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Dressage Quilt

Geelong, Victoria

Quilt consisting of wool felt and actual felt agricultural sashes. Dyeing and dye reduction, strip pieced. Cotton back w...

The Dempster Quilt

York Residency Museum, 5 Brook Street, York, Western Australia

A patchwork quilt, made from pieces of cotton print (probably used for dresses and furnishings). The design is mainly ge...

Medallion Quilt

Geelong, Victoria

Patchwork quilt, made with small rectangular pieces of printed cotton dress fabrics in predominant s...

Isolation Quilt

Geelong, Victoria

Various multi coloured and designed patchwork squares sewn onto a red woollen blanket.

Harry Walter Hewitt Wilton – Wagga

Geelong, Victoria

Patchwork style quilt with coloured pieces of dyed woollen singlets stitched together over a backing. Features feather s...

Celebration Quilt

Geelong, Victoria

Multi coloured patchwork quilt with native flowers protruding from centre in a diamond shape.

Soroptimist Project Quilt 2000

Geelong, Victoria

Cream patchwork quilt with 31 squares depicting various scenes and motifs. The Soroptimist logo features in the bottom r...

for Tom

Darwin

Tone on tone cotton quilting fabrics oversized using procion dyes. Squares are stitched in an offset...

Margaret’s rugs

Point Lonsdale

The 3 quilts were made from samples of woollen material that were used at the time for making women’s coats. My aunt, ...

Music memories

Bendigo

The front of the quilt uses band and concert tshirts. Most of the pieces were machine stitched after interfacing along t...

Colours of the Earth

Canberra

‘Colours of Australia’ is 130cm high and 125 cm wide and was made in 1992. There are three layers. The face ...

The Westbury Quilt

ACT

“The quilt is a patchwork of red cotton fabric. Each piece is decorated with embroidery in thick white cotton thre...

A Rollicking Good Laugh

Campbelltown NSW Australia

Techniques: Machine ‘quilt as you go’, rough edge machine appliqué, hand finished. (2006)

Colours of the Day – Evening

Campbelltown NSW Australia

Technique: Hand appliqué and threads add to the surface texture. Hand pressed leaf printing and painting and screen pri...

Colours of the Day – Noon

Campbelltown NSW Australia

Technique: Hand appliqué and threads add to the surface texture. Hand pressed leaf printing and painting and screen pri...

Line On Line

Campbelltown NSW Australia

Technique: Cutting blocks from samples then assembled by strip piecing. These were laid over wadding and a backing of ca...

The Pokies’

Campbelltown NSW Australia

Technique: Raw edge pieces, with minimum cutting of the material. Rough blanket stitched hand appliqué with hanging thr...

Games Series: Checkmate II

Campbelltown NSW Australia

Technique: Raw edge pieces, with minimum cutting of the material. Rough blanket stitched hand appliqué with hanging thr...

Land of Patchwork II

Campbelltown NSW Australia

Technique: Hand pieced and hand appliquéd, with lines dissecting the view as if looking at a map. Machine and hand fini...

Land of Patchwork I

Campbelltown NSW Australia

Technique: Hand pieced and hand appliquéd, with lines dissecting the view as if looking at a map. Machine and hand fini...

Cotton Box Quilt

NSW

Patchwork quilt made from diamond patches in the ‘Cotton Box’ pattern, in a wide variety of cotton fabrics i...

PM Please Quilt

Canberra ACT Australia

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

Medallion Quilt Top

NSW

Quilt top, all cotton. Center frame is 600mm square of calico on to which is appliquéd red material in an elaborate cut...

Hexagon Quilt

NSW

Patchwork quilt of hexagons in pattern known as ‘Grandmother’s flower garden’. All cotton. Rosettes ar...

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