Saturday 8th March 2014

The boat sheds are almost finished....

....and work has started on the girl!

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 Sisters, Freya and Maddie Doherty.

They live in Onerahi, Whangarei 

and were in town for the day. 

 Maddie (front) is 15 and Freya, 10 years old.

 Freya liked working on the tapestry.

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 Moana (left) is a local, her friend Helen (right) 

was up visiting from Auckland.

 Moana thought the tapestry was beautiful!

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 Naoko had a lovely display of the 

green wool for all to admire!

 The many different shades are all hand-dyed by Beverley Compter.

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 Joan Robertson (in red) listens as Naoko shows her how 

to weave while Hugh, her husband of 68 years watches.

 Joan is 93 years young and is sight-impaired.

Her husband, Hugh is 95. They live at Jane Mander 

Retirement Village and were out and about with

 their niece.  Thanks for taking part Joan!

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 Joanna Gilby has a go at tapestry weaving while her Mum

chats to Naoko about the Community Project.

 Joanne is 12 and lives in Tauranga though her 

Mum is originally from Whangarei. They were up 

visiting Joanne's Great-Grandma.

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 Zak Rogers (left) takes instruction from Naoko while his 

cousin Callum works at the other end of the tapestry.

 Callum (15) is a local and lives in Kamo

 His cousin Zak (14) lives in South Auckland

but up in Whangarei visiting for the weekend.

Thanks for your participation, guys!

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 Sae Morishima, from Japan weaves a few rows

while host-mum Nora Elson-White looks on.

 Sae is a Japanese Art Student at NorthTec.

Nora worked with Jackie and Jill at NorthTec in the 90's

It was Sae's last day in New Zealand 

and she liked working on the tapestry.

  Candy, from China is also an international

 student at NorthTec and staying with 

host-mum Nora Elson-White in Whangarei.

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