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’

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!

Robin bought this vibrant hand dyed merino wool in rural,
NSW recently, to knit up into a hat ora scarf, maybe both …

… like this one she made last year. Lynette bought the buttons  
in Berry when she visited for their recent quilt show.

Lyn found an almost finished crocheted shawl made by
an aunt many years ago, and has added the stitches to
complete the tartan pattern.

Janice used 1/2 hexagons backed with felt to make
clever thread keepers for her embroidery threads.

Robyn made some beautifully warm beanies last year
 that were snapped up from our craft stall, so we were
delighted when she brought in some more for the
coming winter. They didn’t all make into the craft stall stock.

Janice’s new baby granddaughter has the beginnings
 of a fine wardrobe of knitwear.

Louise made a densely embroidered heart,
framed on black linen for a friend.

Daphne has a collection of patterns for small pouches and 

purses. These little ones open out into handy box shape.

June events

Please check with the organisers nearer their dates whether events are going ahead 

during the COVID19 pandemic.

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).

A new event

The Australian Quilt Show

will be part of at Craft and Quilt Fairs in 

Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney,

sponsored by Expertise Events and Janome

https://www.craftfair.com.au/wp/Sydney/

(Note that QuiltNSW Sydney Quilt Show will be a separate event, 

at a different venue in October - scroll down to the QuiltNSW flyer)

More work coming along nicely

Since we have been back to face to face meetings, we are enjoying seeing all the isolation projects making progress, and new ones started …

Hilary’s rainbow

‘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.

Jill made Wensleydale in mostly pink and purples
at the request of a six year old.

Big bright scrappy twisted hexagons made by Jill …

.. has a large scale floral print border designed by
Anna Maria Horner

Daphne married large print squares with bands
 of foundation paper piecing.

 

‘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.

Community quilt finishes

 

Elaine W has generously made a lot of community quilts
during the pandemic - this is the second one  
using a rail fence variation.

Another of Elaine W’s community quilts, scrappy quarter
log cabins.  It really came ‘together’ with  the dark floral
 setting triangles.

Sue delved into her stash, past her favourite blues to the
purples and pinky-purples, and cut 3” squares for an
on-point checkerboard.
The counterpanes are a tiny spot on white.

There was a bit of purple left, providing a rich pieced back.

Julie made good use of a collection of
fabrics left over from earlier quilts …    

    

… and still had enough left over for another small one.

A parade of ‘Crooked Courthouse Steps’

About a year ago, Nerida ran a workshop with us on categorising and using a mix of low volume fabrics in scrappy quilts, using Bonnie Hunter’s ‘Crooked Courthouse Steps’ to demonstrate. It was a great success, and generated a lot of ongoing interest, judging by the number of quilts we have made using the block since.

Nerida’s (third?) Crooked Courthouse Steps community quilt.
 The border is an Amy Butler print from some years ago.

Nerida has a wide ranging stash of modern prints,
 including low volumes.

The beautiful  backing of Nerida’s quilt.

Dawn made her pretty ‘many purples’ version as a gift for
a friend. It was quilted by Laura.

Julie and Jill both made a pile of blocks after the work
-shop, that are being put together into two community quilts
 with some from each pile. The second one is now underway.

May 2022 events

SewMiriam Etsy Shop

A number of SewMiriam patterns are now available as downloads from her Etsy Store: