I love how we can choose our own adventure through quilting and textiles. Not only can we make and design, but some of us dive deep into research. And then we share the knowledge through lectures, books and magazines. Teresa Duryea Wong is not only a multi-published author, but also lectures on quilting around the world … Karen Brown, Just Get it Done Quilts, 3 June 2025
One Year After an Uncomfortable Choice for Best of Show
… What We Will Use as Weapons: A List of School Supplies is the title for this provocative work of art that features school supplies hurling toward the center on the front and an assault rifle on the back. This long, narrow quilt is the actual size and shape of a door. An outline of a human is stitched through the layers. On the front, the person is meant to represent a shooter, and on the reverse side, a teacher … Teresa Duryea Wong, Quiltfolk, 22 April 2025
Migrants learn English and find new friends at outback sewing classes
… In Mount Isa, CAMS facilitates weekly sewing classes, where women from different countries come together to sew, drink tea and practice their English.
"It's an opportunity for those who are quite capable of sewing to teach the beginner sewers as well — [it is] a great opportunity to interact …” Maddie Nixon, ABC North West Queensland, 21 May 2025
Harriet Riddell travels with her sewing machine pitching up in unusual locations from the informal settlements of Nairobi to the tea fields of the Himalayas. Through free motion embroidery she captures her surrounding environment and the people she meets … Harriet encourages her street audience to pedal a bicycle which generates electricity and powers the art. This increases the interaction between her, her subject and the art its self. Other times, batteries and solar panels are used to generate energy for her stitches … Harriet Riddell, InStitchYou.com
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