Southern Textiles Conference- Joy Harvey

Here is a sneak peak yet again at another Southern Textiles Conference tutor- Joy Harvey. Joy Harvey lives in South Australia and works in Reverse Applique. Her work is absolutely beautiful and she is a wonderful teacher who loves to share her passion with her students.

Below are some photos of her work.

Southern Textiles Conference- Effie Mitrofanis

Another tutor teaching at the Southern Textiles Conference is Effie Mitrofanis from NSW. Effie is a wonderfully experienced teacher and a really lovely person to work with. She has recently published a book called Threadwork (pictured below). 

Below are some photos of her work. She works with lots of different threads and fabrics and mainly works with hand embroidery.

Jackie Abrams workshop started

Well today was the first day of my Jackie Abrams workshop, I had a great day and learnt all sorts of new things. Jackie is a lovely teacher and one who passes on all her little secrets and tricks. Not all teachers are willing to do this and it helps to make the difference between a good teacher and a great teacher.

We spent the day working on a bias plaited basket, made from rag paper that we hand painted at the start of the day.

Below are some of the photos of my work from today.

The strips of paper that I painted for my basket.

The bottom of my bias plaited basket.

The bottom of the basket as i started bringing the corners in.

Starting bringing the corners in.

I will post the next stage in the basket making tomorrow night.

Dare to Differ Brochure

Below are the pages of the brochure I created for the Dare to Differ exhibition. It was printed as a folded A4 brochure on nice thick card. The pictures below are not overly high quality as it is a squashed version of the original.

Dare to Differ Exhibition opening night

As I posted in this blog earlier, I helped with the advertising for a South Australian Quilters Guild Exhibition called 'Dare to Differ'. The exhibition opened on the 30th September (2011) at Gallery M in Marion. We had a great size crowd and it was a very enjoyable night.

Below is a series of photos relating to the exhibition.

Julie Haddrick and Suzanne Gummow- main organisers.

This is Cathy Boniciolli who I teach with at Marden Senior College. Two of her works were selected for the exhibition. This work is titled 'Natural Beauty', it is made mainly from tea bags that have been emptied and opened up and then hand stitched onto a backing. 

This is Susan Long who is one of my Marden Senior College students. Her work is 

titled 'Tea bag Trail'.

Jackie Abrams Workshop

School holidays are finally here and I'm off to a workshop for the whole first week. I'm attending a one week workshop with Jackie Abrams from America. The workshop is called 'Re-cover the surface'. Below are a couple of examples of Jackie's work and the titles of the work. I will post what I create during the week at a later date.

Akua

Red Sisters

Akosia

Here is the link to Jackie Abrams website for those of you who are interested.

http://www.jackieabrams.com/