Rachael Porter
Rachael reminisces that her quiltmaking has markedly changed since she began this textile journey. Initially her quilts were machine pieced: – “why hand sew when I have a sewing machine?” Now, her preferred approach is to hand sew, as she enjoys the meditative process of it. She finds that her chosen method of EPP allows great accuracy and also allows portability.
“self-confessed fabric addict”, Rachael Porter is a NSW-based quilt designer and tutor who is becoming widely known for her exquisite English paper piecing. Essentially self-taught following a structured introduction, Rachael has developed her skills and had them acknowledged in a variety of ways: she was a category winner at the prestigious NSW Quilters’ Guild Show in 2016, she has, with one of them being chosen to feature on the magazine’s cover, she has been engaged as a tutor for the 2020 Australasian Quilt Convention in Melbourne and she is now enjoying commercial success with her own online quilting design, pattern and kits business, Stitches & Sew On.
