April 2018
Start Stitching – Chicken scratch pin cushion
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Find out more »Blue Hydrangea Greeting Card
Silk ribbon embroidery is an old art form and its often elegant appearance belies its simplicity. Exquisitely beautiful pieces can often be created with the simplest of stitches. Using basic stitches and ribbon embroidery techniques, students in this class will create a beautiful greeting card. The aim is to learn to use ribbon creatively, using ribbon stitch and couching. The class is suitable for beginners, with no prior skills assumed. Tutor Paula Pugh Class code PP21/4 Class cost $60.00…
Find out more »May 2018
Start Stitching – Cross-stitch a cactus
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Find out more »Ottoman Metal Thread Embroidery Workshop
While Alison was in Turkey, at the end of 2015, she was fortunate to find some silver broad plate thread still occasionally used for metal thread embroidery. The style of embroidery is that used in the Ottoman Empire. This two-day embroidery workshop covers counted thread techniques using traditional Ottoman stitches (the project is not cross stitch). It uses Au Ver à Soie d’Alger silk thread highlighted with the silver broad plate. The fabric is 28-count soft (undressed) linen. This small…
Find out more »June 2018
Time for tea – a strawberry ribbon tea cosy
This is a two-day class (Saturday 2nd June and Saturday 9th June) in silk ribbon embroidery, which is an old art form. Its often elegant appearance belies its simplicity. Exquisitely beautiful pieces can be created with the simplest of stitches. This tea cosy, with its black woollen background enhanced by bright and cheerful Colour Streams ribbons, uses simple stitches in a very different way. Tutor Paula Pugh Class code PP2/6 Class cost $120.00 members; $140.00 non-members Class kit cost $60.00…
Find out more »July 2018
Children’s Holiday Class
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Guild, our projects this year will have a Queensland theme. In the July class we will be making a needlecase with a theme inspired by the Great Barrier Reef. This is a 2-day class, from 9.30 am until 2.30 pm on: Tuesday, 10th July and Thursday, 12th July 2018. Class Cost $55 for 2 days, which includes lunch and all materials. Class Code CHJY Class Registration Complete the Class…
Find out more »Start Stitching – Silver crosses needlepoint brooch
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Find out more »Appliqué class – Quetzal, bird of liberty
Guatemalan legend has it that, during a battle near Lake Atitlan, a Quetzal (the bird of liberty and Guatemala’s national bird) fell over the inert body of a brave Indian warrior whose tribe then won the fight. This event is still celebrated in the embroidery of local women who decorate their clothes with brightly coloured birds. This class offers a ‘taste’ of some of the common forms of hand appliqué used today. The repeated bird motif allows students to practise…
Find out more »August 2018
Start Stitching – Strawberry coaster
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Find out more »September 2018
Kogin Embroidery
This class has a choice of a beginner’s level bag or an intermediate level bag. Kogin embroidery originated in the north of Japan’s main island in the Aomori prefecture. Due to its rugged geography, bitter winters and impassable roads, this area was isolated for a long time from much of Japan’s mainstream culture. It began to open up after a rail line was built in the 1920s. As the local inhabitants were very poor, they were forbidden from wearing…
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