Aotearoa Quilters 100 Days Project 2020 Virtual Exhibition

JULIET FITNESS, WAIHI BEACH, WESTERN BAY OF PLENTY 100 Days of ………??!!   I am a quilt competition junkie with nearly 3 decades of competing in challenges.  So when I saw the words “100 Day Project Challenge” I had to investigate further.  I decided to participate to get me into the habit of sewing every day, and I set myself the goal of 30 minutes sewing each day.  I am a keen gardener, have spent the last 3 years establishing a new garden, and often my garden beckons rather than the sewing room, though I love the latter dearly!   I decided I needed to work daily on a specific project rather than playing with different techniques as many other participants decided to do.  Quilting-wise my passion is paper-foundation piecing (Charlotte calls me “the Queen of Spikes”) and I had a UFO project to work on, which had been on my “to do” list for years.   This is a photocopy from a library book years ago. This quilt was made c. 1800 and is 75" x 71 3/4" and is in the Rhea Goodman Qui

Pat Sivertsen, Karitane, nr Dunedin, Otago I'm a long time quilter and fibre artist. I belong to Art Fibre Dunedin and Queenstown Quilters and Patchworkers. 100 days Christmas Runner: first 24 inches Project 1: Days 1 to 50 Informal Christmas Table Runner  I wanted to acquire some basic drawing skills, get back into hand stitching and complete a practical project. Lockdown derailed my plans slightly as I had intended to buy a nice length of linen in Arrowtown for our Christmas table runner. Plan B was a length of calico that I'd grabbed from Spotlight the day before Lockdown. It is intended as a fun informal runner for our 4 generations of family at the Christmas table. If the glass of red wine get spilt on it that will add to the story.  I drew whatever was in my mind on the day with a heat erasable pen and then stitched it. So there's everything from Covid viruses to great grand kids birthdays, Christmas stuff, scenes relating to where we live etc. It's designed for t

"Covid Blues" detail. Piecing #3 Quilting #2 Melissa Gelder Northland NZ 100 days of improv blocks using (mostly) Oakshott cottons.   Taking part in the Aotearoa Quilters 100 day project was a way to keep a structure to making something I’d always wanted to do, using improv construction methods for blocks. Starting out I thought it would be one big quilt, but during the first 20 or so days new colourways were calling and I started to imagine the pieces as wall art. I made a total of 5 pieces, and the further into the project I got the wilder the shapes became. Day 47 - the blue colourway process.  We all have fabric we love so much it’s hard to cut up… for me it is Oakshott cottons.  Cutting and slashing freehand cured that problem.    This is the 2nd piece, and remains unquilted. I missed the odd day, but mostly stuck to it. The last part of my project was quilting the 5 pieces I’d made. I use a statler long arm so a lot of the quilting was a bigger learning curve than the p

Jill Bowman Wellington Bojagi I have been quilting for about 30 years and started, like most quilters, doing traditional quilts. I now generally make quilts of my own design, experimenting with different techniques, but I usually include some hand stitching on them.  I took part in the challenge as a way of giving myself permission to prioritise some art or stitching every day rather than thinking I needed to finish other things before I could. I planned to collect something every day and use that as a basis for my work but the restrictions of working from home during lockdown meant that my sewing room became my office and I didn’t have easy access to all the equipment I needed.  Bojagi with the light coming through So, after a few frustrating days, I decided to make a bojagi. I didn’t have much organza but, inspired by Sara Cook’s beautiful book, I decided to use cotton fabrics and hand topstitch the French seams flat.  Closeup showing the topstitching I could push my laptop aside dur

100 DAY PROJECT Marilyn Muirhead    Tauranga Special Facebook page for my art:     Marilyn Muirhead Artist   I decided this would be a good challenge for me to commit to putting in the hard yards practicing my drawing.  In particular, portraits and people.   I needed a special sketchbook A4 size with blank pages, being lockdown I hunted and found a book that Mary Transom gave me for my 60th which was decorated beautifully.  It went through my mind that it was too gorgeous to use….but realised we shouldn’t wait until we’re dead, use your beautiful stuff.   I was excited about this project and started two weeks early, was it cheating – yes, but I decided it was about putting in the work, not about doing it every day….some days just go to the pack!   I’d read in a Link from Charlotte that someone decided to do it for 20 minutes each day, this sounded like a reasonable commitment but I would work for hours some days.   First I practiced doing huge eyes, this followed on with my Aqua challe

My 100 days centred around continuing a previous 100 day challenge I had participated in. I was wanting to build up my body of work for a series I call PASSION. Anyway I was delighted with what I achieved and how I had changed from the previous 100 day challenge.  Making the fabric I had to make more fabric – never a chore! Then I finished "Turning Point" which I had got stalled on with the stitching.  Turning Point I was thinking about the “Aotearoa Quilters Journey” challenge and looked at a piece I made in the first challenge but couldn’t quite decide how to quilt – the reason was I wasn’t happy with it. Therefore I took the rotary cutter to it and chopped it up and changed it round completely and the result was "Crucifixion".   Crucifixtion This led me to looking at my other part made pieces which I again cut up, added some pieces and then completed which resulted in “Making up”. Making Up I am thrilled with how my body of work is coming together and the impetus