Q is for Quilts: meeting the Coromandel Quilters

Quilt Show, Coromandel Quilters.

I dragged the gang to a Quilt Show in Coromandel Town this morning. The Coromandel Quilters group exhibits annually, has about 30 members and do a challenge each year.

I chatted to Sharleen, in her early 80's, a very productive quilter and she had a Kaffe Fasset quilt on show, a pattern I have done too. Hobbies are timeless and the women are a mirrow image of my group back home.

A post for Carousel Quilters ; friends for more than 20 years, a wonderful group of women that are special to me and we make quilts that family and friends appreciate.

W is for Weta: New Zealand creepy crawlies

"Wētā have been around long enough to see dinosaurs come and go and to evolve into more than 70 different species, all of them endemic to New Zealand."

A weta in our bach!

Stick insect, 15 cm!

Seems to be the season to find some of the New Zealand 'specials', the notable Weta, strange and just a little prehistoric. This one had snuck into our bach here on the Coromandel and gave Shawni rather a fright.

And a brown stick insect that is huge but anorexic looking, the largest insect in New Zealand, with forever long legs, which landed up on the outside neighbour wall in Ngaio.