Julie Haddrick, Fragile Balance, 130cm x 130cm
}Cathedral window quilts suit themselves to a plain fabric for the
background and a print for the window.
South American designs and stone blocks in Inca ruins, the
quilt is foundation paper pieced and machine appliquéd.
Wendy used 36 different, brightly-coloured fabrics to provide
maximum impact against the ‘leading lines’ in black.
Robyn MacPherson had long admired the quiltmaking
of Dilys Fronks*, but felt she lacked the eyesight, time and
patience to undertake all the needle-turn involved. “When
visiting the Houston Quilt Festival in 2007 I found a pre-cut
Dilys Fronks stencil – this was the solution. I also bought a
grab bag of Bold Over Batiks, intending to place them behind
the stencil to get the range of colours I had envisaged,”
explains Robyn. It took her three weeks of fairly solid work
to complete the centre panel, complicated by her two very
naughty oriental cats who thought other arrangements were
better and that the quilt really needed the addition of fur.
“After the panel was complete I photographed it and played
with the image in EQ6,” she says. After playing with various
settings she decided on the simple setting of grey batik fabric
