Old Harry’s Wagga

The wagga started as an army issue blanket. It has been made by stitching the khaki army blanket onto a hessian rear. The front layer has clothing and panels of mismatched material. This includes an overcoat, two knitted garments, a panel from a skirt, and a panel from Old Harryâ...

Unpicked Jumper Wagga

Multicoloured wagga style quilt. The quilt’s top layer is made from unpicked knitted woollen jumpers. These jumpers are in a variety of colours including yellow, blue, green, and red. Some blocks are a single colour, while others have been knitted with a different secondary col...

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....

Tartan Fabric Sample

The top layer of the quilt consists of five distinct rows of tartan samples appliqued together. The rows of tartan samples are broken with a boarder of white, grey, and brown fabric which runs in parallel lines. This fabric is also used to bind the quilt together at the edges. Th...

Chicken Feed Wagga

Wagga style quilt made with a Appliqué top layer of gunny sacks that once held chicken feed, flour, and potatoes. The insulating internal material is not known. The backing fabric is made from a cream woollen blanket. The edges are bound with a material of a red and white plaid....

Bowen & Groves

Made from Woolen fabrics, a cut up plaid jacket and flannelette shirts recycled. The top has been felted at the seams to stop the loosely woven wool from fraying and she added buttons and left pockets in place. ...

Ozark Quilt

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 (100mm) squares. These squares are made of old men woollen suits in dark colours of browns and greys. The quilt is layered with a wool backing fabric and a bat...

Margaret’s rugs

The 3 quilts were made from samples of woollen material that were used at the time for making women’s coats. My aunt, Bessie Guildford, had a haberdashery shop in Surrey Hills, Victoria, and she had acquired the material samples. She offered them to me to make patchwork quilts....

Music memories

The front of the quilt uses band and concert tshirts. Most of the pieces were machine stitched after interfacing along the seamline. The reverse is jersey leftover from sewing projects along with some tshirt pieces. The batting is either cotton or cotton and wool. The quilt is ...

Colours of the Earth

'Colours of Australia' is 130cm high and 125 cm wide and was made in 1992. There are three layers. The face layer is composed of machine stitched large and small woolen fabric pieces with darker reds, blues, greens, and purples mostly graded to each corner and pal...

Embroidered hexagon quilt

Hexagon quilt constructed over papers; all seams oversewn with featherstitch embroidery. The materials are vyella* and clydella** scraps from childhood dresses of the maker's first four children, augmented with scraps from the dressmaker and a book of samples. There is no wadding...

Corporate Chaos

Contemporary design based on a traditional utilitarian wagga rug. Made from tailors offcuts. Multi-coloured front, showing manufacturers labels. Grey backing and navy blue binding. Calico rod pocket attached across top back section. Name, title and date hand embroidered in black...

‘Top Dog’ Wagga

This wagga is made from old grey woollen blankets, which have been machine stitched together to form a weighty rug for sleeping under on the cold nights in a basic farmer's cottage. The rug appears to have been insulated using whatever was at hand, most noticeably chicken feather...

Tailor’s Wagga

This rectangular wagga has been made using large fabric swatches that are a mix of cotton and wool. The colours are very masculine, which makes sense as the fabrics were intended for use in making men's suits. The underside is a very finely pinstriped grey fabric, with a separat...

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...