Tone on tone cotton quilting fabrics oversized using procion dyes. Squares are stitched in an offset design like a bargello quilt. Quilted in a random meander with one block containing the words ‘made by Elif 2022’.

The 3 quilts were made from samples of woollen material that were used at the time for making women’s coats. My aunt, Bessie Guildford, had a haberdashery shop in Surrey Hills, Victoria, and she had acquired the material samples. She offered them to me to make patchwork quilts. The samples were of all different sizes,

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.

‘Colours of Australia’ is 130cm high and 125 cm wide and was made in 1992. There are three layers. The face layer is composed of machine stitched large and small woolen fabric pieces with darker reds, blues, greens, and purples mostly graded to each corner and paler pieces to the centre. There are ochre, pale

“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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Patchwork quilt made from diamond patches in the ‘Cotton Box’ pattern, in a wide variety of cotton fabrics including plains, checks, stripes and florals. The patches have blotting paper templates. The quilt is edged with diamond shapes in a red floral cotton. The backing is of the same red floral pattern, featuring yellow, turquoise and

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

Quilt top, all cotton. Center frame is 600mm square of calico on to which is appliquéd red material in an elaborate cut out design. Radiating rows of mainly red and blue triangles. Other materials include, white with abstract plants scattered across it, pink with pin print white dots, white and maroon herringbone with small white

Patchwork quilt of hexagons in pattern known as ‘Grandmother’s flower garden’. All cotton. Rosettes are set in a white ‘path’ with the centre and first ring in solid colours and the second ring prints. There is a yellow border and an outer border in pink. It is hand pieced and hand quilted. The padding is

Medallion quilt pieced from square, rectangular and triangular pieces from plain and patterned cottons. Central motif is appliqued in red cotton on white background with kangaroo and emu on either side of a shield. Four stars are randomly placed on the white background. There is no padding. The backing is pieced together from different types

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.

Made of wool. No batting that I can tell.

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

“Crazy patchwork, principally pieced from cotton, silk, velvet, damask, brocade and felt with a printed cotton back. The edges of the pieces have been embroidered with a range of stitches including herringbone, feather and blanket stitches. The quilt is edged with red cotton with a machine made lace flounce all around. The backing is a

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.