Stitch & Yarn news

In Conversation is headed to France
After shows in Sydney, Melbourne and Deniliquin, I'm thrilled to announce that ‘In Conversation’ is headed to Carrefour EPM in Val d’Argent, Alsace, France from 12–15 Sept 2024.

One of 39 exhibitions, in 17 venues, across four villages – and the only one from Australia – including Victoria Findlay Wolfe, the travelling MQG exhibition and several from the featured country, Brazil.

Read more about the show here and support the trip by buying us a coffee here.

MPavilion quilts acquired
After four months on show as part of the MPavilion 10 season featuring the pavilion of Tadao Ando, we are thrilled to announce the Melbourne Modern Quilt Guild quilts have been acquired by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation. Read more here.

Tall Poppy slow sewalong
Join me for a Tall Poppy slow sewalong! I’ll be sharing lots of tips and guidance as I make alongside you, but we’ll be taking it easy – no rushing to finish here.

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View fullsize These quilts have a new home! I’m so honoured to have been involved with this project and to have managed it from the @melbmqg side of things. Huge kudos to @nmf_au for acquiring these quilts by 12 women at a time when the @countess.report is
View fullsize If you haven’t seen it yet, the last poppy unit is posted on the blog (link in bio). It’s actually the fastest poppy to make in our slowalong! We’ll be putting it all together next time. Is anyone else finding it a bit creepy that
View fullsize This isn’t what I had planned for today, but I woke to the shocking news of the death of Angela Ritchie, founder of @acecampstravel, so today I sewed in honour of her. Included are batik swatches made on my trip to Eswatini @baobab_batik; bloc
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View fullsize Had a lovely international quilting lunch today along with some studio visits. The conversation turned to the importance of play, which I don’t do nearly enough. So this afternoon was spent playing with fabric scraps from @femketextiles (inclu
View fullsize A bunch of (mostly) newbie-quilter (all) superstars here 🤩 at week four of my Not your Nana’s Quilting course. There’s so much openness, experimentation and play going on - I just love watching these works come together. This is a sel
View fullsize The garden is slowly growing on my wall… And the next #tallpoppyslowalong post is live on my blog. We’re now up to making the budding poppy unit. I’m hoping to grow a couple more poppies over the weekend… how about you? .
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View fullsize I’m lucky last quilt to be posted for our @mpavilion l @melbmqg collab on Thursday, but as this year’s season ends on 28 March I thought I’d show you a few more details before it all comes to an end. It’s been incredibly rewa
View fullsize Beginner quilters with big plans. We’ve made some precise blocks and some wonky blocks and they’re all figuring out their preferred approach. I just ❤️ seeing where things go with each new step. We did some designing today and there were
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View fullsize Remember this one from a couple of weeks back? Well, after all your amazing suggestions, I’m succumbing to the need to hand quilt it. Some will be small stitches, other sections will use big stitch quilting - depending on the block. I figure

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