My Quilts 1995 - 2009

Here are a few of the quilts
and other related articles that I have made.

1995

 

Together with a group of fellow quilters, I made "Noah's Ark" using a pattern called "Noah and Friends" by Debbie Mumm.

Noah's Ark

Together with my friendship group, I participated in a round robin. We each made a house block with a large plain border and then passed it on for other members to add applique etc.

A House of Memories

1996

Using koala applique patterns by Mary O Roberts, I made a Christmas quilt top.

 

Koala Christmas

I made my first stained glass quilt using patterns from Margaret Rolfe's book.

Australia in Bloom

I also participated in a Round Robin with the Bacchus Marsh Friendship Quilters, five other ladies made the different borders.

Round the Marsh

 

1997

In 1997 I made a lovely wallhanging for my mother-in-law for her 75th birthday. It is of a Siamese cat, all appliqued and named after her cat which was her constant companion.

 

Pushka



1998

My husband spent time in Blenheim, New Zealand with his work. A workmate he met while there was a quilter and gave him a set of samples from Keepsake Quilting. This is the result.

Keepsake of New Zealand

This was the year I finally managed to find time to make Advent Calendars for my children.

Advent Calendar 1

Advent Calendar 2

 

1999

 

Early in the year, I completed my second stained glass style quilt, using two parrots - a Superb Parrott (left) and Port Lincoln Kingneck. I designed the quilt myself and hand-dyed the background fabric.

When East meets West

Midyear, the family moved from a rented home into our new home when my husband retired from the RAAF. During this time, we were technically homeless for a couple of months, most of our furniture was in storage and we stayed in the Deanery in Sale. Doing much sewing was impossible so I bought some preprinted panels and spent my time hand quilting them.

Angel Heart

Country Kitchen No 1

 

Country Kitchen No 2

Deanery Angel

Birthday Angel No 2

Bearly There

After moving into our new house, I made "Ribbons and Bows" after using the hearts as a teaching aid when showing my quilting group how I did needleturn applique. I added the ribbons which are attached with beads along the length.

 

Ribbons and Bows

During the year I joined in a Make a Block Round Robin group with the Primary Patchworkers, Sale. Each participant chose a block and each month we passed the bag onto someone else. I chose the Northwind block and this is the result.

 

Northwind

 

2000

 

During 1996 I attended a Patchwork class with other members of my Friendship Group at the Patchwork store in Essenden. We all made a quilt using crazy log cabin blocks. I completed the quilt during 2000.

Crazy Log Cabin

I completed the second heart quilt "Christmas Hearts", made originally as a sample for the class I taught at the Sale Neighbourhood House during the first half of the year and based on Ribbons and Bows. (As a side note, my sister fell in love with the quilt hanging on my wall when she visited Canberra for my son's wedding in 2013 so it went home with her.)
 

Christmas Hearts

 While in Sale I started a small wholecloth quilt in 1999, and completed it after moving to Canberra during 2000. The design was from a drawing found in one of my Quilter's Newsletter Magazines from many years previous.

Tree of Life Lullaby

 

2001

After our move to Canberra, I joined in a challenge at Calico Patch. This wall-hanging is the result. The quilt was finally completed in 2004.

 

These are a few of my favourite things

 I made a quilt for my sister's 40th birthday, it was made using a couple of fabric panels I had purchased years before. There were enough to make 2 quilts, so this is mine.

Elaine's Star

 

2007

I attended the Gunning Patchwork Weekend and made this quilt in a class with Lessa Siegale. The quilting was completed in 2008.

Little Boxes of Gunning

 

2008

Sarah's Red Chasuble

 I made a complete set of chasubles (red, white, green and purple) for a good friend, Rev Dr Sarah Macneil while she was the Rector of All Saints' Anglican Church, Ainslie.



Sarah's White Chasuble

Sarah's Green Chasuble

Sarah's Purple Chasuble

Each chasuble has the same celtic knotwork cross on both the front and the back and they were edged with handmade bias in a gold flecked fabric. The cross is adapted from a pattern by Three Swan Studios.

Also, I turned a piece of Assisi work of a Periwinkle, that I had bought as a kit while away for a weekend with my Patchwork Friendship Group, into a small wall-hanging.

Periwinkle

 One of the Canberra Quilters' meetings had red (or shades thereof) as the theme for Show and Tell and this inspired me to finish off a quilt top that had been lingering in the cupboard. I took it to Willow Patch Quilting and Fran did a wonderful job of the quilting. The top was made with quilt blocks given to me from each member of Wyndham Patchworkers when I left Melbourne at the end of 2006. I was the founding president of the group when we established it at the beginning of the year. It took me a few years to work out how to join the blocks together as some were not quite the same size as the others and it is quite a complicated block. The actual top was completed a few years after leaving Melbourne.

Memories from Wyndham

 

2009

I used a charm pack given to me by an American quilting friend to make a hand stitched quilt-as-you-go hexagon quilt.

The Charm of Hexagons