The Sydney Quilt Show 2018 opens tomorrow at Darling Harbour in Sydney and runs for five days until Sunday 24 June 2018. Show hours are 9am-4.30pm daily. I will be there on Wednesday and Sunday and look forward to catching up with friends and viewing hundreds of wonderful quilts. I have two of my abstract, […]
Celebration Quilts
Brenda Gael Smith Contemporary Textile Art Website
Over six years ago I launched my website www.BrendaGaelSmith.com to showcase my contemporary quilts and textile art (as distinct from Serendipity Patchwork & Quilting that concentrates on my teaching and quilt design business). Today I am excited to share with you my revamped contemporary textile art website that has the following new features: rather than […]
Celebration Quilt in Progress
I wasn’t planning on putting a border on this quilt but, in one of those serendipity moments, when I got home with the backing I worked out that I had just enough for a slim border: The centre is now quilted with a spiral motif. I still have the border quilting to do and, slim […]
Anniversary Gifts
This small celebration quilt is the latest work on my design wall. Today my neighbours celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary – yes, SIXTY years of togetherness! – and I plan to present this quilt when we meet them for dinner this evening. L&M are an active couple – always busy out in their garden or […]
Signature quilts
Signature quilts are a fine tradition in quiltmaking. I’ve made a few myself including: Amy and Paul’s confetti wedding quilt a celebration quilt commission for Tony & Melissa; and a farewell quilt for Monica. Now I have another celebration signature quilt shaping up for my sister-in-law and her husband: Take a look at Teri’s wedding-quilt-progress. […]
Feeling Festive
Today we decorated to the strains of the Christmas carols. First we swapped out the display quilt with Christmas Carousel : (See I told you every wall in this house gets some kind of sun. This photo was taken at 5.25pm and that gash of light is the late afternoon glare.) Then we pulled out […]