About us

 

Welcome

We welcome our international website guests.
We thank you for your interest in our quilt guild and are very happy that you visit our website. As you may have already realised, its content is in German only. We hope that you will find the information that you are looking for. If not, do not hesitate to write us an EMAIL. We speak and write in English. We even have two native English speaking members!

Our guild

'Quiltgruppe Mönchaltorf' is an association with 18 members (including 2 native English speakers), founded in 1988. We meet once a month in a local school. We like to talk about our hobby, learn new techniques, look at own works or those of others ('show and tell' or on photos, digital shows), organise exhibitions or participate at various quilting events.

We are in contact with our sister quilters of the "Willows Quilting Group" in Melton, Australia: So far we exchanged six quilt challenges with this group. Themes: "Floriade", "Trees", "Small Creatures", "Weather", "Under the sea" and "My Home is my Castle". All A4-sized quilts were shown in Australia and in Switzerland. The challenge "Under the sea" was shown in our visitorless "corona-exhibition" at Loogarten (see YouTube video). You can see all of the challenge quilts here. The latest challenge titled "My Home is my Castle" was shown at our recent exhibition in June 2022 at Zeughaus Uster. Unfortunatlely, no quilts from Melton have reached us in time. You can see our 14 quilts here.

In 2011 Erika met Leyette, a quilter from New Zealand. Together with the "Fencible Quilters of Howick", NZ and the "Nefti Quilters" from Neftenbach CH a total of 29 challenge quilts were produced. This challenge was exhibited in New Zealand and at our jubilee show in Mönchaltorf (2013) as well as at a Nefti Quilters show in Neftenbach, before the Kiwi quilts found their way home in 2014.
To show our friends in AUS and NZ what the exhibition looked like we composed a YouTube video with pictures from the quilts as well as some scenes from our hometown, Mönchaltorf. Have a look (13 min.)

Mönchaltorf

Mönchaltorf is a village with about 4'000 inhabitants, embedded in the 'Zürcher Oberland' (which translates to the 'Highlands' of Zurich), adjacent to lake 'Greifensee', at a distance of 25 km from Zürich. Here you find us on the map.

The Board

Erika Bollinger, President                         Mail, Homepage
Hannelore Hürlimann, Vice President        Mail
Renate Vogel, Finances                           Mail, Portrait

Members with a Website

Erika Bollinger
Vreni Keller

Member Portraits

Renate Vogel