Eastwood Patchwork Quilters love to see beautiful quilts and this is a quilt show that we would not miss!
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Eastwood Quilters Exhibition
Eastwood Patchwork Quilters Exhibition Flyer
Here is the flyer for the Eastwood patchwork Quilters 2013 Exhibition – you will find them at your local patchwork and quilting shop, group and EPQ members
We all love a fabric sale!
ROLL UP ROLL UP WE ARE HAVING A SALE
Hi everyone
I can’t find the floor of the shop again, so it must be time to
HAVE A SALE.
Sale starts on Saturday 16 March and finishes on Saturday 30 March (yes Easter Saturday).
25% OFF ALL FABRICS, 30 CM MINIMUM CUT.
25% OFF ALL PRE-CUT FAT QUARTERS.
SALE IN STORE AND ON-LINE.
Quilts 1700-1945 Exhibition
15 June – 22 September 2013 | Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) | Brisbane Only | Ticketed
Opening Hours
10.00am — 5.00pm Monday to Friday
9.00am — 5.00pm Saturday and Sunday
9.00am — 5.00pm Public Holidays
Tickets and Packages on sale March
Quilts are evocative symbols of our collective past — stimulating our earliest memories of security and comfort and awakening the senses through touch and smell. They resonate with historical references, revealing the social and cultural significance of what has often been simply perceived as ‘women’s work’.
‘Quilts 1700–1945’ explores the personal and social histories embedded in both highly decorative and homemade bed covers that reveal the maker’s complex engagement with the wider world. Exploring over 200 years of British quiltmaking, every quilt has a hidden history, an unspoken story concealed within its layers. The exhibition features works from the V&A’s collection and loans from selected UK museums, as well as one of the world’s most important textiles, Rajah Quilt 1841, from the National Gallery of Australia.
This information was sourced from the website for the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/exhibitions
An interesting workshop in April
A Hat making Workshop
with
Pam de Groot
In the Hat workshop we will create a hat using the resist method.
This is the main method used to create pocket items such as bags, clothing and sculpture.
Participants will create their own template in the shape of their hat.
Requirements
- Byo Lunch, morning tea provided.
- Hat block if you have one. Don’t worry if you don’t.
- Medium piece of bubble wrap approx 700mmx1m.
- Thin plastic 2x bubble size, old sheet (may get torn up)
- 300g wool tops(sliver). Varying colours, have more of one colour, this will be your base. (This is more than you will need but it gives you choice.) I will have some you can purchase on the day if you like. You can email me for suppliers as well.
- Soap of choice, small ice cream container
- Selection of fibres to add in. ie silk top, mohair, silk hankies, spun wool, silk fabric, muslin etc.
I will have some fibres you can purchase on the day if you need.
- Bring a couple of old towels
- Paper and pencils, tape measure, permanent texta
When
Sunday April 7th 9.30am-5.00pm
Cost
- $85 per day, per person plus any materials.(silk fabric and any extra fibres)
Where
- 7 Charles St Lawson
- Ph 47591618 or 0410 094653 email pamdegroot.fibre@gmail.com
The Quilt Study Group Meeting
Attention : Confirmation of Date
Please be advised that the next meeting for interested members of The Quilt Study Group will be held on 9 March 2013
The Guest Speaker will be Lyn Dennis.
She will give an illustrated talk about her May 2012 United Kingdom Quilt Research Trip.
Whilst there she was able to study some of the quilts in the collections of Norwich Guild Hall and (Lancashire) Gawthorpe Hall.
Lyn will share detailed information on approximately 10 – 12 quilts from each of these collections.
If you have any old English quilts or ‘heritage’ reproductions of such, to show, then please bring them along to share.
Venue : Powerhouse Museum
Date : 9 March 2013
Time : 2pm – 4.00pm
Entry : Meeting cover charge of $5.00 for members and $10 for non-members
Free Entry to Museum for all.
Afternoon Tea will be provided.
Brush Farm House – Eastwood
Brush Farm c.1910
After restoration 2007
At EPQ we love Brush Farm House. It is a stunning venue in which to exhibit our quilts. The history of the house is interesting as a significant building in the suburb of Eastwood.
The Ryde City Council website tells of its early days . . .
Brush Farm House was built circa 1820 by Gregory Blaxland, following his purchase of the Brush Farm Estate in 1807. It is not only one of Australia’s oldest houses but also one of the most substantial houses surviving from the Macquarie period. Brush Farm House represents a nationally important site where some of the colony’s initial land grants were made.
After that time it variously served as a grand residence for a state Premier and other notaries, a boy’s reformatory school and an administration centre before falling into disrepair.
In 2007, a multi-million dollar restoration was completed and the building re-opened as a community space. It was after that time when Eastwood Patchwork Quilters began a fruitful relationship with our first exhibition there in 2009.
You can read more about the house at the Ryde City Council website
http://www.ryde.nsw.gov.au/About+Ryde/Historic+Ryde/Historic+Buildings/Brush+Farm+House
Our Raffle Quilts
We take our Exhibition as an opportunity to raise funds for a charity which gets little or no government funding. This year it is The Special Olympics, a worldwide movement that inspires children and adults people with an intellectual disability to reach their personal best through regular (weekly) sport and competition. Giving them opportunities not only to develop physical fitness, but also demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendships with their families, coaches and other Special Olympic athletes and the broader community.
To aid the fundraising we have made 2 raffle quilts with the Canyon Star block. Each member was asked to make at least 5 blocks and were given blue fabric for the stars and a mix of green fabrics for the centre triangles. The ladies then added 3 different fabrics to complete each block. They are both stunning with the 1st prize quilt having a magnificent bird appliquéd in the centre.
Welcome
Welcome from Eastwood Patchwork Quilters to all who visit our site.
We are a large and active quilting group in the north western Sydney region. Our members number over 100 and vary in experience, ability, age, and background.
At present, we are aiming towards our much anticipated biennial exhibition to be held in 2013 from Friday 3rd May until Sunday 5th May at the historic Brush Farm House in Eastwood.
Eastwood Patchwork Quilters Inc. 
