DISPLAYS

Enjoy a feast for the eyes... of colour and texture, of fabrics and fibre, of fashion and fun. You'll see wearable art, textile works of all shapes and sizes, and fantastic fibre creations made using a range of techniques.

Prepare to be uplifted and inspired!

Twelve by Twelve

A world premiere - this collaborative art quilt project is a captivating concept, played out online by quilters who mostly have only met online. In twelve themed challenges, twelve quilters have produced a twelve inch square quilt. Each set of twelve quilts fits together in a mosaic; resulting in twelve mosaics from 144 quilts in total. Themes include chocolate, shelter, community, mathematics... and finally twelve! The quilters are from Australia, Belgium, the UK and the USA, and include our own Brenda Gael Smith and Kirsten Duncan. To view the website and read more about this fascinating exhibition click here. 

State of the Art

Twenty five quilts by members of Queensland Quilters Inc represent the diverse range of art quilting. Today’s quilters are stepping out from traditional constraints and using techniques such as painting, oil stick rubbing, fabric dyeing and screen printing to create fabric for their original work. Nature, news events and the interior dialogue of human emotion and experience are popular themes.

Presented by Queensland Quilters.

Jan McPike                                                          Melissa Zillman

Loani Prior Tea Cosies

Loani Prior, the queen of the tea cosies, displays work from her second book, REALLY Wild Tea Cosies. Her nine new creations, though wackier than ever, remain practical and always funny. Meet Loani on Sunday afternoon at the festival and get her to sign a copy of her new book.

Loani Prior

Textile Tantrums

Dale Rollerson of The Thread Studio challenged textile artists to throw some textile tantrums. They responded with bad behaviour exhibiting work featuring holes, tears, rips, sharp objects, frayed edges and not a seam finish in sight. Sponsored by The Thread Studio.

Tantrum on the canals by Dorothy Boxall                           Turmoil by Janine Hunt

Biggan Knitwear

Biggan Design are displaying fashion knitwear. These funky modern pieces will have your reaching for the needles and yarn.

Biggan Design

Elements – The Darling Downs Textile Art Group

Members since 1999 from various backgrounds, meet once a month to critique their work, showcase their latest pieces and share ideas, samples of fabric, threads, books and buttons which are found overseas, locally or are handmade. This exhibition evolved from a challenge issued last year to make a triptych; three small pieces, all the same size, based on one of the four elements of earth, water, fire or air.

Details of work by J Burgess and J Luck

Dairing to be Different

Visit this inspiring display by Melbourne company Dairing. Designer Teresa Dair creates garments, jewellery and accessories – knitting with a difference. Teresa’s process of creating each piece begins with the hunt for the right colours and textures. She prefers not to work with a normal pattern as this constrains the development of the garment or accessory and ultimately the final result.

Teresa’s jewellery is all handmade and each of her garments is entirely hand knitted and designed to be worn a number of ways. Tie a knot, wrap it up or simply drape it over your shoulders. The pieces are purposely unstructured to give
you flexibility.

See knitwear with a difference at the Dairing display at the festival. Also visit them at Stand 36.

Stitch ‘n’ Bitch

New Zealand fashion designer Annah Stretton presents her Stitch ‘n’ Bitch concept – a range of versatile garments in kit form. These gorgeous pieces are ready to stitch into garments which can be worn in multiple ways.

This year, Annah.S is taking two things women do best: sewing and socialising, to form the exclusive Stitch ‘n’ Bitch collection. Kick out the husband, park the kids and get the girlfriends over for a wine and a good-old fashioned gossip session while you all put together gorgeous garments.

Each kit contains one of the Stitch ‘n’ Bitch garments complete with fabric, trims, easy-to-follow instructions and detailed coloured photos. Put a unique stamp on your wardrobe with affordable and personalised fashion from the Annah.S Stitch ‘n’ Bitch collection.