We thank all who supported us at our Mineral Quilts Rock exhibition at the Mount Magnet AstroFest 2021, especially Karen Morrisey who led the festival committee, and arranged space for us in Mount Magnet Town Hall. Lectures were held there, and many attendees stopped to talk about the quilts, and also to support us with purchases. Thank you! For those who missed out seeing the quilt set, CLICK ON AN IMAGE TO ENLARGE, and to start the slide show.
Yes, Australia’s First People referred to a Man in the Moon just like European’s do. This quilt is the last night-sky one unclaimed from the Mount Magnet Astro Rocks Fest. Price is $80. Contact mmquiltproject@gmail.com Background research is available in the booklet Aboriginal Astronomy: WA Focus by Pat Forster. That research will soon be formally published by the Astronomical Society of Australia in the ‘Review of Aboriginal Astronomy and Navigation: A Western Australian Focus’. The quilting on the moon authentically represents dark patches seen on the Moon. Several of Pat’s previous quilts that represent Aboriginal night sky understandings are in schools and are displayed, in particular, during Reconciliation and NAIDOC weeks.
This classy quilt (80cm x 40cm) by Roberta Chantler is looking for the right buyer. It represents mining core samples, which are exquisitely needle felted. It attracted much interest at the Mount Magnet Astro Fest last weekend, and now needs the right space in which to be permanently hung. Contact mmquiltproject@gmail.com Price $200.
At the moment, travel from Australia to London Bridge in the UK is not allowed unless you are a politician. You could visit London Bridge (natural rock arch) in Sandstone, in the Murchison WA, but you don’t need to. You can view it from your lounge room. Lana Lefroy’s cleverly created quilt captures the roughness of the rocks and the border fabric reminds us that the sea level used to be such that the Murchison was covered with salt water. Price is $390. To purchase contact mmquiltproject@gmail.com
Click on the link to download the full catalogue of our Astro Rocks Fest exhibit. Prices are on page 25 if you are interested. Contact pat.forster@iinet.net.au for other information.
Inspired by the iconic natural breakaway formation near the town of Sandstone, known as London Bridge. Based on a photo by Jan Fisher with permission. The 350-million-year-old weathered basalt range is about 800m long and 3-10 metres high. Created by Lana Lefroy, Yuinmery Station, Sandstone. The rugged appearance on the quilt is true to life. Come and talk with Lana at the Mount Magnet quilt exhibit – she will be there Friday 17 and Saturday 18 September in the Mount Magnet Town Hall. The image in the header to this page also shows a quilt ‘Banded Ironstone’ by Lana. Note the ironstone pebbles sewn on it! These and other quilts at our exhibit will be for sale.
Hot off the sewing machine, Strata Story by Meg Cowey, 80 cm x 40 cm, completes our 2021 Mount Magnet Astro Rocks Fest quilt set. Other quilts preceding it will be posted over the coming weeks. Enjoy! And visit the Fest if in the area Sep 17-19. All quilts will be for sale.
Natural fissures and crevasses in the rock reveal the history of the land for millions of years. Fossils, ores and minerals provide colour and contrast within the iron-rich rock.
Another amazing art quilt created by Jan Fisher of Esperance for the Mount Magnet Astro Rocks Fest Sep 17-19.
Hidden within the Yilgarn Plateau are hundreds of watery ‘islands’ surrounded by an ocean of rock. These isolated calcrete aquifers contain ecosystems of relictual fauna that slipped into the ground as the oceans and waterways of Tethys and Gondwana slowly dried. Each calcrete aquifer holds its own diverse creatures that are slightly different across the range of these discrete reservoirs. The stygofauna, as they are known, are represented in my quilt within the convoluted rock below the surface; within a world that we struggle to imagine.
100% Cotton fabrics, including some printed with small creatures. Machine pieced (patchwork) background. Machine applique rock contours. Machine quilted with a variety of cotton, polyester and metallic threads, shiny and dull, for interest on close inspection, in a variety of quilting patterns including text.
Inspired by orbicular granite found on Boogardie Station in the Shire of Mount Magnet. The quilt represents, in the abstract, a tile of orbicular granite. In reality, the orbicules are sphere-like and have varying numbers of thin to wider layers, in varying shades of grey (pale to dark).
Now that August is here, we are revving up for the Astro Fest on 17-19 September in Mount Magnet. Small items are being created as well the quilts, for our exhibition in Mount Magnet Town Hall.
Here, Liz Humphreys captures the swathes of white and yellow everlastings that are just starting to show their heads in the Murchison. The scene is based on a photo supplied by Karen Morrisey of Meeline Station near Mount Magnet.
Mount Magnet Quilt Project 