Cotton On Quilters are going public with an open day on May 1.
"We just want to encourage new members," says Lesley McFarlane, newsletter editor. Their last open day two years ago resulted in people joining the group.
Cotton On Quilters has been going for more than 30 years, having celebrated the three-decade anniversary at the end of 2018.
They meet regularly at the Masonic Lodge building on the corner of Keith and Dublin streets, where they work on their individual projects, share ideas and techniques, occasionally have speakers, have a show and tell and plenty of social catch-up.
They have demonstrators, sometimes, for a particular technique, enjoy workshops, and a winter favourite is Soup and Sew Days.
"And we have bus trips away," says Pauline Walton, treasurer. Last Saturday there was a quilting show — Rapt in Quilts— at Southward Car Museum on the Kāpiti Coast. Local members attended.