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Serendipity Patchwork & Quilting: Brenda Gael Smith

Serendipity Patchwork & Quilting: Brenda Gael Smith

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Tutorials

Here are links to some of the free tutorial resources that you can find on my blog:

  • Top-Stitched Quilt Hanging Sleeve – SO much easier to sew on straight
  • Free & Non Binding: Alternative Quilt Finishes a listing of online tutorials demonstrating a range of useful quilt-finishing techniques other than binding
  • Continuous Binding without Bulges a tutorial for this versatile, classic finishing technique
  • Fussy Cut Bindings by Deborah Fisher
  • My Favourite Facing Finish Tutorial (PDF)
  • How to attach textile art to stretched canvas
  • Ribba Framing Tutorial – mounting textile art using shadow box frames from IKEA
  • Image Transfers with Orange Power
  • Printed Quilt Label Tutorial
  • Shibori tutorial #1 – Karamatsu–Japanese Larch Stitch Resist (PDF660KB)
  • Shibori tutorial #2 – Folding Resists (PDF560KB)
  • Shibori tutorial #3 – Arashi-Pole Wrap Shibori (PDF390KB)
  • Shibori tutorial #4 – Itajime Clamp Resist Shibori (PDF450KB)
  • Triad Dyeing Tutorial take three colours and create a striking collection of cross-dyed fabrics
  • Blooming Technique Tutorial – create windows in fabric
  • Pacific Table Mats Pattern (PDF150KB)
Serendipity Shibori Sample

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Brenda Gael Smith
brenda@serendipitypatchwork.com.au

PO Box 131, Avoca Beach
NSW 2251 Australia

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It’s happening. Pent Up is off to #quiltcon2026 It’s happening. Pent Up is off to #quiltcon2026 and so am I 😍 After many years of submitting, this is my first QuiltCon acceptance and it will be my first time attending in person. I look forward to seeing many fine quilts in the cloth, meeting friends old and new and generally revelling in the energy of this exciting event. Let me know if I will see you there too.
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My artworks Desire Lines #9: Here Comes the Sun an My artworks Desire Lines #9: Here Comes the Sun and Desire Lines #3: Running Hot & Cold feature in Ahead of the Curve, an invitational exhibition of Australian modern quilts curated by Tara Glastonbury now showing at the @pacc_gallery Cessnock until 31 January 2026. FREE entry. Gallery hours:
* Monday to Friday | 9am – 4.30pm
* Saturday | 10am – 2.30pm

I am grateful to Tara for the prompt to create a new artwork and to put an older piece out into the world again. They glow in the gallery space. I also have some smaller textile sketches available for sale in the gift shop.

Here Comes the Sun 85x136cm 
You can’t outrun or bypass grief. Getting ahead of the curve is illusory. The only way is through. Even in the depths of loss, moments of brightness appear. These glimmers remind us that light is never fully extinguished. Darkness and radiance are not opposites but companions, entwined in the human experience. This work is both a lament and an invocation: an acknowledgment of pain, and a quiet turning toward the light that eventually breaks through. Such is the duality of grief.

Running Hot & Cold (37x75cm) explores the volatile spectrum of emotion—where passion ignites and ambivalence cools. Through shifting tones and contrasting forms, this work reveals the tension between intimacy and distance, embodying the unstable rhythm of feeling too much and not enough. 
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