Stitching Stories

Stitching Stories 

Early in my quilting days I saw, like every quilter in the world, the film "How to Make and American Quilt".  At the time I thought it fanciful but  experience has shown me that it is exactly what happens as quilters lives entwine within their groups. Their stories are shared round the table as they stitch for themselves, for gifts and often for charity. 

 Their feelings are expressed through their choices of pattern, colours, threads and techniques. Some are for the sheer pleasure of creating something beautiful, the excitement of a competition, or simply  the joy of sewing or making a special gift.  Many others are a healing experience. For artists quilting is the medium they choose for self expression - the threaded needle, hand or machine,  becomes a brush, the fabric is their canvas.

How often you see a quilt in a show and ask yourself  "Why?, what motivated that quilter? Who is this person"

So now we have Stitching Stories an exhibition about quilters as much as it is about the quilt.

two days before the opening......

Please use this blog as a catalogue of the exhibition.  Trawl down and dont forget to check the  "older posts"at the bottom.  This was put up over the end of July beginning of August so blogspot has spread the entries.

two days before the opening.........

Above all, enjoy this diverse exhibition and the stories that go with it.

Robina Summers
co-curator 

p.s. two weeks into the exhibition and we're already hearing wonderful stories of people coming from the Collins Street exit from Southern Cross station going  "oohh aahh" even before they cross the road.  Also heard of people seeing it from the Collins Street tram (which stops right outside) and jumping off mid journey to have a look!