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[ 6DG ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Random, Typically Australian, Re-used clothing or blanket
Owner: Diana Garder  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "The cottage it was used in is part of a cabin group of "depression architecture" holiday cabins in the Royal National Park, which have been classified by the National Trust and entered on the Register of the National..."

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[ 86GS ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Suffolk Puff
Owner: Gillian Sullivan  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA QLD -  Date: Unknown
Story of Quilt: "The quilt was given to Gillian Sullivan, the present owner, by Mrs. Lea Swiney of Queensland, Sunshine Coast c.1990. Mrs. Swiney had it for a number of years on a bed in their beach house at Toorbul but had no information about the..."

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[ 140NWM ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Utilitarian, Typically Australian, Traditional Wagga
Owner: National Wool Museum  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA VIC -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "Mr. Perkins joined the police force in his early twenties and apart from an 18 month posting in Melbourne, spent the rest of his career serving communities in country Victoria. He was a keen fisherman and hunter; his first love was..."

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[ 177EQ ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Frame
Owner: Janette McInnes  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA VIC -  Date: 1921 - 1940
Story of Quilt: "The quilt was donated to Essendon Quilters. It had been bought at an op shop for $2.00. I had become very interested in the quilt and after a bit of research found the person who gave it to the op shop. That was Mrs Chalmers. Beryl..."

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[ 192BC ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Mosaic, Hexagon
Owner: Gillian Albers  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA VIC -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "Known as the 'Pankina' Quilt (means 'a happy place'). "I made the quilt mainly from my sewing scraps as I had a young family at the time. I learned how to do hexagons from a magazine article. I had no idea how to make a..."

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[ 330JG ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Mosaic, Rectangle, Typically Australian, Tailors' samples
Owner: Jean Gilbert  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW -  Date: 1921 - 1940
Story of Quilt: "Made for a weekender, which had six double canvas bunks, and a quilt was made for each bunk. Augusta's brother-in-law was a tailor and her sister a tailoress, so many 'wagga' rugs were made from tailors' samples for the weekender."

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[ 402JG ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Mosaic, Typically Australian, Tailors' samples
Owner: Jean Gilbert  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW -  Date: 1921 - 1940
Story of Quilt: "Augusta Craigie's brother-in-law (Bert Monahan) and sister Minnie Monahan were a tailor and tailoress respectively and supplied the tailors' samples for the quilts called "wagga rugs" by the family. The weekender had six..."

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[ 462MW ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Repeat Block, Log Cabin, Pieced Random
Owner: Margaret Wood  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA VIC -  Date: 1921 - 1940
Story of Quilt: "Early this century, my grandparents William and Maria Young, bought some bushland running down to the Olinda creek, below Mt. Evelyn. On the hillside, they built "Kookaburra Cottage" which they referred to as their Mountain..."

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[ 537JG ] Quilt Style: Pieced Animal skins, Native Fauna
Owner: Jan Gaudron  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW -  Date: 1901 - 1920
Story of Quilt: "The rug was used in the 1920s but is thought to be much older. There was another one with black rabbit fur edging. Francis and Kathleen Burns lived in Mayfield Newcastle from the time of their marriage in 1914 and they also had a..."

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[ 624PWH ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Mosaic, Typically Australian, Tailors' samples
Owner: The Pioneer Women's Hut  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW -  Date: 1901 - 1920
Story of Quilt: "Catherine Anderson (born Knese) lived with her husband Robert, and their son, John Henry (Jack) in a wattle and daub house on 'Selby Grange' at Brocklesby, NSW from 1912 to 1927. The quilt was made for general use. When Catherine..."

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