Ulverstone Street Directory Quilt

It's been a while since my last post and my blog has a new name - Apple Isle Quilts.

The Street Directory Quilt, a mammoth 2.7 metres long and 1.8 metres wide, is currently hanging in a local art and craft gallery.   It is so heavy that even the reinforced rods buckled in the middle after it was hanging for a few days.

 All the quilting on the quilt was done on my Janome domestic sewing machine on my dining room table and it was quite a challenge.  There were a few times that the bulk of the quilt fell over the edge of the table pulling the sewing machine across the table as I was sewing.

 Here are some photos showing the quilting.  I added lots of detailed quilting such as dogs on leads on the beach, seagulls, surfboards outside the surf club and shells.

 Each street and main road has its name written on it as well as the major highway running behind the town.

 The river, which runs through the town, has fish swimming in it, a log or two in memory of the 2016 floods when so many logs and debris floated down the river into the sea.  There are yachts outside the Yacht Club, canoes outside the Rowing Club.

 This photo shows the yachts sailing in the ocean just outside the mouth of the river.

 Cows, a horse or two, lots of rabbits, baby lambs, frogs, trees and grass are quilted into the outlaying fields surrounding the township.

I have had two articles about the quilt featured in the local 'Central Coast News' and an article written in the local newspaper.  These articles were also reproduced in an interstate Quilting Guild newsletter in New South Wales. 

The quilt will be hung in the local Visitor Information Centre in September at the beginning of the spring/summer tourist season.  

Happy quilting !