I’m back from Far North Queensland and have updated the Guild website. You can see images of all of the prize winning quilts in the Sydney Quilt Show 2013 Prize Winners Online Gallery. Best of Show, and five other awards, is Rings & Roses by Janet Treen. Janet shares her quilts and lots of tutorials […]
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Sydney Quilt Show 2013
Today is the opening of the 2013 Sydney Quilt Show at Darling Harbour. First and foremost, the show is a members’ exhibition. It’s an opportunity for quilters to share their work and put their creations out there. Not every entry is a masterpiece but that is part if the show’s charm. We can all admire […]
July Happenings
Can you believe it is 1 July already?! This is no time for the winter blues. Here are a few fun things that are in my July calendar: 5 July: Guest speaker at South Australia Quilters’ Guild meeting 7-12 July: teaching at Quilt Encounter in Adelaide 13 July (12 July US time): Twelve by Twelve […]
Judging Finishes & Bound to Please
In 2007, I undertook a three day judging program with NQA judge Jeannie Spears. A key message I took away from this workshop was how we can all improve our judging skills by viewing as many quilt exhibitions as possible to experience a wide range of quilts, styles and techniques. The Sydney Quilt Show last […]
The Morning After
The Sydney Quilt Show is over for another year. After an energising breakfast of bacon & eggs with home made sourdough and marmalade (whilst exclaiming over whales traversing the bay), I spent most of the day packing up quilts and dispatching them to my allocation of interstate entrants. It’s a surprisingly time-consuming task. My house […]
Forthcoming Modern X Workshops
In one of those small cyberspace mysteries, the second part of my last post disappeared. Pouf! So here’s another image of a teaching sample for my forthcoming Modern X workshops with the Quilters’ Guild of NSW (25 July 2012) and at Hobbysew Erina (25 August 2012). The Modern X workshop is a fresh look at […]