Aboriginal quilts

I’ve been organizing 2.5 inch strips of Aboriginal fabrics over the last few weeks in anticipation of making a scrappy trip quilt, and I’m loving how these fabrics look together. And to…

This week at Fairholme ... Pam has finished another large quilt top, that we pin-basted last week - she says hand quilting will begin any day now ... lots of lovely aboriginal design prints from Central Australia and elsewhere. Diana is multi-skilled - she embroidered the medallions for her wall hanging ... ... and machine appliqued the flowers to this navy background fabric that was then stretched over a frame to hang above her bed. The same doona cover (yes, she bought two) is on the bed…

Hmmmm!!! I'm not sure this photo does the fabrics justice? I sought out fabrics that would lend themselves to fussy-cutting but not really sure how to piece them together. Finally, I came up with this... I might have to upload another couple of photos so we can all see some of the great fabrics that are in it... These 2 shots are taken from the top and bottom, hopefully, they show more of the fabrics and techniques used. In between the fussy-cuts are rows comprising of half-squares…

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I kept getting peeks of all those aboriginal scraps left over from my Libby quilt. They kept calling to me and so I pulled them out this evening after our walk. In that pile of scraps were pieces l…

Sandy also made a quilt for her son. The majority of these fabrics she got on a trip to Australia, and she spotted a shadow box quilt at the Heritage Park quilt display, and decided that was a perfect way to showcase these fabrics. She drafted a pattern on her graph paper and this is the fabulous result. I quilted this with a wavy spiral, it almost looks topographical. I thought it paired well with the graphic designs on the fabrics.

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I can’t tell you how happy I am to have that drab bag off my sewing table. And tonight I surrounded myself with more color as I continued working with the blue and orange Aboriginal and KFC f…

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