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Serendipity and the Art of the Quilt

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Creating with Brenda Gael Smith

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Dreamlines Project Files Now Available!

9 January 2024 Filed Under: Dreamlines, Products Leave a Comment

Available now: Dreamlines Project 2023 PDF guidelines for free form piecing 10 linear designs to create YOUR dreamlines composition.

Ripples Quilt Pattern by Serendipity Patchwork & Quilting

Creating with Solids #2: It’s All About Colour!

26 November 2012 Filed Under: Contemporary Quilts, Products, Technique: Design - Creating with Solids 3 Comments

In Creating with Solids #1, I remarked upon how working with solid fabrics reveals the full expressiveness of our own personal lines and marks. Today it’s all about colour. Whether you use commercially produced solids or dye your own, solid-coloured fabrics offer a veritable rainbow of shades, values and hues. Robert Kaufman recently expanded their […]

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Festive Designing

20 July 2012 Filed Under: Products, Technique:Design Leave a Comment

It may be July but it’s still a good time to think about starting on a festive quilt. In the Serendipity online store, I offer patterns for the following quilt designs that use simple geometric blocks to create the illusion of curves:    Each of these patterns make up a square quilt, approximately 108 x […]

Fairy Wishes

19 July 2009 Filed Under: Cot Quilts, Daily Life, Products 1 Comment

I have a very distinct memory from when I was young (less than seven years old) of making a wish on a frothy mass of “fairy” thistle blossoms that my chores would be done while I went on a walk. Upon my return, I was disappointed but somehow not surprised that my chores awaited me. […]

Get it while you can: 4 Fantastic Quilt Finishing Techniques DVD

17 July 2009 Filed Under: Products, Technique:Finishing Leave a Comment

4 September 2010: ALL SOLD! but you can still download the instruction sheets for 4 techniques from Quilters Companion Download Instructions 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 Issue #37 of Quilter Companion and my instructional DVD on quilt finishing techniques has been very well received. Apparently in some kind of record, the […]

Serendipity Quilt Designs

19 May 2009 Filed Under: Products, Quilters' Guild of NSW, Teaching Leave a Comment

The Patterns & Kits page of my website has been updated to include my latest quilt designs: Autumn Leaf Flurry Power Points Antique Diamonds    These patterns have an introductory price of A$10. I also offer a discount on bulk orders such as the bundle I recently put together for a group in a remote […]

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This year (2026) marks the 20th anniversary of the
This year (2026) marks the 20th anniversary of the Australasian Quilt Convention. The entrance features a display of the brochure covers over the years and it was fun to identify 3 covers that include snippets of exhibits that I was involved with.

⭐️ 2009 was my first AQC. I was a tutor and my contribution to the “teach me” exhibit was “Grass” that you can see in the lower right corner.

⭐️ in 2013, the Twelve by Twelve International Art Quilt Project shared the Colourplay series which included a piece by @studioconway highlighting the plight of refugees in drought (see centre left)

⭐️ in 2020 the chronology was disrupted by the Covid pandemic but not before the brochure was published with “The Fuchsia’s Looking Bright m” by @darlingdi from @vision2020textiles who poseda poignant question: Will my optimistic dream of a brighter future turn out to be 2020 vision, or just a fun and fabulous fabric fusion of my favourite colours?

Congratulations to @craft.events_  on the 20th Anniversary 🤩


I am driven to abstraction. Abstraction is a persi
I am driven to abstraction. Abstraction is a persistent and insistent force in my creative practice. Working improvisationally, I capture the essence of my subjects to impart a sense of wonder of the natural world and a deep affinity to place. 

As part of the Rajah Award that I received last year, I will be sharing a selection of my textile paintings in a special exhibit at the Australasian Quilt Convention in  Melbourne presented by @craft.events_ 

Textile enthusiasts from across Australia and overseas gather at this exciting event. If you see me at AQC, please do say hello. I am looking forward to seeing everyone😍

#australasianquiltconvention  #rajahaward  #brendagaelsmithart #australasianquiltconvention2026