able to vote for their favourite quilt, and these votes were tallied up to provide the “Viewers Choice” winners who were announced at the Thursday meeting.

Viewers’ Choice Best in Show

1^st Jackie Holland 2^nd Margaret Fawcett 3^rd Anne-Marie Dunlop

Another feature of the exhibition was the Challenge Quilts section, where entrants had to have used a particular piece of fabric as part of their quilt. It was fascinating to see the variety of what the entrants produced. The flower themed fabric was used to make “under the sea”, animal, landscape, floral art and symmetrical quilts. These were judged by viewers choice.

(Scroll down to May 12 to see Jackie Holland’s quilt.)

Viewers’ Choice Challenge

1^st Anne Marie Dunlop 2^nd Allison Paris 3^rd Robyn Goring

Quilt by Anne Marie Dunlop with the fabric used on the right.

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100 Years Ago — and the Maori Long March begins

Māori politics was dominated by the influential MPs (and sometime Cabinet ministers) Māui Pōmare ( Waitara statue photo above) and Apirana Ngata.

The 1920's also saw the rise of Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana’s religious movement, and the emergence of Te Puea Hērangi in Waikato.

Ngata worked hard to foster Māori scholarship and education and preserve traditional arts and culture.

He convinced the government to establish a Board of Maori Ethnological Research (1923), a Maori Purposes Fund Control Board (1924) and a School of Maori Arts and Crafts in Rotorua (1927).

The Reform government also took the first, tentative steps towards settling longstanding Māori grievances.

Agreements with Te Arawa in 1922 and Ngāti Tūwharetoa in 1926 recognised their respective rights over the Rotorua lakes and Lake Taupō, and led to the establishment of trust boards with some government funding.

Commissions of inquiry which examined Ngāi Tahu grievances (1920–21) and the Waikato and Taranaki confiscations (1926–27) recommended that modest compensation be paid.