We Love Color, published by Stash Books – an imprint of C&T Publishing, features 16 quilts created by 16 designers known for their original style and use of colour: Lisa Call Emily Cier Alisa Haight Carlton Malka Dubrawsky Amy Ellis Jacqui Gering Elizabeth Hartman Australia’s very own Rita Hodge. Cherri House Kathy Mack Weeks Ringle […]
Technique:Design
Festive Designing
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 […]
Regrowth
Yesterday, I wrote about my textile work Hope, Promise, Bounty: Reap What You Sow. Today, I provide some background to my other work that features in the Regeneration: Contemporary Quilt Textiles exhibition – Regrowth. Regrowth considers the regenerative power of fire in the Australian bush. For some species, fire assists propagation. Heat from fire causes […]
Hope, Promise, Bounty: Reap What You Sow
When the call for entries for the Regeneration:Contemporary Quilt Textiles exhibition went out in mid-2011, it caused a bit of a flurry in certain circles. Not only was there a very short timeframe for lodging entries but, unlike most Australian art quilt exhibitions, the organisers were seeking concept designs rather than completed works. My textile […]
Working in Series: Pyrenees Wildflowers
Back in 2006, the Laundry King and I did a home exchange to a small village in the French Pyrenees. Amongst other things, I was captivated by the abundance of spring wildflowers and for the last five years I’ve had these images whirring around in my head. Participating in Lisa Call’s online workshop Working in […]
Thinking BIG
In the current newsletter of Ozquilt Network Inc, Barbara Macey reflects on the “shrinking art quilt”. She remarks that pioneer art quiltmakers made relatively large works based on bed size whereas many contemporary quilt exhibitions are dominated by small works. She offers some possibilities on why this has happened including: lack of confidence lack of […]