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3rd Wednesday Class – My Sewing Supplies (Sylvania)

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Monthly Quilt Class with Lorena – Third Wednesday of the Month
📍 My Sewing Supplies, Sylvania – Sutherland Shire

Join Lorena for a monthly quilting class at My Sewing Supplies in Sylvania, where you can work on a variety of quilt patterns at your own pace.

Choose from Lorena’s original designs, including Opal Essence, Winding Ways, QST Courthouse Steps, and Sakura Breeze, or take on the challenge of Lessa Siegele’s Ring Cycles quilt. Explore different fabric combinations: low-volume with brights, bold large-scale prints, or a striking two-colour design to make it uniquely yours.

If you’re new to patchwork, Lorena will guide you through the fundamentals by making a sampler quilt. Select different blocks or repeat a favourite to create a quilt that reflects your style.

Materials & Templates:

  • Fabric, templates, and commercial patterns (if needed) are additional to the class fee. A wide range of options is available in-store, and the staff are happy to assist you.
  • For Ring Cycles, Lorena recommends Marti Michell’s Set H
  • Lorena also has her own templates to support her quilt designs.

📍 Location: My Sewing Supplies, 208 Princes Highway, Sylvania NSW 2224.
📅 When: Third Wednesday of each month.

Come along for expert guidance, inspiration, and a welcoming community of quilters!

Winding Ways Workshop

2025 Dates

12 FEB

19 MARCH

16 APRIL

21 MAY

18 JUNE

16 JULY

20 AUGUST

SEPTEMBER NO CLASS

15 OCTOBER

19 NOVEMBER

 

3rd Wednesday Class – My Sewing Supplies (Sylvania)

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Monthly Quilt Class with Lorena – Third Wednesday of the Month
📍 My Sewing Supplies, Sylvania – Sutherland Shire

Join Lorena for a monthly quilting class at My Sewing Supplies in Sylvania, where you can work on a variety of quilt patterns at your own pace.

Choose from Lorena’s original designs, including Opal Essence, Winding Ways, QST Courthouse Steps, and Sakura Breeze, or take on the challenge of Lessa Siegele’s Ring Cycles quilt. Explore different fabric combinations: low-volume with brights, bold large-scale prints, or a striking two-colour design to make it uniquely yours.

If you’re new to patchwork, Lorena will guide you through the fundamentals by making a sampler quilt. Select different blocks or repeat a favourite to create a quilt that reflects your style.

Materials & Templates:

  • Fabric, templates, and commercial patterns (if needed) are additional to the class fee. A wide range of options is available in-store, and the staff are happy to assist you.
  • For Ring Cycles, Lorena recommends Marti Michell’s Set H
  • Lorena also has her own templates to support her quilt designs.

📍 Location: My Sewing Supplies, 208 Princes Highway, Sylvania NSW 2224.
📅 When: Third Wednesday of each month.

Come along for expert guidance, inspiration, and a welcoming community of quilters!

Winding Ways Workshop

2025 Dates

12 FEB

19 MARCH

16 APRIL

21 MAY

18 JUNE

16 JULY

20 AUGUST

SEPTEMBER NO CLASS

15 OCTOBER

19 NOVEMBER

 

Kawandi Retreat Bag : Warriewood

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Kawandi Retreat Bag Workshop

Want to learn how to stitch kawandi? It’s a really relaxing and fun way to use up your fabric scraps.

This is the workshop for you… a class kit is supplied with everything you need to get started to make a small piece. Fabric, needle, batting, thread. Bring your favourite pair of scissors and a comfy thimble.

If you’ve already learnt the technique, make the super useful Retreat Bag. A kit is available with the pattern, frames, interfacing and zipper. There are two sizes to choose from. More information will be provided on enrolment.

The workshop cost is $110 and includes kawandi kit, lunch and morning/ afternoon tea.

Please advise if you have any special dietary requirements.

Plenty of parking is available, and the class size is small to allow for individual instruction time.

N95 masks will be available for anyone who needs one but please don’t come if you have covid symptoms. I’m testing regularly and I ask that students also test before class.

Contact me if you have any queries!

lorena (AT) lorenauriarte.com

Chuck Nohara Masterclass :: Little Bay

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Chuck Nohara Masterclass 26-27 August.

This weekend will be inspiring and hopefully motivate any of you who are stuck on your progress.

There will be a number of completed quilts for Show and Tell from myself and past students.

The format is loosely structured around 6 key lessons with lots of input from you!

So if you have any particular blocks you are stuck on or want to try, let me know 🙂

  1. Design and Execution: resizing blocks, colour and fabric choices, useful techniques
  2. Machine vs Hand Piecing: balancing precision, speed and ease.
  3. Applique: circles, reverse applique, bias stems
  4. English Paper Piecing: straight and curved blocks
  5. Combining techniques within one block
  6. Layout, Sashing and Border designs

The cost for the two day workshop includes Lunch, Morning and Afternoon Tea.

I will have a multi function printer available to print on demand, irons, boards, large cutting matts and cords.

Multiple design walls will be set up so you can display your work so far.

We have the entire venue to ourselves so there is plenty of room to spread out.

There’s also lots of parking right by the entrance.

Please contact me if you are interested in this workshop

lorena AT lorenauriarte.com

Sydney Quilt Show 2015

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Wingdings: A Variety of Symbols by Lorena Uriarte. Inspired by the back side of Chuck Nohara's Symbol Quilt.

Wingdings: A Variety of Symbols by Lorena Uriarte. Inspired by the back side of Chuck Nohara’s Symbol Quilt.

Oops, it’s only when I saw my quilt in Quiltmania this week that I realised a massive oversight on my part. Seems I forgot to write about my most exciting quilty event of the year! The Quilters’ Guild of NSW’s annual Sydney Quilt Show, a member’s show with over 400 quilts in various categories and displays was on 17-21 June. It’s now months ago but it’s probably a good idea to document the event, especially since I won something and so did many of my friends.

There was a spectacular Red & White Challenge this year, over 140 Red & White quilts hung together in a brilliant display of ability and creativity. I had worked diligently to complete a quilt I’ve been wanting to make since 2012, a red & white version of Chuck Nohara’s Symbol Quilt. The original Symbol Quilt is double sided, with the red & white blocks on the back (see photo below).

My quilt really was an adventure, I’ve never made a two colour quilt before and I found it challenging. I was glad when it was finished and very grateful that Michele Turner was quilting it. I really needed a break from it. And it took months for me to pick a fabric for the binding. In the end I was really happy with how it looked and it won First Prize in the Machine quilted Category of the Red & White display. Hooray! Thank you to the sponsors Quiltsmith, Sew Easy, Tech2Home and Nestle for my amazing assortment of prizes.

Some photos of Windings: A Variety of Symbols. Not great ones. This may be why I haven’t written this post before!

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I also entered a second quilt in the Modern Category, Under the Sea a variation of my Opal Essence quilt pattern. There’s an embarrassing amount of teal and aqua in my stash. This quilt documents much of it!

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Like most of my quilts, they all end up in use or display around our home. Adding some colour to gloomy days or a warm wrap when it’s chilly!

Under the Sea & Rainbow Reverb quilts adding colour to a gloomy day...

More on the Sydney Show soon… in the meantime you can see all the prize winning quilts in The Quilters’ Guild of NSW Gallery.

 

 

Patchwork & Quilting Class in Randwick

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Lorena-Uriarte-quilt

This is an 8 week course ideal for beginners and continuing quilters.

Each week we learn a new technique to construct a beautiful patchwork sampler quilt.

Use fabrics that you love to create a traditional or contemporary quilt.

Suitable for hand or machine piecing.

Further information available here: https://www.cityeastcc.com.au/course/patch

Every Monday night for 8 weeks, 7:00pm to 9:00pm at Randwick Girls HS.

Dates:

20th July

27th July

3rd August

10th August

17th August

24th August

31st August

14th September

Patchwork & Quilting Class in Randwick

by

Lorena-Uriarte-quilt

This is an 8 week course ideal for beginners and continuing quilters.

Each week we learn a new technique to construct a beautiful patchwork sampler quilt.

Use fabrics that you love to create a traditional or contemporary quilt.

Suitable for hand or machine piecing.

Further information available here: https://www.cityeastcc.com.au/course/patch

Every Monday night for 8 weeks, 7:00pm to 9:00pm at Randwick Girls HS.

Dates:

20th July

27th July

3rd August

10th August

17th August

24th August

31st August

7th September

Patchwork & Quilting Class in Randwick

by

Lorena-Uriarte-quilt

This is an 8 week course ideal for beginners and continuing quilters.

Each week we learn a new technique to construct a beautiful patchwork sampler quilt.

Use fabrics that you love to create a traditional or contemporary quilt.

Suitable for hand or machine piecing.

Further information available here: https://www.cityeastcc.com.au/course/patch

Every Monday night for 8 weeks, 7:00pm to 9:00pm at Randwick Girls HS.

Dates:

20th July

27th July

3rd August

10th August

17th August

24th August

31st August

7th September

Patchwork & Quilting Class in Randwick

by

Lorena-Uriarte-quilt

This is an 8 week course ideal for beginners and continuing quilters.

Each week we learn a new technique to construct a beautiful patchwork sampler quilt.

Use fabrics that you love to create a traditional or contemporary quilt.

Suitable for hand or machine piecing.

Further information available here: https://www.cityeastcc.com.au/course/patch

Every Monday night for 8 weeks, 7:00pm to 9:00pm at Randwick Girls HS.

Dates:

20th July

27th July

3rd August

10th August

17th August

24th August

31st August

7th September

c. 2015 Lorena Uriarte