Making a Panel

...choice, like virtually everything else involved in making a panel, is completely up to you. Select a durable, medium-weight, non-stretch fabric for the background. After you have completed…

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Wimoka Smith

20 December 1961 - 28 February 1991

...Wimoka’s other interests were leather, bone and wood carving, logos, and dot and freehand drawing. Wimoka loved his whanau and never…

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Michael Jelicich

died 4 May 1989, aged 26

Mike, the middle of my three sons, died on May 4 1989, aged 26 years. I completed the Quilt last year. (1991) The rainbow across the top of Mike’s Quilt...

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Sam Crowe

14 March 1947 - 13 April 1985

...as a youth but perhaps his greatest love was for dogs. He owned a series of different dogs up until within a few years of his passing. His enthusiasm for...

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Ian A

5 November 1939 - 14 February 1994

...commitments was to his family and friends. His very sincere, honest and caring qualities gained the respect and love of those immediately around him. His…

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Lodgement with Te Papa

...2010. After considerable consultation with as many loved ones and families of those remembered, HIV/AIDS community sectors, the gay community and as many others that had an…

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Eddie Thompson-Shaw

1951 - 3 April 1993

...community and secondly the wider community; that was to go public with his illness. The effectiveness of this allowed him to reach the hearts of many people, breaking down the...

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Shane Austen Reid

22 December 1965 - 11 February 1994

...so much. If only you had had the courage to tell me. If only I could have held you in my arms and comforted you. But you are with me...

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Spring

...jumped on his bed and we were all crying. We had about a month with him before we had to come back home to Whangarei, and in that month we...

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Brendan Patrick Pole

23 September 1962 - 8 August 1991

...as an Apprentice Hairdresser at the Rogers Unisex Salon in Parnell. We celebrated my 18th Birthday and I still remember when he used to come and see me there was always...

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