Comments by the fabricators of the HANDMADE APRONs: My apron allowed me to use a saved, maybe even sacred artifact from my children’s’ history. It is a superman cape from some favorite worn-out pajamas. It seemed a very suitable symbol for Caroline. I had such difficulties with my cross stitch letter that I almost gave [...]

Comments by the fabricator of a HANDMADE APRON: The plaid letter I used I cut from the very first school dress I made for my daughters – worn by all four and now outgrown. Caroline also saw to the education of girls in her time. The glossy blue background is cut from the most expensive [...]

Today Tom watched the movie How to Make an American Quilt. I remember seeing this movie as a younger wife and mother in 1995…very much about how culture and belief is passed along through the making of artifaction (my word for the traditionally based fabrication of dance/music/artifacts within any culture). I was jarred by the [...]

Comments by the fabricators of the HANDMADE APRONS: I picked red, white and blue. Perhaps it is because I lived in America for a time. I thought I would show the only four remaining artifacts from Caroline’s humble home life but I settled for just one. It is her marble bust from the pope. The [...]

Comments by the fabricator of a HANDMADE APRON: I enjoy authentic craft so completed my apron using a Victorian crazy-quilt technique. Notice the spider and web, a required motif in this type of quilting. I worked the apron while visiting my father in Intensive Care. My letter was picked for my baby granddaughter. I included [...]

Comments by the fabricators of the HANDMADE APRONS: The vibrant magenta ribbon once wrapped a present from a distant friend. Long ago our children were in Playgroup together.   My mother raised geese. She knew them each by name. Touching the sensual downy grey trim so like the curved neck of a gander drew me [...]

Comments by the fabricators of the HANDMADE APRONS: I used the colours of the feminist movement – green, blue and white.   Caroline Chisholm always spoke of ‘Providence’ present in her life and in the situations she faced. Likewise, it was her Christian beliefs that led her to ‘provide’ homes for many.   Related website: [...]

Comments by the fabricators on the HANDMADE APRONS: After much thought, I designed and embroidered this letter using Brazilian embroidery. I enjoyed it so much that I offered to do more letters.   I was a little shy about showing Flossie my letter until it was finished as I hadn’t followed the rules   Related [...]

Comment on chat about being the mother of six young children… 8:31 PM I think I looked tired most often but I was so busy that I did not know it. Though my life has never revolved singularly around ‘my children’ and inside I was always ‘the practicing artist’, I was content with the art that [...]

So, the exhibition is finished at Maryborough. It is all packed up and ready to be picked by Tom and I. We will first pack the van and drop that load off at Wangaratta. Then we will pick up the work from Maryborough and drop that off at Wangaratta on the way back from Melbourne. [...]

Chat online 8:26 PM me: thanks for the chat….xxxooo 8:28 PM Matthias: love you. 8:30 PM me: love you too. oh, i meant to tell you…looking at old photos and artifacts from Lobethal about you young boys was very sobbering (yes sobbering) for me. Looking from this distance, I realized how full my life once was and how [...]

Hello Flossie Thank you for sending through the great newspaper article, which I read with interest. Well, it’s nearly time for the exhibition to close in Maryborough – my, my how time does fly!!  I will get a chance to thank you in person, but I would also like to say thankyou, so very much, for [...]