A new attendance record was woven at the Waimea Area Quilters Group’s biannual show at the weekend.
More than 500 people from as far away as the Lower North Island and South Canterbury spun a yarn with positive feedback to the “highly impressive” large and small quilted items on display, alongside the raffles, merchants hall and the cafeteria fundraising for The Big Bake Up.
Committee member Rhonda Mursell says many who attended the event at Wakefield School for the first time were expecting “ordinary quilts” but were “blown away” with the diversity.
“There’s a lot of interest in craft in this district and in particular quilting and patchwork, and we try to make it a fun experience, so everyone’s allowed to vote for their favourite quilt,” she says.
“The thing that they’ll see in the quilt show is there is not just patchwork and quilting, some of them do a technique called kawandi which is done by hand… and the big stunning ones catch you in the eye.
“If you want inspiration this is the place to come.”
