Workshops
NSW Workshops
| Event | Date | Short Description | Members | Non-Members |
| Christine Yarker - Marvellous Mini Top Hat | Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th March, 2012 | Using simple pattern making skills, students will develop an innovatively designed unique creation which can be worn, used as an art piece ... or both! | $140.00 | $190.00 |
| Carol Wilkes - Surface Embellishment Techniques | Saturday 26th & Sunday 27th May, 2012 | Carol will guide you, using free motion embroidery, to start your journey into creating luscious corded, textural cloth and 3D sculptural forms. | $170.00 | $220.00 |
| Marie-Therese Wisniowski - In Pursuit of ArtCloth: Disperse Dye and Transfer Printing | Saturday 23rd & Sunday 24th June, 2012 | Participants will create their own custom dyed fabric using disperse dyes via direct imaging, experimental and layering exercises. | $170.00 | $220.00 |
| Effie Mitrofanis - Enrich the Surface | Saturday 21st & Sunday 22nd July, 2012 | Explore hand worked stitching in new ways by retaining the original movements and identity but changing the stitches by tension, extension, direction, overlapping and ‘distortion’ | $140.00 | $190.00 |
| Jan Clark - Botanical Songs | Saturday 22nd & Sunday 23rd September, 2012 | This class is an approach to working in a series, starting with the environment. Inspiration will be drawn from the natural world and a body of work will be built using imagery and a variety of mixed media techniques including printing, monoprinting, painting, foiling, mark making with pencils, fabric crayons and pastels. Experimenting with transfer printing will also be covered. | $140.00 | $190.00 |
| Inga Hunter - Introduction to Artist’s Books | Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th November, 2012 | In this workshop you will learn simple versions of binding, both folded and stitched, together with ways to create content. You will also learn how to alter an existing book. This is designed for bookmaking beginners, or people who already know some binding techniques, but who are interested in filling the books they bind. | $170.00 | $220.00 |
NSW Textile Tasters
| Event | Date | Short Description | Members | Non-Members |
| Pam de Groot - Wool Fibre & Shibori Dyeing | Saturday 28th April, 2012 | Learn how to dye your own wool fibre in a variety of colours and tones for use in felting or spinning. You will also experiment with Shibori techniques on tissue silk (georgette or other lightweight silk fabric) to create layers and depth of tone, colour and pattern. | $70.00 | $120.00 |
| Kirry Toose - Magical Mystery Day: Go where Kirry takes you !!! | Tuesday 15th May OR Wednesday 16th May, 2012 | Expand your creative boundaries. Learn to transform the blank canvas of your fabric, using classic techniques and inspired experiments. Delve into your thread stash, resolve those nagging issues of yarn choices and play around with the practicalities of the machined line, its possibilities in design and structure. | $70.00 | $120.00 |
| Barbara Schey - All you needed to know about colour in one day! | Wednesday 27th July, 2011 | The design may be a bit off, the workmanship may be a bit off but THE COLOUR HAS TO BE RIGHT. Students will work through a variety of simple exercises which will assist them with colour choices in their work – whatever the medium. | $70.00 | $120.00 |
| Helen MacRitchie - Layers of Texture: blending texture through paint, fabric and stitch | Saturday 15th September, 2012 | This taster looks at incorporating texture, on low - and high - relief scale, into work using mixed media and fabric manipulation. Emphasis will be on employing layering techniques to blend the different textures and create cohesion in artworks. | $70.00 | $120.00 |
| Meri Peach - Coiled Basket with Spiral Stitch | Saturday 6th October, 2012 | Discover the ancient and contemplative craft of basket making with a variety of plant materials and linen thread to create a coiled basket using the spiral stitch technique. | $70.00 | $120.00 |
| Fiona Hammond - Capturing Fragments with Freeform Right Angle Weave Beadweaving | Saturday 17th November, 2012 | Experience the fun and freedom of freeform right angle weave as you encase your special fragments or treasures in this versatile beadwork stitch, and also make lace-like beadwork from which to hang your encased fragments. | $70.00 | $120.00 |
Queensland Workshops
| Event | Date | Short Description | Members | Non-Members |
| Shelley McDonald - EXPLORING SUNCOLOUR FABRIC DYES | Saturday 11 & Sunday 12 February, 2012 | Produce vibrant and colourful images with suncolour fabric dyes | $140.00 | $190.00 |
| Liz Powell - Relief Printmaking | Saturday 24 & Sunday 25 March, 2012 | Experiment with lino printing using Japanese key block technique and collographs using textures of fabrics as a direct source. | $140.00 | $190.00 |
| Patricia Baldwin Seggebruch - Encaustic Mixed Media: going beyond ordinary | Saturday 31 March, & Sunday 1 April PLUS Monday 2 April (optional), 2012 | Join us in this extravaganza with beeswax where all the possibilities of this versatile mixed media friendly medium are explored. | $180.00 (+ $90 for optional third day) | $230.00 (+ $115 for optional third day) |
| Carolyn Sullivan - New Ways With Kantha | Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 May, 2012 | Learn about and practice making these heavily hand-stitched cloths made traditionally by women of India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka | $140.00 | $190.00 |
| Catherine O'Leary - Nuno Felting | Friday 22nd - Saturday 23rd June, 2012 | This workshop is ideal for the beginner felter as well as anyone who has made nuno felt before and wants to extend their skills. | $140.00 | $190.00 |
| Claire Brach - The Book of Silk! | Saturday 7th - Sunday 8th July, 2012 | How to create an embellished silk Art Journal | $140.00 | $190.00 |
| Cathy Moon - Sculptured and Bejewelled Neckwear | Saturday 11th – Sunday 12th August, 2012 | In this workshop students will learn basic shibori techniques to produce a silk sculpture that can be worn as a neck adornment. | $140.00 | $190.00 |
| Caroline Foley - Stitching as Surface Design | Saturday 15th - Sunday 16th September, 2012 | From the Embroiderer's Guild, Caroline will be teaching a variety of stitching techniques that can be used to create surface design. | $140.00 | $190.00 |
WA Workshops
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