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CHRIS LAWRANCE AND FAMILY
HOMEPAGE WITH QUILTS

Hi, my name is Chris Lawrance. I live in Adelaide South Australia. A beautiful city full of parks and gardens. I am married to John and have a son called Peter. Peter is eight years old and in Grade 3 at school

My main hobby is patchwork and quilting. I have been quilting for 9 years. I started to quilt because I needed something big for a bedroom wall...however I couldn't afford a painting so I made a quilt. John seems to think 12 years on it could have been cheaper to buy a painting.

I am also a Theological Student at the Adelaide College of Divinity. I have completed one year and intend to keep studying as long as they let me. I have an enthusiasm for New Testament Greek and hope to study more in this area

JOHN AND PETER

Here is a quilt I made in 1996 to hang in my house over the Christmas season

I like to make all types of quilts but I must admit applique quilts have now become my favourite obsession.

This Baltimore Beauty was made from patterns by the great quilter Mimi Dietrich. It won first prize at the Royal Adelaide Show in 1997. It is now owned by my mother-in-law Mrs N Roddick of Legana Tasmania.

Here is a picture of me. It was taken at Bower Cottages about four years ago. I was President of the group and on the committee of the Quilter's Guild of South Australia but have now resigned to persue my academic interests.
You can see a picture of the completed top below. It took 18 months to make the quilt. Six months to make the top which was all hand appliqued using the needle turn method and a year to quilt it. I don't have a current photo but when I do I will update it.

The quilt to your right is called Peter Touching the Dragon. I made it for a competition called a Touch of Magic that was held at the 1998 Lucindale Field days. It is Peter's hands holding a crystal ball which in turn holds a dragon. It hangs on his wall and he is very fond of it. I had a good time making it but suffice it to say that it was challenging at times and the air did turn blue occasionally

I am making a Dear Jane quilt which is almost finished. There is a Dear Jane list where we give encouragement and tips and advice. Also there is the DJ List at Yahoo.
I have made some wonderful friends through this list. Here is one of the signature blocks I made for a swap on the Dear Jane List. I had to make 145!!!!! I am in swap number three and hopefully I won't have to make another 145. I think someone has worked out that it is more like 45 this time.

CHOOKDOM

These are my four chooks. Their names are Lovage (brown silky), Spotty (Grey chook) the late lamented Hilda Hendini (orange chook) and Fluffy-sook the white fluffy chook. Since Hilda's demise we now have Maizie-maze a brown and gold bantam. They are a source of great entertainment and fun. Maizie-maze unfortunately died in 1998 and Spotty chook died middle of 2001.

The girls have a varied life including leaving chookatraz and B wing for snail patrol in the ferns, fielding practice for cricket season, soccer practice as goalies during a soccer game, rucking for the odd AFL game with the children from next door and generally being caught and cuddled at odd times. This they tolerate with surprising good humour. Occasionally they even lay and egg or two! Here is Peter giving Fluffy-sook a cuddle.

Latest on the Chooks!

Of course there may be some of you that don't know exactly where Adelaide is in the scheme of world geography. Here is a map of Australia superimposed over America.....not much difference in size except there are only about 18 million Aussies! Adelaide is the dot in the middle down the bottom of the country near the Great Australian Bight.

And of course in the best tradition of the Dear Janes and the Dear Jane List last but not least here is snoopy dancing with delight at my latest Dear Jane Block. -G-6 Papa's Star one of the "horrors" in the quilt made on 8 May 1999.

Well I hope you enjoyed your visit to my homepage. Come back again as I hope to continually update it as new things happen and new quilts are made.

You can email me at lawrance@cobweb.com.au

See you later and come back soon.

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