Connecting through Creative Textiles

Dionne    Exhibiting your work, Up coming events     creative textiles, macarthur textile challenge and expo

With the aim of providing learning and networking opportunities through meetings, seminars and workshops, this organisation connects textile artists, practitioners and interested people in Macarthur and surrounding areas.

Macarthur Textile Network’s 2012 exhibition is Friday 18th and Saturday 19th of May from 10 am to 4 pm both days at the Camden Civic Centre.  So you have plenty of notice and time to put together your own submission.  2o12′s Challenge Topic is Elements.

Contact them directly

MacarthurTextileNetwork@gmail.com

PO Box 932, Narellan, NSW 2567

(02) 4658 0930

Facebook: Macarthur Textile Network

Shop till you drop in Mittagong

Dionne    Feel good stuff     Mittagong, win a shopping spree

Kicking off a Mittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry sponsored competition to win a $1000 shopping spree in Mittagong, Mittagong Mania is back after a 7 year break.

How do you enter, buy something from participating Mittagong businesses between today and 5pm October 5th, 2011.

If you buy today, many of those businesses have special offers.

Victoria House Needlecraft’s May Sale prices are applicable in store and online until midnight tonight.

Mittagong Primary School Fair

Dionne    Feel good stuff     Mittagong, Primary School Fair, Tulip Time

Tulip Time in the Highlands has so much to offer.

Heading to Tulip Time in September?  Don’t miss Mittagong Primary School’s Spring Fair.

24th September, from 10am to 3pm

Cnr Pioneer and Albert Streets, Mittagong.

Our new framer is having her own exhibition

Dionne    Feel good stuff, Up coming events, What's New     arthead, bob millis, sonja millis

We are always looking for new framers as our customers come from a large geographic area.  Up until now we only had them on the coast side of the Highlands.  Through our customers we heard about Arthead in Goulburn, just as I was planning when I could fit in a trip down the highway with the munchkin supervised by Grandma, Arthead opened up a new shop front in Moss Vale.  Yay!

We have had a number of models stitched there in the last 3 months and Sonja and her team provide a consistently excellent finish to our models.  It is great that there is someone just down the road.  Sonja and her husband are also having their own exhibition this weekend so you can see what they get up to when not busy working at their 2 stores.

Bowral and District Art Society are hosting an exhibition of Bob and Sonja Mills works this week from the 7th to the 11th of July, so it is worth going along this weekend, before you miss out.

Sonja and Bob Millis exhibition July 7th-11th. Just the thing for a cold blustery weekend in the Highlands. Don't miss out!

Ask a question. The response may be breathtaking …

Dionne    Cross Stitch, Feel good stuff     Cross Stitch, hall of fame, Stewart Merret

I discovered our latest Hall of Famer in store last month.  She came in and bought 25 Stewart Merrett Australian Animal and Bird kits.  Me, being the big sticky beak that I am, wanted to know what she was going to do with them all, thinking gifts for friends abroad, Christmas gifts for relatives, she is a teacher planning a craft class, …. blah blah blah.

None of it.  She is going to stitch them all and then commandeer her sister to put them all together as a quilt.

I mused that it would be a cold day in hell before either of my sisters did anything like this for me, (the Novocastrian doesn’t sew at all but the Brisbanite is a pretty good knitter, and  is currently having to revisit all the crafty skills we learnt from Mum with an 8-year-old burgeoning Martha Stewart in the house.  She wanted to do some craft with a dead rat that was found in the ceiling! My neice, not my sister … story for another day).

Back to Vicki and her quilt, this cross stitching/quilting pair have already collaborated on this scale before, with spectacular results.  Vicki told me about the quilt they have already completed using the Stewart Merrett Australian Flora.  I asked her to send me some photos, I was so impressed I suggested she email Stewart.  Thought you all would love to see them too, and have entered her into our stitching Hall of Fame.

Thank you for sharing your work and ideas Vicki.  Love it!