24/03/2022

Tartan Fabric Sample

The top layer of the quilt consists of five distinct rows of tartan samples appliqued together. The rows of tartan samples are broken with a boarder of white, grey, and brown fabric which runs in parallel lines. This fabric is also used to bind the quilt together at the edges. The internal insulating fabric of

23/03/2022

Chicken Feed Wagga

Wagga style quilt made with a Appliqué top layer of gunny sacks that once held chicken feed, flour, and potatoes. The insulating internal material is not known. The backing fabric is made from a cream woollen blanket. The edges are bound with a material of a red and white plaid. The gunny sacks are quilted

21/06/2021

Inside Out

Felted quilt with colourful abstract shapes and designs on surface. A black felted border frames the central design area which has a white background. Tulle has been appliqued over the surface. On the lower edge, colourful felted pieces are attached in the shape of triangles, half moon and balls

21/06/2021

Earth Blanket

Quilt, woollen felt with appliqued, quilted, dyed and embroidered surface. This quilt is mostly in brown and brown tones.

07/06/2021

Bow Wow Bowerbird

Quilt is a combination of silk, wool, baft, linen, and rayon thread. Two halves of the quilt have been hand sewn together and are a rusty red and grey in colour with small blue patches using plant dyes. Machine stitched, hand sewn, and applique, the quilt has long pockets and panels added to the back.

07/06/2021

Dressed in Memories IV

Woollen quilt made from recycled woollen fabric with applique design in cotton embroidery floss.

07/06/2021

The Rocks Quilt

Artistic quilt with a landscape and a picture of rocks at Malacoota, Vic.

07/06/2021

The Art of Record Keeping

Black wool quilt with white wool shapes

22/05/2021

The Westbury Quilt

“The quilt is a patchwork of red cotton fabric. Each piece is decorated with embroidery in thick white cotton thread and with cotton appliqué. The edge of the quilt is decorated with a red cotton unlined border strip decorated with cutwork daisies, producing a scalloped edge. The images and inscriptions carried on each of the

30/01/2021

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

Technique: Raw edged, check and tartan samples assembled with little manipulation. Machine sewn to a cotton backing allowing for some fraying. The backing of the quilt is assembled using squares of left over pyjama material. Buttons: some in the shape flowers are hand attached through the three layers. The tails are made from a spool

28/01/2021

Ode to the Shearer

Technique: Wool and some wool/blend on wool blanket with embellishing machine, hand knitted wool samplers using home spun wool and one commercial spun sampler, hand stitched edging. Home dyed with natural plant dyes or left in their natural state. Three layers ‘tied’ together. No machine stitching. Materials: 95% pure wool. 5% cotton/blends. Black and white

28/01/2021

Colours of the Day – Evening

Technique: Hand appliqué and threads add to the surface texture. Hand pressed leaf printing and painting and screen printing on borders from leaves collected locally. Materials: Satin, silk, cotton, blends, velvet, corduroy.

28/01/2021

Colours of the Day – Noon

Technique: Hand appliqué and threads add to the surface texture. Hand pressed leaf printing and painting and screen printing on borders from leaves collected locally. Materials: Satin, silk, cotton, blends, velvet, corduroy.

28/01/2021

Colours of the Day – Sunrise

Technique: Hand appliqué and threads add to the surface texture. Hand pressed leaf printing and painting and screen printing on borders from leaves collected locally. Materials: Satin, silk, cotton, blends, velvet, corduroy. Preferred Triptych horizontal installation 900 x 3420mm Individual 900 x 1140

28/01/2021

The Pokies’

Technique: Raw edge pieces, with minimum cutting of the material. Rough blanket stitched hand appliqué with hanging threads onto a thin wadding and a cotton/poly backing. Materials: 100% wool, crochet thread. 1200 x 910mm

27/01/2021

Games Series: Checkmate II

Technique: Raw edge pieces, with minimum cutting of the material. Rough blanket stitched hand appliqué with hanging threads overstitched. Materials: 100% wool, cotton, crochet thread. 810 x 1190mm

27/01/2021

Land of Patchwork II

Technique: Hand pieced and hand appliquéd, with lines dissecting the view as if looking at a map. Machine and hand finished. Materials: : Using found materials: Wool and wool blends, Hessian. Except crochet thread and calico.

02/12/2020

PM Please Quilt

PM Please Quilt (2015) 210cm x 165cm. Appliqué quilt made using suit swatches and recycled ties, bamboo wadding, hand embroidered using cotton embroidery thread.