Ireland Experience
Using my photographs, I drew the visuals to size and used this as the pattern for the cutting out. A base fabric of calico was used to machine appliqué onto, using different colour thread. Assembled as stripes and then as a whole piece with polyester wadding and calico backing. ...
Yvonne Line Collection
Aboriginal Homage
Home dyed calico base. Motifs cut from self made machine strip piecing. Hand appliqué and quilted (stab stitch) to denote the feeling of sandstone. Hand finished. Materials include cottons, furnishing fabrics, polyester wadding with furnishing weight wadding in the border....
Yvonne Line Collection
Woollen Wagga
The wagga is double sided and has an inner layer. It is in excellent condition. The wagga contains a great variety of woollen fabrics including tweeds, khaki army uniform, herringbone, plaids, stripes and checks. It is machined stitched and has some machine stitching to hold t...
Janette McInnes Collection
Auntie Green’s Quilt
Wholecloth quilt, with appliqué patterns in printed coloured cottons, of a central flower basket in an oval leaf border, appliquéd leaf and flower branches, a twisted cable border, wider band of leaf and flower branches, and a final border of applique Greek key motif. The base...
2001 National Quilt Register Collection by PWH
Quilt of Hope
80 hand and machine stitched square calico panels individually embellished with text and motifs using red thread, appliqué techniques, cross stitching, embroidery and application of readymade objects such as buttons, cord, zippers. The squares are hand stitched together and mach...
Museum of Australian Democracy Collection
Medallion Quilt
Rectangular quilt of print and plain cottons pieced in squares and rectangles within 2 frames, the inner border or frame of blue/green check material, then 2 rows of squares and rectangles, the outer frame of a grey and red geometric pattern and 2 rows of squares or rectangles. B...
2001 National Quilt Register Collection by PWH
Mosaic Patchwork Quilt
Quilt of hand-sewn mosaic patchwork, with square and lozenge shapes (5cm square in centre with 4 lozenges each side, lozenges 9cm x 4cm). The top has been folded down the middle and joined along 3 edges and whipstitched together so that the quilt has one straight long side and 3 ...
2001 National Quilt Register Collection by PWHBatlow Historical Society Collection
Unsquare – Square Dance
Machine pieced by Prue Townley and machine quilted by Pam Hammer of Threadshed Quilting, Victoria. Matilda's Own wadding. Rasant machine quilting thread. Border fabric was very expensive but matched the pieced blocks. Square blocks are pieced together and then recu...
Prue Townley Collection
Blue and White Log Cabin Quilt
Quilt top of log cabin blocks in white and faded blue cotton twill. The blocks are joined so that the blue sections meet. The blocks are backed with flannel and the quilt is edged with blue binding, machine and hand sewn. 2050 x 1860 mm...
2001 National Quilt Register Collection by PWHBatlow Historical Society Collection
Embroidered Iris Quilt
Cotton blocks set on point embroidered in satin stitch, all blocks embroidered with a pattern of bearded irises in pale lemon, green, white. Alternate blocks battenburg-style cotton-lace stitched together linking blocks. Cotton torchon lace edging. 2020 x 1950 mm...
2001 National Quilt Register Collection by PWHBatlow Historical Society Collection
Log Cabin Quilt
Quilt of log cabin blocks, hand pieced on to foundation fabric of white cotton. Each block consists of 4 logs per side, in 1cm strips, with 3cm centres. Blocks are mostly divided into dark and light prints, with red, blue, white, pink predominating, and dark colours meeting toget...
2001 National Quilt Register Collection by PWHBatlow Historical Society Collection
Silk Hexagon Quilt
"…..quilt of silk hexagonal patches with a velvet panel as the centrepiece with petit point embroidery. The silk materials are a valuable source of textile history being very variable in weaves and patterns. The patchwork templates are still in situ and are [possibly] of a [typ...
2001 National Quilt Register Collection by PWHKalamunda & Districts Historical Society Inc. CollectionRed and White Quilt Top
Quilt top. "Handsewn (edges machine sewn only). Quilt, poor, faded, torn. Red and white patches. Red star and white circle with 4 diamonds in centre. Red and white triangle pieces and plain border. No padding or backing." [Kalamunda & District Hist...
2001 National Quilt Register Collection by PWHKalamunda & Districts Historical Society Inc. Collection