Heather Joynes - needleworker restored 1778 Captain Cook Hawaiian feather cape
Sydney Morning Herald, 3 January 2016
When Heather Joynes took up a needle in her early schooldays in London, to make the first of many annual samplers, she could hardly have realised what it would lead to. She went on to assist in the conservation of many unique museum artefacts, not least of which was a Hawaiian feather cape presented to Captain Cook in 1788 held at the Australian Museum. She would teach in Australia and internationally while developing her own unique style ...Sewing Circle drawing thread to tradition, culture and work
Luke Walters, SBS, 9 December 2016
What began as a simple sewing-circle for women in Melbourne's South Sudanese community, has transformed into a budding enterprise fusing culture, fashion and opportunity ...
America's Earliest Quilts: Necessity Not the Mother of Invention
What began as a simple sewing-circle for women in Melbourne's South Sudanese community, has transformed into a budding enterprise fusing culture, fashion and opportunity ...
America's Earliest Quilts: Necessity Not the Mother of Invention
Bill Volkening, Wonky Quilts, 4 December 2016
When it comes to America's earliest quilts and coverlets, necessity was not the mother of invention. Quiltmaking required time and resources. Quilts were elegant objects made by affluent families, and decorative sewing was a skill developed in finishing schools by refined young women ...
Dutch patchwork celebration skirts - healing the Netherlands after World War II
Judy Anne Johnson Breneman, 2004, published online by Patches from the Past
The story begins in 1943 with eight women in an Amsterdam prison cell, all jailed by their Nazi occupiers for acts of resistance. The women were stressed and at odds. The cell stifling and dismal. Then a miracle happened. Somehow someone managed to smuggle a patchwork scarf in with a bag of laundry ...
The Discontinuation of an Icon: Some Thoughts on the Quilting Industry …
Thomas Knauer Sews, 15 July 2016
Today it was announced that Quilters Newsletter will no longer be published after its October issue; news that brings a major loss for the quilting world, one that I believe is a harbinger of things to come ...
Quit magazines - relevant or not?
When it comes to America's earliest quilts and coverlets, necessity was not the mother of invention. Quiltmaking required time and resources. Quilts were elegant objects made by affluent families, and decorative sewing was a skill developed in finishing schools by refined young women ...
Dutch patchwork celebration skirts - healing the Netherlands after World War II
Judy Anne Johnson Breneman, 2004, published online by Patches from the Past
The story begins in 1943 with eight women in an Amsterdam prison cell, all jailed by their Nazi occupiers for acts of resistance. The women were stressed and at odds. The cell stifling and dismal. Then a miracle happened. Somehow someone managed to smuggle a patchwork scarf in with a bag of laundry ...
The Discontinuation of an Icon: Some Thoughts on the Quilting Industry …
Thomas Knauer Sews, 15 July 2016
Today it was announced that Quilters Newsletter will no longer be published after its October issue; news that brings a major loss for the quilting world, one that I believe is a harbinger of things to come ...
Quit magazines - relevant or not?
Generation Q Magazine, 21 July 2016
This week, our tiny q-niverse reels with news of Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine’s shuttering. Owned by F+W Media, QNM was one of the longest-standing quilt-only publications in our country. Started in 1969 by Bonnie Lehman, this publication helped bring quilting back to relevance in our modern era, in a huge way ...I Made It: Mount Gambier migrant sewing project teaches independence and business savvy
Kate Hill, ABC South East SA, 27 July 2016
Jolie Hirwa is keenly watching as the bright print material slips under her fingers, the needle of the sewing machine humming away in front of her. The refugee from the Republic of Congo is one of six women involved in a new project at Mount Gambier's Migrant Resource Centre called I Made It, aiming to equip migrant women with both sewing skills and business savvy ...
The many amazing benefits of quilting
So SewEasy, 2 October 2016
A lot has been written about the many benefits of quilting, but it is only in the last couple of years that scientists and scholars really started to study this claim. A long time ago, quilting was done for a very practical reason –to keep the family warm especially during the cold winter months. This is not really required as much anymore because of advances in technology and with women working more outside the home, there has been less time. Surprisingly and thankfully however, this did not cause the demise of quilting which is still alive and popular as a form of hobby and expression of creativity ...
Graceland
Thom Garrett, Personal Growth, 6 June 2016
Grace was a quilter, which, to the uninitiated, might sound like I’m telling you that she had a hobby. Ha! To put it in perspective, Miles Davis played a horn, and Picasso liked to color. Grace was a quilter ...
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