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Note:
- Some classes require a kit or materials to be purchased, and/or students to bring materials that are essential to the class. All details are on the pdf attachment.
- Some classes are project based and in others students will learn a technique.
- Pictures may illustrate what is possible with this technique and are not necessarily pictures of the class outcome.
- Materials/ kit fees may apply.
Three Day Class:
With Yanny Split (runs Friday, Saturday, Sunday, May 29 – 31)
From bringing colour to the silk, to manipulating and shaping, to overdyeing - all the techniques of Shibori. You will make a lot of different samples and learn three exciting techniques that will give you ideas for endless designs: Arashi pole wrapping; folding – cloth is pleated and bound; stitching and gathering. You will have three great colourful days and will get inspired to make individual pieces out of the silk, or work those pieces in with fibre art. … Click for details.
One Day Classes:
‘Monet’s Garden’ Silk Scarf (felt)
With Wendy Bailye
Create a beautiful hand felted silk scarf decorated with a variety of flower patterns inspired by the colours and style of Monet’s Garden. Learn to make many different styles of flowers in flat wool and silk tops and threads. The design will be all your own and each participant will create their own unique piece of wearable art to take home. … Click for details.
With Sue Dennis
Have you wondered what an oil stick is and how you use it with textiles? Get all your questions answered in this hands-on class with art quilter Sue Dennis, who has been using oil sticks in her work for the last 10 years. Have fun while you produce your own distinct fabric to use in future projects. Create several unique pieces of textured and patterned
Simple Shapes (in Shibori)
With Sharyn Hall
Have fun learning to create fabulous 3D fabric. Suitable white and commercially coloured and printed polyester fabrics will be tied and bound (with found objects, beads, corks, etc), then heat set (with water) or manipulated by hand or with stitching (into pleats, ruffles and frills), and heat set (pressure iron) to permanently impress the shapes into the fabric surface. Fabrics created using these techniques are suitable for use as accessories, for interior decor or for inclusion in art projects. …read more … Click for details.
With Jude Skeers
Learn to knit this clever garment which is constructed in one piece. Students will learn the skills and techniques involved in knitting an Elizabeth Zimmerman Surprise Jacket from the outside to the centre. Learn to knit a garment as a single piece of fabric and how to graft (Kitchener Stitch).
Also learn about the pattern writing principles to create a pattern to fit any size. You will complete a sampler jacket and commence an adult sized jacket. … Click for details.
With Louise Snook
Learn to reconstruct and alter existing clothes to create new and exciting garments. You will need to bring in items of clothing that you are prepared to cut up. Perhaps the clothes don’t fit any more, perhaps they are gorgeous fabrics or perhaps there is a feature on the item too good to throw away. Everything has potential!
Learn easy ways to alter, embellish and stylise your new garments. Breathe new life into tired pieces and add something uniquely hand made to your wardrobe. … Click for details.
With Ken Smith
Students will explore and gain confidence in the basic skills and classic stitches of FME, from posture and managing the work-piece to technical understanding of the stitches, together with some exploration of further possibilities. Students will leave with the above knowledge and samples of the techniques covered.
Relax! Free of the pressure to produce an instant masterpiece, you can discover with Ken the excitement of freehand machine embroidery - without the “safety net” of a presser foot and feed dogs. … Click for details.
Cutwork (replicating old hand stitching skills with digitising techniques)
With The Australian College of Computer Embroidery and Textile Technologies
Presented by Vicky McKeown
Learn the high tech method of creating cutwork – replicating old hand stitching skills with digitising techniques. This techniques class lays out the process of Cutwork in the Hoop.
Cutwork involves creating tight neat over-edge stitches where the fabric is cut away to expose a hole. The holes created provide the design features – alternatively, for visual pleasure, there may be other fabric types beneath the top one showing through the cut-away areas.
… You will need to bring your own sewing machine and laptop for this class.
Note: this is not a machine skills workshop. …Click for details.
With Kirry Toose
Project based workshop, creating a beautiful Lily Neckpiece. Develop skills in colour, design and texture through the machine manipulation of fabrics and assorted products. These concepts can also be interpreted and developed further into other design elements by the student at home.
Play with memory wire, traditional rouleaux, Angelina fibres and metallic threads. Explore free machining, creating tonal effects with threads and layering of fibres, test the reactions of certain fibres to heat and the advantage of persisting with ‘that’ perfect finish!
This unique piece of wearable art has an elegance and sophistication that will cause many compliments and admiring glances. Note: Pictured is the bracelet version of Lily, but in the class you will be working on the neckpiece. … Click for details.
With Carol Wilkes SOLD OUT
The workshop explores many exciting and experimental exercises. The innovative use and combination of “free motion embroidery, collage and layering” techniques results in the creation of a visually exciting and colourful length of cloth.
Students will confidently develop a sense of colour, tone and texture as they collage and machine fuse exotic fabric scraps into a richly textured surface. Students will “machine paint” and master the art of creating their own highly individual and exciting fabrics. On completion of the workshop students will have gained the confidence, skill and technical knowledge to be able to incorporate these new ideas into quilts, clothing, embroideries or wherever their passion may lie. … Click for details.
Note:
- Some classes require a kit or materials to be purchased, and/or students to bring materials that are essential to the class. All details are on the pdf attachment.
- Some classes are project based and in others students will learn a technique.
- Pictures may illustrate what is possible with this technique and are not necessarily pictures of the class outcome.
- Materials/ kit fees may apply.