The new year started with a lively sit and sew evening complete with lamingtons and a challenging quiz. Highlight of the meeting was seeing the quilts of our President.
Heather is a very talented quilter who adapts designs and creates her own. Unfortunately there are no photos of her first quilt, made at the 1993 Waverley Symposium, so we jump into the quilts from the last decade.
In 2010 there was quite an interest in William Morris inspired quilts. Heather designed An English Garden using patterns from a book produced by the South Australian Museum. Being a South Aussie she is very familiar with the Boynthon family collection of unique William Morris items held in the museum. Her quilt toured the USA in the World Quilt Competition in 2011.
Free Spirit was made in 2011 for a Victorian Quilters’ competition using a pattern from Annette Gero’s book The Fabric of Society.
Always challenging herself, Heather’s version of Grace, a class at Somerset Quilts, has a background fabric that took her out of her comfort zone.
Enough of the reproduction quilts, more recently Heather has embraced the Modern Quilt movement. Tout Naturale was designed and made in 2017 for her daughter who had a particular colour scheme request as well as wanting flying geese. It is well used, and well washed, a good indication that the quilt made the recipient very happy.
The most recent quilt made by Heather is Family DNA. Again a family request, this time for a brown quilt. The idea comes from a quilt glimpsed in the 2008 movie Runs in the Family, so the idea took quite a time to come to fruition. Well worth the wait.
Show and tell
This is a Quilt Show year, so for the first half we will not see many quilts at our meeting. Members tend to keep them under wraps before the show or they are busy getting a quilt finished in time for the May event.
Norma – Blue Cascades 
Norma – Free Motion Quilting Challenge 
Jenny H – Zen Quilt 
Jenny – Sweet Surrender 
Rhondda – Bag 
Hamish – Turtle
