This was one of the quilt tops I made on our quilt retreat weekend and donated to the Community Quilts program. They supplied the batting and backing fabric — I did the rest. I followed the design of the various fabrics when quilting each panel.
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This was one of the quilt tops I made on our quilt retreat weekend and donated to the Community Quilts program. They supplied the batting and backing fabric — I did the rest. In keeping with several of the fabrics, I quilted each block with golden stars.
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Another small baby quilt likely to go to the state mortuary or the maternity hospital. Again, a simple stipple to hold the layers together was all that was required.
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I made these two small quilt tops on my quilt retreat weekend. As they will likely go to the state mortuary for stillborn babies, only a simple flannel backing and simple stitching enough to hold the layers together was required.
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I stitched large spirals to contrast with the geometric shapes in this quilt, using a variegated thread in shades of beige through to terracotta.
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A small scrappy quilt, stitched with a meandering stipple in a variegated thread.
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Another big quilt, with lots of ‘busy’ fabrics. This time I stitched a large open headband motif, using a variegated red, white, and blue thread.
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I just did a large meandering stipple on this big (and busy!) scrappy quilt made of 2-inch squares. Any other quilting would have got lost in the fabric.
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I drove to Perth on Sunday for a meeting. It was six months to the day since the bushfires swept through the Harvey Shire in Western Australia, taking out most of the town of Yarloop. I only travelled on Forrest Highway and took some photos from the car of the regeneration of the roadside plants and trees. In the past few months, I’ve marvelled at the tenacity of the trees in particular as I’ve driven through the 20 km stretch where the fire took out almost everything in its path. Trees that looked like they were beyond saving started sprouting new growth along their trunks within a few weeks (they looked like they were in lime green knitted sweaters!). And zamia palms and grass trees (and weeds, of course!) took on new growth too–in the case of the palms, many new ones grew as a result of germination by the fire and/or smoke.
Here are the pictures I took just three weeks after the fire: https://rhondabracey.com/2016/01/31/driving-to-and-from-perth/
And below are some photos I took of the regeneration. The beautiful green is because we’re now in the middle of winter and that’s what our grasses do in winter.
We lived in Bridgetown, Western Australia (WA) for three years. It’s one of the colder places in WA and one of the few places that has lots of ‘heart attack’ hills — most of our huge state is pretty flat, but not Bridgetown. It’s a beautiful town most of the year, except summer (in my opinion), when the threat of bushfires from the nearby forests is an ever-present danger. We’ve been gone for more than six years now, but have friends there. And we have our girls’ quilting retreat there each winter, at the magnificent home of one of our group.
Here are some of the photos I took from their house and garden last weekend, around 8am on a cold winter’s morning (July 2) when the temperature was hovering just under 0C, and the fog was still hanging over the valleys. My favourites are the ones with the early morning sun gleaming on the gum trees, the ice on the bird bath, the sparkle of the new day on the dew, and the rising sun poking through clouds. And the bunny, of course!
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