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Auckland Festival of Quilts: North Harbour Stadium, 1st – 3rd November
Auckland Festival of Quilts 2013 A year’s worth of effort will go on display at the Auckland Festival of Quilts next month, when quilts from the Auckland Quilt Guild are again exhibited at North Harbour Stadium. Over 200 quilts will be on display, ranging from traditional bed quilts to wallhangings to small innovative art quilts. For the first time there will be the winning exhibits from this year’s “Trash to Fashion” Awards. Students from primary, intermediate and secondary schools have created fantastic wearable art from rubbish and recyclable materials.
Auckland Festival of Quilts 2013 New Zealand’s largest annual quilt show & exhibition of members’ work.
The special quilt exhibitions this year are the “Hoffman Challenge”, in which participants are challenged to create a quilt in an irregular shape featuring a challenge fabric, and “Colours of New Zealand”. In addition, around a hundred small quilts from the Guild Challenge “Two Circles and a Triangle” will greet visitors coming into the foyer. The challenge for viewers will be to find the circles and triangles within each quilt’s interpretation.
The annual Guild raffle will benefit The Arthritis Foundation this year. First prize is the large bed quilt shown here, and second prize is a child’s quilt featuring traditional toys. Tickets will be on sale at the Festival. A large number of quilt shops and craft related merchants will be at the show, selling a variety of merchandise including sewing machines, fabric, books, magazines and gift items. The Guild sale table in the Cafe provides an opportunity to buy finished quilts, bags and other items made by Guild members at very reasonable prices. The Auckland Festival of Quilts is at North Harbour Stadium, Oteha Valley Rd, Albany from Friday 1st November to Sunday 3rd November. Opening times are 10.00 to 5.00 on Friday and Saturday and 10.00 to 4.00 on Sunday. There is ample free parking, disabled access, and a full café with coffee, snacks, Devonshire teas and lunches.
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