Maker: Diana Hinterleitner

Panel number: 20

Petition Sheet Number: 8 

Person honouring: Harriet Wright 

Relationship to makers: She is buried in the cemetery close to where I live and also lived nearby. 

Harriet was born in Surrey and her family emigrated to New Zealand in 1873. She married George Nicholas Wright in 1886 and they had four sons. They lived in Linwood, Christchurch and she is buried at the Linwood Cemetery. Her sisters Alice Woodard and Rose Stokes also signed the petition. 

Panel materials: From my stash of quilting fabrics, I used two blue panels to signify her crossing the ocean from England to NZ with her family and recorded the name of the ship she arrived on “Zealandia”. I used some purple fabric to signify Women’s Suffrage in NZ and machine stitched 43 daisies on this panel and attached a glass bead within each of these to honour the other women who signed Sheet #8.  There is a panel with horseshoes to relate to the era Harriett was born into, the grey spotted panel is to signify the probably colour of her clothing in the era. There are bits of lace, ribbon and braid and the triangle pieces were to signify things in her everyday life.