Submitted by Rayne.
Our sewing group was given quite a few Canteen Scarves. We resolved to make a quilt out of them to either raffle or give to the local Canteen support group to do with as they wish.
We were able to make the tops in two nights then a member of our group quilted them on her professional machine.
We were thrilled with they way they made up & think they are worthy of display.
Submitted by Babsy.
I saw this quilt on the wall of a quilt shop in Eugene, Oregon, last summer while we were on vacation, [sorry, can't remember the quilt shop's name] and thought it was lovely. So, I had to make my own.
The pattern is 'Slideshow', by Atkinson's Designs. Once again, Tammy at Sugartown Quilts did the machine quilting. I back all my quilts with flannelette to give them warmth and to ensure they don't slide off the bed.
Submitted by Babsy.
This quilt is from a pattern called Urban Chic by Artichoke Collection. I chose to do black borders as I thought it framed the quilt better than pink. It was machine quilted by Tammy at Sugartown Quilts. I think this is my favorite! But, each one that I finally get done is my favorite!
Submitted by Babsy.
After making quilts for six grandkids last year, it has taken me a while to get back into it. This one is from the pattern called 'Strings of Color' by Carolyn St. Claire. It uses many of the scraps from the grandkid's quilts. It was machine quilted by Tammy at Sugartown Quilts.
Submitted by Julie Bagamary.
You can see more of Julie's quilts on her blog.
Submitted by Rayne.
This is for another grand daughter. Her choice was for mainly purple with some brights.
Submitted by The Crafty Unicorn Quilting.
This quilt was a fund-raising project for the committee to renovate the old town hall building. The Dresden plates are antiques donated by a local antique shop.
I designed the flower layout because we didn't have enough blocks to make a good size quilt.
The group members hand appliqued the plates onto muslin and then one member pieced the pots and the main portion of the top.
I pieced the chain border from reproduction fabrics and quilted it on the longarm with lots and lots of feathers.
Submitted by Bizarre Quilter.
You can see more of Bizarre Quilter's work on her blog.
This quilt is my own design. I wanted to use up some reproduction circa 1850s fabrics from my stash, but it hardly made a dent!!
I documented progress on this quilt on my blog. When the blocks went together Eureka! It made a chain!
Fay reads my blog and named it 'Eureka Chain'. This really suits me as I live only an hour from the site of the Eureka Stockade which occurred in the 1850s - the same vintage as the repro fabrics. I used leftover pieces and blocks on the back.
Submitted by Bizarre Quilter.
You can see more of Bizarre Quilter's work on her blog.
'Flowers From My Garden' is a pattern by Lori Smith. It took me about a week to applique each block (just in the evenings or whatever).
There are 16 blocks, so that is 4 months just for the applique!! The quilt is custom quilted by my Mum Wilma from Deep Creek Quilting. I finished the quilt last year in 2008.
Submitted by Lesley Mac.
I made this quilt for my girlfriend's 50th.
It took 3 days to cut, sew and quilt - I had a tight window of opportunity to do this.
It is 60'x60' and made from leftover fabrics from another project.
Submitted by Helen S.
You can see more of Helen's work on her blog.
I started this quilt in 2007, for my eldest daughters bed.
It took me 18 months to finish the top, I kept getting distracted by other projects, you know how it is!
Once I finished the top, in true quilting style, it then sat folded up as a UFO for another year till the start of 2009 when I made it my resolution to finish some of those UFO's! So it was sandwiched and quilted within a few weeks! And is now finished!!!!
The finished size is 48 inches by 78 inches. I went through 3 and a half reels of 250 metre cotton thread for the meandering stippling, so about 1,750 metres of thread for the meandering stippling.....
She likes laying on it and playing match the material, first she finds say a strip of orange with spots on it and then trys and finds a matching bit on the quilt somewhere. Kinda like eye spy with colours.
She has slept under it every night since I put it on her bed which makes me feel like putting two thumbs up and going YESSSSSSS! I knew she was excitied at it being made but thought after a few days she'd request her doona cover back but nope!
Submitted by Yvonne Morgan.
I made this for my daughter Hannah using a pack of batik strips and adding some pink and purple batiks for the larger pieces. I've machine quilted it in a random stipple with free-hand drawn flowers in each of the pink squares. My first attempt at machining something other than squiggles freehand!
Submitted by Judy B.
You can see more of Judy's work on her blog.
I didn't set out with a design for this quilt, I just started joining strips of fabric together length wise, to make a very long strip. Then I cut the strip into 36 inch lengths, and joined them together side by side. Added borders, and machine quilted., and done!
Made about over 20 years ago, and directions were published in Down Under Quilts in 1993. The instructions were accompanied by a cartoon drawn by another regular contributor, Mary O Roberts, which showed a scene in a quilt exhibition with quilts made from strips of fabric. A sign announced it was a 'Strip Display' and one of three blokes was saying to his mates, 'False advertising if you ask me!'
Submitted by Mama Spark.
My son is a HUGE University of Texas Long Horns fan. I had made many quilts for my daughters but not one for my son. So when he requested a UT quilt I had to put my thinking cap on and design something that I knew he would love.
I started to formulate a design but needed my friend Robin to help me with the long horns. She designed the applique for me to fit in the blocks.
As it turns out the UT fabric just came on the market shortly after I designed it so that was a lucky break for me! I had my very talented friend, Liz Bowman, custom quilt it for me.
If you will notice there is barbed wire in the small border, long horns and loops in the outer border and small circles to simulate leather around the long horn appliques.
She also wrote 'Hook em'Horns' in all 4 outside corners, which is what the students chant at the games at UT. Needless to say he just LOVES this quilt!
Submitted by Folkquilter.
This quilt is called Fly Away Ali by Irene Long.
I fell in love with the cottage feel of the quilt when I found the instructions in Down Under Quilts magazine Issue 83 2005.
The quilt is machine pieced, hand appliqued and hand quilted. Betty
Submitted by Folkquilter.
This is a baby quilt that I was trying to use the fabric up.
I found the embroidery picture at http://www.needlenthread.com/ I hand embroidered the panels and then designed the quilt around them.
It is hand embroidered, hand appliqued and hand quilted. Betty
Submitted by Julie Bagamary.
You can see more of Julie's quilts on her blog.
"He Is Faithful" was created to celebrate the wedding of my son and his bride.
I often sang Scripture choruses with my children when they were younger and sometimes would insert their name into the verse. Philippians 1:6 - 'He who began a good work in you will be faithful to complete it.' was a favorite which makes it an appropriate verse for this Wedding Quilted Art Wall Hanging.
This creation incorporates all batik fabric pieces, along with hand embroidery, embellishments of screen and beads that represent the seeds God plants in our lives. The blue background of the flowers representing growth in our lives is hand quilted.
Submitted by Lyn Duhig.
This quilt is a small wall-hanging that I've just finished to hang in my cubicle at work.
It's 60cm square (24' square) and very simple - a central panel of a lovely stylised poppy print, and the two borders.
I outline quilted around the design lines of the poppies in pink, the stems in lime-green (even though they're grey in the print) and around their centres in black, adding the stamen in freehand embroidery. And I added small black seed beads at the end of each of the stamen (after the rest of the quilting and binding was completed).
The outerborder has an undulating feather design quilted in lime green. I'm hoping this will be the first of a series of this size quilt - it's small enough not to be a huge commitment, and I can fit two across the cubicle wall over my desk, so I'd like a changing display.
Submitted by Elenor Goode.
The quilt featured in today's post was made by my mother Elenor Goode for my 40th birthday. The Nancy Pearson designed poppies are hand appliqued with the borders machine pieced. Over 220 hours of hand quilting completed the quilt, which won Best Amateur Quilt at the Victorian Quilters Quilt Showcase in Melbourne in 2002. The quilt is used every day and takes pride of place on my bed.
Submitted by Lyn Duhig.
This quilt was for my step-father's 80th birthday in October 2007. He had been in a nursing home for a few months so this quilt is a single bed quilt and intended to make his room more 'his'.
One of the strips is pieced autumn leaves alternating with quilted feathered wreaths with back-ground cross-hatching. This is the same design (though on a smaller scale) as the quilt I'd made Mum a few years earlier and had been on their bed - it's the first quilt that I 'showed and told'.
The other strips were in colours that I thought wouldn't mind the hospital laundry regime (if that happened ... so far it hasn't) - lots of khaki/beige. Then I put the lengths of print and plain up on the design wall and tried other plain strips, ending up with the purple and gold and small amounts of black.
Then came the fun bit - lots of different feather designs for the quilting, plus some outline quilting around the all over print.
Submitted by Lyn Duhig.
James is my nephew - Luke's older brother (so this quilt comes before Luke's quilt - see Jan 14 - not a lot of logic to the order that I'm providing my 'back catalogue' of quilts).
This quilt started life as a couple of packs of novelty squares and is an 'I spy' ('Eye Spy'?) quilt.
It was supposed to be an attic windows type layout, but I was less than successful in achieving the optical illusion necessary.
Which was very disappointing after doing all those 'Y' seams.
But I did have fun doing the freehand machine quilting - lots of outline quilting of the novelty designs, with stippling or other fillers.
Submitted by Lyn Duhig.
Rebecca is Josh's little sister - see Jan 16 for Josh's quilt and it's story, including how I came to have left over quarter circles in novelty prints.
So it seemed logical to continue the theme, use the left-overs and have some continuity between the two quilts.
I chose two different colours - purple and yellow - and a different layout for the blocks - square instead of on-point - for this second quilt.
And my quilting had become more ambitious between 2002 and 2004.
This was my 'feathers phase', so Becky's quilting is much more formal with feathered wreaths in the circles and some more feathers in a cross shape for the remaining spaces.
The label follows the same basic layout as Josh's, but I particularly chose a fairy print, and the other print is the border print from Josh's quilt.
Submitted by Hillingdon Quilts.
I designed this quilt for my mum and finished it in 2003.
It spend just over a month on her bed before being bundled up and stashed in the linen cupboard. Why? Her two best friends, cocoa and cuddles the puss cats, slept on it and she was worried it would be damaged or the filtered light would make it fade. 'MUM!!! Get the darn quilt out and enjoy it on your bed or I'll take it back......'
At the moment it's at my place because I can't bear the bare unquilted areas any longer. I need to do some background work.... There's lots of needle turn applique, a checkerboard border and pieced star blocks across the bottom row.
Submitted by Lyn Duhig.
This quilt, for a girlfriend's first child, was based on a design from a magazine called 'Quilts for Kids'.
The original intention was to separate the novelty charm fabrics into darks and lights and to make each quarter circle block from one dark and one light, alternating positions. But I think I must have too many 'mediums' because this didn't work.
So (after lots of unpicking) I instead used the alternating lime green and bright blue fabrics and only half as many charm prints.
The quilting on the resulting circles is a simple spiral, with the curves continuing out into the corners. The yellow setting triangles got suns, and the borders were quilted in a totally unstructred meandering, included some 5-point stars and Josh's name.
The label was made from 4 quarter circles, echoing the front design, with freehand machine embroidered details on the plain segments.
Submitted by Lyn Duhig.
This was a commercial pattern designed for use with hand-dyed fabrics (though I also used some commerically printed fabrics with a hand-dyed appearance).
The background is pieced, then the roos, fence posts, wombat and the bits of the windmill were applied using fusible webbing and then hand blanket stitched in place.
The fence 'wire' is jute string, also hand stitched in place at intervals. The words are stitched in chain stitch.
For the quilting I chose to stipple in varietaged green in the 'cultivated' areas - where there was green grass around the windmill and inside the fence. I used a spiral design in variegated beige/pink/gold colours for the 'outback' areas.
For the sunset sky behind the windmill I used graduating horizontal lines in a metallic thread. The backing is an Australan print of eucalyptus leaves.
The wallhanging was given to an Indian couple on the occasion of their marriage. I had worked with Padma and Naveen overseas, and they had also worked and lived here in Australia - a delightful couple, and I loved that their's is a 'love match' rather than the more typical arranged marriage.
Submitted by Lyn Duhig.
Luke (Lucas) is my nephew - now 2.5yo, but he only got this at Christmas this year - I'm still miles behind in my quilts for family children!
This quilt started life as a black & white alphabet panel I bought at Stitches & Craft (Melbourne) a couple of years ago and a Moda jelly roll of bright children's prints - I think it was called Aliens.
I cut the panel into it's 30 blocks (26 letters and 4 hearts). Since the jelly roll strips are 2.5' wide, the main part of the quilt pretty much designed itself, with just the addition of black and white 4-patch at the intersections of the sashing. Then I cut all the rest of the jelly roll strips into the same length pieces as the sashing and sewed them all together to make the borders.
At the end I had two printed alphabets left over from the panel and a length of the pieced border fabric, so I found or bought 4 different bright pieces of homespun and pieced the back, with some machine embroidery added for the labels pieced into the back.
Quilting was also easy - in the ditch, plus freehand outlining following either side of the black & white border on the alphabet blocks and around the letters and hearts. If time had permitted I would have liked to outline the designs too ... perhaps Luke will let me have it back some time to complete that??
Submitted by peacebypiecestudio.
These photos are from gift quilts I have quilted for Waverley Patchworkers. Other members have planned, cut, sewn and distributed the quilts for quilting and then the binding. A real team effort.
It amazes me how much variety I see as these quilts come to me. I feel humble as I complete the top and I am left to decide what the tops needs, sometimes edge to edge and other times it's a custom job.
The quilts when completed are shown at our meetings and to see them from a distance is truely very pleasing. I just hope the recipient enjoys their gift as much as I've enjoyed being a small part of a great team.
Submitted by Lyn Duhig.
I bought a beautiful piece of fabric on a visit to Tokyo and didn't want to cut into it, and didn't know what to do with it.
On the last day of 2007 a dear long-time friend died, and he had been the one who had ignited my interest in Japan long before I got to visit there, so I decided to use this precious piece of fabric to make a quilt in memory of Jim for his wife, Shirley.
I found a mottled pink to use for the border, and outline quilted the designs in the fabric then chose a border design that seemed a bit Japanese - a Baptist Fan type quilting design. This in turn led to deciding that the edge had to be scalloped to match the edges of the quilting.
The label was printed from the computer onto cream fabric so it could include photos of Jim and Shirley, and it seemed to harsh a contrast to the backing, so I constructed an envelope with a button and tassel closing with the label hidden inside.
I gave the quilt to Shirley on the last day of last year, on the anniversary of Jim's death.
Submitted by ascotintennessee.
A few years ago I taught a class on hand applique using blanket stitch. We were doing a country type theme and I supplied all the fabric, templates and floss. I had a lot of squares left over that I either gave away or turned into other projects. Eventually I made this wall hanging and finished it toward the end of 2008.
The hearts are hand appliqued using blanket stitch and cream embroidery floss.
The fleur-de-lis is done in burgundy floss and is a running back stitch.
It will be staying at my house ..... for a change ..... and is currently destined for my sewing room wall.
Submitted by Lyn Duhig.
This quilt and it's quilting is based on (copied from) a quilt in Lee Cleland's 'Quilting Makes the Quilt' - a square in a square pieced design with freehand quilting - circles and stippling - that extend into the border.
Lee's original was in lovely cream and pink, but I wanted something more bold and found the ochre, black and gold print and combined it with a mottled black.
The quilting is in a gold metallic for the concentric cirles, plus black stippling.
I started the quilt top at a sewing retreat in April 2006, and then in June 2006 was sent (with no complaints) to live in South Africa for six months for work. The name came from there. Mamelodi is the black township on the outskirts of Pretoria between where I was working and living. Winter in Pretoria on the high veld is the dry season - very cold mornings, lovely sunny days with clear blue skies, so the vegetation is dry at this time of year, and the soil is this red ochre colour. Because it's so cold in the mornings the people waiting for buses light fires to keep warm, and these sometimes become grass fires that leave a patchwork of ochre and black.
I finished the top and the quilting in 2007 after my return to Australia and Kinglake, and the quilt won a minor prize at the Whittlesea Agricultural Show in November 2007.
Submitted by Babsy.
I needed to do a quilt for Jayna, 6, next. She is a sweet little girl with a lovely smile. I had a Strawberry Lemonade [by Moda] jelly roll; a simple strippy quilt evolved. I backed all these quilts for the grandkids with flannel. It keeps the quilt cuddly. Again, Myrna Layton did the custom quilting.
Submitted by Babsy.
Grandson Joey wanted a black quilt. I thought that was a little 'dark' for an 8 year old. I looked through my stash and started gathering the brightest fabrics I could find. A variegated rail fence evolved and of course, only black would do for the borders. It set off the bright colors and hopefully will satisfy a small boy's request for black.
Submitted by Babsy.
Granddaughter Janelle, 8, has beautiful blue eyes and a sweet disposition. I found a fat quarter bundle that reminded me of her. This simple layout was fun to do. It was custom quilted by Myrna Layton. This quilt won first place in a local fair in the patchwork category.
Submitted by Babsy.
My granddaughter Kaitlin, 11, had seen a fat quarter bundle in my sewing room and said she wanted a quilt with those fabrics. I made up the pattern as I went. I submitted this quilt to a local fair and won first place in the pieced quilt category. It was custom quilted by Myrna Layton.
Submitted by Babsy.
I decided to make each of my grandchildren a lap quilt for this Christmas [2008]. This has been a fun project. Spencer, aged 10, wanted an orange quilt. I compromised with blue and orange. It is so bright it hurt my eyes to sew on it! The pattern was in the Fall 2008 issue of Quilts and more and was titled 'In the Meadow'. I saved time by having it custom quilted.
Submitted by alwaysquilts.
This is a flannel rag quilt. Instead of sewing the pieces with right sides together, I overlapped the pieces in order to have the fringe on both sides.
Submitted by Margaret Gunn.
You can see more of Margaret's work on her blog.
This quilt was made for the Southern Maine Project Linus annual Book Blanket Challenge (which I happenned to win!).
It was designed around the book 'Big Bear Little Bear'.
The quilts in this show are given to children in the Barbara Bush Children's hospital in Portland, ME around the holidays.
Submitted by Helen S.
You can see more of Helen's work on her blog.
Made for my sisters birthday earlier this year, we decided 2008 was year of the handmade birthday pressies! This one turned out lap sized.
I did start it in Feb 2007 and got off to a rocky start, I cut the squares the wrong size, ran out of fabric, had to unpick it all...
In late March I was more in control, only had a few more squares to go here. And on April the 1st, I finished the top and then realized I was out of wadding so I folded it up and put it away and there it sat for the rest of the year. LOL
When I got back to it I quilted the life out of it, doing flowers, stippling, some writing along the edges and some decorative vine stitching from the auto button on my machine. I was pressed for time though and ended up sewing the label on the back on the drive down to her house the day of her birthday celebrations! Blogged about here.
Submitted by Lyn Duhig.
A few years ago I decided to make an advent quilt for one of DH's sons - since he now had children of his own.
This is my own design - I wanted a Christmas tree, and it had to have 24 pockets for treats.
Eventually I decided on this triangular design, using creams/neutrals for the background, greens for the tree and reds for the pot.
I used these same colours plus gold/yellow, white and black for the machine embroidered numbers in different fonts. The quilting is in the ditch for the tree and free-hand stars surrounded by stippling for the background. I found a gorgeous poinsettia print for the backing.
Submitted by Pirate.
The fourth and last charity quilt of this set is also a Super-Sized Nine-patch. It's the Blue Center SSNP.
This is the most ambitious of the three, as I decided I wanted to do some free motion work instead of a pantograph. Since the center panel was a solid color, I could do something where the quilting itself was the featured element. I chose to do two hearts. One heart has feathers on the inside & out and I chose to practice 'pebbles' in the interior.
I was pleasantly surprised at how forgiving and easy these free motion pebbles are to do, albeit somewhat time-consuming since the pebbles are small. The other heart has feathers on the inside only and has cross-hatching on the interior. I must confess that the reason there are no feathers on the outside of the heart is because .... I forgot to do them. :-)
I also need to figure out how to do cross-hatching properly, as this effort isn't that terrific. Meandering goes around the exterior of both hearts, but stayed inside the blue center. The thread is black King Tut. For the borders of this quilt, I used a template I bought at PIQF (Pacific International Quilt Festival) in Santa Clara this year. The templates are Nautilus Spirals by Quilter's Rule and are used to produce a wonderful spiral baseline, which you can then embellish or not.
I purposely didn't embellish every spiral the same, as part of the purpose of these quilts is for me to *practice* different designs and techniques. I'm still figuring out how to use which sized spirals in combination with other sized spirals to fit the border space ... what I did on this quilt isn't sized quite perfectly. :-) The thread is the same ecru tone-on-tone King Tut as used in the Yellow Center. More pictures and descriptive text can be found on my website at http://users.value.net/pirate/quilting/charity-quilts/index.htm
Submitted by Jane Monk.
This is a flannel quilt that I put together in a day ...
the blocks are 9inch and they come together really easily, I even machine stitched the binding on.
It has a nice flannel back as well.
Submitted by Pirate.
This is a continuation of yesterday's introduction to the 4 charity quilts I made in order for me to practice my longarm quilting. This is the second charity quilt which also uses Anita Grossman Soloman's Super-Sized Nine-Patch instructions.
I used another pantograph that has no name but looks like interlocked maple leaves ('From the Garden' set, panto DH1562, but no 'name' and no designer. Also identified as 'Ivy Leaves' at http://www.patternman.com).
The quilting was done with multi-colored gray-black-beige King Tut thread. This panto was a little more challenging than Chantilly Lace because there are many points on the leaves and there are 2 sizes of leaves. I learned that I need to 'pause' ever so slightly at each point so that I don't get undue stress loops on the backing. I am pleased with the results of this effort.
The next quilt to share is the lone non-SSNP quilt, a Rail Fence. I returned to the loops and stars ('My Stars', designed by Hari Walner) that had given me SOOOOO much trouble a couple of quilts ago.
Since I had a couple of other edge to edge pantos under my belt, I was more confident about this particular design .. and indeed, it came out mostly decently. The beginning effort was a tad shakey but by the end of the quilt, it was more than adequate. The thread is a red variegated King Tut.
Submitted by Pirate.
This past October 2008, I finished 4 baby quilts that are intended for a local charity, Bay Area Crisis Nursery (Walnut Creek, CA, USA). These quilts serve more than a dual purpose .. in this case .. triple duty.
1. Since I've returned to using my Tin Lizzie to quilt, I've needed something *to* quilt. I've been reluctant to use my 'good' tops for practice, not only cuz I have an emotional investment in these tops (for whatever reason, and don't want to make 'practice' mistakes on them) but also their size is overly large for practice. Baby sized quilts are a perfect solution.
2. On my local Freecycle, I scored a messload of quilting fabrics. 99.9% were motifs that I had no personal interest in but were still good, quality fabric. Baby sized quilts using these (literally) free fabrics is the perfect use for them.
3. I've been thinking for some time now about 'doing a good deed' and making charity quilts gives me a good feeling about using my skill for someone in need. I can do this on my schedule without the pressure of doing something on a regular basis ... when I have some to give, I will.
For 3 of these quilts, I used Anita Grossman Solomon's 'Super-Sized Nine Patch' (SSNP) quilt directions. I gotta admit, her idea for mass producing these quilts is sheer genius. (Anita .. you are Da Bomb!) She calls for 3 different fabrics, 1 yard each, to produce 3 baby quilt tops, all different yet coordinated. I used 1-1/4 yards for each backing, with 1/4 yard of that to make continuous bias for the binding (Anita calls for the birthing technique to finish the quilts but I don't care for that myself.) This Super-Sized Nine-Patch technique is absolutely slicker than cow slobber! :-) You can get her directions here.
I've mentally identified the SSNP quilts by the color of the center panel. So that I don't take up inordinate amount of blog space, I'll upload the 4 quilts on separate days. The first SSNP is the Yellow Center. I used the 'Chantilly Lace' pantograph by Cranberry Quiltworks and did edge to edge quilting with ecru tone-on-tone variegated King Tut thread. I chose this pantograph because it was all loops, hence *should be* simple. The first row was a little shakey but by the end of the quilt, I was quite pleased with it. You can read about all of them and see more pictures on my webpage.
Submitted by Marina Bugeja.
A friend cleaned out a cupboard and found 6 Christmas themed fat quarters which she decided to give to me. I wanted to make sure I used the fabric straight away so she knew that I had appreciated the gesture. The fabric had sat in a cupboard for at least ten years! I designed a row by row type sampler wall quilt and incorporated a Bronwyn Hayes stitchery as a feature. It will now be my special Christmas wall hanging.
Submitted by Judy B.
You can see more of Judy's work on her blog.
This quilt was made after I attended a workshop with Noreen Dunn to learn about how the Amish people use colour in their quilts.
A few of the fabrics are not quite Amish in colour, and very few are cotton. I started the quilt in 1987 when the only solid colours widely available in Australia were polyester, but all of these were in the scrap basket.
The back is also pieced in the bar design, another traditional Amish pattern. The quilt was tied with black yarn instead of quilting. The quilt was completed in 1988, the Australian bicentennial year.
