Aboriginal Culture: Fire Utilisation

Materials and techniques: Aboriginal fabric, Plum Seeds designed by Kathleen Pitjara; machine applique, hand embroidery, hand and machine quilting....

Celebrate the Culture of Australia's First People - Collection by Pat Forster

Aboriginal Culture: Wetlands Fishing

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

Celebrate the Culture of Australia's First People - Collection by Pat Forster

Aboriginal Culture: Wetland Plant Foods,

Materials and techniques: Aboriginal fabric, Bush Tucker after Rain designed by Marlene Doolan; machine applique, hand embroidery, hand and machine quilting....

Celebrate the Culture of Australia's First People - Collection by Pat Forster

Aboriginal Culture: Wetland Resources

Materials and techniques: Aboriginal fabric, Underground Water by Janet Nakamarra; machine applique, hand embroidery, hand and machine quilting....

Celebrate the Culture of Australia's First People - Collection by Pat Forster

Aboriginal Culture: Wetlands Society

Materials and techniques: Aboriginal fabric, Bush plum designed by Polly Naparulla; machine applique, hand embroidery, hand and machine quilting....

Celebrate the Culture of Australia's First People - Collection by Pat Forster

Aboriginal Culture: Wetlands Conservation

Materials and techniques: Aboriginal fabric, Bush Plum and Waterhole designed by Heather Kennedy; machine applique, hand embroidery, hand and machine quilting....

Celebrate the Culture of Australia's First People - Collection by Pat Forster

No Sugar

Rectangular handstitched and backed green woollen quilt with large orange cross....

Inside Out

Felted quilt with colourful abstract shapes and designs on surface. A black felted border frames the central design area which has a white background. Tulle has been appliqued over the surface. On the lower edge, colourful felted pieces are attached in the shape of triangles, hal...

Light on Dark

Quilt made from grey army blankets. A cross design is featured with the cross lighter in colour to the background. The quilt is backed with hessian and edged with grey wool in blanket stitch. a small gold sheep is attached to the verso at l.r....

Sure as Night Follows Day

Pieced and hand stitched quilt made from woollen blankets. The front is mostly cream in colour with blue handstitching worked over entire surface with a blue 'snake' like design forming an internal border design. There are two 'blue moon' shaped motifs near each corner on the top...

Earth Blanket

Quilt, woollen felt with appliqued, quilted, dyed and embroidered surface. This quilt is mostly in brown and brown tones....

Interweave One

Quilt, black woollen background with coloured woollen yarn couched to the surface in a cross pattern....

Bow Wow Bowerbird

Quilt is a combination of silk, wool, baft, linen, and rayon thread. Two halves of the quilt have been hand sewn together and are a rusty red and grey in colour with small blue patches using plant dyes. Machine stitched, hand sewn, and applique, the quilt has long pockets and pan...

Cross Currents

Weaving consisting of four panels sewn together to form the quilt. Consists of gradations of green to blue colours containing flecks of multicoloured wool through the weft. Weaving forms raised zigzag pattern running left to right through quilt. Three woven blue panels are sewn t...

Dressed in Memories IV

Woollen quilt made from recycled woollen fabric with applique design in cotton embroidery floss....

The Rocks Quilt

Artistic quilt with a landscape and a picture of rocks at Malacoota, Vic....

The Art of Record Keeping

Black wool quilt with white wool shapes...

Klimt Print #2

Whole cloth painted quilt, hand wool embroidery, wool thread and metallic thread quilting....

Green Ladder

A woollen quilt made from wool, silk organza and taffeta, and cotton embroidery thread with a horizontal ladder design in brown, grey and green. Machine quilted and hand stitched....

Red Blanket Wagga

Eucalyptus dyed woolen blanket base with salvaged fabrics hand sewn to create a patchwork effect. The eucalyptus dye has been used to create different tones of brown and red throughout the design with further dyeing used to create leaf imprints on the fabrics. A running stitch ha...

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. ...

A Rollicking Good Laugh

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

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

Technique: Raw edged, check and tartan samples assembled with little manipulation. Machine sewn to a cotton backing allowing for some fraying. The backing of the quilt is assembled using squares of left over pyjama material. Buttons: some in the shape flowers are hand attached...

Ode to the Shearer

Technique: Wool and some wool/blend on wool blanket with embellishing machine, hand knitted wool samplers using home spun wool and one commercial spun sampler, hand stitched edging. Home dyed with natural plant dyes or left in their natural state. Three layers ‘tied’ toge...