Summer reading, viewing, puzzle links

Textile Talk: Victoria Findlay Wolfe interviewed by Teresa Duryea Wong

Victoria Findlay Wolfe talked to Teresa Duryea Wong about Victoria’s new book, “The Quilting Experience: A Celebration of Community and Patchwork,” and exhibition, “Option Expedition.” …  Quilt Alliance, 14  May 2025

The Quilt Show: online Puzzles!

Summer entertainment for quilters.

A long list of online jigsaw puzzles of quilts - no table space taken up, no pieces to lose, or to pack up!

And a long luster of memory matching puzzles, where each ‘card’ is a quilt block. 

One Hundred Stitches, One Hundred Villages: The Beauty of Patchwork from Rural China

In rural Chinese villages today, women are creating dynamic patchwork textiles, as their mothers and grandmothers did before them … Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 

Exhibition book:
Chinese Patchwork: Ancient Origins, New Expressions
Nancy Berliner with photographs by Lois Conner, MFA Boston  

ISBN: 978-0-87846-907-9

Sensing Place – Student Exhibition 2025: Outer Sensing, Inner Seeing

The artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham believed that her perception of nature involved ‘outer sensing and inner seeing’. This is a way of observing the outside world that involves using all of the senses, assimilating the information in the mind, and then evoking a response using imaginative creativity.

For this exhibition, each of you has taken a walk in your environment and has sensed, selected, and documented what the writer Steven Feld described as your ‘tingling resonances and bodily reverberations’. In the brief, I asked that the response to your observations should express the essence of your experience and should involve a joyful and playful use of colour, texture, and materials. I encouraged you to use your imagination and creativity to develop something unique and extraordinary … Fibre Arts Take Two, December 2025

The Fibre Arts Take Two home page also includes links to past student exhibitions, and  Friday Fibre Artists podcasts.

Fabric sale - Craft Depot

www.craftdepot.com.au

4 day sale at Craft Depot, Pennant Hills

In store at Pennant Hills, and online: www.craftdepot.com.au

Fabric sale at Craft Depot

Just in case you need fabric at great price, Pennant Hills ...

craftdepot.com.au

Quiltsmith's Sydney Quilt Show sale

From Quiltsmith, at Annandale:
Our annual Quilt Show Sale is on again.

9.30am Saturday 17th June - 4.30pm Monday 26th June 2017

• 25% of all fabrics
• 30 cm minimum cut
• 1m minimum cut on Value fabrics
• 10% off Fabric Packs and Kits/Patterns/Books

75 Nelson St, Annandale

Phone: 02 9550 4947

Craft Depot June sale

The Craft Depot half yearly sale starts 9am Thursday 1st June 2017, both on-line and at our Pennant Hills store, and runs until 30th June 2017. 

Complete sale catalogue is available to view on-line here.

Patchwork on Pittwater 30/30 sale

Announced in the Patchwork on Pittwater June Newsletter:

30/30 Sale

• 30% off all fabrics in store (excludes Liberty)
• Minimum cut 30cm 
• 20% off Charm Squares, Jelly Rolls and Layer Cakes

Thursday 1st June 2017 - Friday 30th June 2017

Sale starting tomorrow

Craft Depot online Easter Sale

From the latest Craft Depot newsletter:

30% off fabric over Easter. This offer starts midnight Thursday 13th April and ends 23.59 AEST on Monday 17th April

The Pennant Hills store is closed for the four days of Easter, but 'Click and Collect' available for the 4 day sale:

Just create an account if you don't have one. Put in your order online and when your cart comes up to check, there will be a coupon box in the bottom right hand corner and you put COLLECT into it and click apply. This will take your postage off. We will send you an email when your order is ready to collect.

www.craftdepot.com.au

Quiltsmith: fabric sale and workshops with Janet Clare

From the latest Quiltsmith (75 Nelson Street Annandale) newsletter:

Fabric Sale

1 - 26 April 

25% off all fabric, pre-cuts and loose fat quarters (some minimum cuts apply).

Workshops with Janet Clare 

2 one day workshops with UK quilter and designer:

'Drawing with your Sewing Machine' - Tuesday 20 June 2017

'The Wordsmith - Quilted Memories to Cherish' - Wednesday 21 June 2017
Phone Quiltsmith on 9550 4947 for all details and to book.

End of lease sale: Hobbysew Hornsby

Posted on Facebook by Hobbysew Hornsby on 13 March 2017:

It is with great sadness that we are having to close our Hornsby shop on Saturday 22nd April. 

Our lease has run out here although we are still optimistic that we can find new premises. 

There is up to 75% off storewide, excluding sewing machines overlockers and cabinets.

Fabric sales

Fabrics up to 80% off, end of bolts from $10

Hobbysew Kings Park

Shop 4/2 Garling Rd 

Kings Park, NSW 2148
Phone: 02 9621 4000

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Patched and Pieced is having a fabric sale throughout February

All fabric originally priced at $22 pm or $24 pm is 30% off

Minimum cut 30 cm

Unit 6, 4 Dulmison Ave

Wyong, NSW 2259

ph. 4355 4400

Fabric sale, workshops: Cottage Quiltworks

Cottage Quiltworks at Warriewood are holding a sale today and tomorrow - Friday 20 January and Saturday 21 January.

Sale fabrics $10/m (minimum purchase 1m) Over 1,000 bolts! 

Kits 1/2 price and assorted off cuts

Visit Cottage Quiltworks on Facebook for photos, and for recent posts about workshops starting from next week.

Two January sales

Patchwork Plus at Miranda 

81/7-15 Jackson Ave

02 9540 2786

Annual Sale 

Wednesday 4 - Saturday 7 January 2017 

Patchwork Products at Rydalmere

21 Myrtle Street

02 9638 1475

Closing down sale
All fabrics on bolts reduced to $4 - $6 per meter
Fat quarters $1 to $2

Through January 2017

Patchwork Products closing down sale

Posted on 4 November 2016, further details of sale are on the Patchwork Products website here

Quiltsmith news: sale and vintage fabric pop-up shop

Quiltsmith fabric sale:
Tuesday 8th November until close of business Saturday 3rd December

See the Quiltsmith Newsletter for details of conditions.

A Piece of Cloth pop-up shop at Quiltsmith

A Piece of Cloth is a vintage and antique textiles sourcing business. Established in 2009 by graphic and textile designer Jennifer Twitchett-Hyland ... The studio has an extensive selection of vintage and antique patchwork quilt tops, feed sacks, blocks, patchwork quilts, cutters and fabrics to suit the needs of quilters interested in vintage patchwork and quilting, restoration or just owning a piece of the past. 

And she's bringing this all to Quiltsmith in Annandale, 17 - 19 November 2016

20th Anniversary sale at Craft Depot

Craft Depot at Pennant Hills is having an anniversary sale this month ...

Location details, catalogue and online sales:

www.craftdepot.com.au

Quiltsmith sale during Sydney Quilt Show ... starts today (11 June)

Quiltsmith has announced its fabric sale to run from today (11 June) until 2 July - very convenient for Sydney Quilt Show visitors since 75 Nelson Street Annandale is just a few minutes drive from Glebe Island. The sale is in-store only.

• If you need more information, contact details for Quiltsmith are all on the new website

Sale!

Kate Quilts will be one of the merchants at our 2016 Quilt Show in April. Kate's shop is online, and she does a number of shows each year.  You might get a head start during her Australia Day sale:

30/30 fabric sale: Patchwork on Pittwater

30% off all fabrics in store - minimum cut 30 cm, excludes pre-cuts

Other sale fabrics from $7 per metre

10.00 am Monday 11 January, until 2.00 pm Saturday 16 February 2016

Patchwork on Pittwater

Suite 28, 4th Floor (The Gateway Building)
1 Mona Vale Road, Mona Vale NSW 2103
Phone  9999 6159