Aboriginal Culture: Fire Utilisation
Aboriginal Culture: Wetlands Fishing
Aboriginal Culture: Wetland Plant Foods,
Aboriginal Culture: Wetland Resources
Aboriginal Culture: Wetlands Society
Aboriginal Culture: Wetlands Conservation
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.
Changi Prison Girl Guides
Quilt constructed of blocks of hexagons with 72 ‘flower’ rosettes made from plain and printed cotton scraps. The centre of each rosette has the name of one of the Girl Guides embroidered on it. The one in the centre of the quilt has the Trefoil insignia outlined in satin stitch. The background is white hexagons.
The Signature Quilt
342 signed calico rectangles with 342 patterned rectangles to match signatories, machine pieced with black cotton margins, wadding and calico backing. For further information about the signatories and making of the Quilt please visit https://pioneerwomen.com.au/quilt
Aboriginal Culture: Wetland Resources
Materials and techniques: Aboriginal fabric, Roots and Seeds designed by Rosemary Pitjara; machine applique, hand embroidery, hand and machine quilting.
Aboriginal Culture: Wetlands Conservation
Materials and techniques: Aboriginal fabric, Possum Land and Water Dreaming designed by Heather Kennedy; machine applique, hand embroidery, hand and machine quilting.
Draining the Swamps
Materials and techniques: Eco printed muslin using casuarina and callistemon foliage; hand and machine stitched.
Maali (Swan)
Materials and techniques: Fabric collage using silk dupion, commercial printed cotton and organza. Machine and hand stitched.
Bottoms Up!!
Materials and techniques: Hand dye fabrics, fabric paint, organza, silk waste, hand embroidery, machine embroidery, free motion quilting.
Floodplain
Materials and techniques: Silk and cotton fabric, bobbin work, hand and machine embroidery, free motion quilting.
Underwater Windows
Materials and techniques: Hand dyed fabrics and papers, sun dyeing hand painting and colouring, embroidery, free cut machine pieced, hand quilted
Wetland Windows
Materials and techniques: Hand dyed fabric and paper, sundyeing, hand painting and colouring, embroidery, free cut machine pieced, hand quilted.
Wetland Spiders, A Weaver of Gold and a Wolf
Materials and techniques: Commercial and hand dyed cotton fabric, polyester basket braid, ribbon braid, florists wire, velvet over poly-wadding, beads, rhinestones, hand dyed muslin, bridal tulle, metallic and cotton thread. Machine appliqué, machine piecing, wash-away embroidery, 3-dimensional padding, buttonhole stitching over wire, hand and machine embellishment, machine quilting, beading. 600 x 400 mm
What’s for dinner?
Materials and techniques: Layered cotton, silk and silk paper with appliquéd Lutradur, satin, felt and cotton fabrics. Embellished with hemp, cotton and polyester braids and ribbon, hand and machine embroidery and beading. Acrylic paint and Inktense pencils. Machine quilted during construction. 600 x 400 mm
Wyan the White-faced Heron and Gilgies
Materials and techniques: Background fabric botanically dyed using eucalyptus leaves. Hand dyed cotton gauze, sari silk strips, organza and tulle. Hand embroidery and appliqué. Machine quilted on a domestic machine.
Cardacut the Cormorant with Eucalyptus and Melaleuca
Materials and techniques: Background fabric botanically dyed with eucalyptus leaves. Melaleuca fabric designed by Lorraine Canestrini, digitally printed. Merino wool felt, cotton, gauze, organza and tulle. Hand embroidery and appliqué. Machine quilted.
Waterholes and Tracks
Materials and techniques: Commercial plain cloth. Abstract design freehand drawn with fabric crayons. Hand stitched with commercial threads.
Bibool (Freshwater Paperbark)
Materials: Hand dyed papers. Hand dyed salvaged and commercial cotton and silk fabrics. Silk Rod. Crochet doily. Purchased decorative yarn.
Djeran Abundance
Materials and techniques: silk fabric, machine pieced and layered, machine embroidery. 400 x 600 mm