October 24th - 2pm -3.30pm Powerhouse Museum

Basement tour: Quilts. Back by special request, Dr. Kimberley Webber leads a follow up to her popular historic quilts tour. Join her as she shakes out some beautiful examples illustrating the history of quilts and quilting.

Cost $15, members only.

October 6th (Saturday at 1.30pm)

Brigitte Giblin will bring along some old French quilts and her own quilts for her talk to us in October. She will tell us how the English, French and Australian quilts she has seen over the years have influenced her quilt designs. We will also have 4 French quilts and a jupon ( wedding skirt) from the committee members' collections on hand for viewing. There will be a raffle, afternoon tea and non-members are welcome. (SQSG members attend free).

VENUE: Quiltsmith shop at 75 Nelson Street, Annandale. The shop is situated between Parramatta Road and Booth Street - get off the 470 bus to Lilyfield at the corner of Nelson Street and Booth Street or take a bus along Parramatta Road and get off at Nelson Street.

For further information Contact Liz Bonner at (02) 9692 8853 or lizbonner@ozemail.com.au

The Collectors!

Annette Gero will be featured on the ABC show 'The Collectors'.
Friday, 5th October, at 8pm.

May 26th Show and Tell (Saturday at 2pm)

SYDNEY QUILT STUDY GROUP - SHOW AND TELL
Always a fabulous meeting!
Bring your latest quilt, your old quilts and textile treasures found or bought. You will be amazed at what is still being unearthed in Sydney and beyond!

Venue: Mercure Hotel 383-389 Bulwara Road, Ultimo, Sydney
(Parking at the hotel or at Entertainment Centre. A short stroll from the Powerhouse Museum)
Afternoon tea provided.
Entry for non-members-$5. Members free.

The story behind Dark Nightz by Jan Mullen

During a night of reckless bidding in aid of the Quilt Study coffers I successfully purchased a bag of scraps. If I remember correctly I was the only bidder, so was surprised to win these colourful treasures already precut for me roughly cut into big or small triangles. At $15 I think I got the bargain of the night.
This plastic bag of scraps got shoved around the studio at home for a couple of months whilst I occasionally tried to decide on a new quilt for our bed. We plan to sell our current home later in the year and, as I am a career quilter, I thought that the fifteen year old version should be updated. As usual, ideas were plentiful, most revolving around a black chenille jacquard that I had purchased in the USA but I could not committ.
One night the bag of scraps jumped into my field of vision and I decided that using up what I had, these tie scraps and all the black fabrics I could muster, would actually help me when it came time to move.
The process;
I simple paired the triangles, big with big, small with small and edged them with black strips. In my usual style everything is a bit skewed until the final squaring up of the block. Working with velvets, silks, brocades, linen, lining fabrics in different weights was no bother. I had almost enough for our queen size bed, making only about four more blocks from my own tie stockpile.
Quilting was simpler than usual, merely echoing the centre triangles and in the pattern of the jacquard. The bulk and size of the quilt being the only down side to the process - bring on domestic long arms!

May 21st 2007 (Monday at 10am)

Special meeting of the Sydney Quilt Study Group.
Monday, May 21st at 10am at the Embroiderers' Guild offices - 76 Queen Street Concord West.

Quilts in the Embroiderers' Guild collection - a special viewing of the quilt and patchwork collection of the Embroiderers' Guild of NSW with the curator Marie Cavanagh.
Cost to non-members of the Embroiderers' Guild $5.00

For bookings contact Sandra Lyons
(02) 9589 2537 or sandra.lyons@idomaus.com.au