Blog Hop - Ruth de Vos

Hop over to visit Ruth de Vos of  Western Austalia at ruthdevos.com/blog for insights into her donation work for the SAQA Benefit Auction 2013.

   

Other blog stops:

• 26 July                  Mel Forrest                     mixedmediabymelforrest.com
• 28 July                  Brenda Gael Smith          serendipitypatchwork.com.au/blog
• 1 August               Ali George                       aliquilts.blogspot.com
• 3 August               Rasa Mauragis                 rasamauragis.com/blog

View the complete Oceania Collection Blog Hop timetable.

Blog Hop - Brenda Gael Smith

Join the Oceania Collection blog hop to visit Brenda Gael Smith in her studio at Copacabana, Australia at www.serendipitypatchwork.com.au/blog and learn more about the creation of her contribution to the 2013 SAQA Benefit Auction that begins online on Monday, 9 September 2013. 

 

Other blog stops:

• 24 July                  Averil Stuart-Head          avesrave.blogspot.com
• 26 July                  Mel Forrest                     mixedmediabymelforrest.com
• 30 July                  Ruth de Vos                     ruthdevos.com/blog
• 1 August               Ali George                       aliquilts.blogspot.com

View the complete Oceania Collection Blog Hop timetable.

Blog Hop - Mel Forrest

Today the Oceania Collection blog hop visits Mel Forrest at mixedmediabymelforrest.com  
Other blog stops:

22 July                  Lisa Repsevicius              SAQA Oceania blog
24 July                  Averil Stuart-Head          avesrave.blogspot.com
28 July                  Brenda Gael Smith          serendipitypatchwork.com.au/blog
30 July                  Ruth de Vos                    ruthdevos.com/blog

View the complete Oceania Collection Blog Hop timetable.

Blog Hop - Averil Stuart-Head

Today the Oceania Collection blog hop visits Averil Stuart-Head at avesrave.blogspot.com  
Other blog stops:

20 July                  Lisa Walton                     fibreinspirations.blogspot.com
22 July                  Lisa Repsevicius              SAQA Oceania blog
26 July                  Mel Forrest                     mixedmediabymelforrest.com
28 July                  Brenda Gael Smith          serendipitypatchwork.com.au/blog

View the complete Oceania Collection Blog Hop timetable.

Blog Hop - Lisa Repsevicius

More Blog Hop fun!
Today's post is by Lisa Repsevicius of Perth WA.  Enjoy following along with her as she shows you her process for making "Untitled".


 

I love working with recycled/repurposed fabrics (amongst others of course) and find a lot of my treasures in local Op Shops. What to make for the 2013 SAQA Benefit Auction? Well, I have a plentiful stash of unpicked parts of old jeans – the waistbands are my favourite! Once unpicked and pressed totally flat, this re-purposed denim provides some wonderful, serendipitous indigo patterning - usually in some linear form - and anyone who knows my work knows that I love my straight lines!

With the denim so variable, I wanted to keep the construction and colour simple. I decided to contrast the denim’s inky blues with a citrus yellow plain wool felt, which I used for the backing as well as incorporating some snippets within the quilt top. I like to link the back to the front and vice versa.
 

This was my process:

First, I cut a rough square from some yellow felt offcuts I had. This is the backing piece.

I then raided my denim laden shelves for exciting bits and pieces with lots of colour nuance.

I used spray starch and a steam iron to press the pieces very flat – unpicked, well-worn jeans have seam memory hammered into them and I wanted to erase that.

Off to the sewing machine, I randomly stitched denims of approximately the same width together, to a length needed to cover the width of the yellow backing piece. I'm calling this raw-edge piecing.

I then raw-edge pieced the strips together into a rough square, incorporating some strategically placed bits of yellow felt amongst the rows. Part of the fun (yep!) at my sewing machine is collecting stray bits and pieces and thread trimmings. I'll build up a little collection of bits whilst working on a project – it is evidence of the creative process and I just like the way it looks all mashed together (call me strange!). I have a yellow thing going on at the moment - I keep a large yellow soup mug next to my machine for my textile swarf. Love that word swarf! My husband once explained to me that those springy little spirals that emanate from a busy drill bit are called swarf – who knew? Now I have swarf too! (and he knows it…)

After sandwiching backing and top together, I chose red thread for the quilting and began fairly randomly quilting parallel lines over the quilt sandwich. Why red? To me, denim’s partner in crime is red, so red it has to be!

Back view showing lots of ends to tie off, not unusual when I quilt with stop-start geometrics.

My bright yellow cup full of trimmings.

I glued a label into one back corner of the quilt, right to the edges, then, in keeping with the raw-edge piecing, I left the edges of the quilt raw, stabilising with a couple of rows of stitching about 1/8” in from the edge, through the label. The rest of the label was hand-stitched to secure it.

I attached a denim sleeve to the top back of the quilt in the same manner as the label.

The reveal on my design wall!

I left the quilt Untitled as I didn’t really have a story to tell with this one (I usually do!).

I enjoy being a member of SAQA and the opportunities it provides – we are a disparate bunch of artists here in Oceania, united by our love of textiles and quilts. I’m loving being a part of this exhibition alongside my wonderfully talented colleagues and most importantly supporting the auction!

Here are some more posts to enjoy!
18 July                  Caroline Sharkey             textileartworkshopsonline.com
20 July                  Lisa Walton                     fibreinspirations.blogspot.com

24 July                  Averil Stuart-Head          avesrave.blogspot.com
26 July                  Mel Forrest                     mixedmediabymelforrest.com

Blog Hop - Lisa Walton

The Oceania Collection blog hop continues. Join Oceania co-representative, Lisa Walton of Sydney Australia at fibreinspirations.blogspot.com to learn more about her donation work Gumnuts.

 
Other blog stops:

• 16 July  Sue Dennis                       suedennisartquilts.blogspot.com
• 18 July  Caroline Sharkey              textileartworkshopsonline.com
• 22 July  Lisa Repsevicius               SAQA Oceania blog 
•  24 July Averil Stuart-Head           avesrave.blogspot.com

Blog Hop - Caroline Sharkey

Today the Oceania Collection blog hop visits Caroline Sharkey at www.textileartworkshopsonline.com  
Other blog stops:

• 16 July                  Sue Dennis                        suedennisartquilts.blogspot.com
• 20 July                  Lisa Walton                       fibreinspirations.blogspot.com
• 22 July                  Lisa Repsevicius                SAQA Oceania blog

Blog Hop - Sue Dennis

The Oceania Collection Blog Hop starts today!  First up is Sue Dennis of Brisbane, Queensland.  Pop over to Sue's blog www.suedennisartquilts.blogspot.com to learn more about A Seasonal Change, her donation to the to the 2013 SAQA Benefit Auction

Upcoming blog stops:

• 18 July  Caroline Sharkey www.textileartworkshopsonline.com
• 20 July   Lisa Walton  fibreinspirations.blogspot.com

The Oceania Collection Blog Hop 2013

Welcome to our Blop Hop!

Twenty five SAQA Oceania members are lined up ready to share a "behind the scenes" glimpse into how they create.

Over six weeks you'll have the chance to visit each artist listed below and see the inspiration behind the piece they made for the Oceania Collection, quilts donated to the SAQA Benefit Auction 2013.

Feel free to visit often, and to spread the word!

16 July                  Sue Dennis                      suedennisartquilts.blogspot.com
18 July                  Caroline Sharkey             textileartworkshopsonline.com
20 July                  Lisa Walton                     fibreinspirations.blogspot.com
22 July                  Lisa Repsevicius              SAQA Oceania blog
24 July                  Averil Stuart-Head          avesrave.blogspot.com
26 July                  Mel Forrest                     mixedmediabymelforrest.com
28 July                  Brenda Gael Smith          serendipitypatchwork.com.au/blog
30 July                  Ruth de Vos                     ruthdevos.com/blog
1 August               Ali George                       aliquilts.blogspot.com
3 August               Rasa Mauragis                 rasamauragis.com/blog
5 August               Alison Schwabe               alisonschwabe.com/weblog
7 August               Maggie Gilbert                 mgquilts.blogspot.com
9 August               Susie Cujes                     SAQA Oceania blog
13 August             Linda Robertus                lindarobertus.blogspot.com
15 August             Linda Stokes                   linda-stokes.blogspot.com
17 August             Robyn McGrath               SAQA Oceania blog
19 August             Kate Oszko                    koszko.blogspot.com
21 August             Felicity Clarke                 bearlytherecreations.blogspot.com
24 August             Susan Mathews               susanmathews.info
27 August             Jenny Bowker                 jennybowker.com/postcards
29 August             Sally Westcott                 sallydunn.blogspot.com
31 August             Stephanie Newman         stephanienewman.blogspot.com
2 September         Hilary Metcalf                 hilarymetcalf.wordpress.com 
4 September         Buffy Beggs                    SAQA Oceania Blog 
6 September         Helen Beaven                 myinnerthread.blogspot.com

The Oceania Collection Blog Hop Button Code

To assist in promoting The Oceania Blog Hop, you are welcome to grab the code for this button.


<a href="http://saqa-oceania.blogspot.com"> <img src="http://tinyurl.com/oceaniabutton2013" alt="Blog Hop Button" title="Blog Hop Button"/></a> To add the blog hop button to the sidebar of your blog, copy and paste the code into a widget:

• For Blogspot blog: Dashboard>Design>Layout>Add Gadget>Select HTML/JavaScript Gadget> input code>Save 
• For WordPress blog: Dashboard>Appearance>Widgets>Add Text widget> input code >Save 

Alternatively, you can cut and paste the code into the HTML view of your blog post editor and the button will appear in your blog post.

Tip: If this image is too wide for your blog layout, reduce the width value at the end of the code from "200" to say "150" pixels.