Music memories
The front of the quilt uses band and concert tshirts. Most of the pieces were machine stitched after interfacing along the seamline. The reverse is jersey leftover from sewing projects along with some tshirt pieces. The batting is either cotton or cotton and wool. The quilt is hand tied with mercerised cotton. Queen bed size.
Corporate Chaos
Contemporary design based on a traditional utilitarian wagga rug. Made from tailors offcuts. Multi-coloured front, showing manufacturers labels. Grey backing and navy blue binding. Calico rod pocket attached across top back section. Name, title and date hand embroidered in black thread at bottom right hand corner of rug front. Name of maker and title of
Aboriginal Culture: Fire Utilisation
Aboriginal Culture: Wetland Resources
Aboriginal Culture: Wetlands Society
Aboriginal Culture: Wetlands Conservation
Interweave One
Quilt, black woollen background with coloured woollen yarn couched to the surface in a cross pattern.
A Rollicking Good Laugh
Techniques: Machine ‘quilt as you go’, rough edge machine appliqué, hand finished. (2006)
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
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
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.
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.
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
Line On Line
Technique: Cutting blocks from samples then assembled by strip piecing. These were laid over wadding and a backing of calico. Top left panel of strips were laid and assembled in the ‘quilt-as-you-go’ method and then machine appliquéd around the edge. Hand quilted with crochet thread and hand finished. Materials: Wool and upholstery samples of various
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
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
Games Series: Checkmate I
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.
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.
Land of Patchwork I
Technique: Hand pieced and hand appliquéd, with lines dissecting the view as if looking at a map. Machine and hand finished. Materials: Wool and wool blends, Hessian, crochet thread and calico. 1100 x 1860 mm
Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer
Techniques: Layers of net and machine stitchery, reverse appliqué, hand stitchery, sprayed and thrown paint. Materials: Cotton, blends, net, motifs, machine stitchery, crochet thread and paint. The inserts and border are made from Australian made ‘board shorts’ material. 1160 x 900 mm
Blown by the Wind
Triptych collage of painted felt pieces held between two layers of net and machine quilted
Celebrate the Culture of Australia’s First People: Night Sky
The ‘spiral galaxy’ design was built by drawing a large Drunkards Path traditional block (quarter of a circle in a square), and nesting and rotating different sized Drunkards Path blocks in the large one. The patterned fabric is ‘Seven Sisters in the Milky Way’ designed by Marlene Doolan of Aboriginal heritage. Machine pieced. Machine quilted
Last frontier
Materials: Commercial silk, Tiwi Island silk, cotton, polyester, paper Techniques: Shibori, heat set images, lino cut prints, fused applique, machine stitching
Wrecking the reef
Materials: silk, polyester, paper, cotton rear Techniques: fused applique, heat set images, batik, machine stitch