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November 9th Meeting
The November meeting will be another good day. Phil Thomas has been experimenting with shibori and microwave dyeing, she’ll give us a short presentation on her results. This may be a taster for further exploration by all of us next year. Our main talk/demo and activity will be on nuno felting. Martien van Zuilen will … Continue reading November 9th Meeting
October Meeting – Part 2 ‘Honouring the Odd Bits’
The activity this month was led by Judy Campbell and involved playing with a huge pile of shared fabric. But first Judy showed some of her ‘waggas’ – quilts made from just about any sort of recycled fabric such as wool blankets and old clothes, plus some of her other wool coverlets and quilts After … Continue reading October Meeting – Part 2 ‘Honouring the Odd Bits’
October Meeting – part 1 ‘Monarchs of Fabric Repurposing’
This month we looked at fabric, colour and stitching, all from different perspectives. In our ‘Shorts’ segment, Lesley Clugston talked about two of her quilting ‘monarchs’ – Victoria Findlay Wolfe, who takes a different approach to traditional patterns and Luke Haynes, who is definitely an outside-of-the-box quilter. Lesley took classes with both these teachers in New … Continue reading October Meeting – part 1 ‘Monarchs of Fabric Repurposing’
October Meeting – Friday 12th
For our next meeting Lesley Clugston will be speaking about ‘Monarchs of Fabric Repurposing’ following her trip to New Zealand earlier this year. Sounds intriguing! We are also excited to have Judy Campbell as our invited textile artist this month. She will oversee the activity titled ‘Honouring the Odd Bits’ and will be bringing along … Continue reading October Meeting – Friday 12th
