Sydney Quilt Show 2019

hi it's Helen Godden here and thank you for joining me on my youtube channel! Here I am at the Sydney Quilt Show and I want to take you for a little walk to have a look at some of the quilts here representing the best of Australia they're not necessarily all the Award winners but they're the ones that really caught my attention whether it be for their quilting or their color or their sort of slightly new twist on a design. But first we're going to start with my quilt here called Lindsay which is a 50 inch portrait of my friend Lindsey Marsh that's all being couched in yarn so it's a little bit different it's got lots of lots of texture as well. So come for a walk with me around the quilt show and I'll share some of my favourites with you. Here we are at the Sydney Quilt Show I like to share with you this piece here by Denise Griffith she really is quite obsessed by Australian wildflowers but what a great job does she do. The combination of the black and white graphic prints she's combined it this time with a print in the background that's got really fine detail which contrasts beautifully with these huge big bold shapes. These look like silks and satins down below here and then it's also got some three-dimensional elements with the orchids it really is quite delightful looks like some hand stitching in there awesome I really do like this piece it's pretty special let's just step back a bit yeah yeah that's gorgeous beautiful okay thanks Denise. This is a beautiful piece that captured my eye by Claire Lewis called Candyland and she's made these beautiful coloured mandalas which have been appliquéd onto the background but the quilting in the background is quite lovely that's on a lovely textured sparkly white fabric so it really shows off the quilting I'll just step back it really is quite a stunning quilt look at that nine mandalas in beautiful batik colours high contrast it's a lovely quilt. So if any of your jeans ever go missing off your washing line you'll probably have to check with Elizabeth here because she's making these quilts out of old denim and using all the beautiful shades from your different acid rinse and wear-and-tear it's like an eyeball in there. But look at the shibori effects you wouldn't think your old jeans if you go back to the 80s particularly with all your stone wash and everything they look excellent and her stitching sort of reminiscent of the sort of drafting patterns should look like drafting patterns of pants and clothing and she's included buttons and everything it's quite a large place if I step back it really is quite beautiful and they just old jeans so there you go recycling at its best - The Rivers Run Blue well done Elizabeth D. Now this piece is by Kathleen Jackson and it's called Alice I love the slightly abstract look that's coming through so normally if I was doing this kind of work with my mother these would all be absolutely parallel she does not get the whole 'let them be wonky' and I just think that's spectacular let's step back from that. Love it! This one is called Muted Memories by Gary Butler and it really is quite special in how soft the tones are. I think these are some Kaffe Fassett fabrics I recognise the patterning but I have not seen them in those soft colors it's actually quite a beautiful piece going with that limited palette and sticking to it for the whole whole piece that's that's great coloring particularly like these outer blocks here it's simple simple color choices sticking to our palette and that's what makes the whole thing come together beautifully Now this is an interes ting piece to share by Di Tramontana sorry if I haven't said that correctly it's called the Succulent and when you're standing back you can see that's exactly what it is a succulent in a little blue pot but I would suggest she's taken a photo and sort of photoshoped it but then reproduced it in applique lovely combination of subtle colors with those redish pinkish edges and a really dominant background which sort of goes against what you might expect but it's working but what I'm enjoying is her raw edge appliqué she has sitched around the edge with that single line of stitching but then she's sort of diffused it with a random satin stitch just like a zig zag just going kind of crazy that's not being a satin stitch its just being a random zig zag to blend those colors so here where she's got the pink down to the white she's blending it so when you step back see that blending that's a nice finish occasionally she's got that harder edge but in the main it's that blended edge it's quite a fascinating and completely abstract up-close but of course you step back and that's a really unusual combination of colors and I love it that is quite quite spectacular This beautiful piece by a Kyeen McPherson it's called spinning in time it is a huge scale piece you're not really seeing it to its full scale let me just - im not going to touch the quilt - but I just want to show you that's the size of these blocks and check out this free motion quilting she's gone with these huge flourish-ie feathers really exaggerated and full of expression all over the piece on the white I mean its superb I'm sure these circular shapes are superb but all I see the fantastic quilting it's just stunning So this one's caught our attention by Michelle Law it's called Chester Cheswell now our first interpretation of this was Hawaiian designs with a modern twist we read the little blurb and it's actually based on a very old Pennsylvanian pattern for the Creswell family from 1852 but I do love the way that she has added modern fabrics and the modern finish of the matchstick quilting so if we look in here there's some very graphic modern type prints definitely not traditional Pennsylvanian fabrics but overall it's come together beautifully it's just little bit different and it does look Hawaiian with those appliquéd blocks it's all turned appliqué it's really Lovely now this is a fun piece from Wendy Williams she's well known for her felted flowers and hand embroidered details and she's combined it all here into kind of an abstract still life what I particularly like is of course the black background that's always my choice and I like the way that the border stops and starts rather not just having to go all the way around I do like the way that encapsulates the details but yeah the work on this is lovely as always all this little hand work and it gives it that three dimension because it is the woollen felt adds a fun piece there we go it's won Best Contemporary Quilt Award Good morning everyone I'm still at the Sydney quilt show and I thought I'd better share with you this amazing quilt called StarCrazy by Catherine Butterworth this is Best of Show check out the ribbons - Hangers Prize Excellence in Machine Quilting yeah she's won lots but this is quite an extraordinary quilt it's got so much detail attention to detail so there's all these little pieced puffy trapunto areas there's couched areas there's different coloured threads lifting up different areas so these are becoming quite trapunto it that's just the print of the fabric she's added little French knots she's got these Suffolk puffs that you actually can look inside she's gone around all the dots I mean it's quite extraordinary but what I particularly think is clever about this quilt if we come to their borders here I'll just step back so you get a bit of perspective then we come back in again and in all this area here so here here here it is all the same fabric appears different by the way it's been quilted and with the colors it's been quilted with so this one here has got black very carefully in a repeated pattern stitching either side of that teeny-weeny gingham it's like a millimetre wide same fabric here un-quilted same fabric here with less but white quilting same here in the purple that's all one piece of fabric and yet it's giving us such different appearances it's very clever use of the black and white and then another variation over here and all her heavily decorated fabrics she's got rickrack here there's just so much to see and then when we step back it's quite extraordinary This is a beautiful piece it's quite large overall the colors are soft greys and moves just little punches but look at the trapunto effect you couldn't really see that shadowing it's quite a gorgeous extraordinary quilt it really is a Best to Show without a doubt congratulations Catherine, it's just an absolute pleasure of a quilt with little hidden surprises and clever clever treatments beautiful so I found my second entry and she is called content and she's very happy in her own skin surrounded by all that color so this started out with a piece of calico that I painted with the black ink to create the figure I then painted around the rest of the outside with a die so this background of sort of the geometric is dye that I've painted and then I've stitched and then on top of over painted with my Lumiere so the combination there of ink dye and acrylic and then all the crazy free motion quilting to describe her body shape so I use circular shapes for the the breast for the shoulder for the cheek for the chin and then the more linear shapes in between even down here around her hips it just helps describe that form if it was just quilted flat it just wouldn't have the same look they've got a kneecap here and even this shape here comes down and goes around the muscles of the calf you see it all it all makes the piece it all makes sense when you read like that otherwise it would be a very flat piece so there she is content surrounded by color So thanks for joining me here at the Sydney Quilt Show Click that Subscribe button to see more from Helen Godden Quilts Education and Inspiration from HelenGodden.com See you later!

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Length: 11min 9sec (669 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 14 2019