Hello everyone,

The Great New Zealand Quilt Show activity is heating up. By the time you receive this newsletter, all the quilt entry photos will be with the judges and they will be busy selecting the entries to be sent to Christchurch.

I’m the main person who looks after the AQ website. There’s a lot on there, so other people do things like look after the Membership details, enter things into the Events calendar, and deal with other correspondence.

I do things like:

• Creating the forms that you fill in to enter challenges, attend webinars, participate in 30 /31 day Jumpstart activities, Summer stitchalongs and all sorts of things
• Making webpages to inform you about things coming up
• Figuring out what isn’t working with the website and how to fix it
• Liaise with the people that do the hard programming behind our website.

And I also do the “Whatcha Working on?” posts on Facebook and the catalogue for the Great NZ Quilt Show. If anyone has any ideas about what to kick off the conversation with on a Wednesday, I’d love to hear.Having you fill in forms to enter challenges etc. helps the committee organize them and keep track of whether we have sufficient interest to hold an event, pay a judge, organize a sewalong etc. Please make sure you fill out your forms correctly to save us work.

I started sewing clothes for myself and my dolls when I was about 8 years old. I started working with/learning about computers back in 1973. I thought retirement might have been an escape from computers, but that hasn’t worked yet 🙂 I stopped sewing clothes for myself & my family when the price of clothes in the shop started to be cheaper than making your own. I started quilting back in 1991. I attended my first quilting class in 1996. I’ve been quilting since then. I have found quilting much easier, more creative and more relaxing than trying to set sleeves, put in buttonholes or figure out why a printer is refusing to print a document. I hope to quilt until I shuffle off this mortal coil.

Pictured below is a quilt I recently made – this one will probably go to one of my daughters.

Judie Wert