NEW MEMBERS WELCOME: First meeting free. 
ENTRY FEE: $5.00 entry fee (cash), tea and coffee supplied

BRING: a name tag, Show and Tell items (new creations or old favourites), morning tea to share.

Textile Taster:  Tea Towel Collage

Last year the vintage tea towel collection of our member, Annamaria was exhibited at The Logan Historical Museum and a collection of Queensland place inspired tea towels was shown at The State Library the year before. These humble kitchen items are becoming something more than an overlooked sign of women’s work.

At this meeting we will experiment with collage inspired by Margie Creek’s small works made with vintage tea towels.

There will be no tutor but leading the activity will be Ann, Kathryn  and Annamaria. 

We will cut and glue fabrics making a small textile collage. Stitch can be added but this is experimenting with colour, layout, and composition. It will be simply playing, sampling, exploring and experimenting.

Please bring

1. Tea towels , softer and worn with time or crisp and new. Ragged and with holes so you are happy to cut up. Maybe one with a image you like
2. Fabric scissors and smaller embroidery scissors
3. Cereal box cardboard or linen as backing to determine size
4. Other fabrics that go well as you see in the image some chicken scratch work on gingham, so perhaps check fabric, crochet lace edges
5. Glue stick or fabric glue
6. Threads both embroidery and sewing if you wish to add this to your piece
7. Some ephemera such as rickrack, braid, bias binding.

Social meeting: NEW MEMBERS WELCOME: First meeting free. 

ENTRY FEE: $5.00 entry fee (cash), tea and coffee supplied

BRING: a name tag, Show and Tell items (new creations or old favourites), morning tea to share.

Includes Queensland Branch meeting and AGM, National AGM

Social meeting: NEW MEMBERS WELCOME: First meeting free. 

ENTRY FEE: $5.00 entry fee (cash), tea and coffee supplied

BRING: a name tag, Show and Tell items (new creations or old favourites), morning tea to share.

June activity: Textile Stories
Bring along a textile piece that you have from around the world, from your travels or a gift from another, or one that has been in your collection. A keeper.  A teller of tales. Tell us the story, the provenance, the reason it appeals and any research you may have done around the particular textile. 
Listen to stories that connect us to family, culture, traditions, special places and memories. 

Social meeting: NEW MEMBERS WELCOME: First meeting free. 

ENTRY FEE: $5.00 entry fee (cash), tea and coffee supplied

BRING: a name tag, Show and Tell items (new creations or old favourites), morning tea to share.

Textile Taster: make a sheet of silk paper

Betty Bull will show us the technique sometimes called 'silk fusion'. it allows you to play with soft silk fibres (and/or merino wool tops) to create a versatile piece of fabric that can be used as the base for many projects, such as journal covers.

Betty will provide textile medium, silk threads, merino wool tops, silk hankies etc, dishwashing liquid, tulle, paper towels.

Please bring: 4 clothes pegs and 1 small paint brush or foam roller.

Includes Queensland Branch meeting

Social meeting: NEW MEMBERS WELCOME: First meeting free. 

ENTRY FEE: $5.00 entry fee (cash), tea and coffee supplied

BRING: a name tag, Show and Tell items (new creations or old favourites), morning tea to share, your white shirt for our Shirt Tales challenge.

Textile Taster: Weird fabric folding, led by Cathie and Sue

Please bring: needles, embroidery scissors and a pale neutral coloured sewing thread.
Optional if you have them: fine non-permanent fabric marker, pins or clips, bone folder (or seam roller, old rewards card for pressing a crease), mini iron and ironing mat.

Social meeting: NEW MEMBERS WELCOME: First meeting free. 

ENTRY FEE: $5.00 entry fee (cash), tea and coffee supplied

BRING: a name tag, Show and Tell items (new creations or old favourites), morning tea to share.

Social meeting: NEW MEMBERS WELCOME: First meeting free. 

ENTRY FEE: $5.00 entry fee (cash), tea and coffee supplied

BRING: a name tag, Show and Tell items (new creations or old favourites), morning tea to share.

Includes Branch meeting and Christmas Party

Social meeting: NEW MEMBERS WELCOME: First meeting free. 

ENTRY FEE: $5.00 entry fee (cash), tea and coffee supplied

BRING: a name tag, Show and Tell items (new creations or old favourites), morning tea to share.

Social meeting: NEW MEMBERS WELCOME: First meeting free. 

ENTRY FEE: $5.00 entry fee (cash), tea and coffee supplied

BRING: a name tag, Show and Tell items (new creations or old favourites), morning tea to share.

Social meeting: NEW MEMBERS WELCOME: First meeting free. 

ENTRY FEE: $5.00 entry fee (cash), tea and coffee supplied

BRING: a name tag, Show and Tell items (new creations or old favourites), morning tea to share.

Social meeting: NEW MEMBERS WELCOME: First meeting free. 

ENTRY FEE: $5.00 entry fee (cash), tea and coffee supplied

BRING: a name tag, Show and Tell items (new creations or old favourites), morning tea to share.

Social meeting: NEW MEMBERS WELCOME: First meeting free. 

ENTRY FEE: $5.00 entry fee (cash), tea and coffee supplied

BRING: a name tag, Show and Tell items (new creations or old favourites), morning tea to share.

Social meeting: NEW MEMBERS WELCOME: First meeting free. 

ENTRY FEE: $5.00 entry fee (cash), tea and coffee supplied

BRING: a name tag, Show and Tell items (new creations or old favourites), morning tea to share.

Social meeting: NEW MEMBERS WELCOME: First meeting free. 

ENTRY FEE: $5.00 entry fee (cash), tea and coffee supplied

BRING: a name tag, Show and Tell items (new creations or old favourites), morning tea to share.

Social meeting: NEW MEMBERS WELCOME: First meeting free. 

ENTRY FEE: $5.00 entry fee (cash), tea and coffee supplied

BRING: a name tag, Show and Tell items (new creations or old favourites), morning tea to share.