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Techniques – what we will do, what people want to do, or have done.

Below is a work in progress till I have it all up to date and formatted correctly after pasting the info to this page.
Check out the technique time table and wanted list.  

If you are coming to classes, could you please look at the list of wanted and techniques and see what you could teach and when.

This needs to be filled up so we can keep learning and that we all share the work load.

Give me 3 option dates (in case some of you pick the same month) - and I will fit you in to the timetable

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Technique time – worth reading again to take the pressure out of sharing

We all take turns  - this is a sharing time so it can be something you know very well OR that you are learning along with everyone else .. no pressure,

please, if you really don’t want to then don’t worry.

Something that was mentioned by 1 member, was that she felt that all she knew, everyone would already know, but as we talked about her technique we

realised she had a new different way of doing it and a couple of the starting artists had not even tried the technique at all.

So we all have much to learn and we all have so much to share.

Each member will only charge costs for the technique, eg photocopy notes, specialist supplies etc  (based on the reason we will all be teaching and all

learning so no payment needs to be paid to teach)

When we get outside tutors, members who partake in that class will share the teachers costs.

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Classes

There are many ways of sharing in this group 1 of them being teaching classes.

There is also bringing in new members, venue and exhibition information, contacts for our needs eg supplies,

TEACHING GUIDLELINES

                   The class can be something you know about or something you want to try

                   You don’t need to be an expert –

Trialling a new technique can also help share the costs as usually buying the supplies can be a high cost and you only need a little, so

         this way you can share the cost with the other members.

When your class is due to be taught the next month send me an email with a list of supplies that people need to bring and/or what they need to

do to be prepared for class.

It will be great if you have handouts for the class or at least some background info you can pass to me so I can put on the email class notes

                  page.

Class notes just in black and white images and the email page version can have the colour and can be:

-  photocopies of the notes you have gained from books or other classes – YOU MUST reference where you took the copies from

-  or your own notes and pictures (take photos as you make the sample piece/s)

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2014 Technique Timetable

 

I have sourced a teacher for encaustic wax painting and 1 for silk dyeing and am filling in forms for funding now.

Either way we will run these 2 workshops (1 day each later in the year)

I’ve also got a friend to help us with in depth training on photographing art and Margaret also has some techniques so that will be another day.

So really there are only 4 class spots left to fill  -- first in first served – don’t all rush me haha

Another idea, was we all (who know how to quilt) teach 1 patchwork and 1 quilt technique, as a few people have mentioned wanting to learn basic quilting

I know how to cut 1 square into 8 triangle blocks and I’m sure some of you know something as well

Say maybe log cabin / quilt in the ditch / feather / crazy quilt etc etc sure we can come up with some ideas

The crazy quilt block could then be used the next month to practice some hand stitching?

If you can be involved in this then I will organise a day

          SO - let me know if you can teach and what, and months that suit you

                - Let me know what you want to learn

about patchwork (sewing the material together to make a pattern)

and quilting (the stitched patterns on the material)

2014 (meetings every month – full day)

                        Technique Morn                                              

Jan                      Margherita –  off loom weaving

Feb                      Sally –  altered books

March                  Ellen – marbling 3 ways and rusting 2 ways

April                     Shirley – cut cotton picture 

May                     Joanna – How to photograph your art and edit for ease of submitting images in emails/ cd’s etc   

May be cancelled as same date as Calling all quilts

June                    Margaret – taking useful photos for art quilts and manipulating the images

July                      Lois  -  no waste flying geese               

Aug                     Nola – stitched, burnt and layered organza

Sept                         Yanni Silk  – dyeing shabori

Oct                       Deborah    – Encaustic art

Nov

Dec                                                                                                    

Techniques

Below is a list of classes members have said they will teach / have been requested to teach after sharing their art / or techniques wanted to learn.

Some of these classes may be full days or taught with a number of other mini classes to fill a day or 1 mini class in the afternoon if a repeat of a previous class is requested.

If more than 1 teacher listed, then both have a different version or extension of the same technique

Burning – Sally and Ellen

Gesso material and paint – Sally

Layered sheers stitched and cut – Nola

Journal – Shirley (Mata)

Painted hibiscus – Sally

Tall trees // how to sew sharp points – Shirley(Mata)

Freezer paper Screen printing – Sally

Thermofax Screen printing - Nola

Fussy cut / tape picture– Ellen (we made this in 2013 class but Ellen has tweaked it wonderfully)

Lutrador / tyvek – Linda B

Shaving cream dye - Ellen

Beadwork – Nola – Lots of options so Nola will show samples 1 month, we will vote and the most requested technique will be the next meeting class.

Rust dyeing use poly? Name of chemical? – Margherita will research this more and teach

Picture designing – Margherita taught Nov 2013 (repeat as mini)

Sew n Cut - Margherita taught 2013 (repeat as mini)

Mosaic pictures from photos  – Margherita has the software

Images in art  - Margaret

Basic techniques for photographing our art – Margaret

Monoprints –  Sally 

Woven fabric strips to make stars, hexagons etc  –  Margherita

WANTED – can you help or know someone who can

Leseyriley.com – type of transfer images to fabric ((maybe same as what Margaret will teach?))

marbling

make scrim/ muslin textured and attach to fabric (done with Clare or Margherita previously??)

resist dyeing methods – re quilting arts magazine

burnt organza – (done at symposium by Bridget and Linda Bates - this was mentioned by another member not Bridget and Linda.

stencils made designed cut out / stamps / lino cutting

embellishing rules – machine or hand - , guidelines, designs , stitches –

felting re marilyn

art, colour, design etc rules guidelines

fabric shading so that sewn images can look dimensional

trying different paints etc to see what they do to fabric eg stay soft, go hard

encaustic wax layers with fabric, images, embellishments etc

Beading – threading and sewing with

wire – anything, winding, jewellery, using it in art, knitting, crochet

burning – fabric and layers

Using lustrador and tyvek – to paint on, melt (Linda B?)

Enamelling

Those rods/beads? That were at embroidery day (Marilyn?)

POSSIBLE TUTORS

Barbara Hilford (Tirau – quilt teacher)

Shibori dyeing – Yanni Split

Rust/compost dyeing – Marion Manson

 

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Past Techniques  

2013   meeting every month ½ day

Technique Morn                                              

Feb                      cancelled

March                  Margherita fabric design and handmade journal

April                     Clare   embroidery and hand stitching

May                     cancelled

June                    NO MEETING  Yanni’s silk dyeing class only

July                      Margherita – painted and tiled wall art

Aug                      Margherita – fussy cut tiled wall art

Sept                          Margherita – multiple cut n sew material / solvy waterfall scarf

Oct                       Margherita – book and magazine art

Nov                      Margherita – Quick and easy ways to design and make abstract art

Dec                      2014 planning                                                                               

2012 (meetings every 2 months – full day)

Technique Morn                                  Technique Afternoon

Feb                      Elaine – thread painting                                 Merian – silk style paper

April                     Claire – abstract art                                          Margherita – flower pounding 

                                                                                                                                  - fabric beads

June                    cancelled

July                      Sally – Citrasolv image transfer                     Margherita – origami bag

                                                                                                                                       - textile wire cord

Aug                      cancelled

Oct                       Matatmata Alisons Felt Day              

Dec                      Shirley -  vlisofix Paint & stitch picture          Caroline Foil & Angelina     

2011    (meetings every 2 months – full day)              

Technique Morn                                 Technique Afternoon

June                    Margherita – bead knitted beads  

August                 Bridget -- transfer dying                                Margherita -- fabric manipulation

Oct                             Marilyn -- oil sticks                                         Margherita -- Discharge dyeing    

Dec                      Ellen – gelatine prints                                   Caroline – Design



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