I was honoured recently to be invited to participate in an exhibition showcasing Australian Quilts which is being held in France, at the Carrefour Europeen du Patchwork/European Patchwork Meeting which is celebrating it’s 20th anniversary in Alsace, France from 18th to 21st September. The curator has set up a website…
My latest quilts are finished! I enjoyed making it enough to do it a second time, using different methods. Top one is appliqued and free motion embroidered, bottom one is hand embroidered. I did different quilting patterns in the blocks, which was an interesting exercise. If you really like this,…
Gosh, I am a slack blogger, 2 months since my last post! Lucky you’re all not on the edge of your seats in anticipation of the next stunning instalment…… Maybe I’ll just keep you all waiting a bit longer bef ore showing you another quilt, whaddya reckon??? No? Oh, well,…
Was talking on a forum about using flat aluminium strips for hanging quilts with. This is a really neat way to hang quilts and present them in a professional manner. I have taken some photos to show everyone just what I was talking about. The aluminium strips I buy come…
This picture is a detail of ‘Emperors of the Elements’ and is the Earth Dragon. The full quilt can be viewed on my web page.Right, it was time to try some more dragons, but the question was how to do them differently. First, step, reasearch at the local library. I…
O.k., making that first dragon was fun. I wanted to do it all again. This time I managed to sketch a dragon that was less of a copy of someone else’s illustration and put more of myself into the drawing. Added a different colour scheme (which has become my favourite…