The Blue Hat project - Photos of Blankets For Happiness

Photos from contributions to the Blanket Project

	Anonymous Sometimes the heart can only speak in silence and needs silence to be heard.
	Audrey Hoffman - 'Flying High' Flying high is depending on by how much strength we give the kite
	Prue Anthony, NSW ’a joint effort between Cath Daniels (Beaumaris,Vic), Terry Patterson (Quakers Hill, NSW), Anne Leece (Pymble, NSW), Kaite Matilda (Bathurst, NSW), and myself, Prue Anthony, (Turramurra, NSW) all ATASDA members, as is Jill.’’
	Evelyn Roth Mega Knitted blanket Knitted on thistle Knitting needles made by Evelyn Roth. Large piece of knitting which has broken parts in spots and small and larger holes. Some places are darned back together and still as a whole its sheer beauty of colour and texture show the magnitude of what life can be.
	Evelyn Roth Family jumper This family jumper has been knitted with Knitting needles made from Thistles. By wearing this jumper it feels one is ''connected'' but still ''separate''.
	Evelyn Roth
	The Gallery
	Birgitte Haldemann and Waltraud Reiner "Friendship'' Creating seperatly from each other pieces of felt and wool we as friends created was reflecting situation in life, where one connects,adjusts, accepts, compromise, grows and expands together. The felting process is not only ongoing, but irreversible like life itself - and the completed product takes on an aspect of some living thing, inviting to touch, irresistible to wandering hands."
	Jan Mollus and Rebecaa Wells Echuca ‘’Circles connecting lives’’ Some wool, thread and 2 needles in between 6 kids, 2 husbands and life we have managed to create a blanket of colours and circles. Circles connecting our lives.
	Judith Garrard Pink Lily This rug was made with left over's from other projects and I thought, if life seems to be scrappy, turn it into something useful. My personal Philosophy is'' For every problem there is a solution, just find it and accept it''............
	Kaite Matilda Bathurst ‘’Blue Hearts’’ Blue knitted piece with heart techniques
	Katherine Kachor NSW ATASDA Member ''Crosses are kisses'' I am proud of my felted piece I love the design. I hope someone will like it too. Camel hair included for an extra exotic touch.
	Marina Hobbs and Ann Tappendan Qld ‘’White blanket, felted onto cloth’’ I hope this blanket brings somebody happiness. We enjoyed sharing time out of our busy lives to create something soft and beautiful
	Marie Sofia Bird and Waltraud Reiner 1885-1979 Holes filled in by Waltraud Reiner Ipswich Qld Ailsa Kooloi writes '' My dear old grandma was well over 90 and nearly blind when I was having my last child, but she still wanted to make Al a blanket. Every stitch was done with love with those old arthritic hands. The fact that it got bigger as she went, I passed off as a fact that she knew the child would grow. Looking at it today brings tinges of sadness that gran Bird is not still with us and disappointment that AL did not grow to know her loving great grandma and left the blanket to reside in my closet. Waltraud Reiner The year Gran Bird died, who I never knew, I left Austria, never to return. As time has created holes in Grans Bird's blanket, time has left holes in mine and other people's lives. It might not be the same yarn which now were added to the blanket and filled in some holes or covered over . Even with some still exposed, it grew to have another life as it passed through mine.
	Maxine Kohn The yarns come from left over yarns from my mother and mother-in-law who made for my children years ago who are now all grown up and have their own children. I put it together with a new ''fluffy'' yarn. So the rug has pieces of memories from my family all woven together with love. As the ''love rug'' will wrap someone in love hopefully.
	by Lia Avisar and Collection of pieces sent in by people. Megan Farmer,Lia Avisar,Brigitte Haldemann, Tami Olsha, Waltraud Reiner In putting together the pieces it became obvious that the struggle was at first to make it optically pleasing, to add only the pieces which 'fitted'' and leave out the ones that were too different…………had a wrong texture or not the right shade……… In the end we did include all the pieces as it seemed too easy to reject ''the Otherness''………which did raise the question … ''ARE we ONE??..................
	Nina Rubinstein Melbourne `My life philosophy is- Give without expecting rewards abandon your ego Love the person next to you`
	Robyn Chino Redlynch Qld ''Nothing seems as is!'' Making this quilt was anopportunity to touch someone elses life in the most humble way.I have at many times appriicated a helping hand which cam ‘out of the blue’’, This is a way of paying forward what I have received in times gone past.
	Rosalind Byass A new Beginning In this textile piece I have used fragments and threads from another life and taken them into a new direction. These recylcled fibres are woven and stitched in various segmented blocks. Some of this background layer has open spaces whist other parts are overlayed in more complex arrangements. The framework of the iece lies in its ‘’blocks’’ of time which can be clearly seen. The links-the pathway that move between them are not always as clearly visible. The blanket is not symmetrical. However,I have tried to place additional elements such as embroidered segments onto the hanging which I feel add interest and balance to the finished piece. It was a challenge to create a piece such as this using materials I already had and give them a new purpose and meaning. Lets use these principles to create a challenge that can be applied by us in our everyday lives.
	North Deer Park primary school Collective of grade 2 to grade 6, mothers and grandmothers and teacher
	Shabbat blanket Collective felting by a group of people who often meet for dinner to share, laugh, dance and connect. Many return and bring friends to share this unique atmosphere of a Friday night happening.
	Waltraud Reiner When we are born we live often within strict boundaries, where ground stones of values get laid and dreams form for who we will be. Some of us break out to explore , some get pushed to move beyond the boundries . At all times feeling a sense of being ‘’watched’’ by something greater than we can make sense of by our mind, and which keeps pointing to the ‘’knowing’’ that the only way out is ''through'' towards the ever shining light at the end of the tunnel
	High School Numurkah