The Creative Cocoon - Gallery-Fibre Room Display2





			DISPLAY 2: Photo Transfer Quilts and Pieces..... Photographs or other images are copied or scanned onto heat-transfer paper. I then iron the image onto Kasha Lining, my favourite fabric for this work, although I'm experimenting with other materials, for example silk, leather and felt. I love working with pictures, each one has something to say, a story to tell, a feeling to evoke, a memory to bring to mind and heart. My role is to create a 'space' for them where they can come into their own and speak.


					Cave Memories. This piece comprises old personal pictures and photos of caves from France, which make up the background. I machine stitched with metallic thread and glued the masks and stars as a final touch.

					80th. Birthday Quilt. This is a large, mixed media quilt that includes 3 hand-felted panels that were free machine stitched. Each non-photographic panel reflects the recipient's interests either literally or symbolically.

					80th. Birthday Quilt. D E T A I L The photographs span over a 100 year period and include the recipient's mother as a youngster and her family. Major life events or special people surround the central, oldest picture.

			The next three images are from samples created to demonstrate how similar pictures can be portrayed in different styles.
					Posed Girls. This young lady posing with domestic paraphernalia moved me. She seems so sad, yet resigned. I decided to use a more formal setting with subdued colours, and a star fabric suggesting hope.

					Pyramid. There is a precocious look about these young ladies, yet they are so young! I chose a pink batik fabric as the background. The piece is machine stitched with metal thread cocooning the images.

					Young Girls. Vibrant colours and a variety of different textural fabrics create this rich collage piece. I laid the photo images down first, then build up the collage around them. It is free machine stitched with rayon thread.

					Mother and Daughter. I smile every time I see this piece! It's my mother and I after an afternoon of creating. We're both shown modelling a fabric collage bag I had made! However, we thought it could work equally as well as a hat! We had such fun!

					Riley. My dear grandson at less than 24 hours old! He certainly looks ready to take on the world! The chosen fabrics carry symbols of indigenous cultures, many of them Australian.

					Wedding Quilt. 3 pieces were designed as a wedding gift. One quilt depicts the groom's family as far back as we could. One depicts the bride's family and the third celebrates the bride and groom growing up and their courtship.

					Wedding Quilt. D E T A I L Each panel has groupings of generations from the paternal and maternal sides of the family, and this is a detail from one of them. At the presentation the recipients', not normally known to display emotion, had tears in their eyes.

					Bungle Bungles wall piece. I began with a photograph of the Bungle Bungles in Australia, which I transferred to fabric. Dyed wool fibre was built up around it, and then free machine stitched to the background with metallic thread.