Did you know the WAQA contemporary quilt ladies meet on the second Friday of each month from 10 – 3pm at the Alexander Park Craft House. Visitors are welcome to all meetings.
CQG provides a welcoming atmosphere in which textile related subjects are discussed. A program of workshops and demonstrations is presented by our own member artists and, on occasion, visiting textile artists. Gatherings are casual and relaxed and if no hands on workshops is held, attendees are most welcome to bring along hand work.
In November, Julie McAllister, had us in knots showing how she uses sari silk strips in her quilts and how to make neat plaited baskets.
Meg Cowey, showed us how she created her ingenious ‘stitched and bound’ four sided quilt. This involved some paper folding, which proved a challenge for some of us, but luckily Meg has given us the link to the instructions to the paper version of a four-sided quilt…
Paul sharing his expertise on colour!
