Pattern: Wagga

Double Sided Frame Quilt

NSW

Robert (1857-1935) and Margaret (1865-1950) Mays were married at Hartley NSW in 1884. Robert came to Australia from Norf...

Wagga Quilt

NSW

Robert (1857-1935) and Margaret (1865-1950) Mays were married at Hartley NSW in 1884. Robert came to Australia from Norf...

Wagga

Vic

“Donated to Centre Quilters by Ted and Fran Waldron, Wangaratta. The quilt was made by Ted’s mother, Jessie,...

Wagga Quilt

ACT

Mrs. Edith Perrott, born Bartholomew, (1879 – 1970) of Tumbarumba NSW made this quilt for her son Glen and his wif...

Utilitarian Quilt

QLD

“Bush blankets such as this one were usually coloured stripes on a dark grey base. They were inclined to be rough ...

Utilitarian Quilt

NSW

Made by the donor, then around 9 or 10 years old, with her mother, Mrs Ellen McRae, of ‘Sunrise’, Tabbita, i...

Traditional Wagga Rug

NSW

Norman Robertson worked on properties in the Coolamon district of NSW and also at Pike’s flour mill. One of his jo...

Gumleigh Boys’ Home Wagga No. 2

Tumbarumba NSW Australia

Utility patchwork quilt made up of mainly squares of furnishing material machine pieced. It is back...

Domestic Wagga

NSW Australia

“The cottage it was used in is part of a cabin group of “depression architecture” holiday cabins in th...

Knitted Patchwork Wagga

Tumbarumba NSW Australia

Machine pieced top of squares of part jumpers, most hand knitted. The padding is a blanket. The ba...

Double Sided Suiting Samples Wagga

Tumbarumba NSW Austalia

It is thought the tailors’ sample books came from the family store of ‘Le Cerf and Blencowe’ in the Pa...

Double Sided Wagga

Tumbarumba NSW Australia

Mary Annetts

Domestic Wagga

TAS

Wholecloth quilt with both sides of floral cotton. The padding is thought to be hessian bags.
...

Cot Quilt

Tumbarumba NSW Austalia

Machine pieced cot quilt made from squares of material including tweed, wool, blanket and pyjama mat...

Pyjama Material Samples Quilt

Tumbarumba NSW Australia

Delia, second on right with daughter Daphne. Ruth Piotrowski’s wedding.

Nana Thompson’s Quilt’

VIC

“Maude Thompson was widowed at the age of 30, after only 10 years of marriage and was left with five small daughte...

Utility Quilt

VIC

“My grandmother Francis Jane McElhinney (nee Patterson) was born on the 15.4.1896 at Milford, Letterkenny, Eire an...

Wagga Rug

NSW

“The maker of the Wagga Rug was Rebecca Keen (1889 – 1965) who was the Mother of the present owner, Fred Kee...

Double Sided Cretonne Quilt

NSW

Fanny Jenkins was a dressmaker. She made several fine crazy quilts in the 18th century as well as this utilitarian one c...

Utilitarian Quilt

QLD

Emmeline was a steward at the ECCA (RASQ Show) before moving to Roma to care for 2 motherless children. She remained unm...

Wagga

SA

“I was widowed at the age of 42 years. My husband died of cancer & I was left to rear 5 young children on my ...

Mary Studholme’s Wagga

VIC Australia

“My mother Victoria May Francis (nee Hosking) was orphaned at 18 months of age. Her mother’s sister, Mary St...

Wagga

QLD

The maker, Martha Jane Marlton (born Duff) was born in Scotland in 1904. Her parents came from Glasgow where her father ...

Wagga

NSW

“In 1960 we bought a farm at Neville, NSW, about 35kms out of Blayney. It snows in the winter. I had 4 children an...