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QuiltNSW: The Quilters' Guild of NSW

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QuiltNSW Events & Activities

Calendar

See the QuiltNSW Calendar for a comprehensive listing of QuiltNSW activities and events.

Community Quilts

Since 1983 Community Quilts has been making and donating quilts on behalf of QuiltNSW. It is a voluntary project where members meet to sew quilts for the community and to date over 3,300 quilts have been donated. Our aim is to encourage a more homely atmosphere for others.

On-going commitments are to Royal Far West Children’s Home in Manly and to foster children in NSW. Quilts are also donated to various nursing homes, several refuges such as Street Kids and Baptist Church Inner City Refuge and for raffles to raise money for community organisations.

All quilt tops are made prior to meetings and the quilts are pinned and machine quilted on sewing days which are held monthly. No hand sewing is done due to the ‘utility’ style of the quilts. The quilts require only basic, straight line quilting so no expert knowledge is required. Pinners and machine quilters are warmly welcomed on sewing days.

Members who are unable to attend sewing days but would like to participate in Community Quilts are encouraged to take quilts home to machine quilt. They are single size and not difficult to handle on a domestic machine.
Roslyn Moules, Community Quilts Co-ordinator, may be contacted through the QuiltNSW office.

External Events

QuiltNSW has information booths at various events throughout the year. We are open to having a presence at events, including our Quilt Hoop Display installation – if you are interested in having us at your event, please contact Margy Syrett through the QuiltNSW office (by emailing office@quiltnsw.com

Friday Showcase

Friday showcase is an informal but informative meeting is held in the Sydney Mechanics’  School of Arts which is right next door to the Guild Office. 

• The guild office will open at 9 am for members and visitors wishing to drop their bags, library books, community quilts to the office, have a cup of tea or coffee and a homemade treat.
• Doors to the meeting room at Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts (SMSA) will open at 9.30 am and our small charge ($5 members/$10 visitors) will be payable at the door.
• The showcase will start at 10 am at Level 1, SMSA.
• The office will be closed while the showcase is underway and will then reopen at the conclusion of the showcase for the changeover of the quilts hanging, morning tea and usual activities.
 
Schedule for Showcases in 2020 are currently suspended *
 
April 3         Martha Birch *TBC
 
May 1          Lyn Hewitt *TBC
 
June 5         Northbridge Quilters
 
July 3           Grace Widders

*Please note there now is a June Friday Showcase, however this is still no Showcase in December/January.

Meetings

QuiltNSW meetings are held at Burwood RSL, 96 Shaftsbury Avenue, Burwood. There is plenty of parking at the RSL club and the venue is walking distance from the Burwood Railway Station.

Doors open at 9.30am. The day starts at 10am with an informative demonstration by a QuiltNSW member and shopping with our guest retailer. Library books are also available for loan. Show and Tell commences at followed by a short business meeting and lunch at the club.  The meeting resumes at 1pm with a guest speaker and guest member group. Finally the lucky door prizes, block of the month and special notices and we are finished by 3pm.  There is plenty of time for socialising and hand sewing is always welcome. Come along and be involved with QuiltNSW – Visitors are most welcome.  Please let us know if you are attending a general meeting for the first time.

2020 Meeting Dates

  • MAY GENERAL MEETING CANCELLED – General Meeting 
     
    Burwood RSL, 96 Shaftsbury Avenue, Burwood.
    9:30am to 3PM
    Guest Speaker:
    Demonstration by: 
    Pop-Up Shop:
  • ** POSTPONED ** DATES TBC – Country and Away Meeting 
     
    This meeting will be hosted by the Novocastrians Quilters, held at
    New Lambton Community Centre
    14 Alma Road, New Lambton 2305
     
    Guest Speaker: Wendy Nutt

Country and Away Meetings

QuiltNSW travels from the city to the country for a country meeting in 2020. This is a great opportunity to meet QuiltNSW members around the state as we visit member groups along the way. In 2020, our country meeting will be held in Newcastle at New Lambton Community Centre on **NEW DATES TBC*

A wonderful schedule of events will be organised for members to make a weekend of it – The Novocastrian Quilters including Guest Speaker Wendy Nutt will host the meeting. More details will be available in our next edition of The Template. Save the Date>>>>>> 

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Pop Up Sewing Days

An opportunity for members to stitch together while working on their own project. These ‘days’ are often held in fabric stores all over Sydney and now, extending to our regional areas, on different days of the week to fit into the schedule. The days usually start around 10am. Numbers are limited so it is essential that you reserve your place by contacting the office or booking online. Numbers are limited. Morning Tea and a lucky door prize are usually included. Not only are these days a lovely way to spend your time but they are a FREE event for individual financial members only.

For the most part, we hold our Pop Up Sewing Days in patchwork stores so if you are a store owner and would like to host a pop up sewing day in your store, please email us. We look forward to hearing from you.

2020 scheduled pop-up sewing days are currently suspended – please see calendar for latest information.

Quilt Study Group

The Quilt Study Group exists to promote interest and research into quilting, particularly in New South Wales and is a sub-committee of QuiltNSW. Members are committed to the study of quilts past and present with this study encompassing the social and historical context in which the quilts were made as well as designs, techniques and materials used in both vintage and contemporary quilts.

Quilt Study Group talks in 2020 are held from 2.00pm to 4.30 pm at The Powerhouse Museum, 500 Harris Street, Ultimo. For location details see https://maas.museum/powerhouse-museum/#getting-here

QuiltNSW members pay $5.00 and non-QuiltNSW members $10.00 per talk. Please note there is free entry to the Powerhouse Museum when coming to the QSG talks. 

Upcoming Talks
 2020

Saturday 7 March – Quilt Study Group – **POSTPONED – NEW DATE TBA** Catherine Butterworth – “My approach to designing prize-winning quilts” to be held at the Theatrette, level 2 of The Powerhouse Museum

Saturday  23 May – Quilt Study Group – Catherine Porter – “Ralli Quilts” to be held in a PLC room, level 2 of The Powerhouse Museum

Enquiries or bookings, email office@quiltnsw.com.

Sunday Sew-In

The Sunday Sew-in events are a day of sewing (machine and hand) – like a mini-retreat. Bring usual sewing supplies (and machine if desired with powerboard/extension cord), project, lunch and a cup … and quilting questions or tips to shares. We’ll provide irons/ironing boards, morning tea and scrap fabric and instructions for block of the quarter.

The next Sunday Sew-in is TBA  – 

If you are interested in coming along to the Sunday Sew In – please register your interest here.

 
Less than a 10 minute walk from Sutherland station and a off street car parking facilities
 
There is a large room available for hand and machine sewing
 

Please register here for the Sew-in for catering and room setup requirements. 

 
If you have not registered please don’t let that deter you from coming on the day, all are welcome and bring a friend  (guests of members incur a $5 fee).
 
Tea, Coffee and Cake is provided, but please bring a cup along.
 
Please keep your eyes open for the next Sunday Sew-In adventure coming soon!

QuiltNSW Retreat

September 10/11-13 2020

UPDATE **** 2020 Retreat to Kurri Kurri has been cancelled for 2020.

Enquiries should be directed to the retreat coordinator, Any questions, please email Linda Butcher or the QuiltNSW office on 9283 3737. (If the office is still unmanned, leave a message!)

 NEWS FLASH: An exciting new venue has been tentatively booked for 2021. More details to follow………….!!!

  

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The New Quilt - Save the dates!

MEET THE NEW QUILT ARTIST Topography #1 Tailing an MEET THE NEW QUILT ARTIST
Topography #1 Tailing and Topography#3 Sunrise by Lynne Hargreaves @hargreaves1195 

Born in the UK, Lynne worked as a graphic designer moving into design training in 1978. Twenty years in vocational and tertiary education followed. Joining the cultural sector and arts management in 1998, she retired to Tasmania in 2017 from the position of Director of Exhibitions & Collections at the Art Gallery of WA. She has worked in partnership with institutions such as the Louvre, Tate, V&A, St Petersburg State Theatre and most recently the MoMA, NY to present renowned artworks in Perth. Entering a new chapter of her career, she now has a focus on her own textile practice.

Art quilting draws upon her design background and she is excitedly discovering the wonders of thread and fabric. Like many she is often inspired by the patterns and micro landscapes found in nature, in the hedgerows, on tree barks, lichens and amongst the frosty leaf litter of autumn. There is also an autobiographical side to her work. The ‘lass from Leeds’ is usually not far away in the dry Yorkshire humour and commentary on her own life experiences. She is currently embarking on her personal nod at the ‘Bayeux Tapestry’ a 15 m embroidery based on behind the scenes life at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.

Her recent focus is working with the linear qualities of the landscape and the macro aerial viewpoint. Not direct depictions they capture and impressions and memories as abstracted elements reimagined with fabric and stitch. The work displayed features experiments with hand dyed fabric over worked with double needle, free motion machine stitching and hand work. Areas are highlighted and worked with appliqued fabrics, trapunto, couched thread and chenille slashing.

The New Quilt, on exhibition at Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, NSW from 5 February – 11 April 2021. 

Gallery hours: Open 6 days a week Monday, Wednesday-Friday 10am-4pm Saturday-Sunday 10am-3pm. Closed on Tuesday and public holidays.

#thenewquilt #thenewquilt2021 #quiltnsw @quiltnsw @thenewquilt @hawkesburyregional_gallery #artofquilting
MEET THE NEW QUILT ARTIST Blue Specimen Julie Ha MEET THE NEW QUILT ARTIST 
Blue Specimen

Julie Haddrick’s art tells the stories, expresses her feelings and it is the driving force in her life. Art comes from a deeper place inside her and central to this is expression that is grounded in naturalism. With a love of fabric and stitch, Julie’s arts practice is underpinned by the Fine Arts; of drawing painting and printmaking and the disciplines of Design and the Crafts of textiles have shaped the ways she uses stitch, threads, colours and cloth. They are disciplined, sparse, refined and without elaboration.

Julie embraces the Japanese aesthetic of “Wabi Sabi’” that values transience, imperfection and the impermanent. She finds greatness in the overlooked details; the grace of ageing, imperfection and of beauty in decline. Julies’ Wabi Sabi is outdoors in quiet, insignificant and inwardly oriented places and her treasure is in the discarded; a feather, a stick, a shard of china. She hand dyes, prints and paints fabrics, often combining/ layering them with vintage cloth or recycled Japanese silk fabric. Studying indigo dyeing techniques in Japan under Bryan Whitehead’s tuition has greatly influenced the fabrics Julie works with and is this is pertinent to her current quilt ‘Blue Specimen’. 

Her stitching is measured, decorative and purposeful and her thread rich textiles are complex and quite unique, with layers of meaning concealed in her beautiful machine quilting. Julie believes that her Art is about making space – both physical and mental – for listening, searching, and expressing one’s unique position in the world. Art cultivates the ability to imagine a future and so transcends the present moment. Julie Haddrick’s art is inherently hopeful.

The New Quilt, on exhibition at Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, NSW from 5 February – 11 April 2021. 

Gallery hours: Open 6 days a week Monday, Wednesday-Friday 10am-4pm Saturday-Sunday 10am-3pm. Closed on Tuesday and public holidays.

#thenewquilt #thenewquilt2021 #quiltnsw @quiltnsw @thenewquilt @hawkesburyregional_gallery #artofquilting
The first two events in the public program for The The first two events in the public program for The New Quilt exhibition at Hawkesbury Regional Gallery are a floor talk by two of the jurors (@judyhooworth1 and @annabrown1554 ) on Sunday 7 February followed by a curator floor talk by Elissa Blair on Wednesday 10 February 2021. Both events are free. Bookings essential. Book online via the @hawkesburyregional_gallery and @quiltnsw websites. 

#thenewquilt #thenewquilt2021 #quiltnsw  @thenewquilt #artofquilting
MEET THE NEW QUILT ARTIST Mollymook Summer by Hele MEET THE NEW QUILT ARTIST
Mollymook Summer by Helen Gray

The south coast of N.S.W is where Helen Gray spends much of the year. She is an ocean swimmer and delights in the ever changing environment. 2020's bushfires left blackened leaves tumbling in the breaking waves and washed up on the shore, inspiring her to create work referencing this unusual time. Hand stitching in isolation became an enjoyable daily ritual.

The New Quilt, on exhibition at Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, NSW from 5 February – 11 April 2021. 

Gallery hours: Open 6 days a week Monday, Wednesday-Friday 10am-4pm Saturday-Sunday 10am-3pm. Closed on Tuesday and public holidays.
#thenewquilt #thenewquilt2021 #quiltnsw @quiltnsw @thenewquilt @hawkesburyregional_gallery #artofquilting

on exhibition 5 February – 11 April 2021

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