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Wednesday, December 25, 2024
Friday, December 20, 2024
Reading, viewing, listening …
Farm Life Quilt - National Museum of Australia
Nettie McColive created the Farm Life quilt in the 1930s while growing up on an isolated dairy farm in South Australia. This quilt is one of three in the Nettie McColive collection. It measures 189 x 184 cm and is backed with a fine gingham material … Tony Armstrong’s Extrordinary Things Exhibition online and at the National Museum of Australia until 9 February 2025
Queer quilts, rebellious knitting and political pants: the radical world of textiles
… textiles have a history of marginalisation in the high art world; associated with women, domesticity, First Nations traditions, and queer and class activism. They have been ignored or dismissed by the “pale, male and stale” art canon.
Radical Textiles at the Art Gallery of South Australia revels in its rejections of this bias and in its enthusiastic reverence for expert craft …Van Badham, The Guardian, 29 November 2024
A seamstress's collection of hand-sewn creations keeps her memory alive in regional SA
Doris Odgers spent most of her life making clothes for herself and her community. Her collection of 1900s dresses, bathing suits, hats, lace, and more was recently on show in an exhibition to remember the life and fashion of a beloved regional woman … ABC News, 23 June 2024
Currently my artistic practice is focused on community-based projects like the glass quilt, that involve artists from around the world. Leading community projects were first conceived in the aftermath of COVID’s isolation as a way to connect with glass artists who felt othered by the elitism of the fine art world. Much like quilt-making, glass has long been relegated to “craft” and its artistry has been almost completely absent from prestigious institutions. Oswald seeks to broaden the conversation of what constitutes fine art by creating a piece so large that it cannot be ignored … Canvas Rebel, 28 March 2024
International Quilt Challenge: “Our World Coming Together” Exhibition Catalogue
Lions Club of Quilters Victoria
Lions Club of Quilters Victoria
The Cahoon Museum of American Art’s public art installation, The Quilted Cahoon, features a giant quilt made from recycled sails created by San Francisco artist Joe Cunningham that covers the facade of the museum building.
As part of the museum’s Streetside series, this unexpected and stunning quilt is designed to highlight the museum’s 18th-century Georgian architecture ... Cahoonmuseum.org
Follow the process on Instagram, Facebook and You Tube: https://youtu.be/WtM7P3CNhIQ
Join author and modern quilter Sarah Hibbert as she guides you through the colourful quilts in her Linen Works Exhibition. Sarah combines hand stitching with linen textural fabric to create her modern artworks. Sarah’s gallery includes a selection of her recent work featured in her book From Collage to Quilt. Filmed at the Festival of Quilts (UK) 2022. Arnold’s Attic
Sarah Hibbert: https://www.sarahhibbertquilts.com
Monday, December 16, 2024
Recent finishes (2)
The layout and quilting are both simple and straight forward, the blue and white prints are the heroes. |
Tiny cornerstones are a perfect choice. Elaine machine quilted in the ditch along the sashing seams and is very happy with the simple hand quilting inside the squares recommended by Jeni.. |
Anne was asked to make a baby quilt for a new mother who loves Winnie the Pooh, and came up with both a feature print and background fabric in which Winnie stars. |
You can see little Winnie among the flowers in the counterpanes. |
Jenn’s quilts for her children’s primary school teachers are legendary! Now she has a teen quilt holder to help keep a record. Her son thoughtfully chose which quilts were for specific teachers. First up is the ‘Aura Quilt’ designed by Nydia Kehnle and Alison Glass, made in mostly Kona solids. |
Teacher quilt 2 is not a published pattern, and Jenn says ‘I just use the same ratio of two squares and one rectangle with sashing and then jumble it up together and it always looks great’. |
Teacher quilt 3 ‘Tone It Down’ pattern, designed by Lissa Alexander, published by American Patchwork and Quilting. ‘I used up almost all of my Kona Snow here, and specifically dug out my most vivid print scraps. There are some favorites in there - Heather Ross dogs and gnomes and frogs, carefully hoarded Lizzy House twinkle stars, some original Koi… I was so happy to work on this. So many fabric friends …I enjoyed making all these tiny squares with perfect points.’ |
Thursday, December 12, 2024
Last new community quilts for the year
The last few community quilts finished this year, although we know there are more than a dozen already started for next year.
The backing fabric is a attractive cross hatch design that would complement many quilt designs. |
A community quilt request for a quilt in ‘beige tones’ perplexed Jeni for a while, as she prefers to work in colour, but she pulled it together beautifully. |
Complimentary backing fabric. |
The addition of black and white prints enhances the calm quietness feeling of the quilt. Quilted by Laura Ujhazy. |
Jill hand pieced these simple blocks, then put them together by machine. Mostly left over fabrics from earlier quilts. |
The pretty gum blossom print on the back, designed by Jocelyn Proust was a donation to the community stash. |
Sunday, December 8, 2024
Jeni’s ‘Shapes and Whimsy’ quilt
Jeni’s gorgeous ‘Shapes and Whimsy’ quilt combines her embroidery and quilting skills, and was made with techniques learned in a three day class with Karen John (who also designed the quilt) at My Sewing Supplies at Lindfield. Jeni is an accomplished embroiderer, but she learned some new stitches and ways of using embroidery to enhance quilting, piecing and appliqué in the class.
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Recent finishes (1)
An unusual take on a Christmas table ‘runner’ from Susan Mack
- a hexagon shape and not a Christmas fabric used.
The bird print is a hint towards a more customary Christmas, and looks fabulous. |
Susan K calls this pouch a mash-up of two designs, the excellent #lolapouch (Sotak Handmade) and the #lottieprojectbag (Treehoyse Textiles) |
She always finds interesting linings in her legendary stash. |
Hilary found the fabric for both sides of her most recent tote bag in the Red Tractor Designs collection at Patchwork Plus in Blackheath. |
She said she didn’t need another bag, but she did need those panels! |