SATURDAY 15th NOVEMBER

This will be a very busy meeting covering the following:

> CHRISTMAS PARTY: surnames beginning with A-J please bring savoury foods; K-Z bring sweet food.
Instead of a gift for each other, we are making a donation to a charity, the same as last year. Place $5 or more in an envelope and write on it the name of your chosen charity. Name of the successful charity will be drawn.

> FASHION PARADE: dress up in your Christmas clothes.

> TRAVELLING SUITCASE EXHIBITION: display of completed works, photographing and handover of works to Sheila.

> SHOW AND TELL: especially Christmas decorations and gift ideas.

> MARKET BAZAAR: bring along all that bric-a-brac from your studio that you can can't find a use for plus any finished artwork to sell off. Swapping is allowed. Don't forget your spending money.

INVITE A FRIEND. They just might be interested in joining our merry band.

The MONDAY 17th NOVEMBER MEETING will be a UFO day for items for the Laman Street Art Fair.

SATURDAY 18th OCTOBER

Participate in this workshop and also critique your item for the 2009 TRAVELLING SUITCASE.

EMBELLISHING WITH SILK FLOWERS AND OTHER MEDIA
With Aileen Lee and Jan Pengilley

Workshop Requirements:
> An A4 piece of printed or dyed background fabric, even something you don't like
> Backing fabric and batting
> Chiffon, organza or tulle, a little larger than your background fabric
> Selection of silk flowers (from $2 shop or similar)
> Selection of yarns, fibres and other embellishments
> Threads, metallic and variegated as well
> Beads, rhinestones, and glitz
> Sewing machine and the usual accessories: scissors, pins etc

The MONDAY 20th OCTOBER MEETING will be a UFO day for items for the Laman Street Art Fair.

MONDAY 15th SEPTEMBER

CREATIVE OVERLOCKING TECHNIQUES
with Gay Grillmeier

REQUIREMENTS:
> 3 or 4 thread overlocker
> Overlocker manual
> 3 reels of sewing machine thread, colours to match overlocker tension dials eg: blue, red, yellow
> 50 cm calico or lawn to practice on
> 20 cm T shirt knit fabric
> 20 cm rib fabric
> 20 cm organza or nylon
> 30 cm lace edging
> Variety of threads eg: thickish ctrotech yarn, woolly thread
> note book and pen
For wine bag:
> 38cm x 38 cm mid to heavy plain coloured fabric
> 50 cm heavy cord

WE WILL COVER:
> How to thread overlocker
> How to change tensions, width and length
> When and how to change differential feed
> Gathering
> Narrow rolled hem
> Lettice hems
> Use of variety of threads
> Decorative effects, fishing line in hems
> Flat locking
> Example of creative overlocking

SATURDAY 16th AUGUST

We will be critiquing completed work or work in progress for the TEXTILE TOUCH-UP exhibition to be held at Wallsend Library during October/November 2008! Exhibition forms for this exhibition will only be available during the August meeting. All work presented, whether incomplete or finished, will be photographed to assist the Hanging Team to present the work at its best. Exhibitors are expected to be available for the exhibition roster. Artists may sell their own small items at the gallery while on roster

There will also be a display of Jenny Crain's mother's fibre artworks based on lichen.

Outside the meeting, we should also be working towards the 2009 TRAVELLING SUITCASE exhibition with the theme JOURNEYS. Please note that suitcase artwork must not exceed 21 x 16 x 5 inches in size.

SATURDAY 19th JULY

Annual General Meeting

All those wishing to vote and/or take up a position on the committee must be financial. We will also have two guest speakers. Jan Clark will talk about her Arts Degree and Sue Cooper will talk about her newly published Fibre Art Technique book. Everyone please bring a plate for lunch.

MONDAY 21st JULY

Creating beautiful textured pieces from florist wrapping paper
with Christine Sutcliffe

Requirements:

> 1 SHEET GOLD FLORIST WRAPPING PAPER (most florists will sell you a sheet - must be from the florist, most other cellophanes do not work)
> CHOOSE A COLOUR SCHEME, THEN CHOOSE THE REST. EG PURPLES AND GREEN, PINK & ORANGE ETC
> 3 COLOURS OF ACRYLIC PAINT
> 1/2 TO 1INCH FLAT PAINTBRUSH
> 3 DIFFERENT COLOURED PIECES OF ORGANZ (can be small pieces to make up at least an A4 size of each)
> 2 OR 3 COLOURS OF SEED BEADS
> 6 SMALL TO MEDIUM SIZE OTHER BEADS. Preferably same colour.
> SATAY STICK
> FABRIC AND PAPER SCISSORS, PINS, COTTON OR POLLY COTTON THREADS
> SEWING MACHINE, DARNING FOOT FOR FREE MOTION WORK
> MACHINE NEEDLES (SIZE 70) old ones will be good
> Iron and board if you have one
> extension lead and power board if you have one
> baking paper
> 3 empty, clean margarine containers or similar.

Bring yourself and your jolly spirit and lets have some fun. If you don't feel jolly that morning, come anyway and maybe some will rub off. BONUS !

SATURDAY 21st JUNE

Show and Tell from each of the Kurri Kurri Workshops

There will be a committee meeting at 9 am before the member's meeting.

MONDAY 16th JUNE

OIL PAINT STICK with Kerri-Anne Riles

Please bring:
> 6 pieces of calico or similar 12" x 12"
> 2 pieces of patterned fabric 12" x 1"
> 1 piece of fabric you absolutely hate
> 1 piece of textured fabric
> 3 sheets of computer paper
> Paper scissors, craft knife and masking tape
> Textured items to make rubbings
> Plastic sheet to protect table

MONDAY 19th MAY

Many members will be at the Kurri Workshops so there will be no Saturday meeting in May. But the Monday meeting will go ahead.

Workshop
SILK PAPER with DIANE DIROU

You will need the following:

> Lots of towels to mop up water
> Large piece of plastic - a green heavy duty garbag would be good
> Piece of bubble wrap about 12/14 inches square
> Glad wrap
> 2 large pieces of tulle or net
> Some flat leaves with veins
> 2/3 margarine containers or water spray bottle for wet down of fibres
> $5.00 for fibres and mediums

Contact Diane for more information: 4982 3606

SATURDAY 19th APRIL

Reminder for committee members - we will need to have a committee meeting on Saturday 19th April at 9:00am before the member's meeting. See you all then.

Workshop
DESIGNING IDEAS with JENNY LOSS

You will need the following:

Textas or Coloured Pencils, Paper Scissors,
Soft Lead Pencils, Glue Stick, Ruler

I will provide a kit per person for the exercises at a minimal cost of $3.00 per person. Time permitting we will also do an exercise relating to the JOURNEYS theme for the Travelling Suitcase 2009.

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MONDAY 21st APRIL

Workshop
QUILTING AND APPLIQUE WITH PAINTED VLIESOFIX
with AILEEN LEE

Stylish projects can be worked very simply using this interesting technique.

You will need the following:

A few pieces of plain silk fabric about 8 inches square
Light weight Wadding or batting the same size
Calico backing also the same size
Water soluble marking pen
Paper cutting scissors
A few assorted colours of pain, water colour, acrylics, lumiere, metallic, whatever you have and a brush Vliesofix and a piece of baking paper
Sewing machine, threads - some variegated is good
Chiffon and/or black bridal tulle.

SATURDAY 15th & MONDAY 17th MARCH

All three activities will be conducted by our NCEATA member Judi Nikoleski. Monday's program will be a repeat of Saturday's.

Workshop 1
TRADITIONAL MACEDONIAN FOLK COSTUMES
The small Balkan country of Macedonia has an amazing 70 distinct regional costumes which have their origins in antiquity and have changed little over the past 600 years. Judi's short talk will be accompanied by a display of informative folio illustrations, original costumes including jewellery and shoes, plus a sampling of hand woven, embroidered soft furnishings. This will be followed by morning tea with boorek (Macedonian savoury pastry).

Workshop 2
THE EASY WAY TO DRAW ORIGINAL DESIGNS USING LAYERS
This is a very useful and flexible method for developing complex drawings and designs for use in the creation of textiles. You will need: HB or softer lead pencil, fineline black texta, 2 sheets of white photocopy paper, pencil rubber (kneaded rubber is best), masking or sticky tape paper scissors.

Workshop 3
DIGITAL EMBROIDERY TECHNIQUES
This short discussion and demonstration of digital embroidery techniques will show how the layers method has been used to prepare drawings for scanning and digitizing into digital files for the embroidery machine. It will also cover methods for controlling the accurate placement of multiple components into complex designs, the manipulation of stitch density, thread order and colour management and the embroidering of precise shapes within a hoop without waste of fabric.

SATURDAY 16th & MONDAY 18th FEBRUARY

The Saturday workshop will consist of:
   Brainstorming for Travelling Suitcase
   Wendy Townsend's chat on Fabrics of Peru
   Members' business meeting
   Decision on the theme for 2008 Travelling Suitcase

Expressions of interest will also be canvassed to see if members are interested in forming a group to travel to Alice Springs to participate in the Beanie Festival. Members can enter this festival with beanies to exhibit or to sell. Wendy went last year and she said that it was a wonderful weekend. Her group went by plane and rented a car to get around in Alice Springs.

The Monday meeting will be a UFO day.

SATURDAY 19th & MONDAY 21st JANUARY

This workshop is inspired by kite festivals held all over India in January. Come along and create translucent works of art. Bring either your choice of coloured tissue papers and / or transparent fabrics. If you want to work with paper, bring scissors and glue, and if you want to work with fabric, bring a basic sewing kit and / or your sewing machine, appropriately tagged of course.