Quiltsmith Australia: June 2013

Thursday, June 27, 2013

I'm Back Lots of stuff happening

Hi Everyone

Sorry about the quite period, but the Quilt Show does me in every year and there is lots of things happening in the shop at the moment, that I will share with you, (as I get them sorted out).

GWEN MARSTON HAS LANDED

Gwen Marston arrived at Sydney airport this morning. She is having a few days R&R before kicking off in Melbourne at Amitie.

She is giving her only lecture in Australia in Sydney with Quiltsmith and Cottage Quiltworks.

ABSTRACT QUILTS IN COLOUR

LECTURE by

GWEN MARSTON

THURSDAY 11 JULY 2013

7pm for 7.30pm

Quilts made in solids have an impressive history. They were the first quilts to be taken seriously as art. In 1971, Amish quilts from the collection of Jonathan Holstein and Gail van der Hoof constituted the first major museum exhibition of quilts shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Using her new abstract quilts as examples, Gwen discusses her work in solids and points out some of the great characteristics inherent in solids.

Gwen's work in solids began with studies of Amish quilts and she has continued to work with solids over the past 3 decades. In this lecture Gwen talks about Amish quilts and how they have influenced her work. Gwen discusses her new abstract work in solids and points out some of the great characteristics inherent in solids. The lecture is illustrated with quilts from her book Ideas and Inspirations: Abstract Quilts in Solids.

Auditorium

Mary MacKillop Place

7-11 Mount Street
North Sydney NSW 2060 Australia

The nearest train station is North Sydney(5 to 10 minute walk).

There is metered parking in Mount Street and several private car parking stations within walking distance

Public buses stop on Miller Street and the Pacific Highwayi n North Sydney. We are a five minute walk from the bus stops and two minutes from North Sydney Post Office which is on the corner of Mount Street and Pacific Highway

Proudly brought to you by

Quiltsmith and The Cottage Quiltworks

To book please ring 02 9550 4947 or 02 99974661

Tickets $50.00 – light supper provided.

We have lots of books for Gwen to sign on the night and other little yummies.

Space in the lecture is still available all Gwen's Workshops are full.

Grab some friends and make a night of it.

WHAT'S NEW

A selection.

I have just been warned by a number of warehouses that a large amount of fabric is on its way.

For everyone who has heard the rumour that the 1800 Reproduction Fabrics are on the wan, you are so wrong and I'm about to get the truckloads of fabric to prove it.

THE WINNER

Our congratulations goes to Maree Blanchard who was this years winner of Quiltsmith's and Annette Gero's- Best Reproduction Inspired by an Antique Quilt Award, at the Darling Harbour Quilt Show.

Maree's quilt is graphically stunning. She was inspired by the quilts in the exhibition Infinite Variety - Three Centuries of Red and White in New York. She drafted the pattern herself based on a one inch square grid. In the original quilt only used two fabrics, in Maree's quilt she has used 40 different red fabrics, a subtle but innovative twist on the original. Maree's quilt is hand quilted.

Maree on the left.

I would like to also congratulate the The Quilter's Guild of NSW Inc. who put on, what I thought was, a marvellous show this year. There were over 400 members quilts in the show, as well as all the special exhibition quilts. Well done to both the Guild organising team and all the Guild members who make the show possible.

THE WHERE WE CAME FROM

Guessing Game

I'm going to keep you guessing, for another day or so. All will be revealed.

Melinda

Saturday, June 8, 2013

IT'S SHOW TIME - WE ARE ON SALE - AND PLAYING GAMES

Hi Everyone

QUILT SHOW WEEK SALE

As always, we are on sale the week of the Darling Harbour Show.

Tuesday 11 June until Sunday 16 June.

All Fabrics 20% off

30cm minimum cut (0.5m min for Value Fabrics)

In-Store and on the web-site (see site for details)

Remember the shop is open on Sunday the 16 June 10 – 3.

So make sure a trip to Quiltsmith is part of your Show adventure.

As a bit of fun, with the Darling Harbour Quilt Show on this week, I decided that we will run two guessing games. One for bloggers and one for customers in the shop. Here is the game for all the bloggers.

WHERE WE CAME FROM

A guessing game for quilters.

This is our first blog guessing game so I hope you enjoy it.

The Game

Below you will see photos of all the Quiltsmith staff (in our current state) and the quilts we created last century. Gosh that sounds terrible, but it means all our staff have been quilting for at least 13 years, and some a lot longer than that.

You need to guess which quilt belongs to which staff member.

We will randomly select five correct answers and those bloggers will be sent a $25.00 Gift Voucher from Quiltsmith. All entries must be received by midnight on Sunday June 16. You can send as many guesses as you like.

Take a look at the photos and guess away!!!!!!

MARJ

LINDY

JANET

LINDA

SANDRA

PAM

MARGY

MELINDA

GUESS WHO MADE THESE QUILTS

QUILT NUMBER 1

QUILT NUMBER 2

QUILT NUMBER 3

QUILT NUMBER 4

QUILT NUMBER 5

QUILT NUMBER 6

QUILT NUMBER 7

QUILT NUMBER 8

WHAT TO DO NOW

Just fill in the Form at the bottom of the post. Copy and paste it into an email addressed to

quiltsmith@ozemail.com.au.

Please note, we will use the email address you send your guess on, to contact you if you are a winner.

Please copy and paste this in to the Subject header

“GUESS – WHERE WE CAME FROM”.

The lucky bloggers will be notified during the following week. (We may take awhile, the show week takes a bit of recovering from.)

I will post the answers to, who made which quilt, after the game has finished.

THE FORM

NAME

SUBURB AND STATE

STAFF MEMBER

MARJ BELONGS TO QUILT NUMBER

LINDY BELONGS TO QUILT NUMBER

JANET BELONGS TO QUILT NUMBER

LINDA BELONGS TO QUILT NUMBER

SANDRA BELONGS TO QUILT NUMBER

PAM BELONGS TO QUILT NUMBER

MARGY BELONGS TO QUILT NUMBER

MELINDA BELONGS TO QUILT NUMBER

Have fun.

IN THE SHOP

If you can make it into the shop, during show week, we have a second guessing game.

You can see all our marvellous quilts, from the last century on display as well as a recent quilt from each staff member. So we are having a mini quilt show of our own.

You need to guess which quilts were made by the same person.

I hope everybody, everywhere can have a bit of fun with us this week.

Melinda

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Planning Ahead - Gwen Marston's Lecture

Hi Everyone.

DARLING HARBOUR SHOW

The show starts next Wednesday and runs through to Sunday. Everyone who can go should, the rumour is that there are over 400 quilts hanging this year.

We will be open 10-5 Tuesday - Friday, 9.30 - 4 Saturday and

10 - 3 ON SUNDAY. THIS IS ONLY SUNDAY WE ARE OPEN ALL YEAR.

We are the closest shop to Darling Harbour, and it will be well worth your while to visit us during Show Week. We will be having a little sale, I will post all the details in the next few days.

So plan ahead.

Make sure you take the opportunity to see a truly inspirational quilter on her only trip to Australia.