Machine pieced by Prue Townley and Machine Quilted by Pam Hammer of Threadshed Quilting. Matildas Own wadding . Rasant Machine Quilting thread. Border fabric very expensive but matched the pieced blocks. Square blocks are pieced together and then recut and twisted to form the tesselating pin wheels.

Medallion style, hand pieced by Prue Townley using 100% cotton fabric, and custom quilted by Pam Hammer of Threadshed Quilting, using Rasant thread. The wadding used was Matilda’s Own.

Materials include cotton, linen, silk and velvet with a polyester wadding and calico backing. Quilt label reads – Machine pieced and hand quilted by Di Knight. Four patch blocks machined during 1989. Completed piecing top January 7, 1997! Hand quilting completed July 20, 1997

Mrs. Toose’s husband was a draper and tailor and provided the sample books from which the quilts were made. Mrs. Reynolds remarked “my husband would never hear of it (the rug) being thrown out or given to the Smith family”. She referred to it as a bush rug.

The daughter of Gipsy Jackson said the prize for the raffle included a dressed doll and so her mother thought the quilt was a doll’s quilt. When the family lived in Queensland and then back in Warren NSW the raffle quilt was always used on the bed in the visitors’ spare room. Margaret Rolfe, well

“Sophia Mary Wilbow nee Payton (Australia 1829-1924, who was born in Pitt Town near Windsor, made this quilt. Sophia married Thomas Mitchell Wilbow in 1846 and spent most of her life in the Hawkesbury River district where her husband was a farmer and hotelkeeper. She had fourteen children and made a patchwork quilt for each

“Both quilts were bought when living in the USA in the 1960s. Until that period I had not heard about quilts. Many friends showed me their quilts which had been handed down for generations or were made specifically for the individual. The majority had the maker and the date sewn on the quilt, in some

“Maker Hannah Nall, was born in England in 1838, died 1909. Her maiden name was Oldfield. It is said that she and her husband (a gold inspector) had seven daughters and each daughter was given a patchwork quilt for a 21st birthday gift. Mrs Nall served as midwife in the area and was teacher in