Thank you for sharing your trip and the pictures. Brings back a lot of memories for me. There is something quite special and different too about quilting in the antipodes – I suspect it is a bit like NZ regionalist painting – the light is different, and so the way light and colour is used in quilting is quite different too.

Brilliant! Thanks for the feedback. Always good to hear.

That is great Ruth. It is a lovely project to do with a group.

I’d definitely recommend this as a day out for any quilt group within a couple of hours drive, or as a side trip if you are holidaying nearby. I love Scarborough Sewing Centre for their range and their prices and the fact that if you can’t get there, if you contact them via facebook and they will help you choose fabrics (by photo) that they can…[Read more]

I’m getting excited now too! As one of the bloggerati who will be helping sew this together, just wanted to make sure anyone contributing realised that we are after QAYG blocks – i.e. backed, wadded and quilted, then trimmed to 10.5 inches square.

Thanks so much Lynne. Yes, it did make me very proud to see it hanging there with all the others. Such a special thing to do in this the tercentenary year.

What lovely examples of your design process. Really great to see how designs can develop from a single idea and a common process.