Spring Into Parks Banner
eight inch square, bound, miniquilts, sewn onto brown duck background fabric. The banner is in three sections, 32 inches, 64 inches and 32 inches wide, all 40 inches deep. Each section has a pocket along the top of the back so can be hung on a rod or strung between trees.
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
200 Flags
Depicts the countries, companies and events that affected Australian history over the 200 years to 1988. Some proprietary flags included in amongst hand made and painted depictions from research. Background top is the English flag from 1788 and bottom is current Australian flag. An index of flags and a plan is available Made using Commercial
Underwater Reflections
Technique: Machine strip piecing and folding of various tones of blue directly onto a backing. No wadding. Hand finished. Materials: Taffeta, silks, blends, cotton.
Journey to Geelong
Technique: Needle felting, machine appliqué, hand quilted and finished. Materials: Pure wool, embroidery thread and low loft wadding.
Boulder Opal 3
Technique: Opals, strip piecing, quilt-as-you-go, machine appliquéd to rock panels of various shapes and sizes. Hand quilted and finished. Materials: Cotton, velvet, linen, satin, taffeta, blends, corduroy, wool and mixes, polyester wadding.
Boulder Opal 2
Technique: Opals, strip piecing, quilt-as-you-go, machine appliquéd to rock panels of various shapes and sizes. Hand quilted and finished. Materials: Cotton, velvet, linen, satin, taffeta, blends, corduroy, wool and mixes, polyester wadding.
Boulder Opal 1
Technique: Opals, strip piecing, quilt-as-you-go, machine appliquéd to rock panels of various shapes and sizes. Hand quilted and finished. Materials: Cotton, velvet, linen, satin, taffeta, blends, corduroy, wool and mixes, polyester wadding.
Giant
Technique: Machine appliqué, hand quilted and finished. Materials: Wool, corduroy, satin, taffeta, cotton, blends, polyester wadding.
Tree of Life or Ghost Gum? Australia and its Territories Threatened Fauna
A white Ghost Gum is set against a blazing sky. The background is divided into three panels with the left being cliffs and water, the centre hills and swamps and the right panel is a desert. The foreground includes rocks and a stream and small habitats. The major features of the quilt are made from
Bush Sunrise
i used an old blanket found in an Op Shop which I suspect was pre war, I eco dyed sections of it by wrapping in rusty items and boiling in water. I then created stamps representing gum leaves and used them as a stamp onto silk which had also been dyed and stitched them onto
First Load of the Day
Technique: Machine appliqué, net layering, hand quilted and finished. Materials: Net, wool, cotton, corduroy, silk, blends, polyester wadding.
Tree Kangaroo of the Rain Forest
Technique: Machine appliqué, loose leaves and vines, hand quilted and finished. Materials: Cotton, satin, corduroy, furnishing fabrics, found patterns, polyester wadding.
Sunrise – Wilpena Pound
Technique: Strip piecing, quilt-as-you-go. Machine appliqué inserts, hand quilted and pieced. Materials: Corduroy, velvet, satin, taffeta, silk, cotton, blends, furnishing fabrics.
Storm at Sea
Technique: Strip piecing ‘quilt-as-you-go’ method, hand quilted and finished, loose birds, metal motifs applied by hand. Materials: Satin, taffeta, cotton and blends found screen printed fabric, velvet. Polyester wadding.
View from the Skyway
Technique: Machine appliqué, hand quilted and finished. Materials: Cotton, wool, blends, corduroy, satin, linings, furnishing fabrics, polyester wadding.
There’s Colour in the Creek
Technique: Machine appliqué, use of overlay to give a sense of distance, clothing, loose leaves, hand quilted and finished. Materials: Cotton, taffeta, wool, curtain fabric, corduroy, velvet, clothing, blends and found prints. Polyester wadding.
Barrier Reef
Technique: Machine appliqué, strip piecing quilt-as-you-go, machine appliqué, hand quilting and finishing, hand attached sea weed. Materials: Satin, taffeta, cotton, corduroy, furnishing fabrics, found pattern fabric, blends, lace, polyester wadding. 21
High Rise Apartment With Garden View
Cot Quilt
A. Earl came to Australia from England, Chesterfield, Derbyshire c.1860 and lived in Queensland and NSW. The nursery rhymes depicted on the quilt include: ‘Hey Diddle Diddle’, ‘Little Miss Muffet’, ‘Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe’, ‘Mother Hubbard’, “Puss in Boots’, ‘Little Boy Blue’.
Advance Australia Quilt
“Mary Jane Hannaford was born in Devonshire, England in 1840. She came to Australia on board the ‘London’, arriving in Sydney in March 1842. The family moved to Tamworth after the Australian Agricultural Company contracted her Father as shepherd. Her father died in 1852, when Mary was 12. Her Mother remarried 2 years later and
Time Quilt
“Mary Jane Hannaford was born in Devonshire, England in 1840. She came to Australia on board the ‘London’, arriving in Sydney in March 1842. The family moved to Tamworth after the Australian Agricultural Company contracted her Father as shepherd. Her father died in 1852, when Mary was 12. Her Mother remarried 2 years later and
Miss Muffet’ Quilt
Matilda Loader (later Hutchinson) was born in 1865 one of 3 daughters of Emma Jane Loader. She died in 1961 and is buried at the Payneham cemetery in SA.
A Farmer’s Home’ Quilt
Matilda Hutchinson (born Loader) was the grandmother of the present owner. Matilda and her mother Emma sailed in 1895 on the ‘Boniyong’ to Freemantle W.A. and thence to the goldfields. Later Matilda and her husband were gardeners and for some time were with the well known SA Playford family who for many years had cherry
