The quilt/textiles/craft show calendar continues to fill up! For a more extensive list, visit our 2022 Events page.
Friday, June 24, 2022
New event notices
Monday, June 20, 2022
Community quilts in progress
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A beautifully appliqued quilt top donated by a friend of Val |
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Val used a stash of 1930’s reproduction prints stitched into nine patches and snowballs as a pandemic stitching project. |
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Dawn stitched up some donated nine patches with spotted sashing and cornerstones, quilted by Laura. |
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Hilary’s scrappy ‘Little Women’, quilted by Laura. |
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Crooked Courthouse Steps mark II, made with blocks from Julie and Jill |
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Elaine W is powering through some new blocks at our monthly sewing day. |
Thursday, June 16, 2022
More on Kawandi style quilts
Interest in Kawandi style quilts, as made by Siddi people in India continues. At a recent Monday meeting, Val demonstrated how she has made some.
Val recommended this book, Godharis of Maharashtra: https://www.quiltmania-inc.us/boutique/books/collection-books/godharis-of-maharashtra/
Val also recommended investigating the quilts of the late Anna Williams, that we posted about here: https://fairholmequilters.blogspot.com/2021/02/anna-williams-quilter-1927-2010.html
Several of us have recently attended workshops with Lorena Uriarte where we started a Kawandi piece. Miriam and Stephanie have finished theirs:
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Stephanie made her finished workshop panel into a zippered pouch |
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Stephanie’s pieces laid out on the backing and batting, before stitching |
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Miriam’s finished workshop piece, with ric-rac braid stitched between the top and batting layers around the edges. She plans to use it as a table centre. |
Monday, June 13, 2022
Made by Fairholme quilters
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Finished!
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Robyn’s 21st birthday quilt for her granddaughter was very well received! |
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Jill’s son had a clear idea about his ‘stars in the sky’ quilt, they worked on it together, and he is pleased with the outcome. |
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A beautiful green log cabin star quilt for Nerida’s nephew. |
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Susan’s ‘Cross and Plus’ quilt is a fun riot of colour and print, all tied together by the turquoise and red border and binding, with a fabulous backing print. |
Monday, May 30, 2022
Australasian Quilt Convention awards
The Australasian Quilt Convention has been held in Brisbane this weekend, after a break during the first two years of the pandemic. The awards were presented on Saturday evening:
The Rajah Award acknowledges the outstanding contribution by an individual to quilting in Australia.
The Shining Light Award goes to a quilter under 18 years of age and is an encouragement award for junior quilters.
The Lut-Da Award goes to a quilter who has made an outstanding contribution to their local or quilting community via the medium of quilting.
Bernina Best in Australia: Catherine Butterworth (NSW) for her quilt ‘Star Crazy’ (Best in Show, Sydney Quilt Show 2019)
Rajah Award: Pam Holland
Shining Light Award: Matthew Birlenberg
Lut Da Award: Gail Bayly
Hall of Fame Award: Kerrie Hay
On the first day of the Convention, the AQC 2022 Going Green Challenge winner was announced as Rachelle Denneny for her quilt ‘Harmony in Green’
Friday, May 27, 2022
Multi-talents!
Quilting objects for purposes other than warmth, embroidery, crochet and knitting are all practised alongside our making of quilts for warmth … some of us even sew garments!
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Robin bought this vibrant hand dyed merino wool in rural, NSW recently, to knit up into a hat ora scarf, maybe both … |
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… like this one she made last year. Lynette bought the buttons in Berry when she visited for their recent quilt show. |
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Lyn found an almost finished crocheted shawl made by an aunt many years ago, and has added the stitches to complete the tartan pattern. |
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Janice used 1/2 hexagons backed with felt to make clever thread keepers for her embroidery threads. |
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Janice’s new baby granddaughter has the beginnings of a fine wardrobe of knitwear. |
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Louise made a densely embroidered heart, framed on black linen for a friend. |
Monday, May 23, 2022
June events
CANBERRA QUILTERS Annual Members Exhibition 2022 Wednesday 1 June - Saturday 4 June Former Transport Depot at 21 Wentworth Ave, Kingston ACT (previously the Old Bus Depot Markets). |
Thursday, May 19, 2022
More work coming along nicely
Hilary’s rainbow |
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‘Wensleydale’, from Jen Kingwell’s book ‘Quilt Recipes’ is a very popular design. Miriam’s scrappy version has a large scale Kathy Dougherty bird print border. |
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Jill made Wensleydale in mostly pink and purples at the request of a six year old. |
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.. has a large scale floral print border designed by Anna Maria Horner |
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Daphne married large print squares with bands of foundation paper piecing. |
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‘Flowering Gum’, from the Australian Floral Mandala series designed by Sonya Else. Susan is well advanced on machine stitched raw-edge appliqué using fabric from her stash. |