Groups

WAQA has a number of speciality groups as outlined below. Please contact the Special Interest Groups Convenor on waqasigroups@gmail.com for additional information.  Visitors are welcome to these groups, however if not already a member of WAQA you must join after attending three times.

There is also an abundance of small groups throughout Western Australia. Please contact our Small Groups Convenor at waqasmallgroups@gmail.com who will be able to assist you.

We meet on the 2nd Friday of each month at Alexander Park Craft House, Clyde Road, Menora. We begin at 9.30 am for chatting then 10 am to 2.30 pm (approximately) for the program. Entry fee: $5.

We are a group of West Australian contemporary quilters who meet to share, explore, educate and inspire each other.

A program of workshops and demonstrations is presented at our meetings by our own member artists and, on occasion, by visiting textile artists. Gatherings are casual and relaxed with plenty of time to chat. Come along to the next meeting and see what we get up to! Bring your own lunch and coffee cup, notebook and pen, and items for Show and Tell. Go to our website for more information.

 http://www.contemporarywa.wordpress.com or email cqgcontact@gmail.com

For lovers of small blocks.

The Dear Jane Group meets on the 3rd Sunday of the month from 1pm to 5pm. They meet at Alexander Park Craft House, Clyde Rd, Menora. Entry fee: $5

Contact Anne on 0437 892 557 or waqadearj@gmail.com

Defining Exotica: objects considered interesting because they are curiously unusual or excitingly strange, maybe because they originated in a distant foreign country but all having a strange or bizarre allure, beauty, or quality.

The Exotica group meets on the 1st Friday of the month, at Our Lady of Fatima Church Hall, Foss Street, Palmyra from 6pm. Entry fee: $5

Come and join us in sewing with non-traditional fabrics.

Please bring a plate. Have you souvenired exotic textiles in your travels along the way? OR inherited traditional table linens? Maybe found a woollen coat in the Op Shop in your favourite colour that you could not resist buying. If you enjoy going beyond the ordinary with the techniques that you use and the materials you have, Join Exotica! Find the courage with the support of fellow enthusiasts to finally cut into that magnificent kimono or slice up that damask table cloth, wash that African mudcloth… and create anew!

Convenor: Virginia O’Keeffe, 0497 373 681 or 9397 5450 email ginny.okeeffe@gmail.com

Previously known as Roleystone

We meet on the 2nd Wednesday of every month from 10am to 2.30pm at Frye Park Pavilion, Clifton St, Kelmscott. Fee: $5

A south of the river Sewing Day for friendship, sharing, fun and laughter. All West Australian Quilters’ Association members and visitors welcome. Quilt shop attends.

Foothills Friendship Group contacts are now the following:
Chris Kohli Glenda Olesen
cksdesk@bigpond.com glendafolesen@gmail.com
0457 176 177 9397 5543

The group meets at St Nicholas Anglican Church (Corner of Beach Road and Poynter Drive, Duncraig) from 11am to 3pm on the 4th Friday of each month except December. We do English paper piecing and American piecing of any shape but mostly hexagons and crazy quilts. All members are welcome. Fee: $5.

Please contact Carol by email for further details:  carolmwilliams48@gmail.com

The Melville Community Quilters meet on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month at Melville Holy Cross Anglican Church, on the corner of McLean St and Coleman Crescent from 9.30 am to 12 noon. No fee.

Contact Lyn Lendrum at lendrumlyn@gmail.com

Needles and Pins meets every Wednesday from 5-8pm at Alexander Park Craft House, Clyde St, Menora. New members welcome.

$5 entry.

Contact is Jan Bowers at 0437 617 927 or  janbowers394@gmail.com

Primarily Patchwork meets on the 2nd and 4th Monday of the month (except Public Holidays) from 10am til 3pm. 

We meet at Alexander Park Craft House, Clyde Rd, Menora and welcome both machine and hand sewers.  Entry fee: $7

Tea, coffee and biscuits provided.  Please bring a cup or mug and lunch. 

Contact Leonie Mansell at 0417 788 894 or email waqappatch@gmail.com

We meet on the 2nd Sunday of each month from 1pm to 4pm in the studio of Alexander Park Craft House, Clyde Road, Menora. Entry fee $10.

This group welcomes all young sewers of school age from 9 years. We introduce the basic skills of quilting and practise these using small projects. The sewers are introduced to hand sewing, embroidery and machine sewing (on their own machines if they have one).

Call Rosalie Sutton 9458 6996 or email waqayoungsns@gmail.com