Community donation, and the wonderful textile art it will help support

We had a lovely morning this week with artists Nadia Lolas, Lauren  Kerjan and textile teacher Claire from Studio ARTES, when our Convenor, Helen presented them with a cheque for $3,000 - the proceeds from our quilt raffle - to help support their artists. Studio ARTES participated in our show with a display and sales of their smaller, textile based artworks - it was a very popular pop-up shop.

Nadia and Lauren brought some examples of their brilliant textile works, including self portraits. Thank you for participating in our show, and for sharing your work with us.

You can also see Lauren’s work on Instagram at #laurenkerjan and Nadia’s at #nadialolas.

Helen, with Nadia and Lauren, and the cheque

Claire brought some textile self portraits
made by her Monday students

Lauren's soft textile sculpture self-portrait

Nadia's painted, embellished and quilted fabric leaf

Nadia's textile self-portrait

Painted, embellished fabric leaves made in preparation for
construction of a Studio ARTES family tree to honour each of t
he Studio's artists.

Fun food soft sculptures

Fairholme Quilt Show: members' challenge (4 of 4)

Our recent quilt show included a members’ challenge, curated by Roslyn, to make a 12” block in black and white fabric, with up to 10% of a ‘splash of colour’ from a solid fabric provided to each entrant. 43 entries later we had a great display, and the makings of three quilts. Here is the final batch:

Robin Williams

Robyn Leek

Roslyn Pullen

Sharron Egan

Sue Brennan

Sue Hodges

Susan McMahon

Val Nadin

Val Nadin

Yvette Aoude

All 43 blocks arranged randomly - a screenshot of the image icons
as they were lined up in a file folder by an image processing app.

Thank you to everyone who contributed a block (or two), and to Roslyn Pullen who curated the challenge and the display.

Photos: Andrew Freelander and Sue Crowe - thank you for photographing every block!

Fairholme Quilt Show: members' challenge (3 of 4)

Our recent quilt show included a members’ challenge, curated by Roslyn, to make a 12” block in black and white fabric, with up to 10% of a ‘splash of colour’ from a solid fabric provided to each entrant. 43 entries later we had a great display, and the makings of three quilts. Here is the third batch:

Jo-Ann Phillips

Julie White

Lynette Harvey

Margaret Sidebotham

Margaret Weir

Marilyn Abbey

Miriam Jones

Nerida Williams

Pam Farley

Pat Nerlich

Peggy Molchanoff

Fairholme Quilt Show: members' challenge (2 of 4)

Our recent quilt show included a members’ challenge, curated by Roslyn, to make a 12” block in black and white fabric, with up to 10% of a ‘splash of colour’ from a solid fabric provided to each entrant. 43 entries later we had a great display, and the makings of three quilts. Here is the second batch:

Adrienne Perry

Jill O'Connor

Daphne Freke

Dawn Cox

Diana Brown

Elaine Bright

Elsa Kachwalla

Helen Battellino

Hilary Flynn

Janice Freelander

Janet Swalwell

Fairholme Quilt Show: members' challenge (1 of 4)

Our recent quilt show included a members’ challenge, curated by Roslyn, to make a 12” block in black and white fabric, with up to 10% of a ‘splash of colour’ from a solid fabric provided to each entrant. 43 entries later we had a great display, and the makings of three quilts. Here is the first batch:

Elaine Walton - viewers' choice winner

Roslyn Pullen

Barbara Collins

Miriam Jones

Lyn Lang

Louise Wyatt-Spratt

Louise Church

Lorraine Kenchington

Linda Parsons 

Jenn Davis

Denise Hendy

Robyn Beitsch