• Learning

    Dyeing like my grandmother

    May 10, 2024 - By 

    My Nana Kit lived to be 102. In her last months of life she took to giving advice to all who she considered part of her family. My cousins received pearls of wisdom on managing a work/life balance; my sons were told how hard life can be, and sometimes just persevering is what is needed. I was told the formula for knitting a skirt and how to double warp a loom. My relationship with Nana was a close one, based largely on a shared love of textile art and the domestic sciences as she used to describe the more practical…

  • AccuQuilt - It is finished - Learning

    The Blue Thing (Intersections)

    December 20, 2023 - By 

    I was influenced. You know when you go to the shows, and watch the demonstrations and write the user case in your head to convince yourself that this is something that you “need”. It has turned out that this thing I bought myself (as a reward for something, could have been surviving a Monday), is worth every cent. I bought myself an AccuQuilt. I now have a collection of dies and a head full of ideas of how I want to use it, both for traditional reasons, but also to have a play with something new and play with colour…

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    Workshops – Gloria Loughman

    September 6, 2023 - By 

    September 2023 brought the third (I think) of the workshops I have attended this year (the other two will come soon to here). It was with Australian contemporary landscape quilter Gloria Loughman. This was a two day class organised through Canberra Quilters Inc (my local guild), and was a very intense weekend filled with learning, trying new things, and really pushing what it is to me to be a quilter. Generally speaking, I am not an “art quilter”. It isn’t something I have ever thought of myself as, nor has it been something I have thought of myself being interested…