St. Clement’s Retreat and Conference Centre is a historic venue situated in the beautiful Hilltops region of NSW, along Kalangan Rd in Galong. It’s approximately 3.5 hours from Sydney and 1.5 hours from Canberra, nestled on 800 acres of stunning landscapes, expansive gardens, and a serene, tranquil environment.

Join Lorena Uriarte for a day of playful exploration and stripe bending magic! With over two decades of quilting experience and a love of colour, movement and meticulous detail, Lorena is known for transforming simple fabrics into dynamic, eye catching compositions. Her stripey quilts in particular have a habit of surprising people and now she’s sharing the tricks behind them.

Spend a day bending stripes to your will! In this hands on workshop, you’ll explore just how far a simple (or complex) striped fabric can go. Through three engaging exercises, you’ll learn to fussy cut with intention and use a mix of machine piecing, appliqué and English paper piecing to coax stripes into movement, direction and unexpected secondary patterns.

As you play, you’ll discover how small shifts in placement create rhythm, illusion and delightful surprises. Your samples can become a handy sewing caddy or project pouch or you can keep building on the ideas to design your own stripe inspired masterpiece. And throughout the day, you’ll be guided and inspired by Lorena’s own quilts, where stripes step out of line and transform into something truly special.

Rachael Daisy