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Agony and the Ecstasy HILDA FITZGERALD, COOTAMUNDRA, NSW Cotton and silk fabrics. Machine piecing, machine and hand embroidery. 140 cm H x 166 cm W In memory of migrancy … and other things … My crazy patchwork is a collection of my own, my mother’s and my aunt’s fabrics, buttons and laces. Leaving war-torn Yugoslavia, we migrated to Australia in the 1950s, taking up the Australian Government’s offer of a new life. The embroidery on the quilt was created at time of chaos because of my son’s incurable illness. |
