SA GeoQuilt

So what is a "geoquilt"? Well, basically, this was a signature quilt I created from a geocache, with contributions from the South Australian geocaching community in South Australia.

And what is "geocaching"? In a nutshell, it is a modern treasure hunt, where teams use their GPS to find a hidden treasure. My family has a team - we are called "Green Gecko Gang". In the case of the SA Geoquilt project, the hidden treasure was a container hidden in a hollow tree, full of blank 6 inch quilt square patches in 4 colours. Finders had to take a square home with them, sign or embellish it with their team name in some way, and send it back to me in the mail. Once all the squares were returned (this took more than a year), I set about laying them out in the design shown in the picture, which happens to be the geocaching logo.

Patches were embellished in many ways - from pretty basic black texta team name, to elaborate cross stitches and embroideries, buttons and more. Everybody was very excited to see the end result. The support and encouragement of the geocaching community was amazing for this project, which is one reason why I wanted to create this blog in the first place.