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 […]
Twelve by Twelve
Not Terra Nullius
If you joined my recent virtual tour of my studio, you may have noticed a scrunched up bundle of orange fabric sitting on my ironing board. It was a stitched resist shibori work in progress. Here are some before and after photos: I started this piece for the Twelve by Twelve 2012 Map Challenge after […]
Flying Colours
My new machine performed its first assignment with aplomb. I needed to quickly finish quilting this piece Flying Colours: Eastern Rosella to get it into the mail for the 2012 SAQA Benefit Auction. This work follows a similar form to my Twelve by Twelve challenge work Lorikeet Circus. I can sense a whole series of […]
More from the Australasian Quilt Convention
Pam Holland has produced another video from the Australasian Quilt Convention that features many of the works from the Beneath the Southern Sky travelling exhibition. Check it out at: The video also showcases the splendid Royal Exhibition Building and I can’t wait to return for the 2013 Australasian Quilt Convention when the Twelve by Twelve […]
Desire Lines #8: Twelve Ways
It is reveal time over at the Twelve by Twelve International Art Quilt Challenge and we are sharing our Map Inspired Art Quilts. This is my contribution: Desire Lines #8: Twelve Ways by Brenda Gael Smith In landscape architecture, the term “desire lines” describes an informal path developed by erosion of footfall caused by people […]
My Quilts on Tour this Month
While I am accompanying the Beneath the Southern Sky exhibition at the Australasian Quilt Convention in Melbourne this week, my own work is on tour in various places. The International Quilt Festival opens in Cincinnati on the evening of 12 April and there is a special exhibit of all 288 art quilts of the Twelve […]