Quilts
Hand Crafted Quilts
A quilt is a multi-layered textile, traditionally composed of three layers of fiber: a woven cloth top, a layer of batting or wadding, and a woven back, combined using the technique of quilting, the process of sewing the three layers together. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pieced and layered textiles, individually designed and handmade. Images show a snapshot of the colours and pattern. Fee free to request additional images showing the full quilt, reverse and quilting detail.
A quilt is a multi-layered textile, traditionally composed of three layers of fiber: a woven cloth top, a layer of batting or wadding, and a woven back, combined using the technique of quilting, the process of sewing the three layers together. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pieced and layered textiles, individually designed and handmade. Images show a snapshot of the colours and pattern. Fee free to request additional images showing the full quilt, reverse and quilting detail.
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Kiwi lost in the bush looking for friends
Kiwi and friends playing in the bush following shadows. Machine pieced scraps and offcuts from larger projects to form blocks which have been joined with a black and white band of pathways.
Materials: Selected cotton prints, 80/20 cotton/polyester batting, machine pieced, machine and hand quilted.
Size: 1.35m x 2m
Cost: $325.00 plus postage/collection to be organised -
Fuchsia on the library steps
Quilt layout is based on the 'courthouse steps' pattern. Traditionally a red centre square is used, replaced here with fuchsia. Started in 1984, the blue/brown fabric prints reflect the period.
Materials: Selected cotton prints, 80/20 cotton/polyester batting, machine pieced and quilted.
Size: 1.77m x 1.77m
Cost: $425.00 plus postage/collection to be organised -
Resting on roses under the eucalypt
The quilt has a simple repeating pattern using prints with a different scale and similar colour complexity - he fabric with the skull and roses being the key.
Fabric: Selected cotton prints, cotton batting, machine pieced and machine quilted with a eucalyptus design by Wild Cotton
Size: 2.25m x 2.15m
Cost: $475.00 plus collection/postage to be confirmed -
Pacific Shields
A collaborative quilt where the challenge was to make the central divided circle block 'bigger'.
Makers: Margaret Chapman, Vicki Bradley, Daniella Aleh
Materials: Selected cotton prints, 80/20 cotton/polyester batting, machine pieced and quilted.
Size: 2.09m x 2.09m
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Red Indigo in the secret garden
Combining fabrics within a colour palette of different pattern scale is always fun - faeries on toadstools, african prints, lightening shapes and brassicas.
Materials: Selected cotton prints, cotton batting, machine pieced and quilted.
Size: 1.90m x 1.95m
Cost: $425.00 plus collection/postage to be confirmed -
Sunset on the Buller
The design was drawn after a visit to the West Coast and seeing the ever changing nature of the area and in particular the Buller River.
Materials: Selected hand dyed cotton, 80/20 cotton/polyester batting, machine pieced and quilted
Size: 1.94m x 1.72m
Cost: $375.00 plus collection/postage to be confirmed -
Tula Pink visits West Auckland
Using selected patterns from '100 Modern Quilt Blocks' by Tula Pink, tiny leftover pieces of fabric were sewn into blocks. Scraps, scraps, scraps, the smaller the better, square, recctangle and cross patterns only.
Materials: Cotton scraps, 80/20 cotton/polyester batting, machine pieced and quilted.
Size: 1.70m x 1.70m
Cost: $575.00 plus collection/postage to be confirmed -
Mangrove Coast wallhanging
A selection of botanical dyed cottons, commercial cottons and tapa pieced to represent the mud flats and mangrove trees and numerous leaves of the Manukau Harbour.
Materials: Selected hand dyed cotton prints and tapa, cotton flanelette sheet batting, machine pieced and hand quilted.
Size: 1.02m x 1.13m
Price:$195.00 plus postage/collection to be organised -
Karamea on Limocello wallhanging
Rhopalostylis sapida (nikau) provides endless inspiration for shape, texture and colour. Hand and commerical dyed cottons free form design and pieced.
Materials: Selected cotton pieces, 80/20 cotton/polyester batting, machine pieced and quilted
Size: 1.77m x 1.22m
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Autumn Garden
The earthy richness of the autumn garden moving into winter. Strip pieced to reflect the layers of soil, leaves, stems, flowers and seedheads. Perfect for snuggling.
Materials: Selected cotton prints, cotton batting, machine pieced and quilted.
Size: 1.85m x 1.90m
Price: $475.00 plus collection/postage to be confirmed -
Laingholm Tapa
A quilt challenge with two friends, pattern based on Kaffe Fasset's 'Scaffold', individual colour palettes selected, with the reveal on New Years Day.
Materials: Cotton prints, 80/20 cotton/polyester batting, machine pieced and free form machine quilted with images from the backing fabric.
Size: 1.78m x 1.60m
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Looking back on a summers day
Reflecting on the past – thinking about the year ahead whilst slowly layering old pieces of cloth and stitching lines of meditation to form a new cloth wallhanging.
Materials: Remnants and offcuts of linen, silk, Japanese textiles and plant dyed cotton, layered, hand pieced and stitched cloth layers using silk/cotton thread, with plant dyed cotton backing.
Size: 1885mmL x 1040mmW
Cost: $735.00 plus collection/postage to be confirmed -
Looking back on a summers day
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