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- Margaret Conlon
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- 17 Aug 2009
- A quilter for around 30 years, Margaret took up quilting when her airforce husband was posted to Penang in Malaysia. “I met another airforce wife while there and she’d been quilting for a little while. I just loved the work that she did... I haven’t stopped since,” says Margaret. “My ...
- Beading tips
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- 05 Aug 2009
- From Marlene Blessing: • Dismantle old designs and use the components again. • Explore seed beads. They take time and patience to work with and you get the satisfaction of using your stitching skills. • Use base metals instead of silver and gold in your designs. • Use semi precious ...
- General crafty tips
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- 05 Aug 2009
- From Lisa Johns: • Look at what you already have. Recently I found six reels of black cotton stashed at the back of a cupboard. Be a crafty stocktaker. • Keep your eyes open at op shops and community markets. Buy only for projects you have in mind for the ...
- Quick ‘quilty’ tips
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- 05 Aug 2009
- From Michelle Yeo: • Join an in-store class that also offers discounts on fabrics. • Form or join sewing groups so ideas, books and fabrics can be shared. • Buy the right tool for the right job. For instance you only use a 24” x 6.5” ruler for borders. I ...
- Tighten your belt, not your imagination!
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- 05 Aug 2009
- Whether you craft for fun or profit, decisions about what you purchase and make are undoubtedly affected by the state of your bank balance. For hobbyists in particular, a crafty outlet might feel like an indulgence but, with clever management, it can actually prove to be an asset (not to ...
- Jane Sassaman
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- 05 Aug 2009
- Every year since its inception the Australasian Quilt Convention has presented local quilters with the best of local and international quilting talent. This year is no exception and, as AQC moves to its new home at Melbourne’s Royal Exhibition Building, it welcomes Illinois (USA) based quilter, fabric designer, author and ...
- Getting creative in Cambodia
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- 05 Aug 2009
- A recent email from Ginny Hanson in Cambodia took us by surprise. Sometimes we’re taken aback by how far our little magazine travels. In her email Ginny, who runs a group called Sak Saum (the Khmer word for dignity), wanted to nominate a young NZ woman, Joanne Cole, to be ...
- Sue Dennis
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- 14 Jul 2009
- Not many people can say their quilting career kicked off in a mining region where the dramatic, sometimes harsh, natural environment inspired their work. Sue Dennis can. It was when her husband’s work took her to Mt. Isa, in North-West Queensland, that the stitching bug bit. Since then she has ...
- Shop & sew at Thread Den
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- 14 Jul 2009
- Public sewing lounges. Long term readers of the 'get creative' magazine might remember the story of the Stitch Lounge in San Francisco, USA, that we reported on. Hailed as one of the first combined retail and sewing spaces, the business has now closed (though it retains an online presence) but ...
- Artist profile - Sue Pearl
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- 14 Jul 2009
- Sue Pearl, vibrant felt maker, artist and author of the new book, ‘Making Felted Friends’, was recently in Australia where she took time out to speak to ‘get creative’ about 500-year-old farmhouses, making Nuno, teaching and felting on the international stage. Sue’s website describes her as “a felt maker making ...
- A class of their own
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- 13 Jul 2009
- Textile education. Today’s textile students tackle the here & now. If you love working with textiles and wish you could be making a living in the area, is 2009 the year you start looking at options? This month ‘get creative’ steps inside the hallowed halls of one of Australasia’s most ...
- Freeforming into the future
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- 13 Jul 2009
- Creating textured surfaces with Jenny Dowde. ‘Surface Works’ by Australian artist, Jenny Dowde, is about adding surface decoration to plain knitted or crocheted backgrounds. Through more than 30 projects Jenny, using traditional and freeform approaches, provides numerous suggestions for creating textured surfaces in knitting and crochet, using fancy yarns, handmade ...
- Knitting in times of trouble
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- 13 Jul 2009
- Lela Nargi is the editor of a wonderful book for knitters and non-knitters alike called ‘Knitting Through It: Inspiring Stories for Times of Trouble’. A collection of writings from contemporary authors as well as some taken from the WPAs Federal Writers Project in the USA, the book brings together stories ...
- Beth Miller
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- 29 Jun 2009
- Canberra’s Beth Miller attended her first quilting class in 1981. What started as a hobby became a passion and in 1997 she completed tertiary studies in commercial screen printing and fabric decoration. It was during that period that Beth started making quilts and printing, painting and dyeing many of the ...
- Vikki Leigh Martin
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- 23 Jun 2009
- Our guest milliner to 'get craetive' magazine Vikki Leigh Martin, has an impressive background in fashion and teaching. A graduate of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology’s prestigious fashion design course, Vikki shares her skills in sewing, garment construction, accessory and headwear making from her wonderful studio in Melbourne, plus ...
- Inside the studios of creative women
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- 19 Jun 2009
- In the late 1920s the famous English author, Virginia Woolf, delivered some essays that came to be published under the title, ‘A Room of One’s Own’. In the years since, these writings have become famous for one of the key messages they presented; that “a woman must have money and ...
- Catherine Howell
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- 19 Jun 2009
- In May this year UK-born embroiderer, Catherine Howell, made her debut appearance as a guest artist at the 2008 Craft & Quilt Fairs. She will be front and centre again at the Canberra Fair in August, in New Zealand in September, Brisbane in October and Adelaide in November. She’ll fit ...
- Embroiderers' Guild Queensland Inc
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- 15 Jun 2009
- The Embroiderers’ Guild Queensland Inc. celebrated its 40th birthday between May and June 2008 with an eight-day public exhibition, Fabulous Forty, at its headquarters in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley. The Queensland group was born of state pride. Four Brisbane residents - members of The Embroiderers’ Guild of New South Wales ...
- How to - french knot
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- 15 Jun 2009
- Bring needle up at A, wind the thread around the needle once or twice. Go back down at B and secure at the back.
- How to - cross stitch
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- 15 Jun 2009
- Begin by making the bottom half of the stitches, up at A down at B, up at C, across the row. Then return along the row to make the top half. Stitches can be worked individually or in rows but all top stitches must face the same direction.
- How to - blanket stitch
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- 15 Jun 2009
- Working stitch from left to right, bring needle from back to front at A. insert needle to back to front in a single motion at B and C. Before pulling needle through fabric, take thread under point of needle as shown (C then becomes A for the next stitch).
- How to - back stitch
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- 15 Jun 2009
- Bring needle up through the fabric, one stitch ahead of the starting point. Go down through the fabric one stitch behind, then out again one stitch ahead. Continue in this way.
44 Projects Matching "teach"
- Name & Description
- Created
- Stitch sampler 15 Jun 2009
- Noughts & crosses mat 15 Jun 2009
- Name sampler 15 Jun 2009
- How to - use texture paste & masks 18 Jun 2009
- Sewing easy curves 25 Jun 2009
- Spider 05 Jul 2009
- Bat 05 Jul 2009
- Skull 07 Jul 2009
- Using strip piecing - Checkerboard 13 Jul 2009
- Using strip piecing - Rail Fence 13 Jul 2009
- Using strip piecing - Double Irish chain 13 Jul 2009
- Filter fish 14 Jul 2009
- Salty water 14 Jul 2009
- Octopus 14 Jul 2009
- How to - Needle felting 22 Jul 2009
- How to - Fringing 22 Jul 2009
- How to - Casting off 22 Jul 2009
- How to - Gathering fabric 22 Jul 2009
- How to - Tailor tacks 22 Jul 2009
- How to - Backing stitchery 23 Jul 2009
- How to - Work with head pins 23 Jul 2009
- How to - Double hem 23 Jul 2009
- How to - Apply gold leaf 23 Jul 2009
- How to - Work with eye pins 23 Jul 2009
- How to - Sew on bias binding 23 Jul 2009
- How to - Strip feathers 23 Jul 2009
- How to - Curl feathers 23 Jul 2009
- How to - Fusible binding 23 Jul 2009
- How to - adhering Vliesofix 23 Jul 2009
- How to - Patchwork seams 23 Jul 2009
- How to - Tying bows 24 Jul 2009
- How to - Use jump rings 24 Jul 2009
- Silhouette quilt 04 Aug 2009
- How to - Weave 04 Aug 2009
- How to - make book parts 04 Aug 2009
- How to - tint paper 04 Aug 2009
- How to - Make a bag base 07 Aug 2009
- How to - Use Fiskars Xpress shape cutter 07 Aug 2009
- How to - raw edge appliqué 12 Aug 2009
- How to - Use raw edge appliqué in art quilts 12 Aug 2009
- How to - Stitch on ribbon & trims 14 Aug 2009
- How to - join binding strips 17 Aug 2009
- How to - strip piecing 21 Aug 2009
- How to - Casting on (Continental style) 09 Sep 2009
