Memories of Kakadu

My youngest daughter Kim spent 8 years in Darwin and when I went to visit we would often take a road trip to Kakadu National Park. It was full of wildlife and this quilt is dedicated to those trips. The images are thread painted and then applied to a pieced background of neutral fabrics. The quilt is edged with a textured yarn and the machine quilting includes images of gum leaves. The text in the middle is from a poem I wrote about another visit to Australia, the William Ricketts Sanctuary near Melbourne