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Posted on: 05 Oct 2010

I am a new blogger. I like to learn new crafts and I find my local Spotlight in Geelong wonderful and the staff so helpful. I am submitting my first ever quilt for my grand-daughter Aisha. I am very proud of it and will make more as I enjoyed making ...

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Spotlight Mystery Quilt: FINAL IMAGE!!

Posted on: 16 Aug 2010

We hope you have really enjoyed this Inspiring new project brought to us from some very talented (obviously!) crafty people from Australian Country Spinners. Please let us know what you thought of this project and let us know how you went with your knitted quilt! If you would prefer ...

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Spotlight Margaret Conlon

Posted on: 17 Aug 2009

A quilter for around 30 years, Margaret took up quilting when her airforce husband was posted to Penang in Malaysia. “I met another airforce wife while there and she’d been quilting for a little while. I just loved the work that she did... I haven’t stopped since,” says Margaret. “My ...

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Spotlight A good friend is like...

Posted on: 07 Aug 2009

“A good friend is like a warm quilt wrapped around the heart.” - Anon. Whenever you talk to a quilter, novice or professional alike, the word ‘friendship’ comes up early in the conversation. Like many other creative hobbies, quilting provides people with much more than stitching skills or an overflowing ...

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Spotlight Artist profile - Maggie Grey

Posted on: 06 Aug 2009

Sometimes in life it takes a huge and tumultuous change to put us on a new and happier path. When the husband of textile artist, Maggie Grey, was retrenched from his insurance industry job the couple were initially in shock. “We thought it was the worse thing in the world,” ...

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Spotlight A brief history of... Crazy quilting

Posted on: 06 Aug 2009

Crazy quilting does not actually refer to a specific kind of quilting; instead it refers to a kind of patchwork. Originating in the late 1800s during the Victorian era, the word crazy was used to mean not only wild but also broken or crazed into splinters; a good description of ...

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Spotlight Jane Sassaman

Posted on: 05 Aug 2009

Every year since its inception the Australasian Quilt Convention has presented local quilters with the best of local and international quilting talent. This year is no exception and, as AQC moves to its new home at Melbourne’s Royal Exhibition Building, it welcomes Illinois (USA) based quilter, fabric designer, author and ...

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Spotlight Sue Dennis

Posted on: 14 Jul 2009

Not many people can say their quilting career kicked off in a mining region where the dramatic, sometimes harsh, natural environment inspired their work. Sue Dennis can. It was when her husband’s work took her to Mt. Isa, in North-West Queensland, that the stitching bug bit. Since then she has ...

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Spotlight Artist profile - Nic Bridges

Posted on: 14 Jul 2009

Nic Bridges is a professional longarm quilter, artist, designer and teacher whom we met at Be Creative By the Sea at Coffs Harbour. She makes fantastic textile postcards, journal covers, quilts and much more and, this month, Nic shares her talents, and her story, with us. Nic has been making ...

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Spotlight Christmas quilts in Kansas

Posted on: 08 Jul 2009

US quilters come to the aid of children in foster care. In yet another example of crafters helping out those around them who are in need, quilters in Kansas are working on a special Christmas project to provide quilts for children in foster care and for those awaiting ...

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Spotlight Beth Miller

Posted on: 29 Jun 2009

Canberra’s Beth Miller attended her first quilting class in 1981. What started as a hobby became a passion and in 1997 she completed tertiary studies in commercial screen printing and fabric decoration. It was during that period that Beth started making quilts and printing, painting and dyeing many of the ...

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Spotlight Artist profile - Lorraine Carthew

Posted on: 22 Jun 2009

At 'get creative' we met quilt artist, Lorraine Carthew, and decided we had to know more about her. Lorraine is a former fashion designer and, now, an award winning quilter, author and teacher. Many of her quilts have been exhibited in international shows including the American Quilter’s Society’s one in ...

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