Australian designer, Brigitte Giblin, is known for her lively, quirky designs inspired by heritage quilts. Mainly, her quilts are European in style and constructed using techniques traditionally associated with this part of world, such as English Paper Piecing and Broderie Perse, which was very popular in late eighteenth-century Europe.
Like her quilt patterns, Brigitte’s roots are European, too. She was born in the small town of Aigues-Mortes in southern France, but was brought up in Australia. Though, as a 10-year-old, she received a year of schooling in her homeland, and at 18 she returned, staying in southern France for six years before heading back to Australia.
When she lived in France, every day Brigitte would have lunch with her aunt, who ran a flourishing dressmaking studio. Brigitte says, “My aunt…
