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March 2012 Butterfly Food Cap Embroidery Club Requirements

10 February, 2012 By
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Butterfly Food Cap

Keep the bugs out with this practical food cover.  Learn how free standing designs are created.

 

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Fabric Requirements:

  • .5m Mesh
  • .3m Organza
  • 2.5m Rigelene

 

Stabiliser Requirements:

 

Other Requirements:

 

Machine Requirements:

  • Embroidery Machine & Unit
  • 180 x 130 hoop minimum
  • Sewing Machine
  • ¼” Piecing Foot
  • Standard Sewing Foot
  • 75 & 90 Embroidery Needles
  • Thread Stand (optional)

 

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March 2012 Japanese Folded Patchwork Bag Sewing Club Requirements

10 February, 2012 By
Japanese Folded Fabric Bag

Japaneese Folded Patchwork Bag

Use the Circular Sewing Attachment to make perfect circles quickly & easily create a bag of any size or colour combination.

 

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REQUIREMENTS:Japanese Folded Fabric Bag

  • 2 x 1mt - Fabric
  • 0.1mt x Tabs
  • Purchased Handles
  •  OR 0.2mt – Handles & 4 x 1” D Rings
  • 1.5mt – H630 Pellon
  • Circular Sewing Attachment
  • Pinking Sheers
  • Hera Marker
  • 10 ½”Square Ruler

 

General Sewing Tools Required:

  • Sewing Machine
  • Regular sewing foot & Walking Foot
  • Matching construction thread
  • Topstitch Thread
  • Fine, Sharp Scissors
  • Erasable Marker
  • Size 12 Denim needle
  • Mini Iron & Mat
  • Rotary cutter, ruler & mat

 

CUTTING INSTRUCTIONS:

  • 14 x 9 ½” x 9 ½”  – each Fabric
  • 14 x 9 ½” x 9 ½”  – Pellon
  • Iron Pellon to the wrong side of one Fabric.
  • 8 x 8” x 2” – Tabs
  • 2 x 2” x 32” – Handles

 

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Do More With Your Overlocker – “Lets Get Leafy” Overlocked Wall Hanging

2 February, 2012 By
Leafy Overlocked Wallhanging

Our machine technician walked past Cheryl’s ‘Lets Get Leafy’ Overlocked Wall Hanging class and said “Wow – have these really been made on an overlocker?”  Cheryl is our overlocker and coverstitch expert and she has a great creative flair for doing more with your overlocker than just super-quick seams!  Check out how delighted Rebecca is with her finished project.  Everything was done on her overlocker.  If you missed this class – keep an eye out for it in our next Classlist!

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Deborah Louie Machine Quilting Workshops

30 January, 2012 By
Deb Louie

We welcome award winning quilter Deborah Louie to our store over the 8th, 9th & 10th March.  Deborah is an award winning quilter who specialises in quilting on Domestic Sewing Machines and she has tailored her classes to suit our store.

Want to learn to quilt your
own quilts and don’t know where to start?

Deborah will take you through every practical step to quilting your own masterpieces. “I will share with you all of my experience of quilting more than 500 quilts and 12 years of teaching this very sensible and very popular approach to domestic machine quilting.”

There will be a 2-Day workshop and a 1-Day Workshop offered, both workshops offering different and progressive techniques.  You can start with the 2-Day then finish up on the 1-Day for a complete learning experience.

 ”Let’s Quilt” 2 Day Workshop – 8th & 9th March

Cost $160

Click HERE for a full class description and overview of “Let’s Quilt”

“Trapunto Feathered Heart, Flowers, Fillers & Colouring” 1 Day Workshop – 10th March

Cost $105

Click HERE for a full class description and overview of “Trapunto Feathered Heart”

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Still High and Dry, and Business As Usual!

25 January, 2012 By
Buckets trying to keep our carpet dry

Buckets trying to keep our carpet dry

Thanks to everyone for their concern about the rising water.  This time last year, a foot of muddy water flooded through our store, but apart from needing some buckets for a persistent leak near the front of the store, it’s so far so good (and fingers crossed) for this 2012.  Just to be safe however, we have lifted as much stock and fabric as we can up above the foot level, which means that our store is looking a little dishevelled, but we are still business-as-usual.

All classes are planned to go ahead, but if you are unsure, please feel free to call us before you leave home.  If we do decide that weather conditions require the cancellation of a class, we will do the best to contact all bookings, and to this end we encourage everyone to supply us with their mobile phone or best day-time number.

Remember, even though we are still developing our on-line store, we are happy to take phone orders and post them to you if you can’t get out in the rain.

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Hoopsisters 2012 – Earth To Quilter’s

17 January, 2012 By
Whole Earth Quilt

Hoopsisters 2012 – Earth To Quilter’s

Whole Earth Quilt

Hoopsisters is back with their new 2012 Block of the Month ‘Earth To Quilter’s’ and  this year Hoopsisters has also bought out some fantastic small projects to complete with their great designs.

The Block of the Month program will go over 6 months and cost $25 per month (ONLY $20 if you supply your own USB/CD) and will be ready to collect every embroidery club demonstration day.  Just make sure you hand in your USB/CD at least three days prior to Club demonstration day so we can make sure its ready!

Each month you will receive 6 blocks for the ‘Whole Earth Quilt’, and as a bonus, on the 1st, 3rd & 5th Months there is an extra block that you can use for a whole block quilt or make the small project.

 

Windmill - Cross Body Hipster

 

Card Basket - Haylee Bag

 

Northern Lights - Mouse & Trimmer Bag

 

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February 2012 Snowball Cushion Sewing Club Requirements

16 January, 2012 By
February's Sewing Club Technique

Snowball Cushion

Create a Snowball Effect on a cushion that is made simple by using “The Angler Quilters Tool”.

 

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REQUIREMENTS:

  • 0.25mt – Contrast Centre
  • 0.25mt – Corners 1 & Piping
  • 0.25mt – Corners 2 & First Border
  • 0.5mt – Backing
  • 0.5mt – H640 Pellon
  • The Angler Quilters Tool
  • 1.75mts – Piping Cord size 1
  • 30cm Invisible Zip

 General Sewing Tools Required:

  • Sewing Machine
  • ¼” sewing foot
  • Piping foot
  • Invisible Zip foot
  • Open Toe foot
  • Rotary cutter, ruler & mat
  • Matching construction thread
  • Size 12 universal needle
  • Mini Iron & Mat
  • Piping Hot Trimming Tool

CUTTING INSTRUCTIONS:

  • 5 x 4 ½” squares – Main Fabric
  • 4 x 4 ½” squares – Contrast
  • 16 x 2½” squares – Corners1
  • 20 x 2½” squares – Corners 2
  • 4 x 1” x 13” – First Border
  • 4 x 2” x 16” – Second Border
  • 2 x 1½” x 35” – Piping
  • 2 x 10” x 16 ½” – Backing
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Marti Michell Block of the Month “American Beauty” Starts Today

16 January, 2012 By
American Beauty MM

Everyone enjoying the first Marti Michell BOM American Beauty

Everyone is here with arms-full of fabric, to start their Marti Michell Block of the Month Project, the gorgeous American Beauty.

Today is mostly about choosing the right fabrics to highlight the variety of blocks that will be created over the next year to make up this beautiful quilt.  “I love seeing the same quilt coming together in so many different colour-ways.”.  Jo will have everyone cutting their first 2 blocks and they will be sewing them up after lunch.  “It’s like everything new that you do…it will seem daunting at first, but once you take the time to understand what you are doing, it all gets easier from there.”

Don’t panic if you love the look of this project but have missed the first class, there are a couple of places left and you can start in any month, and don’t think that this is just for experts.  Jo will help guide you through each block as you go.

 

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Embroidery Club & Requirements

16 January, 2012 By
Cath

Embroidery Club is run in addition to normal Sewing Club. We hold a Demonstration day on the 2nd Thursday of every month and then 3 (Three) Hands On sewing days throughout the month.

On the demonstration day, you will receive a demonstration from Cath and specifically any embroidery or stabilizing tips necessary for you to complete the months project. Like normal club, for those present on the day, you will receive written notes and instructions on how to complete the project.

The designs used will either be free or come at a cost of no more than $15 per month, instructions for obtaining or purchasing the designs will be in the Requirements list and also in your monthly Embroidery Club email. For those with no email address we are happy to assist by providing the design (upon request) by Disk or your provided medium at a cost of $5.

The Hands On sewing days are FREE and will be a FULL DAY session (due to time required to complete embroidery and project) – however due to the complexity and space required for embroidery machines, you MUST BOOK to come to these sewing days. Like normal Sewing Club, your requirements for the hands on days will be available to download from our website or you can collect in store the month prior.

You must be a Sewing Club Member to become an Embroidery Club member and is an additional $25 per year. However if you do not feel that you wish to come to every month, then you are welcome to come as a non-member for $15 per visit.

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February 2012 Pocket Lanyard Embroidery Club Requirements

16 January, 2012 By
emb2

Pocket Lanyard

Create your own stylised pocket lanyard.  Perfect to take to the Quilt Shows to store your passes, business cards, notebook, pen and mobile phone.

 

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REQUIREMENTS:

Stabiliser Requirements:

 Other Requirements:

General Requirements:

  • Embroidery Machine & Unit
  • 180 x 130 hoop minimum
  • 75 & 90 Embroidery Needles
  • Tweezer  Snips
  • Thread Stand (optional)
  • Sharp Scissors – Must be able to cut through several layers of fabric.  I recommend the Canary brand.
  • Teflon sheet

Cutting Requirements:

  • Pocket 1 – 10” x 6” (Small pocket)
  • Pocket 2 – 12” x 6” (Medium pocket)
  • Pocket 3 – 14” x 6” (Large pocket)
  • Background Fabric – 8 ½” x 6”
  • Clear Plastic – 3 ½” x 6”
  • Backing Fabric – 12” x 6” & 6” x 6”

 

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