Covergirl!

Brush with fame - the cover quilt for this issue of Simply Vintage magazine (Spring 2021 No 38) is ‘Little Women', designed and made by Fairholme quilter Miriam Jones (@sewmiriam) and quilted by Yvette Aoude (@yvettes_keepsakes), also a Fairholme quilter.

'Little Women' is one of a series of quilts based on favourite books designed and made by Miriam during the pandemic.Congratulations to you both - international stars!

Here are some of our versions of "Little Women',made by
(clockwise from top left), Julie, Sue, Julie again, and Louise.
We know there are more in the making.

Quilt Walk, Panguitch, Utah 1864

Fairholme member, Virginia, came across Paguitch and its commemorative quilt while visiting the tourist information office for the Red Canyon in Utah, USA recently, and she knew our readers would be interested in the quilt and the history behind it:

The commemorative quilt was created by Elaine Hatch Sawyer
using her grandmother's treadle Singer sewing machine.
It was quilted by Maty Ella (Prince) Sudweeks and
Metta Jane (Wilcox) Whittaker.

The Paguitch Quilt Walk Story -
in text and online video re-enactment

A short video overview of the trail taken by the Panguitch quilt walkers in 1864

Thank you for the photos and the story, Ginnie.

Quilts at The Department Store, Wauchope

If you in the NSW mid-North Coast area, this Wauchope Gazette article says you will be able to enjoy a quilt show while you shop from today, although it doesn't say how long the Wauchope Patchwork Quilters display will be hung.

Quilts are everywhere ... even in the snow, in France

Can you imagine these spectucular designs, made by Simon Beck, in large fields of snow, translated into white wholecloth quilt?  The links are circulating across the internet, often with headings such as "Quilts in snow", and you will see why.

Katie Hosmer's blog post on My Modern Met provides a good collection of the photos, or you can see even more on Simon Beck's own Facebook page (you do not have to be a Facebook account holder to see it).

(Thanks for the link, Noelle!)

An art quilt and quilts in art: process and product

This very interesting blog by quilt artist Deidre Adams allows readers to see the process of making a commissioned art quilt from its genesis as an idea to hanging on permanent exhibition.

And this one by Jenean Morrison shows how quilts inspired a large public artwork in Memphis, using recycled street signs! There is a link at the end of the post, to an interview with the artist, Greely Myatt, including some insights into the process.

(Thanks to Jenny Bowker for the first link,  and Jennifer  Richards for the second, both via Southern Cross Quilters)

Stiching Up Wellington - TV ad

Have you seen this tourism ad encouraging us to visit Wellington? The animation is all done with fabric, and the final map is a quilt! Very clever. You might catch it at the movies too.

And there's another one on at the moment, about retirement (?) where a woman says "I like quilting - I could do that!" Why doesn't she just get started now - what's she waiting for?

Summer quilt sightings

A lovely quilt (or maybe some quilted cushions?) are the backdrop for a large photo on p. 5 of this morning's Sydney Sun-Herald - the babies are cute too!

And from summer reading and watching ....

In the 2009 Australian movie, My Year Without Sex, a large quilt hangs above bed in the main characters' bedroom.

The Golden Dress, by Marion Halligan - a late chapter uses a scrap bag and potential quilt as a metaphor for a character's troubled thoughts .....

...... The mind is a bulging ragbag of scraps and patches; you may intend one day to make out of it a quilt pieced and patterned of the kind that gives symbolic order to women's lives in books and movies these days, whose construction was always a skill and a craft and is now an art too, snapping up considered trifles and making beautiful orderly meaningful patterns out of them. With names like Wedding Ring, Log Cabin, Happy Homes - names that comfort. And some less obviously so: Drunkard's Path, Broken Dishes, turning difficult realities into cosy objects. But in the meantime its an old bag shoved into the back of the linen cupboard, stuffed with tatty scraps that you no longer even recognise.

.......an earlier chapter heading "The Rose Quilt" appeared to refer to a bedspread rather than a quilt.

Lots of quilted garments, or parts of garments in The Tudors, Season 3 (as there are in Seasons 1 and 2)

Some references to quilted jackets in Wolf Hall (2009 Mann-Booker Prize winner, a novel about Thomas Cromwell) - and the painted Tudor Rose on the cover could be appliqued, couldn't it ......?

Good Weekend - 1984 revisited

The Good Weekend magazine (distributed with the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age in Melbourne) is celebrating 25 years of publications. In a special edition to mark the occasion, GW took us back to significant events of 1984, including the scene in "A Country Practice" when Molly Jones died. At first glance it looks as though Molly's sofa is covered with a quilt, but on closer inspection it looks more like a fabric with a patchwork print. Does anyone remember?