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Unpicked Jumper Wagga

Geelong, Victoria

Multicoloured wagga style quilt. The quilt’s top layer is made from unpicked knitted woollen jumpers. These jumpers ar...

DIY Deluge Design No. 5

Geelong, Victoria

Rectangular portrait orientated art quilt depicting an environmental scene including boats, lights, elevated buildings, ...

Desert Lines

North Nowra NSW

As a Textile artist I work with fabric and threads, using them in non-traditional ways. This work is a layered, quilted ...

Mary Joyce Abbott Quilt

Geelong, Victoria

The quilt is constructed out of crazy quilt blocks, machine sewn, and made from factory off cuts of velveteen in a kalei...

Emerald Coast – Burning Desert 2000

NOWRA NSW AUSTRALIA

This is a contemporary quilt made with hand screenprinted fabric, hand painted fabric and some comme...

for Tom

Darwin

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

The Denbigh Quilt

Civic Drive, Kew, Victoria, Australia

The quilt is constructed in the popular hexagon pattern of silk off-cuts of an earlier period. Hexag...

Old Harry’s Wagga

Geelong, Victoria , Australia

The wagga started as an army issue blanket. It has been made by stitching the khaki army blanket onto a hessian rear. Th...

Unpicked Jumper Wagga

Geelong, Victoria , Australia

Multicoloured wagga style quilt. The quilt’s top layer is made from unpicked knitted woollen jumpers. These jumpers ar...

Spring Into Parks Banner

WA Parks Foundation, Perth

eight inch square, bound, miniquilts, sewn onto brown duck background fabric. The banner is in three sections, 32 inches...

Tartan Fabric Sample

Geelong, Victoria , Australia

The top layer of the quilt consists of five distinct rows of tartan samples appliqued together. The rows of tartan sampl...

Chicken Feed Wagga

Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Wagga style quilt made with a Appliqué top layer of gunny sacks that once held chicken feed, flour, and potatoes. The i...

Bowen & Groves

Jam Jerrup Vic 3984

Made from Woolen fabrics, a cut up plaid jacket and flannelette shirts recycled. The top has been felted at the seams to...

Ozark Quilt

Geelong, Victoria , Australia

The quilt is 74 x 80 inches (1880 x 2030mm), matching the size of a modern-day king bed. It is made of various four-inch...

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 ...

Embroidered hexagon quilt

Brunswick West

Hexagon quilt constructed over papers; all seams oversewn with featherstitch embroidery. The materials are vyella* and c...

Corporate Chaos

Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia

Contemporary design based on a traditional utilitarian wagga rug. Made from tailors offcuts. Multi-coloured front, showi...

‘Top Dog’ Wagga

Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia

This wagga is made from old grey woollen blankets, which have been machine stitched together to form a weighty rug for s...

Tailor’s Wagga

Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia

This rectangular wagga has been made using large fabric swatches that are a mix of cotton and wool. The colours are very...

Aboriginal Culture: Fire Utilisation

Western Australia

Materials and techniques: Aboriginal fabric, Plum Seeds designed by Kathleen Pitjara; machine appliq...

Aboriginal Culture: Wetlands Fishing

Western Australia

Materials and techniques: Aboriginal fabric, Yalke designed by June Smith; machine applique, hand em...

Aboriginal Culture: Wetland Plant Foods,

Western Australia

Materials and techniques: Aboriginal fabric, Bush Tucker after Rain designed by Marlene Doolan; mach...

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