We would like introduce you to your Juried Artist Member, starring ... Alison Schwabe www.alisonschwabe.com Australian girls in the 1950s were taught cookery and sewing as 'domestic science'. my grandmothers, mother and aunts all sewed and embroidered, so I learned many fabric and thread skills. I studied at university for a teaching career, but as my geologist husband's career required frequent major re-locations, my teaching career was patchy and brief. While I sewed and decorated and clothes for children, stitchery became a portable passion, linking me with fellow embroiderers, workshop teachers, quilt makers and multimedia artists wherever I've gone. Living in various different landscapes has always inspired my art. Ora Banda (1992) 127cm x 150cm Western Australian Goldfields desert surrounds the historic mining town of this name. Selected for Quilt National 1995. Collection: Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, CO USA http:...