Quilts, cooking and craft
If you’ve always wanted to make a structured zipper pouch, one that stands up and opens wide, this is the pattern for you!
Bring your finished Kawandi panels (or maybe some other stitched or beautiful fabric?) and turn it into this practical pouch.
All the hardware is included, you will need your sewing machine and your sewing kit.
See the UsefulBox listing here for more details:
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Join me for a fun and educational one day workshop on Sunday 20 August from 10 am to 3:00 pm at the Louis Joel Arts & Community Centre.
This workshop is perfect for those who are passionate about patchwork and want to learn how to create unique designs using the beautiful Winding Ways block, also known as the Wheel of Mystery.
During the workshop, we will discover how to create a scrappy look that focuses on colour and value to make those secondary designs pop. We will also learn how to make it modern by focusing on the principles of negative space, minimalism, and strong graphic lines. For those who want to take it up a notch, we will also cover fussy cutting techniques that can add an exciting twist to your designs.
Throughout the day, you will learn tips for accurate cutting and straightforward piecing of the curved shapes. Students usually make a few blocks in this class. If you’re feeling ambitious, keep going to make a bed-sized quilt or cushion.
Two sizes of templates will be available to use on the day to make 6″ or 12″ blocks.
The workshop fee is $150, and it includes delicious morning tea and refreshments. Bring your own lunch and reusable cup. Please advise of any dietary requirements.
Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to learn in this lovely gallery setting and create beautiful designs with like-minded individuals. Book your spot online or contact me for more information. I look forward to seeing you there!
Finally, my return to Melbourne to teach two Kawandi Workshops!
This time at the fabulous big space at GJs Fabrics in Fairfield so you can pick up some goodies before and after the class.
Two days to choose from: Friday 3rd February and Saturday 4th February, 10am to 3pm.
The cost includes a complete kit with everything you need to make your own small kawandi panel: foundation fabric, batting, an assortment of colourful patchwork fabric, needles, pins, 12wt Aurifil thread and more!
Morning and afternoon tea will also be provided. Bring a packed lunch if you wish.
Finally, my return to Melbourne to teach two Kawandi Workshops!
This time at the fabulous big space at GJs Fabrics in Fairfield so you can pick up some goodies before and after the class.
Two days to choose from: Friday 3rd February and Saturday 4th February, 10am to 3pm.
The cost includes a complete kit with everything you need to make your own small kawandi panel: foundation fabric, batting, an assortment of colourful patchwork fabric, needles, pins, 12wt Aurifil thread and more!
Morning and afternoon tea will also be provided. Bring a packed lunch if you wish.
Two days of classes at Precious Time Fabric & Quilts.
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Contact the shop directly for more details.
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
Opal Essence Workshop
Lovely patchwork shop in Milvale, NSW
Contact them directly to book your spot.
https://www.fabricsauce.com.au/contact-us
Second Saturday of the Month Class at lovely Warriewood quilt shop, Cottage Quiltworks.
Friendly class and staff, great variety of fabric and notions.
Work on a variety of projects.
Book your spot directly with the shop.
Dates for 2020
8 Feb
14 March
4 April
9 May
13 June
4 July
8 August
12 Sept
10 Oct
7 Nov
12 Dec
Opal Essence Workshop
Contact the store directly to book your spot!
Opal Essence, Lorena Uriarte
15a Main Road
Boolaroo, NSW 2284
Yes, you read right. Thircles. You may already know that a squircle is the shape somewhere between a square and a circle but what’s a thircle?
If you’ve seen my Opal Essence quilt you’ll notice that all the circles are made up in thirds. The first quilt was made by appliquéing the third of a circle on to a diamond shape. A simple way to make sure you get a smooth circle is to use a template under your appliqué piece. The great thing about using this technique with a thircle (tee-hee, it still makes me giggle!) is that you can easily remove your template and reuse it.
My template of choice for this technique is a really smooth, bump free freezer paper template. You trace your pattern piece on to freezer paper and cut it out very carefully.
My cheaty applique thircle how to…
1. Press your freezer paper template to the wrong side of your fabric. As you will be folding the fabric over the template to appliqué try to place the curved edge on the diagonal grain. The stretch that lies here on the bias helps to create lovely soft curves with less bumps and folds.
2. If you are fussy cutting and placing the paper on the bias isn’t possible, consider using the fabric in a larger thircle. A larger, gentler curve is more forgiving with stiff fabric.
3. Next, use a ruler with a 1/4″ marking to add your seam allowance to the straight edges of your thircle shape. Cut with a rotary cutter or scissors. I love using an Add-A-Quarter ruler for this step. Using scissors cut a generous 1/4″ seam allowance around the curve.
4. Use a fabric glue stick to keep the seam allowance tucked under. Use a fine line of glue, about 1/8″ away from the curved edge of the freezer paper. That will help when it comes to sewing the shapes down and will also reduce the chance of your fabric fraying along the raw edge.
5. Match the seam allowance of your thircle with the corresponding point of your diamond background. Pin or lightly glue your shape into place. I like to pin along both seam allowances where there’s no freezer paper.
6. Using a thread colour that disappears appliqué the piece down. Use small stitches and pull the thread a little to hide it.
7. Once the shape is appliquéd down, trim away your background with scissors leaving a generous 1/4″ seam.
8. Finally, whip out your freezer paper template to reuse. The less glue you use, the easier it is to remove and reuse the papers.
Now that your thircles are appliquéd down, you can piece your diamonds into a hexagon and fan your centre seam.
I’ve been teaching workshops using this appliqué technique as well as the machine pieced thircles and most students are surprised by how much they enjoy the process. The smaller thircles are definitely less stressful if you appliqué them. The larger thircles can be rotary cut and machine pieced pretty quickly and painlessly. You can even mix both techniques in your quilt, maybe stick to one technique in each block though…
Hope that helps someone out there too afraid to try appliquéd curves. Let me know if you have any questions!