Australian quilts

A few months ago, I wrote about looking at 2020 as a 'gift of time'. Rather than racing off to teach workshops, I had the wonderful opportunity to spend many hours in the studio, experimenting, playing and creating with fabric. I have always loved building up images using lots of small pieces of fabric. Initially I experimented with ;colour wash' techniques, piecing hundreds of small squares or diamonds on point to create some of my earlier large landscapes. Then I moved on to fuse tiles to…

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I have grown to love the work of a few Australian quilt designers. I am going to showcase some of the quilts that have come thru my studio in the next few blog posts. Recently I made my first …

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…

...mixed with dotted batik fabric for the front.

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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Welcome to a fresh instalment of Design Wall Wednesday – where I get to share my newest work in progress (WIP) and you get to vote on which version you like best! Today’s design …

There were over 400 quilts at this years Sydney Quilt Show. So many amazing, beautiful, outstanding quilts. This is just a small selecti...

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…