Australian quilts

I have grown to love the work of a few Australian quilt designers. I am going to showcase some of the quilts that have come thru my studio in the next few blog posts. Recently I made my first …

A few months ago, I wrote about looking at 2020 as a 'gift of time'. Rather than racing off to teach workshops, I had the wonderful opportunity to spend many hours in the studio, experimenting, playing and creating with fabric. I have always loved building up images using lots of small pieces of fabric. Initially I experimented with ;colour wash' techniques, piecing hundreds of small squares or diamonds on point to create some of my earlier large landscapes. Then I moved on to fuse tiles to…

There were over 400 quilts at this years Sydney Quilt Show. So many amazing, beautiful, outstanding quilts. This is just a small selecti...

I kept getting peeks of all those aboriginal scraps left over from my Libby quilt. They kept calling to me and so I pulled them out this evening after our walk. In that pile of scraps were pieces l…

...mixed with dotted batik fabric for the front.

Hmmmm!!! I'm not sure this photo does the fabrics justice? I sought out fabrics that would lend themselves to fussy-cutting but not really sure how to piece them together. Finally, I came up with this... I might have to upload another couple of photos so we can all see some of the great fabrics that are in it... These 2 shots are taken from the top and bottom, hopefully, they show more of the fabrics and techniques used. In between the fussy-cuts are rows comprising of half-squares…

I did my final messing around with these Australian Aboriginal fabrics on the design wall and confirmed with my sister in law that she wants a throw size quilt, so today I started assembling the ro…

Yesterday was the start of the Sydney Show which is Australia's largest quilt show. I was very fortunate to win 4th Prize in the Anything Goes Category for my quilt Flowing. All the prize winners can be seen on the Quilters Guild of NSW website. Thanks to the Guild for a great show including all the sponsors including Dayview Textiles who sponsored my award and major sponsor Bernina who are a major sponsor for all Australian Quilt Shows. Also very exciting is the fact that I am the Guest…

Now that I’m back and rested from my trip to Australia, I thought I’d share some of the highlights. I was invited to travel to Tasmania and Adelaide to teach machine quilting and it was…

Hand-painted Australian native floral designs for quilting / bolt fabric.