Friday 19 to Sunday 21 July 2013
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| Templates from Victorian Textiles - www.victoriantextiles.com.au |
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 Mariya Waters is an international and Australian
award winning quilt maker and teacher. She currently specialises in
hand appliqué and machine quilting but has also won international awards
for contemporary art and innovative quilts.
Mariya began quilting in New
Zealand in 1990 and her first quilt was selected for a juried quilt show
and then published in a book. In 1994 while living in England her
third quilt won the prestigious Ascot Trophy at the national
championships.
Since then Mariya has specialised in making quilts for exhibition with
most taking a year or more to complete. Many quilts completed since 1994
have won Australian and international awards. In April 2012 Mariya's
miniature quilt "Mini Magic" was awarded Best Miniature at the AQS
Paducah Kentucky USA Quilt Show.
Margaret McDonald
 Margaret quilts because
she just has to, like sleep, food and exercise; stitching has always been a
part of her life. Her driving interest in quilting is in using fabrics to explore patterns and illusions, frequently using complex and precise piecing. She
uses a wide range of colours in unexpected ways. No colour is banned from her
collection and in fact the more the better.
Margaret’s work
and designs are grounded in her traditional experiences in garment
construction, traditional quilting and other textile pursuits, beginning her
career as a textiles teacher. She will always hold an enthusiasm for quilting,
ready to explore any aspect of colour and design. She has a never-ending
passion for textiles and fabric (of any sort) and absolutely enjoys the
teaching aspect of her quilting career.
The students in her classes are inspired
from a commitment to establish what they as an individual want to learn. She has
a growing number of patterns in publication and enjoys the challenge of
entering quilt shows. She has a collection of national and international awards
for her work. Her quilts are held in collections in Australia, China, and the
USA. Her latest award was in 2012 in USA.
Deb Layt
 Deb Layt is a
Textile Artist living and creating in Watsonia, Victoria. Deb teaches
classes to all levels of students in the art of machine patchwork and quilting.
She is a regular exhibitor and spends many enjoyable hours working away at a
variety of projects in her studio. Many of her quilts have won awards in both
Australia and America. Deb won an award at the Victorian Quilters Annual
Showcase in Melbourne in July 2012.Deb was the owner of The Patchwork Gallery Store located in Watsonia, Victoria for 10
years. She chose to close in 2008 to focus on teaching and designing.
She spends a lot of time designing original quilts while also using blocks that are in the public domain to create designs for all skill levels.
She is always on the lookout for different techniques to adapt to her way of working.
The Patchwork Gallery has developed into a place to go for knowledge and a high
standard of patchwork and quilting classes.
Deb actively participates in quilt exhibitions and enthusiastically encourages
Australian content
and a development of our own quilting identity.
Bev Frank
 Bev discovered quilting through a friend about 14
years ago, and she could not comprehend the appeal of cutting fabric up into
pieces and sewing it back together again! Needless to say she was hooked
and has been making quilts ever since! She has also done lots of appliqué
and stitchery quilts too.
She loves
brightly coloured fabrics, bold prints and uses a lot of squares and rectangles in her quilts. She
loved using the ‘quilt as you go’ technique as she was able to finish a quilt herself
without the difficulty of quilting with a regular sewing machine or by hand.
In 2012 she
bought a Gammill long arm machine and started Hopscotch Quilting and has really enjoyed quilting for
others. She doesn’t make any ‘quilt as you go’ projects any more, but still
enjoys teaching the technique.
Nicky Tepper
 Nicky has been a Crazy patchworker for the past
20 years. She discovered patchwork when her
son was born and she became a stay at home mum. Becoming addicted, she eventually opened a store that has given her the
perfect excuse to stitch her little heart out.
She
has a devoted husband Peter, who works in the shop with her and is the leadlight
half of the dynamic duo, but who is also pretty good with the fabric selection
too. They have two children, Joshua 21 and Holly 18. Both are currently at university in
Melbourne, so they will be working for a while yet!
Nicky
will set her hand to any project or technique and loves trying something new
and sharing it with whoever wants to listen.
She has no formal qualifications, just lots of life experience.
Leesa Chandler
 Leesa was introduced to quilting over 25 years ago and has
enjoyed running her patchwork business, Chandler's Cottage, for the last ten years,
which has both a studio shop in Beaumaris, Victoria and a website.
She has also published over
100 quilt and handbag patterns which are now available worldwide and also
designs fabrics for Robert Kaufman including her Under the Australian Sun
collection.
Leesa loves to travel and
teach quilters far and wide, and is especially looking forward to coming back
to the Scquilters Retreat at Bendigo!
Emma Baumann
 Emma Baumann has been an avid sewer and embroiderer for more than 25
years. She loves to quilt and embroider,
and has a passion for smocking and for sharing her talents with other like
minded people.
Emma specialises in rotary
cutting, machine piecing, machine appliqué and hand embroidery. She enjoys
nothing more than to sit with hand embroidery, whether in front of the TV, at a
friendship group, or travelling in the car; never is a moment wasted.
She can be found working and
teaching at Chandler’s Cottage in Beaumaris.
Emma and Leesa’s quilt “One in Every Crowd” - featuring machine piecing,
hand appliqué and 3D smocking work - won a Blue Ribbon at VQ in 2007.
Bronwyn Van't Hof
 Bronwyn has been interested in sewing and crafts, learning
to sew on a Singer Featherweight at the age of six, and starting her first
(never completed) patchwork quilt at the age of seventeen.
In 1994, she moved
to Melbourne and, in order to meet people, she joined the craft group at her
daughters’ school. It was here she met the friends who soon re-introduced her
to patchwork. By 1996 she was 'hooked' and gradually all of the other crafts
took a backseat to her new obsession!
In 2003 she took an opportunity that arose to work part-time
at her local patchwork shop (The Stitching Post in Beaumaris) and began
teaching. She has taught everything from beginner’s machine and hand piecing to
machine quilting and machine appliqué.
In 2005 several of
her quilts were entered into the Victorian Quilters Annual Showcase and won 2nd
and 3rd place in the ‘2 Person Traditional’ category, and in 2007 her
Double Wedding Ring quilt ‘Love Amongst
the Briars’ was juried into the American Quilters Society Annual Quilt Show at
Paducah.
In 2005 she opened a
small home-based patchwork business, making quilts for others and since 2008
she has concentrated predominantly on turning it into a patchwork-piecing
service.
Bev Stayner
 Bev has been embroidering for almost all her
life. She started off learning on her Nana’s and Mum’s knee as have a lot of embroiderers. When her children came along it was a time
out necessity that was much valued.
She
appreciates her stitching time to this day, really enjoying learning new
techniques and using the most wonderful threads that we have available here in
Australia. She has been teaching and
learning with friends and students for many years now and finds it very
rewarding to be able to share the abundance of
information she has gathered and the joy of stitching and creating with
others. …. And then there’s patchwork!
Lee Vause
 Holding qualifications in nursing and quality
and business management, and after many years working as a Health Administrator
/ Registered Nurse, Lee has retired from full time work. This has enabled her
to re-focus her endeavours, tap into her creative side and move into the
exciting world of art and craft.
With a clear goal of establishing a
business that was creative, characteristic and of a contemporary nature,
'Threads and Tangles' was formed in November 2011. The business is now
underpinned by Lee's art quilting and teaching activities.
To strengthen this aspect, Lee sought
and gained qualifications as a Certified Zentangle@Teacher, a Jenny Haskins
Accredited Tutor and a Victorian Quilters Accredited Teacher.
Areas Lee loves to teach includes Zentangle in its paper form and in
thread, along with machine embroidery and free motion quilting. Lee embraces a
contemporary art design focus and mixes thread painting, fabric painting with
inks, crayons and pencils along with free motion quilting to create innovative
art quilts.
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