If you did not get to the Sydney Quilt Show last week and would like to see even more quilts than the award winners, bloggers are busy adding their photos. Here are some early posters, with some favourite entries, and interesting close-up views:
Blue Mountains Daisy
Quilts in the Barn
Deborah Louie
Linda Steele
Snippets and Scraps
Sue Dennis
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Monday, June 18, 2012
Sydney Quilt Show: Viewers' Choice Awards
(And make sure you check out all the wonderful prizewinners in various categories that are linked under the tabs at the top of the page - they're easy to miss on that elegant tab bar!)
Two local quilt shops closing
- For those who have not already heard, the latest Country Pickins at the Corner newsletter announces that the Dural shop is closing at the end of July, following the owner's relocation to Taree (where the business has been re-established). A clearance sale of stock at Dural is currently taking place:
30% OFF ALL FULL PRICED FABRIC INCLUDING PRE-CUTS AND FAT 1/4’S, 35% OFF END OF BOLTS and 10% OFF PATTERNS AND BOOKS
(all remaining stock will be relocated to Taree)
Q North Business Park, 9/829 Old Northern Rd, Dural
ph.
- This week is also the last week of trading for Killara Village Quilts, where most fabric is now $10 per metre. The shop is closing on 23rd June.
Shop 5, 50 Koola Avenue, East Killara
ph.
9499 5422
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
2012 Sydney Quilt Show opens today: award winners
The winners of the Best of Show and all award winners can now be viewed online on the Quilters Guild of NSW website.
The Sydney Quilt Show runs from 13th - 17th June 2012
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Quilt radio
Are you looking for another way to learn about quilting, or to keep up with your favourite quilters?
If you're reading here, you probably have a list of favourite blogs you visit from time to time, you might belong to an online quilting group or guild, a local or state guild, attend exhibitions, read/buy magazines (some of which come with CDs or DVDs attached), have your own collection of books, or have access to a quilting library or books and magazine through your local library, you might tune into TV shows via pay TV or online TV, quilting apps are beginning to appear ... and have you discovered quilting radio?
Pat Sloan's radio show for American Patchwork and Quilting is broadcast weekly, with each program then being made available as a free podcast, so that those of us who cannot tune in to the live broadcast can catch up.
The 4th June show features interviews with a curator from the International Quilt Study Centre, with a fabric designer, and with Jacquie Gering and Katie Pedersen, authors of Quilting Modern (see our previous post on new books).
Click on the button below for the radio show's home page, and links to archived podcasts:
If you're reading here, you probably have a list of favourite blogs you visit from time to time, you might belong to an online quilting group or guild, a local or state guild, attend exhibitions, read/buy magazines (some of which come with CDs or DVDs attached), have your own collection of books, or have access to a quilting library or books and magazine through your local library, you might tune into TV shows via pay TV or online TV, quilting apps are beginning to appear ... and have you discovered quilting radio?
Pat Sloan's radio show for American Patchwork and Quilting is broadcast weekly, with each program then being made available as a free podcast, so that those of us who cannot tune in to the live broadcast can catch up.
The 4th June show features interviews with a curator from the International Quilt Study Centre, with a fabric designer, and with Jacquie Gering and Katie Pedersen, authors of Quilting Modern (see our previous post on new books).
Click on the button below for the radio show's home page, and links to archived podcasts:
Of course, there other quilters who podcast (and vidcast!) - just enter 'quilt podcast' into your favourite search engine to find more ...
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
A small selection of new books
There must be thousands of books in and out of print about various aspects of quilting, but still creative quilters and writers produce new titles regularly. Fairholme Quilters has a very nice and quite extensive library available for members to borrow. Here are a few of the most recent releases, including two from local quilters:
Kathy Doughty, published by Quiltmania
Available from Material Obsession
Brigitte Giblin, published by Quiltmania
available from Brigitte Giblin Creative Patchwork Design
Gwen Marston, published by AQS
Jacquie Gering and Katie Perdersen (recent blog posts link to reviews), published by Interweave
Elizabeth Hartmann (several recent blog posts highlight the quilts in the book), published by C and T
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Quiltsmith's June sale: 25% off all fabric
Quiltsmith at Annandale is having a fabric sale to coincide with the Sydney Quilt Show, from today (2nd June) until Saturday 23rd June, with 25% off all fabric. And the shop will be open on Sunday 17th June.
See the Quiltsmith blog post from yesterday for full details.
See the Quiltsmith blog post from yesterday for full details.