Tag: Brisbane

  • Highlights of the Brisbane Quilt and Craft Fair

    Highlights of the Brisbane Quilt and Craft Fair

    What a great show! It was really wonderful to be at the Brisbane Quilt and Craft Fair the week following teaching in the Sunshine Coast and the 2 day workshop for the Queensland Quilters, because it felt like a steady stream of friends kept stopping by to say hi. Sue Duffy and Brenda Wood were…

  • Brisbane Craft and Quilt Fair

    Brisbane Craft and Quilt Fair

    I ended my five week trip to Australia by teaching pop up classes in the Unique Stitching booth and demoing various techniques as a guest artist at the Brisbane Craft and Quilt Fair.  my exhibit and work space as guest artist   This is fellow guest artist Loani Prior, the queen of exotic knitted tea cozies. Her booth was…

  • Beautiful Brisbane and its many bridges

    Beautiful Brisbane and its many bridges

    On my day off in Brisbane my wonderful host, Janet, from the Queensland Quilt Guild took me out for a day in the city. We took the train downtown, stopped to get a much needed massage, then had lunch at a lovely tea shop where I stocked up on a few wonderful teas. Then we…

  • 2 Days of Acrylic Inks with the Queensland Quilters

    2 Days of Acrylic Inks with the Queensland Quilters

    What a great time I had with the Queensland Quilters! We spent two days immersed in acrylic ink, creating some really amazing work. x One of my students Donna, is an amazing poet, after painting two beetles she proceeded to write an incredibly humorous poem to go with it, and then she did a reading…

  • On to Brisbane to Meet the Queensland Quilters

    On to Brisbane to Meet the Queensland Quilters

    My first day in Brisbane began with a visit to the Queensland Quilt Guild to give two lectures. What made the day even more fun was to have my good friend Sue Dennis show up at the meeting and offer to take me out to see the sights between lectures.   Sue took me to Mt Coot, the…