Spoke and Felloe's report from Inner Wheel New Zealand District NZ297 is now available and can be found here:

Charity fundraising by Inner wheel Club of Christchurch West. This beautiful Kaffe Fassett Fabric Patchwork Quilt has been listed on TradeMe with a buy now price of $500.00

The NZ294 November E-Magazine has all sorts of goodies for you to share with your members. These include novel ideas from Clubs, two yummy recipes, some creative work from members, profiles of the who's who, some laughs of course (lookout for "The computer's Gobbled Grandma"), stress management, and much more!

In short, I can promise you a jolly good read and a laugh or two. So I suggest you settle down in your favorite chair with a lovely cup of tea and the magazine and go for it! Enjoy!

You can find it here

Carole’s Stitching

Another lockdown productive activity worth sharing. At the end of August Carol did a 2-day embroidery class embroidering and learning how to construct the resulting Christmas cubes. There were 8 cubes with each side using a different embroidery technique. This involved 48 squares of embroidery and none of us expected them to be finished this year. However, with the lockdown and having activities curtailed, quite a few people have finished their cubes which is quite extraordinary considering the work involved. These cubes are put together in such a way that they can be manipulated/turned into different patterns. It is a bit difficult to explain but she has taken a photo of the “NOEL” side to give you an idea. The other two are different techniques.

The Inner Wheel Club of Plimmerton received several boxes of knitted squares to be sewn up into blankets for the Neonatal Unit.

The Craft group spent a morning sorting out colours and sizes to make up these blankets which will be delivered to the Neonatal Uni for the families of premature babies.

The Inner Wheel Club of Plimmerton recently held their annual Pink Ribbon Lunch and last week members helped with the Pink Ribbon Annual Appeal.

With all the disruptions caused be COVID this year, it was wonderful to be able to support Pink Ribbon, as this organization relies on the funds raised to provide services to women in our community.   

Dianne, Colleen and Diana held the first of our fundraising Garage Sales a few weeks back. It was very successful. They presold approximately 100 strawberry plants and a few other donated items, and we had a great response from the public who bought up large. They had further donations after the Sale, so they decided to have a further one. They this last weekend of October 2021, a week earlier than planned as they thought the uncertainty around the South Island Covid cases could mean another lockdown. They had another great response and items not sold were then donated to the South Alive program for a charity event they are holding. The silky pillow evening at Beth’s was a great success, with heaps of pillows being delivered to the Cancer Society. The new labels look great on them. 

What amazing ladies you are with all the lovely preserves, cookies, fruit & veges, knitting, sewing, weaving, reading, and beauty jewelry you contributed to make our Days for Girls project such a success! Velma has gathered up the remaining bits and pieces, which we will take to the District Meeting on 27 November. The table raised $280.60 so thank you ladies for all your contributions. 

Club members are keeping themselves busy in lockdown and staying productive.

Heather Moore has welcomed her new baby granddaughter Gloria. She has been busy sewing and knitting some Christmas gifts. 

Diane's fingers have been busy knitting and spinning to add to her "give" collection.

Money raised for Relay for Life by Inner Wheel Club of Ashburton, the even has been postponed due to COVID but we want to show the commendable effort made by the club for this cause. Unfortunately this event has had to be postponed and has been rescheduled. It is now to be held on Saturday 19 February at the Ashburton Showgrounds. Thank you all for your efforts in collecting donations and supporting our "A glass of wine and nibbles" event. It was a very successful and fun evening. The total raised so far is $2607.25. We have until February to add to this total. Well done everyone. Here is a photo: