Anne Neal

At present Anne is registered as a business "Australiana Applique", making quilts and wall hangings on commission using her own designs. She has utilised her 45 years teaching experience with the NSW Department of Education and TAFE by now teaching workshops in patchwork, quilted garments, applique, stained glass, fur fabric, and landscapes with a regular Wednesday class in Mendooran. Her quilt "Warrumbungle Dreamtime" was chosen by the Quilters Guild for the Bicentennial Exhibition from over 2000 entries searching for 100 best Australian quilts. The original work was published in "Quilt Australia" and was completed for the exhibition in April 1988. Anne has enjoyed success in exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Anne's work "Caught in the Headlights 1 - Numbat" was selected to go to America for the World Quilt Tour in 2005, and in 2007 both the lizard (in image below)and "Warruimbungle Morning with Roos" were chosen for the World Quilt Tour - two quilts out of only 16 from Australia to go. Anne is also making vests by embellishing unspun fibres, wool, silk and alpaca in jewel colours onto black woollen fabric.