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QuiltNSW: The Quilters' Guild of NSW

QuiltNSW: The Quilters' Guild of NSW

The official website of The Quilters’ Guild of NSW Inc, operating as QuiltNSW

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Member Services

QuiltNSW provides a range of services including:

Country Tutor Workshop Program

The Country Tutor Workshop Program was established for the benefit of country and regional members of QuiltNSW. The program aims to provide access to instruction and ideas to enhance and develop the quilting skills of those members who cannot easily attend the city workshops and showcases.

At the time of application the applicant, ie the group, must have been a QuiltNSW member for at least two full years. It is preferable that any workshop participants outside the group are also members but this is not mandatory. After receiving funding for a workshop the group may not apply again for two years.

Tutor fees are the responsibility of the quilting group. The CTP funding is to assist with travel, meals and accommodation. Motel or B&B style accommodation is eligible however this funding will not cover billeting costs.

Follow the link to the accredited teachers list.  However, it is not essential to choose an accredited teacher.

Applications close on 31 August each year. Contact the Vice President for more information.

Download Country Tutor Application Form.

Frame Hire

QuiltNSW owns most of the frame equipment used at their annual Sydney Quilt Show at Darling Harbour. This equipment is available for hire by both individuals and groups. You do not need to be a member of QuiltNSW to hire the frames.

As planning a Quilt Show takes a lot of coordination it is advisable to book the equipment early, anything up to 12 months in advance, not to be disappointed.

To make a booking please contact the Frame Hire Coordinator by emailing framehire@quiltnsw.com or telephoning the office. Along with the booking a $100 deposit is required to secure your dates.

The Frame Hire Coordinator will check the date availability and send to you a number of forms including a Confirmation Form, a Hire Policy, Instructions for Use and Assembly of the Frames and a list of equipment for hire (including prices). When hiring the equipment you need to arrange your own helpers to pick it up  from its storage site in Rydalmere.

Groups that are QuiltNSW members receive a 20% discount.

Library

An extensive library of books, magazines, videos and slides is available to members for borrowing at the QuiltNSW office. An Australia-wide mail service operates. See the Library page for borrowing procedures and the current library catalogue.

Meetings

Members are invited to attend meetings to discuss QuiltNSW business and to socialise. A guest speaker is invited to most of the meetings and have in the past included local, interstate and international speakers. Meetings are held at Burwood with one meeting a year held at a country destination. See the QuiltNSW Meeting Program.

Quilt Appraisal

A quilt appraisal service is available with a discount to members. 

Teacher Accreditation

The teacher accreditation program is organised to recognise the proven skills of present and future teachers in basic patchwork and quilting and specialist techniques. See the Teacher Accreditation Page for further information and a current list of QuiltNSW accredited teachers.

The Template Quarterly Newsletter

Each quarter, members receive a copy of The Template, QuiltNSW’s own colour newsletter packed with valuable information including reports from subcommittees, QuiltNSW workshop program, book reviews, the Block of the Quarter and a calendar of events. See The Template page for information about advertising and submitting news items.

QuiltNSW Scholarship

QuiltNSW, through its committee, has $5000 annually to award to scholarship recipients (maximum of $3000 per application) to advance the objects of QuiltNSW.  Members are only limited by their imagination as to the project for which to make an application.

Members (whether an individual or group) would need to define their proposed project, detail relevant expertise and describe intended timelines. Applications should not exceed 5 pages and should be sent as a hard copy to the Vice President. Applications close on 31 August in each year for awarding of scholarships at the Annual General Meeting held in October each year.

Download Scholarship Guidelines. Questions can be directed to the Vice President.

Workshops

QuiltNSW organises regular workshops with a focus on experienced and interesting local and interstate tutors.  See the Workshop Program (or the newsletter) for more details and the Workshop Booking Form.

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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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