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robin.behersing@xtra.co.nz |
Chris
Behersing
Chris has been
quilting for 18 years and teaching in the local Auckland community
for over 12 years. She is passionate about all aspects of quilt
making, knows all the little things that make a difference and likes
to pass these onto her students. She has a “can do”
approach that lets every student get what they need from a class and
extend themselves. Chris has won 3 Best of Show Awards at Calico
Christmas and several other prizes for her machine quilting. Her
quilts have also been exhibited overseas. |
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www.barbarabilyard.com
bbilyard@clear.net.nz |
Barbara
Bilyard
Barbara has
been quilt making for twenty-five years and for nearly as long,
teaching contemporary quilt design and construction nationally and
overseas. Barbara’s quilts are abstract and some pictorial where
she uses fabric, colour and threads to complete her original designs.
Her love of designing geometric patterns can be seen on her web page,
with her negative/ positive machine appliqué quilts and her
‘At Home’workshops available on DVD; and others as printed
workshops. Barbara’s quilts have been exhibited and received
awards, in Europe, USA, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Her quilts
have been published in ‘How-to-do’ books, coffee table
books and New Zealand and overseas magazines. As an invited exhibitor
with three quilts in ‘The 30 Distinguished Quilt Artists of the
World 2003’, Barbara felt thrilled and honoured, but she says,
it is also a hard act to follow.
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www.patchworkpassion.co.nz
robyn.burgess@xtra.co.nz |
Robyn
Burgess
Robyn has been
teaching patchwork and quilting for over 20 years. She was a Primary
School Teacher but now owns Patchwork Passion – a quilting store
in Onehunga, Auckland. Robyn has a passion for all things Japanese
and she travels to Japan once or twice a year to source new fabrics
and ideas. She has exhibited at most of the New Zealand Symposiums
and won an award for a sashiko sampler quilt at the Christchurch
Symposium. Robyn enjoys handwork so many of her classes are hand
based and many have a Japanese flavour. |
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www.cherrypiequiltpatch.com
cheryl@cherrypiequiltpatch.com |
Cheryl
Chambers
Owner of a
quilt shop in Levin, Cheryl is well known for her traditional
handworked crazy patch pieces and has been teaching the associated
techniques for over 15 years. In recent years Cheryl has discovered
the joys of a more abstract form of embellishing and has been
creating three dimensional seascapes pictures. One was auctioned at
Quilt Symposium Manawatu 2007, raising funds for the Life Flight
Helicopter trust. Cheryl’s classes are always relaxed and she
thoroughly enjoys helping each student create their own unique piece
of fibre art. |
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www.quiltgallery.co.nz
cheryl@comfort.net.nz |
Cheryl
Comfort
Cheryl Comfort
lives in Christchurch and has been quilting for more than 25 years
mostly making wall quilts of her own design. She has won numerous
local and national awards and has exhibited both nationally and
internationally. Known most recently for her black quilts, she is an
abstract artist, preferring colour, line and texture to express
ideas, rather than literal objects. She likes to quilt heavily (she
says it feels so good) and is currently exploring other ways of
‘mark making’. She likes students to explore new ideas and
to use what she shows them in whatever way suits them. She believes
that the best quilts are made when you remain true to yourself and
likes to help students find their artistic voice. |
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noraew@xtra.co.nz |
Nora
Elson-White
Nora has been
patchworking and quilting for about 26 years, although recently work-study
commitments have made it harder to get to her Bernina. She owes her sewing/design
skills to her mother, Denise, an Athens-trained seamstress admired
for producing new outfits for her five daughters every season. Nora
has received various minor awards for her work locally and nationally
and was thrilled when her landscape quilt “Pacific Connexions
– Rendezvous at Mt. Manaia” was accepted to travel in 1996
to 4 venues in England and one in Holland. Nora likes her students to
develop their own creative powers, gain confidence in using new
techniques, and perhaps receive flashes of inspiration, thus making a
personal contribution to the class. Students receive much individual
attention in Nora’s workshops, as she prefers not to end up with
numerous replicas: the ultimate aim is for students to develop their
own original designs. Nora veers towards innovative and NZ orientated works. |
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www.dyepot.co.nz
sheryl@dyepot.co.nz |
Sheryl
Eustace
Sheryl has
worked with textiles/ fibre in one form or another for over 30 years
and attended many related classes. In latter years she created a
fabric with silk fibre –‘Fabric Fusion’ with all silks
being hand dyed by her. She used this fabric to create scarves,
wraps, bags, clothing and of late sculpture forms that are made into
lamps. She tutors in Surface Design Techniques and Methods, with
workshops that are full of creative artful ideas to stimulate and
encourage individuality. She enjoys colour and texture and plays with
different mediums in order to create just the right texture and
style. She allows herself to be guided through intuition and
exploration when developing her designs. Her work has been accepted
into exhibitions and fashion shows throughout New Zealand. During
2005 she mentored college students who were studying textile design
but wanted to go further with designing their own fabrics. In 1993
she started her business The Dyepot which involved dyeing variegated
threads for embroidery etc. and worked at this business for 13 years.
Over the last two years she has been developing painting skills,
working with collage and has again taken up printing as she finds
this process can be taken into the mixed media work she enjoys. She
now concentrates on tutoring - developing/exploring new techniques
and ideas for classes/workshops. In 2002 she completed a Certificate
in Fine Arts and currently is studying towards a Diploma in Art &
Creativity with The Learning Connexion – Wellington. |
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www.normaewartquilts.bravehost.com/
norma.ewart@clear.net.nz |
Norma
Ewart
Norma has had
an addiction to quilting for 25 years. Since ‘retiring’
fifteen years ago to pursue a quilting career she has founded a
quilting group in Whangamata and is a member of the local Creative
Arts trail with a home studio, where visitors are welcome to wander
in and chat or buy a quilt. A founding member of the National
Association of NZ Quilters, Norma has served four years on the
committee. Teaching skills and her passion for the art of quilting
has taken her to various groups around the country and
internationally, making many wonderful friends en route. Some of her
quilts have won awards and been on exhibition at various times.
Teaching Philosophy – Inspiring students to get great
satisfaction from what they can achieve. Patchwork and Quilting are
leisure pastimes for most students, so a light hearted approach to
teaching while not dropping work standards is a priority. Stress free
and relaxed students achieve amazing results. |
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fitness.jrbs@clear.net.nz |
Juliet
Fitness
Juliet
discovered machine piecing nearly 25 years ago. She is mostly
self-taught from books apart from 2 important workshops –
Afro-American quilts with Sue Weston (1994) and paper-foundation
piecing with Donna Ward (2000). Juliet likes working small, loves
bright colours, black, the wonderful New Zealand fabrics, and has a
reputation for collecting and using the names on fabric selvedges. A
quilt competition junkie, Juliet works best to a deadline, and
particularly likes using a challenge fabric and the ensuing
challenges. To date she has entered almost 50 competitions with
numerous entries in the Hoffman Challenge, the National Traditional
Design Quilt Challenge, World Quilt and Textile in the States, the
last 3 Symposium Exhibitions, and several wearable art competitions,
winning prizes in quite a few. Juliet has been teaching various
techniques since 1998, and taught at the last 2 Symposia as well as
Parallel 41 in Picton. She currently works part-time and teaches at
Patchwork Passion. Fun is an integral part of her classes. |
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www.merrilyngeorge.com
Kapai2@xtra.co.nz |
Merrilyn
George
Merrilyn has a
background in secondary education and has been working with textile
materials for many years. She has won national and international
awards for quilting, has had work featured in several publications in
NZ and USA. She was profiled in the NZ Quilter in July 2005, and in
Stitch 2006. Merrilyn’s forte is contemporary wall quilts of her
own design, taking inspiration from her mountain environment, Ma-ori
and contemporary issues. She is currently working on new experimental
work which combines the traditional taaniko weaving technique in a
contemporary way. She encourages experimentation, and enjoys helping
people develop and extend their own creativity especially by making
new things from recycled materials. |
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www.tillia.co.nz
info@tillia.co.nz
http://shirleygoodwin.blogspot.com |
Shirley
Goodwin
Shirley has
been quilting for more than 15 years, and dyeing her own fabric for
the past 7 years. She purchased Tillia Dyes in 2005. Through the
experience of dyeing her own fabrics, Shirley developed a style of
blending traditional design and commercial fabric with her own hand
dyes, and had some patterns commercially produced that reflect this.
More recently, Shirley has moved into art quilts and surface design,
and belongs to a number of international organisations and online
communities whose members also work in fibre art and produce exciting
and unique textile work. Her classes aim to show other quilters how
to move outside their comfort zones and the confines of the traditional. |
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joeharding@paradise.net.nz |
Heather
Harding
Heather has
been a quilt-maker for 28 years and has tutored patchwork and
quilting for 22 of these years. Her background in education assists
when teaching people of all ages and experience. Heather has tutored
at five of the New Zealand symposia and also many groups and guilds
throughout New Zealand. Her award winning hand-quilting shows a
meticulous attention to detail and covers a wide range of traditional
styles. She has won many prestigious awards for her work in both
traditional and contemporary sections. |
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Jacqui
Karl
Jacqui has
been quilting for about twelve years and has a passion for both
traditional and contemporary quilting. She has skills in
producing pieced blocks, both normal sized and miniatures, hand and
machine appliqué, straight piecing, curved piecing, hand and
machine quilting, hand and machine embroidery, extensive
embellishment of work, fabric dying and painting, the use of
different and more unusual mediums plus three dimensional works.
She owns and
operates Kowhai View Creations, a unique machine quilting service
sewn on a domestic sewing machine, designing and producing my own
Kowhai View Patterns and tutoring throughout New Zealand. |
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m.anne.jolly@xtra.co.nz |
Anne
Jolly
With a
life-time of experience being involved in all types of craft,
pottery, paper-making, dyeing, creative embroidery etc. and having a
love of colour and texture, the venture into machine embroidery and
fabric, allowed Anne to combine all the skills she had previously
learnt. Her work has evolved from learning traditional quilting
skills, to exciting creative techniques to produce “art
quilts”. She calls it “painting with fabric” and
includes texture by creating movement in fabric by various
techniques. Anne enjoys teaching many different projects to both
embroidery and patchwork groups and as a pupil quoted in an article
“Anne’s classes are happy, relaxed and stimulating”.
Anne has won numerous awards, has been profiled in the New Zealand
Quilter magazine twice and in other articles elsewhere, has judged
and had several solo exhibitions. She hopes to inspire pupils to
think “outside the square” and to produce individual results. |
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kenna@xtra.co.nz |
Chris
Kenna
Chris has been
a quiltmaker for the past 12 years and a popular Wellington quilt
tutor for the past three years. Her quilts have been exhibited
nationally and internationally in a number of galleries and shows,
and published in New Zealand and international quilt magazines and
books. Her quilts have won a number of national and international
awards, including Best of Show at the previous Quilt Symposium in
Manawatu in 2007. Chris has taught quilting to all levels of quilters
and loves the responsibility and the joy of teaching quilting to others. |
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wilgret@xtra.co.nz |
Griet
Lombard
Griet is a
South African who moved to New Zealand in 2008. She has a law degree
and lectured in Commercial Law at the Free State University. As a
quilter she found her niche in fibre art where she can submerge
herself in the world of colour and textures; her work is influenced
by the soul of Africa, its fauna and flora, the harsh climate, the
endless Karroo and the dry beauty of Namaqualand. She has no formal
art training but is self-taught through books and experimentation.
She has won numerous prizes, exhibited in many countries including
USA, France, Japan and the UK and has sold work to private and
corporate collections. She has taught quilters for many years
covering a variety of different techniques. Since becoming a
grandmother she has branched out to children’s quilts and found
the humour and scope an endless source to explore. Her aim as a
teacher is for quilters to be more creative, to trust their own
design abilities and learn the basic techniques to fulfill this. |
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ronniem@ts.co.nz |
Ronnie
Martin
Ronnie lives
in Nelson where she is involved with Arts marketing, teaching and
producing a range of textile art pieces which she sells to several
galleries and shops. She is an enthusiastic and motivated tutor who
delights in encouraging her students to extend themselves and learn
new skills. She is passionate about the promotion of textile and
fibre art and believes strongly in helping people to discover their
creative selves. Ronnie has won many awards for her work, and has
exhibited both in New Zealand and overseas. |
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www.susanclaire.com
susanclaire@paradise.net.nz |
Susan
Mayfield
Susan has been
fascinated with fabric from a very early age. She started sewing at
about age 5 and was very fortunate that her mother encouraged her to
sew, allowing her to use her sewing machine from a young age to sew
whatever she wanted. This included a variety of mediums such as
plastic, leaves etc. She designs patterns for patchwork and fabric
creations, teaches a variety of crafts and is a member of a number of
quilting guilds. She is also a prolific quilter, attending the
national biannual quilting symposia as a merchant and sponsor, and
runs her quilting studio and shop at Toad Hall, Otaki, New Zealand.
Susan and her husband moved to Toad Hall, Otaki in December 2000 and
immediately set about preparing to open her specialty patchwork and
quilting studio and shop. She loves sharing her passion to quilt and
really enjoys meeting other quilters. |
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www.kiwiquilts.co.nz
info@kiwiquilts.co.nz |
Mary
Metcalf
Mary has been
the NZ Electric Quilt distributor for over 10 years and has taught
Electric Quilt at previous symposiums, and demonstrated the programme
at Guild meetings and quilt shops. Mary has been teaching patchwork
and quilting for over 22 years at nightschools, symposiums, quilt
shops and held workshops at five Australian Craft and Quilt fairs.
For the past two years Mary has turned her love of quilting into a
website www.kiwiquilts. co.nz to showcase NZ fabrics, quilt designers
and of course Electric Quilt. Mary designs all her quilts on Electric
Quilt and has had two of her quilts on international quilt magazine
covers plus Mary has won several quilting awards at various symposia
and Hoffman challenges. |
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www.nataliemurdoch.co.nz
patchnat@nataliemurdoch.co.nz |
Natalie
Murdoch
Natalie began
quilting and teaching 18 years ago. Initially scrappy quilts took her
fancy and it was with these that she honed her eye for colour and
line. More recently Natalie has been exploring contemporary and art
quilts but acknowledges that without the application of good basic
patchwork, many of her ideas would not translate into quilts. She is
still discovering how far out of her comfort zone she can venture and
delights in stretching her students to their limits too. Seeing
‘the light come on’ in their eyes is just reward. Along the
way Natalie continues to learn and pass on this quiltie information.
Natalie’s quilts have been juried into each of the past six
symposia and into other major New Zealand and American shows. Several
now hang in private collections overseas. |
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www.quiltique.co.nz
quilt@quiltique.co.nz |
Lori
Neels
Lori has been
patchworking since the ’70s, but quilting really took over her
life in 2000, when she left school teaching to establish Quiltique
with husband, Mike. Most of NZ’s longarm quilters will have
attended at least one of the biennial Machine Quilters’
Conferences which Quiltique organize in Cambridge. At these Lori
usually teaches as well as arranging for tutors from NZ and overseas.
In between times, there are classes in the Quiltique studio and
tuition for all the machine customers, as well as a thriving quilting
business. Lori has attended classes in Australia and America and
particularly enjoys Machine Quilters’ Showcase in Kansas where
the focus is totally on machine quilting and the standard is so very
high. Longarm quilting is a very young industry in NZ, with a
tremendous atmosphere of enthusiasm and co-operation about it. It is
great to be part of it and able to share so many ideas and techniques
with other quilters.
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jnixey@paradise.net.nz |
June
Nixey
June has been
teaching in New Zealand for over 25 years, starting at the WEA in
Lower Hutt, then Onslow College and latterly for Quilt clubs. Since
1993 she has been Convenor of the Shut-in Stitchers, a programme to
teach quilting every Saturday morning at Arohata Women’s Prison.
She is a Life Member of the Wellington Quilters’ Guild. She is
passionate about scrap quilts and was the featured quilter in the
October 2003 edition of the New Zealand Quilter magazine. She is
often called upon to give talks on Scrap Quilts and/or the Shut-in
Stitchers to quilt clubs and other groups. Her present class was
developed when she moved house and had no access to her main fabric
stash for several months, just boxes of pre-cut squares from various shops. |
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bmpritchard@actrix.co.nz |
Barbara
Pritchard
Barbara has
been quilting for about 15 years and is an active member of Rose City
Quilters in Palmerston North. She works mainly with appliqué
and enjoys experimenting with innovative materials and quilting
techniques. She designs quilts and sells patterns under her label
“Barbara Pritchard Design”. She has been tutoring for
several years mainly in the Palmerston North and Wellington regions.
Barbara is currently training to become a primary school teacher and
so quilting has taken a bit of a back seat to full time study!
Hopefully by the time of Symposium 2009 she will be fully qualified
and teaching (with a little more time to devote to her sewing machine again!). |
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ian.ramsay@clear.net.nz |
Jean
Ramsay
Jean was born
in London, UK and as a 13 year old, attended a Technical School for
Needlework, learning all aspects of needlework, from upholstery to
beaded ball gowns, and later at The London College of Fashion, where
she studied for 2 years for her City and Guilds in Ladies Tailoring.
She worked in the clothing industry as a Pattern Cutter/Grader for
many years in England, Australia and New Zealand. This has provided
her with the ability to enjoy, and the skills needed to create
intricate piecing. This is Jean’s first opportunity to teach at
a National Symposium, and she is looking forward to the challenge. |
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www.quiltgallery.co.nz
djmar@paradise.net.nz |
Judith
Ross
Judith has
been a keen patchworker for 30 years, and has been teaching for 25
years. Her work has been exhibited in the USA and England, as well as
throughout New Zealand. She has won several awards in Christchurch
and at NZ Symposia, and has been featured in the New Zealand Quilter
magazine, issue No. 33. She has also undertaken a number of
commissions. She loves working with silk and many of her quilts are
inspired by travels to the East. Her mission is to pass this
enthusiasm on to students, along with her secrets for sewing this
exotic fabric. |
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fantails1@paradise.net.nz |
Ronnie
Rutter
Ronnie has
been teaching throughout New Zealand for over 20 years and
specialises in template-free, machine pieced construction techniques.
Several overseas study trips have included private viewings at the
Metropolitan Museum, The Winterthur, and The DAR in the USA and The
Beamish Museum in the UK which have enabled her to study antique
quilts first hand. They have further fuelled her passion for scrap
quilts initially inspired by Roberta Horton. She believes that
classes should be as much fun as possible because a relaxed and happy
atmosphere is the best learning environment. Her work can be found in
private collections in Australia, England, Japan and the United
States as well as in New Zealand. 65 |
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dianneandcolin@inspire.net.nz |
Dianne
Southey
Dianne has
been quilting for over 24 years, teaching for 20 years and has owned
a patchwork shop for 21 years. Although initially teaching
traditional patchwork and quilting Dianne soon preferred teaching
more unusual techniques and contemporary styles; classes where
students create more individual works and extend themselves whilst
having fun. Dianne uses traditional methods incorporated with
contemporary techniques to create individual and unique quilts.
Dianne’s quilt Calypso Rhythm featured on the cover of NZ
Quilter #38 and she has written articles on surface design techniques
for NZ Quilter. She has also had quilts accepted for the World Quilt
& Textile show in the USA and for various NZ Symposia. Dianne
designs her own range of quilt patterns and Blocks of the Month. |
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www.actrix.co.nz/users/smith_c/
smith_c@actrix.gen.nz |
Clare
Smith
Clare
originally trained as a Radiographer then completed a BSc in Zoology.
She then completed teacher training and an Advanced Diploma in Visual Arts.
Her collage
quilts combine painted, printed and dyed fabrics and often have a
nature theme. She is currently fascinated by grass and windmills and
has made a series of quilts inspired by wind turbines.
Clare had a
quilt in Quilt National '97 and quilts published in Fiberarts Design
Books 6 and 7. She writes a regular 'Webwatch' article for New
Zealand Quilter Magazine and was also selected as one of the craft
artists for the book 'Crafted by Design' published in 2005 by Random House.
She teaches
adult education classes in surface design, fabric collage,
machine quilting and Japanese bookmaking. She has taught at New
Zealand Quilt Symposia since 1999 and at the 2004 Quilt Festival in
South Africa and Quilt Encounter in Adelaide in July 2007. |
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mary.tran@xtra.co.nz |
Mary
Transom
Mary’s
lifestyle is committed to teaching quilting, and creative fibre art.
A tutor of 20 years experience, Mary has recently expanded her
horizons to teaching in Australia. Mary is now well known in New
Zealand for her “Flower” Quilts, which feature oversized
flowers on whole cloth backgrounds. These quilts are popular classes
suitable for all levels of quilters, each class featuring a different
technique within the large flower format. Mary’s most recent
awards, at Quilts Aotearoa 2007, included Best of Show and Best Bed
Quilt, for a traditional bed quilt, as well as two other awards for
Flower Quilts in the current series. Mary is looking forward to
participating in Quilt Symposium 2009, with her classes, Autumn
Harvest, featuring grapes, and Clematis, the newest of her classes. |
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www.softkites.com |
Robert
Van Weers
Robert has
been making and flying kites for over 20 years now and still loves
the thrill of seeing a new kite airborne for the first time.
Over the past
few years he has been designing his own kites, the latest designs are
a series of fish he calls "Fish in Line". Another recent
kite, a large "Monkey" with a banana to match, is also a
great crowd pleaser.
Not only kites
evolving from his sewing machine. He also designs ground and line
junk and recently won a prize for best banner at a kite
festival with his "Kite-Man Banner". |
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www.suewademan.com
wademan@xtra.co.nz |
Sue
Wademan
Sue
Wademan’s career as an artist began in the advertising world as
a graphic designer. Later, in the early 1990’s, after rearing 3
amazing children, Sue was introduced to contemporary quilt making,
which in turn introduced her to textile art. Sue has come full circle
now; using her much loved textiles as her medium for her fabric
collage art. With a move at the beginning of the year 2000, to
Queenstown, South Island, New Zealand, from her birth place, Sydney,
Australia, Sue’s work has changed from the RED of ULURU to the
BLUE of Lake Wakatipu. The magnificent rivers, mountains, lakes and
vineyards around her have inspired her collage landscape artworks
that she has become so well known for. In the past 10 years it is
this unique fabric collage technique that she has taught around the world. |
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karyn.walton@gmail.com |
Karyn
Walton
Karyn resides
in Dunedin and graduated at Otago Polytechnic with a Certificate of
Couture in 1995 and Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2001 and is currently
studying for a Masters in Fine Arts. She has worked extensively with
several designers on fashion based projects together with maintaining
a current arts practice in textile related projects from her home
based studio. Her work utilises a variety of mixed media, some of
these are; Fabric Design, Construction and Pattern Making, Fabric
Manipulation, Machine Quilting and Machine Embroidery, Mechanical and
Chemical Manipulation of Fabrics, Fabric Dyeing and Hand Painting,
Screen Printing, Fabric and Paper Stamping, Shibori, Discharging
Fabrics and Papers, and relating back to person, place and time
during a particular time frame of historical reference. Karyn has
been teaching nationally for over 20 years in community education,
quilting community, private and recently in tertiary education, and
has exhibited both nationally and overseas. |
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www.donnasquiltstudio.co.nz
donnaward@xtra.co.nz |
Donna
Ward
Donna Ward
from Hamilton, New Zealand, began quilting more than 20 years ago as
a self-taught hand quilter, however today all her quilts are machine
made. She loves working with bright colours, combining precision
piecing and detailed machine quilting using decorative threads. These
have become a trademark of her quilts. At present she is working with
quilts inspired by the colours and patterns from the Pacific. Donna
has won a diverse array of national and international awards. In 2003
she was awarded the Jewel Pearce Patterson Scholarship for
International Quilt Teachers, enabling her to exhibit and attend
workshops at the Houston Quilt Market and Festival. In February 2006
she opened “Donna’s Quilt Studio” in Hamilton. |
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www.annawilliamsquilter.co.nz
barry.williams@in2net.co.nz |
Anna
Williams
Anna has been
creating quilts for the past 25 years and has been teaching at both
local and national levels for 12 years. Initially she specialised in
trapunto machine quilting and celtic work. In recent years she has
developed her own innovative techniques for printing on fabric using
computer printers. She has been very successful in using and teaching
this process. Amongst her many achievements are “Best of
Country”, New Zealand, at the World Quilt and Textile Exhibition
2006 in the USA and numerous other awards at both national and local
levels. She is known for the wide range of innovative work she has
produced. She has both written, and been the subject of, articles in
New Zealand Quilter and the British quilting magazine, “Fabrications”. |
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www.quiltfever.com
mytigre@gmail.com |
Debby
Williams
Debby Williams
is a trained educator with a genuine passion for quilting. An
energetic tutor with a quirky sense of humour, Debby has a reputation
for providing professional quality notes, and paying close attention
to the individual needs of her students. Initially self-taught, Debby
is aware of the typical struggles most quilters face in acquiring new
skills. Debby’s original quilt designs have won several local
awards, including first place in wall hangings, and first in art and
innovative, as well as viewers choice in the Marlborough
Quilters’ 2007 exhibition. She has also designed and marketed an
innovative tool that greatly simplifies the drafting process of
Mariner’s Compass Stars. An American who moved to New Zealand
seventeen years ago, Debby is a busy home-schooling mother of four
and a pastor’s wife. |
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loburnhome@yahoo.co.nz |
Lyn
Winter
Lyn has been a
machinist forever, since learning on the still much loved Singer
treadle at her Mother’s elbow. A long held passion for textiles,
textures, patterns and colours strengthened during the eighties after
moving into the interior design domain and eventually her own
business, making and supplying all manner of soft furnishings. Her
first love is traditional P & Q but is enjoying immensely these
new tools in her arsenal for creating small art pieces. She has, like
so many women, found a tranquility and strength through quilting. |
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Diana
Carroll - Bernina
Diana is the
Sales and Training Consultant for Bernina New Zealand for the lower
half of the North Island. Diana is passionate about quilting and
teaches many classes around the country. Her knowledge, skill and
creativity within Quilting has allowed her to develop many creative
classes and projects. Diana is also very passionate and knowledgeable
in the use of all Bernina Machines. By attending this class you will
learn all about the features of Bernina’s newest Quilting
machine as well as asking questions about any other Bernina models. |
