THE PEACE QUILT

The Natal Quilter's Guild will present Seasons, a National Quilt Festival from July 7 to 14 at the Durban City Hall and the Durban College of Education where classes will be held.

The festival will include a judged quilt show, lectures, workshops, fashion show, vendors' booths and special exhibits. Among the top teachers will be Mary Coyne Penders, Ruth B McDowel and Mary Hickey from America, and Jill Liddell from Britain. Local teachers will include Rosalie Dace, Sally Scott, Odette Tolksdorf, Suzette Ehlers, Paul Schutte, Sue Akerman and many more. For details and class schedule write to Box 412, Gillitts, 3603. Phone 75-4223.

AMERICAN

For an American tour contact Cathy Gunston at Diamond Travel, South Centre, 6450, South Centre Blvd, Suite 110, Seattle WA, 98188. Tel 206 246 7661. Fax: 206 241 8629.

The Wall of Peace quilt will be "built" of fabric "peace" bricks, a show of commitment to peace.

Important requirements are:
- A fabric "brick" in the Peace quilt, any size rectangle up to 30cm x 15cm;
- The colours must be blues and whites (blues ranging from green, turquoise, indigo, cobalt to purple and mauve;
- Fabric Peace brick can be made up using any technique (pieced, appliqued, painted and stitched designs) with something on it that you relate to peace, symbols of peace, inspiring music, words and poems of peace, events and people of peace;
- To complete, each rectangle must be backed and quilted. Please use a very thin batting. Bind the edges and a mini-quilt peace brick is the result.
- The quilter's name and town should be written or stitched on the front.

Send completed brick to the Peace Quilt, PO Box 412, Gillitts, 3603, RSA, by February 28.

Overseas quilters are advised to send their bricks by airmail for surface mail to South Africa can sometimes take up to three months.

DONATED

Any funds generated from this project will be donated to a worthy South African education fund.