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The Travelling Friendship Quilt
Project
www.thetravellingfriendshipquiltproject.com
The quilt will be on show at the Australasian Quilt Convention
12-15 April 2012
at the Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
It should prove to be an interesting snapshot of women's lives in 2011
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The Bacchus Marsh block represented the iconic Avenue of Honour
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There was an article about this project in Australian Homespun Yearbook magazine, No. 92 Vol. 12 No. 1.
It started
in Maleny Queensland. Eight suitcases, one for each state, headed off at the end
of 2010 for a one year journey within the state, to be passed from group to
group, friend to friend, each adding a 10˝” square ‘quilt-as-you-go’ style.
The cases have gone back to Maleny for the blocks to be assembled and
added to a large centrepiece with a map of Australia which will show all the
towns that participated.
The project
will raise funds for charities such as UNIFEM (United Nations Development Fund
for Women). The Geelong block showed waterfront and bollards (sorry, no pic) It then went on to Ballarat and Horsham and then ........
NOTE: The request was for Friendship blocks as well as town representations |
