Tarts celebrate a productive year of crafting

November 23rd, 2015

Crafty Tart of the Year, Jocelyn Lowe; Queen of Tarts, Val Armstrong; and maker of the best hat, Babs Walker

Val is crowned Queen of Tarts, with some of the embellished hats on the floor

The Motueka crafts group Crafty Tarts celebrated another busy and productive year with an indoor picnic (thanks to a rainy day) at Eyebright and a theme of crafty hats.

Crafty Tarts has been running for four years now and has an informal membership of about 50 women of all ages. Their goal is to share skills and learn new ones from each other.

The break-up picnic was attended by 25 of the members and the highlights were amusing speeches and presentations to those who contributed in special ways during the year.

All those attending had to create or embellish a hat, and competitions for most innovative, best quality and originality were judged by the proprietor of Eyebright. The hat winner was Babs Walker.

The Crafty Tart of the Year for 2015 award was presented to Jocelyn Lowe, and a special "crown" for Queen of Tarts was bestowed upon the group's founder Val Armstrong.

Apart from the (usually) weekly meetings and workshops teaching and learning new skills, the tarts also played an active role in several charity activities.

A sub-group got together over winter to make quilts for Operation Coverup (quilts sent to orphans in eastern Europe).
Most of them took part in making the majority of red poppies that featured throughout the shopping area around the time leading up to Anzac Day, commemorating 100 years since the first Anzac landings.
The quilt makers also made quilts, raised money and gathered in items of knitwear for a village in Nepal following the terrible earthquake there.
Some made fiddle cushions for residents at Woodlands Rest Home.

They also provided their colourful large fabricated flowers for several, including a few weeks at the Jack Inglis Hospital to brighten up some of the public areas.

Trying their hands at preparing classy foods, they catered for the August Motueka Economic Summit as a fundraiser.

Their next task is to help setting up the summer quilt exhibition, including a display of their own.

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