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This year Maker&Smith are offering a series of three workshops with the wonderful Susie Vickery.  http://www.susievickery.com/

Susie has designed three workshops for Maker&Smith that can be ‘stitched’ together for a fulsome experience or if you can only attend one, you will still reap the rich benefits of her teaching and inventive ideas.
Each of the 2-day workshops take place over a weekend at Camelot in Perth, with enough time to practice or prepare new work for the next one.

Early bird pricing is available until August 9 for the workshops.

 

 

EMBROIDERED STORY-TELLING WITH SUSIE VICKERY

1. Embroider a Portrait :: Saturday 22 + Sunday 23 August.
2. Create a 2D Jointed Puppet :: Saturday 26 + Sunday 27 September.
3. Articulate an Embroidered Story :: Saturday 17 + Sunday 18 October.

There is more detail about the workshops here https://www.makerandsmith.com.au/events/susie-vickery-workshops/

 

LET’S GO TO THE SHOW!

It is WA’s well-earned privilege to be having a Royal Show this year, when only a few weeks ago it was in doubt!

We all know the special interest areas which members of our Guild make great efforts to endorse, generating interest and awareness by performing demonstrations and also entering exciting work into the competitions.

The Guild provides a representative (currently Joan Sibenaler) on the local RAS Arts & Crafts Committee; discussions are always ongoing concerning the categories, volume of entries and current trends in needlework and handwork generally.

The Show this year runs from 26 September – 3 October inclusive. Information on entering the
creative craft competitions can be found at Perth Royal Craft and Cookery Show.

Entry forms need to be lodged by 16 August and items then physically delivered to the Showgrounds on 17 or 18 September. Groups often arrange this delivery and subsequent
collection of items after the Show by volunteer members.

 

In February this year, two gifts from the Exhibition were presented to the National Trust WA at Peninsular Farm. Raelene Vinciullo designed and together with the Sunday Sampling Group, stitched a traditional sampler using words and symbols related to the Hardey family and their farm dating back to 1839.

Joan Sibenaler and her Peninsular Farm Group designed and stitched eight beautiful white table napkins with a basic design of hemstitching and the Hardey family initial, consistent with the type of item probably produced by the daughters of the Peninsula Farm household.

It was wonderful to be able to present our stitched gift to the National Trust WA. We bring our love of embroidery combined with our interest in local heritage and a shared history. It was lovely to see the enthusiasm of the National Trust representatives in receiving an artefact that is able to tell the story of Peninsula Farm from another perspective. (Joan Sibenaler & Raelene Vinciullo)  Below L-R Liz, Molly, Alia, Anne (Nat. Trust), Joan, Sherry, Raelene.

        

Further information about Peninsular Farm can be found at: https://www.nationaltrust.org.au/places/peninsula-farm/

 

The South Western Times Art 2020 opens this Friday night, Feb 14th, Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, and runs until April 27th. See fibre artist, teacher and long term member of the Guild, Geraldine Peterkin’s exhibit ‘Cosmograph [Jerusalem]’.  Inspired by recollections and experiences of a recent trip to Jerusalem.  It is worked principally in a Japanese technique called BORO with much of the thread and fabric hand-dyed to create the exact colours necessary.   See www.swtimes.com.au for more details.

If you have seen the Festival of Perth programme, you will know that Highway to Hell is the Festival’s mammoth closing event. It is a sizzling celebration of the connection of the rock band AC/DC to the cities of Melville and Fremantle and a commemoration of the 40^th anniversary of the death of its legendry lead singer Bon Scott who was a Fremantle local.

 

On Sunday March 1^st, starting at 5pm and finishing at 8.30pm, local and international acts will perform AC/DC songs on the backs of semi-trailers as they progress along Canning Highway from Canning Bridge to the Fremantle Traffic Bridge. There will also be entertainment zones along the way, including a family friendly one at Tompkins Park, Alfred Cove, which opens at 3pm.

 

And where is Guild House located? 565 Canning Highway, smack bang in the middle of this once in a lifetime event. The opportunity for our Guild to join in the hell raising is too good to resist. The forecourt of Guild House will host a flaming good rock band of its own, ‘The Spartans’, a devilishly fun ball game, and a place for weary rockers to rest and recuperate.

 

If you are in the area, you are welcome to pop in but please remember that there will be no parking at Guild House on that day and Canning Highway will be closed from 1pm until about 9pm.

 

The Guild will also be running two sessions for the public on embroidering AC/DC themed rock patches. The sessions will take place at Wireless Hill Museum on Tuesday February 25^th., 1pm to 3pm and 6.30pm to 8.30pm. Cost is $5 for the afternoon session and $10 for the evening session. All materials and equipment are supplied, and the afternoon session includes tea or coffee and the evening session includes a glass of wine or beer. Helen Jones and Pam Manika have done a wicked job designing the patches for the Guild.

 

If you have friends interested in embroidery let them know about the patches sessions. These should be loads of fun. Bookings are essential through the City of Melville website.

For more information or to book your place in the Stitch It Up Rock Patches workshops, go to the City of Melville website at Melville City Council and Melville City Council or the Perth Festival website at www.perthfestival.com.au/event/highwaytohell.