Art & Craft Spectacular @ Maclean: 17-19 July 2009

The Lower Clarence Art & Crafts Association presents its 44th open competitive original arts and crafts echibition:

Art & Craft Spectacular 2009
at the Maclean High School
9am-4pm, 17-19 July 2009
Refreshments available
Admission $3.00
Children under 16 - no charge

For further information, contact LCACA on (020) 6645 3700 or www.ferryparkgallery.org.au

WRAP Unwrapped Exhibition: 7 - 30 July 2009

The WRAP Unwrapped Textile Exhibition is on at NSW Parliament House, Macquarie Street Sydney from 7 July to 30 July (Monday-Friday 9.30am to 4pm). Free illustrated talks will be held on Friday, 17 July and 24 July at 11am.

3 July Friday Showcase: Verna Horwood

Machine quilter Verna Horwood presents the next Friday showcase at the Guild office at 10am on Friday, 3 July 2009. All welcome! ($5.50 entry fee)

Designing Matters with Alan Tremain: 25 & 26 July

This two day workshop on 25 and 26 July 2009 at the Guild office is designed to give beginner and intermediate quilters more confidence in working with and selecting fabrics either by colour or pattern and applying them to the quilt designs they will learn to create in this workshop. Participants will bring their favourite fabrics—yes those you have ‘drooled over for years and were afraid to cut’ – along with a collection of associated colours and prints. The key fabrics will be analyzed by colour, print style and pattern repeat and we will use this newly gained information as a foundation for your quilt designs.

Participants will be introduced to graph paper design and recording principles as a means of extending their skills and documenting their quilt patterns and will be shown a simple but comprehensive system for calculating fabric quantities. During Day One, participants will ‘debunk’ their fabrics and start designing general quilt pattern layouts and move onto deciding where these fabrics will be placed in their designs. Stylizing of block structures and their supporting role in quilt design will then be introduced with guidance on how to translate your design into actual sized templates ready for cutting and assembly. As the quilt design profile grows, each step will be recorded for accurate retrieval at any point during the class or in the future. Day Two will see individual participants taking their own paths by using their new knowledge by either sampling some of the blocks they will be using in their final design or pursue further design options using graph paper and coloured pencils.

The workshop fees will be $55 per day and the class will run from 9.30 am until 3.30pm both days, tea and coffee are provided as well as use of the photocopier. Book now to reserve your place. Download booking form or contact the office on (02) 9283 3737.Full payment confirms your place in this workshop.


Quilt designed and made by Alan Tremain
Quilted by Sydney Quilt Show sponsor
Sharon French of Morning Star Quilting

Stitches Through Time Talk - 19 July 2009

Stitches through Time, a talk on Australian Antique Quilts by Dr Annette Gero will be held at:

11.30 am, Sunday 19 July 2009
The Tebbutt Room
Deerubbin Centre
300 George Street, Windsor
$15pp -light luncheon included

Bookings essential. Mail cheque or money order to The Friends of the Hawkesbury Art Community & Regional Gallery Inc, PO Box 462 Post Office, Windsor NSW 2756

Jacaranda City Quilters 1st Exhibition: 26-28 June

JACARANDA CITY QUILTERS' FIRST EXHIBITION

When: 26- 28 June 2009

Where - RSL CLUB, Fry St., Grafton, NSW 2460
Great parking/ refreshments available at the RSL
Early advice of bus trips would be appreciated

Times: Fri. & Sat. 10 a.m. - 8 p.m. Sun. 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Cost: Adults $5 Pensioners/RSL members $3 Under 15's free

Quilts, wallhangings, bags, cushions etc. made by quilters in The Clarence Valley

Judged competition " Take Three Colours &...................."

Traders and sales tables/ Bernina demonstrations/ community quilts/ raffle / luck dip (proceeds to Westpac Helicopters) /Christmas corner/ viewers choice

Enquiries: Anne Carter

Dyad Exhibition @ Wollongong: 1-12 July 2009

Guild members Nic Bridges and Janine Matthews were born on opposite coasts of Australia, worlds apart. Their paths would never have crossed if not for a common love of art and textiles. Since meeting through an internet group a dozen years ago they have been partners in crime, joined at the hip, like-minded souls traveling through life with eyes wide open but utterly different points of view.

In their forthcoming exhibition of textiles, painting and sculptures at the Project Contemporary Artspace in Wollongong from 1-12 July, Nic and Janine explore the concept of Dyad, the principle of twoness in their separate artistic practice as well as in collaboration.