Cutting Edge Textiles
2017
See the "Challenges Gallery .." in left menu for some images of our work.
We still meet twice a month, on the 2nd and 4th Sat but have added mini classes to the Creatives day as we have so much we want to learn, do and practice.
On the 4th Sat we have a full day class or workshop. The tutors are our members or local artists.
On the 2nd Sat we have a Creatives day. This is a creative, social, do your own thing day or take a mini class.
See our Facebook page for what we are doing. It's going to be updated more now as a member has taken on the updating and posting of class images.
https://www.facebook.com/CuttingEdgeTextiles
If you are local to the Waikato, NZ or happy to travel and would like to join us, please contact me at -- jmrallan@xtra.co.nz.
We now have regular members from New Plymouth, Tauranga, Matamata, Auckland and Thames.
And the group has grown to over 40 sub paid members and 200+ email members.
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Basics
$25 yearly sub, $15 from July.
Full members pay $5 to attend meeting, which covers hall hire, class & drink.
Casuals pay $15 to attend meetings.
Time: 9.45am– 3ish
You can join as:
Full member - subscription paid members - who have a large range of benefits.
Casuals - E-member - free - email newsletter members - who get the monthly newsletter about our next class and other relevant information.
Programme for meeting day:
9.45 Set up make a drink
10am sharing our art
10.30ish Lesson starts
Details and requirements sent in monthly free newsletter
12.00 - Lunch, Show and Tell and mini meeting if needed, kept short sharp and sweet
1.00 Carry on with lesson, and expand the technique.
2.30ish Clean up - or we carry on if people want to stay
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History
2011
In June 2011, I started a group for textile artists who would like to expand their art and themselves.
The idea was to meet every now and then, learn a new technique and set a challenge, so that as a group we would have a body of work ready for exhibiting in Waikato Patchwork and quilters exhibition "Calling all quilts".
The group grew quickly to 20 inspired members, who wanted to meet regular and share heaps!
2014
We now meet monthly for a full day class and sharing.
We have grown substantially in the later part of this year due to lots of newspaper articles about the group and the workshops we ran.
We now have over 50 members.
2015
We now meet twice a month, on the 2nd and 4th Sat.
On the 4th Sat we have a full day class or workshop. The tutors are our members or local artists.
On the 2nd Sat we have a Creative Co-workers day. This is a creative, social, do your own thing day.
We have regular members from as far away as Tirau, Matamata, New Plymouth and Thames. And members from Wellington and Papamoa who attend as often as they can.
See the "Challenges Gallery .." in left menu for some images of our work.
We still meet twice a month, on the 2nd and 4th Sat but have added mini classes to the Creatives day as we have so much we want to learn, do and practice.
On the 4th Sat we have a full day class or workshop. The tutors are our members or local artists.
On the 2nd Sat we have a Creatives day. This is a creative, social, do your own thing day or take a mini class.
See our Facebook page for what we are doing. It's going to be updated more now as a member has taken on the updating and posting of class images.
https://www.facebook.com/CuttingEdgeTextiles
If you are local to the Waikato, NZ or happy to travel and would like to join us, please contact me at -- jmrallan@xtra.co.nz.
We now have regular members from New Plymouth, Tauranga, Matamata, Auckland and Thames.
And the group has grown to over 40 sub paid members and 200+ email members.
==========================================
Basics
$25 yearly sub, $15 from July.
Full members pay $5 to attend meeting, which covers hall hire, class & drink.
Casuals pay $15 to attend meetings.
Time: 9.45am– 3ish
You can join as:
Full member - subscription paid members - who have a large range of benefits.
Casuals - E-member - free - email newsletter members - who get the monthly newsletter about our next class and other relevant information.
Programme for meeting day:
9.45 Set up make a drink
10am sharing our art
10.30ish Lesson starts
Details and requirements sent in monthly free newsletter
12.00 - Lunch, Show and Tell and mini meeting if needed, kept short sharp and sweet
1.00 Carry on with lesson, and expand the technique.
2.30ish Clean up - or we carry on if people want to stay
==========================================
History
2011
In June 2011, I started a group for textile artists who would like to expand their art and themselves.
The idea was to meet every now and then, learn a new technique and set a challenge, so that as a group we would have a body of work ready for exhibiting in Waikato Patchwork and quilters exhibition "Calling all quilts".
The group grew quickly to 20 inspired members, who wanted to meet regular and share heaps!
2014
We now meet monthly for a full day class and sharing.
We have grown substantially in the later part of this year due to lots of newspaper articles about the group and the workshops we ran.
We now have over 50 members.
2015
We now meet twice a month, on the 2nd and 4th Sat.
On the 4th Sat we have a full day class or workshop. The tutors are our members or local artists.
On the 2nd Sat we have a Creative Co-workers day. This is a creative, social, do your own thing day.
We have regular members from as far away as Tirau, Matamata, New Plymouth and Thames. And members from Wellington and Papamoa who attend as often as they can.