Reading, listening, viewing

Here we are at the NSW Labour Day weekend again - can it really be October tomorrow? Some reading and viewing suggestions in case you are all caught up on quilting …

2023 Quilt NSW Exhibition: Award Winners

Award winners from the 2023 show at Rosehill, 15 - 17 September 2023

International Quilt Festival 2023, Houston, 2 November 2023: Award Winners

The Quilt Festival Judged Show honors the best of the best quilt work from around the world! More than 442 entries were received and then juried down to 218 finalists. Judges this year were Charlotte Angotti, Deborah Boschert, and Karen K. Stone. All winners receive cash, non-purchase prizes.

Astronaut-artist Karen Nyberg unveils quilt portraits of first women to fly in space

Each of the portraits is a quilted collage made out of pieces of cloth.

The 50th woman to fly into space has paid tribute to the first woman and first American woman to do so with a pair of original works celebrating the first 60 years of women in space.

Former NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg was at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida on Thursday (Aug. 17) to unveil her portraits of Soviet-era cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova and American astronaut Sally Ride. The public reveal was held under the retired space shuttle Atlantis … Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 18 August 2023

This is Women’s Work

How this small home-based non-profit has helped to receive and distribute nearly $13 million worth of supplies and time donated from the quilting community in under a year.

Join us for our first interview episode as we hear about how Gina and Hal Halladay (along with Beth Hawkins) have helped to quickly organize the members of our generous quilting community to gather 24 Tons of Quilts, 10 Acres, or $6.5 Million of Donated Fabrics to benefit Ukrainian refugees on the other side of the world… The Grateful Thread Podcast, Episode 4, 20 February 2023

Clever, useful, pretty

Both of these makes had people looking very closely when they were seen at ‘show and tell’ a high;Iggy of our regular meetings, so we expect to see more.

Pat made a clutch bag for a friend, starting with a Kawandi-style
panel, with an appealing mix of prints

The quilting is more varied than usually seen in Kawandi quilts

Pat made the button from resin.it’s loop is a stretchy
jersey to make it easier to close

Versatile fabric trays made by Julie can be packed flat,
and snapped at the corner to make a deeper, portable tray.
The flat measurement here  is 7” x 9”, but can be any size.

They are very useful for travel, or at home, for sewing notions
in use, or keeping other items together, such as keys or jewellery,
 then packed away flat when not in use.
A free online tutorial can be found on
Flourishing Palms blog.

 

New quilts

 

Noelle hand and machine pieced this pretty quilt for her
granddaughter’s 11th birthday. There are two blocks, one of
them an ‘X’ rather than the sashing you might first ‘see’.
A wide variety of scraps and 1930s reproduction fabrics
gives it lightness and great appeal.

The backing fabric (last photo) is also a versatile beauty.
Sure to loved.

Four inch pieced and non-pieced  hexagons English paper pieced
 by Jill.  The mix of fabrics included a lot of Liberty Tana lawn,
mostly from the Travel collection.

The outer border is Liberty’s ‘Copenhagen’ print, the large
unpieced hexagons are ‘Palazzo’.

Janet made  this quilt for an unwell friend,
using a pictorial batik print …

… and quilted it on her long-arm machine.

Quilts for a new grandchild

Nerida’s first grandchild has arrived safely, and part of her welcome is two simply beautiful quilts, made by her talented Grandma. Congratulations Nerida and your family.

Patchwork of squares, with Jocelyn Proust borders …

… backing.

An adaptation off a Judy Newman design with 2” hexagons …

… some featuring cute animals.

 

Best of Show, Sydney Quilt Show 2023

 Congratulation to Sue De Vanny for winning Best of Show with her quilt ‘She Matters’.

Quilt NSW 2023 Exhibition is at Rosehill Gardens this weekend, 15 - 17 September.

A new family heirloom

All of Miriam’s quilts are beautiful, but ’Flowers and Baskets’ is also a precious family heirloom, beginning with the gift of linen from her husband’s grandmother, who recently died at 105. The linen is the background to the hand-appliqued centre panel.

The baskets and flowers are hand appliqued, and Miriam
hand quilted the finished piece.

There are a lot of different fabrics in the quilt!

The reverse is an Ann Maria Horner wide back  print.

The binding compliments both the front and back of the quilt.

It’s not all quilts …

Marg V ‘s very first attempt at English paper piecing.
 She might be hooked …

Susan describes her leap from bilbies to pigs as prompted by
‘another brilliant pattern by @jodiericrac’. 

Susan has dressed them in Liberty (!), and included lace
 trimmed bloomers, thoughtfully adapted to accommodate 
their anatomy. 

Of course their dresses have pockets -
that’s what girls really, really need!

Than came a request for another.
She has a reversible dress in shot cotton …

… with this print on the reverse …

… and complimentary Bloomers in Liberty ‘Betsy’.

Colour coordinated!

With no reference to each other’s work, Janet and Susan Mack finished these projects at just about the same time.

Janet’s quilt is the Chilhowie Mystery Quilt
designed by Bonnie Hunter.

Janet is developing her long arm quilting skills at a rapid pace,

Susan Mack crocheted her intricate ombré blanket
while watching TV in the evenings.

 

September events

 

‘Redefining the Basket’

curated by Lissa-Jane de Sailles

7 September - 4 October 2023

Gallery 76

76 Queen Street, Concord West 2038

… Ten artists from the USA and ten from Australia have each chosen a piece or pieces from existing bodies of work or have created new works in response to the theme: 'Redefining the Basket'.

Exhibition curator Lissa-Jane de Sailles is a fibre artist who specialises in traditional and contemporary basketry. Her interests include the history of contemporary fibre art in Australia and the USA, as well as teaching, travelling and making in her studio on Jerrinja and Wandi Wandian Land on the South East Coast of NSW … Embroiderers’ Guild of NSW

See the Embroiderers’ Guild of NSW website for details of events around the exhibition.