GOLDEN RAND GUILD NEWSLETTER. NEWSLETTER NO MORE MEETINGS AT THE FRIENDSHIP GATHERINGS

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1 GOLDEN RAND GUILD NEWSLETTER. February 2018 Issue 122 NEWSLETTER NO MORE MEETINGS AT THE FRIENDSHIP GATHERINGS However, we will have a fun-filled Happy Hour where we will have an inspirational speaker, an exciting demonstration, Show & Tell and, in between all of this, the odd essential announcement. From time to time we will add fun competitions to the mix. Any administrative matters or routine announcements will be made by or WhatsApp. In November we changed the time of the old meeting to 10am. There was mixed response, though most people were positive. We will hold Happy Hour from 10:00 to 11:00 with very strict adherence to these times for a few more meetings to see if the majority of our members enjoy the new format. Inside this issue Meet the Committee... 2 Home Group News... 4 GRG Vendor Listing....5,6 Interchange: Threads Connect. 7 Home Groups. 9,10 GRG Teachers. 12,13 Chairlady s Musings Agenda..16 We have agreed to one other change. The Friendship Gatherings will start at 09:00 sharp and the doors will close at 13:00. We have made the decision to shorten the Gathering because previously our loyal vendors have stayed on for a handful of stragglers wishing to browse. Please take note of the above changes. Special points of interest Happy Hour replaces the Friendship Gathering meetings New Home Group and Vendor listings 1

2 COMMITTEE DIRECTORY Meet your new GRG Committee The happy ladies pictured above are ready and willing to serve GRG and to ensure that we have a fun-filled Pictured: Back Row: Louise Kruger Home Group Coordinator, Lucia Pelser Secretary. Middle Row: Liesel Kindler Vendor Liaison and Visitor Registrar, Pat Murdoch Chairlady and Newsletter Editor, Rali Eiffler Display Coordinator, Sandra Kruger Official photographer. Front Row: Gail Bennetto Treasurer, Member Liaison and Vice- Chairlady, Telene Jeffrey-Webmaster and Barbara Robb SAQG Rep and Historian. Not pictured Yvonne Holmes Teachers Liaison and Dale Watt Show and Tell. Rest in Peace, dear friend - Sue Laver It is with much sadness that we dedicate this issue to a dear friend and long-time GRG Committee Member, Sue Laver. Sue passed away suddenly on 8 December She was a GRG member for many years and served on the Committee as the registrar for members. We will miss her quirky sense of humour, her kind heart and her hard work over the years. Pat Murdoch Chairlady, Editor pfmurdoch@telkomsa.net Gail Bennetto Vice-Chair, Member Liaison and Treasurer gail@global.co.za Liesel Kindler Vendor and Visitors Liaison lkindler@mweb.co.za Lucia Pelser Secretary Luciam.pelser@gmail.com Yvonne Holmes Teachers Liaison Yvonne@snippetshampers.co.za Louise Kruger Home Groups louise56@vodamail.co.za Rali Eiffler Display Coordinator rali@groquilt.co.za Dale Watt Show and Tell watt2dale@gmail.com- Sandra Kruger Official Photographer Sandra.kruger@jti.com Non-Committee Members - Telene Jeffrey Webmaster Facebook telene@ladyjanequilting.co.za - Barbara Robb SAQG Rep, Historian Honey-bear@mweb.co.za 2

3 PLEASE SUPPORT Trash to Treasure Table Sheila van Dyk will continue to run the popular Trash to Treasure table and we ask that you support this worthy cause by bringing anything that you no longer need and buy what someone else no longer has use for. A special request that magazines not be donated as we find that these do not sell and take up a great deal of space. Please donate generously the income goes to Festival Fund Raising and Sheila gets 10% of the takings for her projects. Sheila and her helpers are still busy making 11,000 quilts for the underprivileged. Do support this worthy cause. Scrappy Angels Retreat 13 th 15 th April 2018 Mazenod Centre, Lambton. Cost R for full weekend board and lodging. Cost R for Saturday only 3 meals Deposit: R payable, by the end January. Balance: payable by end February. Come and spend a weekend sewing, eating and good company. Contact Barbara Robb honey-bear@mweb.co.za Calling All Commercial Quilters! We get several requests from Quilters to supply details of commercial / professional quilters and we would like to add a QUILT SERVICE PROVIDERS list to our website. If you offer quilting services, you are a member of GRG and would like to advertise your services then please forward your name, business / trade name, phone number and address to Telene Jeffrey at telene@ladyjanequilting.co.za 3

4 HOME GROUP NEWS Scrappy Angels The ladies of Scrappy Angels have once again outdone themselves during We worked on a few charities and collected food which we made into food parcels. These food parcels were supposed to go to the Hope Project, but they were not collected as arranged, so we donated them to Shirley Groves who heads up a charity, In the Spirit of Riding. The parcels went to various homes in Lochvaal and Sasolburg. We collected stationery, toiletries and toys which went to the 35 th Annual Toy Run. This is coordinated by Graeme Cartwright. We supplied twenty-eight stationery packs and twenty-eight toiletries packs. Our big charity was to make items for premature babies at Sebokeng Neonatal Unit also run by Shirley. We made prem. booties, hats, baby-grows and jerseys. Ten single bed quilts were donated for the Kangaroo mother care unit as well as fifteen tarries. Twenty quilts were made for the top of the incubators. In total four hundred items were collected for the hospital. We would like to thank all the groups and generous people who made items for Sebokeng Neo-natal wards. However, due to riots in the Sebokeng area, the items could not be delivered. Sebokeng Neonatal s loss was Leratong Neonatal, Kangaroo mother care and children s ward s gain. Scrappy Angels will be working again on stationery packs, toiletries packs, premature knitted items and fidget cushions in support of their various charities during Barbara Robb 4

5 AMAFU Hanlie Burger Durban ARTHUR BALES Jonathan Bales Linden BERNINA HEAD OFFICE For a Bernina outlet in your area Call CRAFT ACADEMY Allyson Rischbieter Discovery or DEBBIE S CABIN Debbie du Toit Benoni or HONEY-BEAR QUILTING Barbara Robb Germiston LADY JANE QUILTING Telene Jeffrey Krugersdorp LA BRODERIE Ria Pretorius-Benoni labroderie321@gmail.com LIEFIE LOVE Tertia vd Berg-Middelburg LOSLAPPIESLAND Ansie Reyerse Ontdekkers or MEZOMODE Annette v Rensburg Pretoria or PRITI PRINT Angela Jacobs Victory Park

6 QUILTASTIX Claire Wallace Irene QUILTEC FABRICS Grace Nobili Constantia Kloof or QUILTALK Cecile Lombaard Klerksdorp QUILTERS REST Bernadine Smelting Alberton QUILTING SUPPLIES Shirley Searle Pretoria or RAGS TO RICHES Merle Sadler Dower Glen or SILVER BOBBINS Jane Hulley SRI LANKAN APPLIQUE Marietha vd Merwe Pretoria or STITCHES AND DITCHES Merle Gilson Boksburg or WATCH THIS SPACE 6 For more information about the vendors, contact Liesel Kindler, Vendor Liaison on Please note that some vendors work by prior arrangement only, so to avoid disappointment, call before you leave home!

7 Interchange: threads connect South African National quilt Festival 2019 Our website is live! See it all at festival.quiltsouthafrica.co.za You can also stay in touch via our Facebook page like and share the page to get updates straight to your inbox. Applications are now open for those wishing to work with us, starting on 1 February Go to the website to fill out the online forms and we will be in touch with you. South African teachers may submit their proposals for workshops and lectures. This is where the best of South African teachers get the opportunity to share their expertise nationally. And there is something new: we plan to have short one-hour workshops and demonstrations suitable for beginners or inexperienced quilters. Perhaps this is the kind of teaching you would like to do? See our website for more details. If you are unsure, perhaps check out for their Quick and easy workshops and see the hundreds of ideas that their teachers have come up with. Applications for Retailers are also now open. Fill out the online form with your requirements and we will try to accommodate you. The good news is we have plenty of space! Sponsors are the lifelines of our quilt festivals. They may also contact us via the website and choose from the many options on the sponsorship form. Money, products and skills, we need it all, companies and individuals alike, and no donation is too small. While we are on the subject of money FUNDRAISING! Thank you to all the groups associated with GRG who have already worked and deposited money into the Festival account. It s a new year, new plans, your quilting group has this wonderful idea to help fund the Festival, not so? When you have the money made, deposit it into the dedicated Festival account at ABSA bank. The account name is Golden Rand Guild, account number , branch code Send notification to our treasurer Liza Allsop (allsop@tiscali.co.za) so that she can record and acknowledge your contribution. We are all in this together; let s make it a Festival of note. With best wishes for the coming year Sandra de Wet Convener 7

8 NATIONAL QUILTERS DAY 17 March 2018 Northcliff Union Church Cnr Dawn and Pendoring Streets, Northcliff. Please bring any quilting work you may have and join us for National Quilters Day. The Modern Quilters Gauteng Chapter will be joining us with some innovative ideas on quilting. If you would like, you may assist us with sewing up blocks for the 11,000 Charity Quilts for the Guinness Book of World Records attempt. This is our main Charity Drive for Some of the classes offered by Allyson Rischbieter at Craft Academy Allyson Rischbieter Special Memory Teddies. Made with love by Barbara Robb The six teddies in the photo were made for a lady whose father had passed away. Each teddy was made from her late father s shirts. Photos of each grandchild with the grandfather were added to the body of the teddy. These were then given to the grandchildren at Christmas time. It was quite emotional making the Teddies but such a joy as well. What a lovely way to have something to cherish and a memory to last a life time. 8

9 HOME GROUPS AFFILIATED TO GRG Please check this listing for any changes, errors or omissions and advise Louise Quadrilles Quilters Mayflowers Part Time Quilters Sew South Quilters Gauteng Modern Quilt Chapter Inspirations Over Thirties TAGG Calico Quilters Protea Quilters Roseneath Columbine Stitchers Scrappy Angels Grace Nobili Grace Nobili Ansa Steenkamp Terri Bird Jenny Smith Jenny Smith Frances Mason Reinette Nel Pat Perry Maretha Fourie Jenni Bird Pat Carson Barbara Robb Horison Roodepoort Quiltec Weltevreden Park Brackenhurst Johannesburg Johannesburg Alberton Olivedale Johannesburg Linden Alberton Boksburg Libradene 9

10 HOME GROUPS AFFILIATED TO GRG cont d Please check this listing for any changes, errors or omissions and advise Louise Night Owls Stitch & Bitch Q East Carousel Quilters Village Quilters Sugarbush Quilters Lapsusters Southern Stars Rag Time Craft Time Sew n Sews Potpourri Quilters Thread Benders Barbara Malan Rose Blackstock Shelley Bent Ingrid Meyer Tricia Llewellyn Averil Barker Elsa Vermaak Jenny Williamson Yvonne Jordan Allyson Rischbieter Terri Bird Louise Kruger Maryna Fremantle Edenvale Edenvale Benoni Johannesburg Johannesburg Benmore Randburg Rosebank Honeydew Discovery Mondeor Benoni Benoni 10

11 11 The members of GRG would like to extend their sincerest condolences to the family and friends of Elaine, Coert and Elsi Rademayer, Orpa and Henk Barnard, who died tragically in an accident on 29 Dec Elaine Rademayer was a member of GRG and Sew South Quilters.

12 GRG Teachers News and Classes Tilly de Harde MIDNIGHT OWLS Come and make this cute little quilt in two days. Learn different techniques, practice your Free Motion Quilting and generally, just come and play! Cost of my classes are R165,00 for three hours so this class will cost you R330,00 as it is a two day class. Dates for Midnight Owls: Fridays 2 and 16 March OR Saturdays 3 and 17 March (repeat) LITTLE BOXES Learn to play while you make this happy quilt. You choose your theme and make your own beautiful wall hanging. Cost of my classes are R165,00 for three hours. Dates for Little Boxes: Friday 9 and 23 March OR Saturday 10 and 24 March Please contact me at tilly4346@gmail.com if you are interested. Exciting classes offered by Claire Wallace at Craft Academy 12 A beginner s course of seven classes which takes the student right through from the very basics of tensions, threads and muscle memory, to different techniques. The classes with Claire include: FMQ for beginners Designs with lines Beginners feathers Creative textures and fills Using rulers Quick Continuous Curve 3B's - Borders, Blocks and Backgrounds. Please contact Allyson Rischbieter for more information about this and several other exciting courses on offer at Craft Academy

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14 NATIONAL QUILTERS DAY 17 March 2018 Northcliff Union Church Cnr Dawn and Pendoring Streets, Northcliff. Calling all GRG Teachers We invite all GRG Teachers to take part in our programme to increase awareness of your classes. We plan to allow GRG Teachers to offer a sixty to ninety minute class after the GRG Friendship Gathering at a nominal rate. You will handle the bookings and we ask that 10% of your charge be donated to Festival Funds. Telene kicks off the venture in February and you are requested to contact your Teacher Liaison to book your place at the May, August or November Friendship Gatherings. Please call Yvonne at or Please bring any quilting work you may have and join us for National Quilters Day. The Modern Quilter s Gauteng Chapter will be joining us with some innovative ideas on quilting. You may also assist us with sewing up blocks for the 11,000 Charity Quilts for the Guinness Book of World Records attempt. This is our main Charity Drive for Please bring your sewing machine along with your sense of fun! 14

15 Chairlady s Musings The Christmas and New Year period is always a time for family gatherings, time for happy reflection and sometimes also a time to ponder on any loss. I was lucky enough to have my middle daughter and her family visit from New Zealand after three years away, but also said farewell to my son and his family when they left for Auckland. The day after Bridget went back home, we had our Committee Planning Indaba and whilst I started out feeling very flat, within a very short space of time the incredible team had me buoyed up with their enthusiasm, their innovative yet practical proposals, and they inspired me to tackle 2018 with a renewed sense of purpose. GRG is in very good hands with these eleven dedicated ladies and I hope that you will enjoy everything that we have in store for you - and especially our Inspiration theme. We trust that you will all get to meet each member of the new committee at our Friendship Gathering we are certainly hoping to meet and greet all of you. Please take note of the added extra we are offering. Telene Jeffrey is presenting a Lecture/Demo called Quilting the Latte after the Friendship Gathering - see the advert for info. Our Friendship Gatherings will start at 09h00 sharp, with Happy Hour taking place between 10h00 and 11h00. The shops will be trading, and quilts exhibited from 09h00 until 13h00. We hope to see you all in Blairgowrie for the Friendship Gathering. Pat Official Website: Official Facebook page: Official Festival Website: 15

16 WHAT WHEN WHERE FRIENDSHIP GATHERING 17 February 2018 Doors open at 09h00 and close at 13h00 Blairgowrie Recreation Centre, Park Lane off Conrad Drive, Randburg HAPPY HOUR Welcome Inspiration and Demonstration by Telene Jeffrey Show and Tell Raffle Draw Starts at 10h00 sharp and ends at 11h00 On the Stage QUILT EXHIBITION FREE COFFEE AND TEA MEALS CHARGED QUILTING THE LATTE From 09h00 to 13h00 From 09h00 to 13h00 From 09h00 to 13h00 From 13h15, after the Friendship Gathering As indicated on the notice board As indicated on the notice board As indicated on the notice board An extra class charged at R80 pp see advert. 16