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[ 43JP ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Frame
Owner: Julie Pearce  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "My paternal great-Grandmother Â... was a keen sewer in her time and over 30 years ago made my sister and myself a functional quilt for our beds. She made them on her treadle machine and used fabric scraps that my mother had left over..."

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[ 44JP ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Frame
Owner: Julie Pearce  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "My paternal great-Grandmother Â... was a keen sewer in her time and over 30 years ago made my sister and myself a functional quilt for our beds. She made them on her treadle machine and used fabric scraps that my mother had left over..."

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[ 488WHS ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Random, Crazy, Typically Australian
Owner: Wangaratta Historical Society  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA VIC -  Date: 1881 - 1900
Story of Quilt: "Marianne was born in Armagh, Ireland in 1837, and as a young woman she and her sister accompanied their uncle to Australia. They eventually made their way to Wangaratta Victoria where in 1864, Marianne married Alexander McCullen..."

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[ 735AVB ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Frame
Owner: Army Museum Victoria Barracks  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Quilt History: "This quilt was made by the RSL Ladies Auxilliary in Taree NSW about 1946. The top includes some colour patches which were not issued until 1945. The Ladies Auxilliary donated the quilt to the Army Museum Victoria Barracks Sydney."

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[ 982SB ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Repeat Block, Typically Australian, Motifs or Names
Owner: Sheila Bruhn  -  Country/Place Created: SINGAPORE Changi Prison -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "This Girl Guide quilt was put together by a group of girls in Changi Prison. The guide group was started by Elizabeth Ennis, an army nursing sister, with the help of a young Dutch girl, Trude van Roode. There were about 20 to 30..."

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[ 1003MT ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Repeat Block
Owner: Muriel Thompson  -  Country/Place Created: CANADA Ontario -  Date: Unknown
Quilt History: "Quilt is thought to have been made by Menite people, Ontario, Canada. Purchased in Ontario, Canada and sent to owner by her daughter. Quilt is currently being used."

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[ 1007PH ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Repeat Block
Owner: Pearl Holland  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA VIC -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: " "The name (Martha Washington's Flower Garden) was given to Pearl by Mrs Brent Clarke who was President of Quilters Association in Melbourne at one stage. In the 1920's, Pearl had seen her mother's friend working on a quilt with..."

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[ 1032NG ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Quilting as major design element
Owner: Narelle Grieve  -  Country/Place Created: WALES -  Date: 1921 - 1940
Story of Quilt: "Â...Â...Â..."Months after salvaging the quilt from a garage sale in the Sydney suburb of Gordon, Narelle noticed a photograph of an almost identical quilt in Dorothy Osler's book 'Traditional British Quilts'. Correspondence with..."

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[ 1058SP ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Repeat Block
Owner: Simone Poznanski  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "For several years this quilt had appeared on the trading table at the Wollstonecraft Bowling Club (Sydney) but there were no buyers. It was then suggested that it was raffled and Bonnie Johnston won it."

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[ 1188WQ ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Utilitarian, Typically Australian, Domestic Wagga
Owner: WAQA  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA WA West Swan -  Date: 1921 - 1940
Story of Quilt: "Jane Murray was born 17th January 1877 at Haggerson, Parish of Ancroft, Northumberland, England, the 2nd daughter of Elizabeth and George Murray. Following the death of their mother Elizabeth 29.5 1897, Jane, together with her elder..."

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