It’s over seven years since I bought a stack of Kona cotton solids for a workshop with Nancy Crow and I am still working through my stash! This is a teaching sample in progress for my Strata Various class: I will be teaching this two-day class at the Illawarra Quilters Quiltaway (15-18 November 2013) at […]
Technique: Design - Creating with Solids
Serendipity On Display
Thank you to Ali George who kindly snapped these photo of my quilts on display at the Stitches and Craft Show at Newcastle last weekend.: Look how the light catches those circular quilting motifs on Revolutions. (I marked these circles using nested circle templates from Westalee and stitched the circles with my walking foot.) If […]
Serendipity Improvisational Quilts at Stitches & Craft Show 15-18 August
The 2013 Stitches & Craft Show opens in Newcastle today and continues until Sunday, 18 August. The attractions include the Studio Art Quilts Associates trunk show It’s a Quilt! (Ali George is presenting a floor talk at 11am on Saturday); a display by the Central Coast Modern Quilters Guild; and a small collection of my […]
Gwen Marston Lecture: Abstract Quilts in Colour
In conjunction with Cottage Quiltworks and Quiltsmith, Gwen Marston will be conducting a lecture on Thursday 11th July at 7 pm for 7.30 pm at Mary McKillop Auditorium North Sydney. Quilts made in solids have an impressive history. They were the first quilts to be taken seriously as art. In 1971, Amish quilts from the […]
Dramatic Revolutions
Last weekend, I travelled interstate to East Gippsland, Victoria (12+ hours each way) to teach. What a surprise when, before the class even started, Beatty showed me her dramatic version of my Revolutions design that she made after viewing my Modern Quilts DVD improvising Using stacks of Solids: To purchase the magazine and DVD, look […]
Serendipity Facebook Modern Quilts Giveaway
Quiltcon, presented by the Modern Quilt Guild, opened today in Austin, Texas and runs until 24 February. I can’t make it and I’m guessing most of you are in the same position. However, with the Modern Quilts magazine by Quilters Companion and my new instructional DVD,Improvising Using Stacks of Solids, you can make your own […]