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Teaching Machine Embroidery

Today I taught a lovely group of ladies Free Motion Embroidery.  They were all very enthusiastic, and did extremely well, I was impressed by how far they advanced in the short time they spent stitching.  And thank you to my students for making my first workshop at Patchwork Angel such…

FREE MOTION EMBROIDERY WORKSHOP

I now have scheduled dates for teaching, and I am very proud to be teaching through a fantastic and well established local store, the Patchwork Angel, at Forest Glen on the Sunshine Coast.  It is a beautiful store full of the most delicious fabrics, and even though you may think…

Finished!

Finally, after a full year of painting these two pieces in a Hollis Chatelain workshop, I have quilted and finished them! The top one is a Varied Eggfly, not a particularly thrilling name for a butterfly, but nonetheless, he is a lovely specimen.  That piece photographs particularly well, too, not…

Curved Piecing Workshop

 I have been busy making sample pieces for the curved piecing workshop that I teach.  The added bonus for participants, is that they get to learn how to draft their own patterns first, which gives them an understanding of design elements and “where to start” with the dreaded empty sheet…

Dragons Finished

I have finished teaching the Chinese Dragon workshops and was very proud and impressed by the results of my students, they did a fantastic job!  It wasn’t easy for them because we didn’t have enough time and they had to finish off at home with a list of instructions, but,…

Cover Girl!

This week I got to be on the Front Cover of our local newspaper!!  How exciting  – never been a Cover Girl before!  It’s all to promote my local Quilter’s Club raffle and quilt show.  We are raising money for Guide Dogs Qld, and one of my works, “Flowers for…