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WHAT'S NEW

New Amy Butler's are here.

CLASS FOCUS

Take a look in the latest Better Homes & Gardens magazine to see the latest hand thread embellishment projects from Prints Charming. 

We have few spaces left in our 8 August Workshop, where Kirsten (and possibly Kath) from Prints Charming will be teaching their embroidery techniques.

Cute IPad cover.

Today I'm looking at quilts and classes with Suzy Miller and Katrina Hadjimichael.

SUZY MILLER

Suzy's latest masterpiece is her Rockley Quilt. 

Rockley is currently hanging on the Pink Wall in the shop, so everybody please take the opportunity to see this quilt in the flesh, if you can.  It is one of the best "Australiana" Quilts I have seen.  The kangaroos, etc don't look weird (which is what seems to happen with Australian wildlife). Suzy has a house in the town of Rockley (country NSW).

Sneak peek at Suzy's next quilt.  Need I say anything.

KATRINA HADJIMICHAEL

 Some of you may have had the pleasure of hearing Katrina speak at the Powerhouse Museum for the Quilt Study Group of NSW a few months ago.  Katrina teaches her (machine quilts) at Quiltsmith once a month, and she will be starting a class for her hand pieced quilts next year.  This is Katrina's blog address so you can get to know her better.

katrinahadjimichael.blogspot.com

The following are student's work in Katrina's class here.

If you would any details on these or other classes at Quiltsmith please call us on 02 95504947.

Melinda



Class Catchup

WHAT'S NEW

New Anna Griffin.

New Art Gallery

I was looking through my photos and I realised that I had lots of great class shots that have not made it on to the blog.  So I will show you a few of them now.

MICHELLE YEO'S WORKSHOP

Michelle Yeo was up for her annual three day workshop at the end of June.  You have seen photos of day one, here are some later shots.

For those that can remember this was the day when I thought the shop was going to wash away.

The Gang.  Can't wait to see the finished quilts, and to see what Michelle has in store for us next year.

 

LYNNE ALCHIN'S CLASSES

 

The Monday Class.

Here's Lynne with her Summer Baskets quilt.  We have a very few vacancies in Lynne's classes, if you would like to join in the fun.

Melinda

My Applique Project No. 5

Hi everybody

I just took a look at all the photos I have of recent classes, that I haven't posted, and there is a lot to share with you.  So next week I will have a bit of a retro class show.

In this post you can see my latest project in "My Year of Applique" which I can see is going to last a lot longer than a year.  My Applique Project No.5 is a replica of the beautiful 1847 Australian quilt - the Auntie Green Quilt.  Take a peek at our post dated March 29 2012 for more details about the quilt.  You can find all my "Year of Applique" in previous posts.

I was amazed at the number of commercial patterns, for Auntie Green's Quilt, that appeared at the Darling Harbour Quilt Show this year.  I am always intrigued how so many people can produce the same quilt, at the same time, in complete isolation to each other.

I have opted to do the quilt in a social way.  In a one day a month class with Sue Ross.  Yesterday was my second class.  There was nothing to show you much at the first class, just a lot of rummaging through piles of fabric.  Fun.

With this quilt I'm trying to be organised!!! It is big and uses a lot of fabric.  I have decided not to try and exactly replicate the quilt, fabric by fabric; but to get as close as I can with a slight brightening of the colours, ie  bounce the colour up a bit. (I'm sure it has faded in the original quilt.)  So I have used a slightly lighter background, than Sue Ross has used.  Hopefully the colours will be a touch sharper. Although it is hard to know what the background colour is on the actual quilt, as every photograph of it shows a slightly different white  -  cream colour.

This is what I arrived at the class with.  I will admit (much as it pains me) that serious reverse sewing has already occurred.  The oval bias strip tripped me up.  Sure of my skills as an appliquer, and after tacking it down, I happily sewed it on my lap without checking progress.  When I had finished, I had a beautiful oval shape but the centre of it looked about six months pregnant.  My second attempt was much better.

I'm auditioning fabric, trying to get the colour balance and print scale right.  This is a quilt that needs large and small scale prints.

Next try.  Maybe I'll have the centre done for next month so you can see what I ended up using.

This is Karen's quilt so far, so I'm behind at the second class.

Close up on Karen's centre.

This is where Sue Ross is up to on her quilt.  Isn't it looking wonderful. 

Love the brodrie purse.

We still have vacancies in Sue Ross's Auntie Green class.  It runs monthly on the second Friday of the month.  If you would like to join this extremely enjoyable class, please ring the shop on 9550 4947.

Melinda

Workshop Update - See what we can tempt you with.

WHAT'S NEW

Gentle Breeze, classic oriental.



So cute.



New 1930's , Adeline very pretty.

NEW WORKSHOPS

We have just published our major new Workshops for the rest of the year.

If you would like to book into a Workshop, or need more details please ring the shop on 02 95504947.  All Workshops run 10 - 3.

LINDA BUTCHER

HAND QUILTING

It's definitely quilting weather.

Linda  covers the basics of hand quilting including types of wadding, needles and thread, pattern selection, how to prepare a top for quilting.

SATURDAY 14 JULY    $70.00

PRINTS CHARMING

HAND EMBROIDERY EMBELLISHMENT

Join the Prints Charming girls, Kirsten and Kath and thread a needle and start stitching!    We love embroidery and the way it adds so much colour and texture to fabric, it is the most creative way to paint with thread. Choose a hand printed panel and learn or re visit embroidery stitches that we love and use over and over. Don’t follow a pattern, be inspired to use a variety of stitches and threads to create your own piece.  Learn the stitches and you’ll never look at fabric the same way again!

WEDNESDAY 8 AUGUST   $70.00

LIZ PINCZEWSKI

SUGAR PIE

Make your own sweet version of Sugar Pie using a background fabric of Toile, or spots or make an antique quilt using reproduction fabric. Learn Liz's technique for accurate piecing, how to use the wedge ruler, and curved piecing by machine.

WEDNESDAY 29 AUGUST    $70.00

ALAN TREMAIN

SPRING GRANDIFLORA



Spring Grandiflora Mystery Quilt is a hand pieced, hand/machine finished original quilt design for beginner/intermediate/experienced quilt makers.  It is a paper pieced pentagon based, floral fabric block quilt using Kaffe Fassett, Philip Jacobs, Amy Butler or similar large bright print fabrics. This quilt design was designed exclusively for and recently launched at the 1^st International Quilt Festival of Ireland and highlights the use of Alan Tremain’s new ‘Emotional Response to Colour for Quilters’ colour theory.

THREE DAY WORKSHOP

SATURDAYS - 8 SEPTEMBER, 22 SEPTEMBER & 13 OCTOBER   $210.00

CATHERINE BUTTERWORTH

 GOOGLEY EYES

Back as one of our most requested Workshops.

In this two day workshop with Catherine, emphasis will be placed on, fabric selection, fussy cutting, working with stripes and directional prints, rotary cutting with templates, "dot to dot" block construction.

TWO DAY WORKSHOP

TUESDAY 25 SEPTEMBER & 23 OCTOBER

CATHERINE BUTTERWORTH

JOLLY STARS OR STARS FOR KIRSTEN       

Jolly Stars

Stars for Kirsten

In this one day workshop with Catherine, emphasis will be placed on, fabric selection, fussy cutting, working with stripes and directional prints, rotary cutting with templates, "dot to dot" block construction.

SATURDAY 10 NOVEMBER  $70.00

Melinda