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Let’s Explore – Textures in Stitch

Kingborough Women's Club Rooms Ewing Avenue, Kingston Beach, Tasmania

Join us at Kingborough Women's Club (KWC) to socially stitch and explore textiles in any way you wish at this great facility. Exploring Textures in Stitch Regular Sunday 'textile explorers'…

Let’s Explore – a Social Stitch Day

Kingborough Women's Club Rooms Ewing Avenue, Kingston Beach, Tasmania

Take some time out for yourself on Sunday to enjoy the company of others while working on your own project. Come for an hour....or come for the day! Inspiration  Perhaps…

Let’s Explore – Denimology

Kingborough Women's Club Rooms Ewing Avenue, Kingston Beach, Tasmania

Join us at Kingborough Women's Club (KWC) to socially stitch and explore textiles at this great facility. Let's explore how we can reform leftover bits of denim, worn out or…

Let’s Explore – Dyeing with Rust

Kingborough Women's Club Rooms Ewing Avenue, Kingston Beach, Tasmania

We will be exploring the wonderful opportunities of dying textiles with rust. Start hunting around your shed and the local tip shops for old interestingly-shaped bits of iron (non-galvanised). Be…

Let’s Explore – Making Stencils & Printing Blocks

Kingborough Women's Club Rooms Ewing Avenue, Kingston Beach, Tasmania

Explore different ways of making printing blocks and stencils. Use stitch to create a printing plate. Use plasticine to create a printing block and use it with a stamp pad.…

Let’s Explore – Printing with our Handmade Stencils & Blocks

Kingborough Women's Club Rooms Ewing Avenue, Kingston Beach, Tasmania

Together we will explore ways of using our handmade printing blocks and stencils.  Bring along your stencils and printing blocks made last month (or ones you've made at home) and…

Let’s Explore – Kawandi

Kingborough Women's Club Rooms Ewing Avenue, Kingston Beach, Tasmania

What is Kawandi? In India, 'Kawandi' means quilt. It is a technique developed by the Siddis, an African community brought to India more than 800 years ago. It is made…

Let’s Explore – Printing with a Gelli Plate

Kingborough Women's Club Rooms Ewing Avenue, Kingston Beach, Tasmania

Let's Explore Gelli Printing Gelli printing is an easy form of mono-printing using a flexible plate and acrylic paints to create unique prints on paper or fabric. Gelli plates are…

Let’s Explore – Mounting and Hanging Your Artworks

Kingborough Women's Club Rooms Ewing Avenue, Kingston Beach, Tasmania

Let's talk about what makes successful mounting and hanging Today's Let's Explore is essentially a sharing time so bring your works in progress and anything else you wish to talk…

Let’s Explore – Adding stitch to printed fabrics & papers

Kingborough Women's Club Rooms Ewing Avenue, Kingston Beach, Tasmania

Stitching our stencilled and block printed fabrics and papers Heather will be leading our further exploration into using our previously stencilled and stamped fabrics this month. Bring along your printed…

Monthly Gatherings North and South

Our next monthly gathering is Monday 19 August 2024 Where to find us South: Kingston Library B Block How to Find B Block @ Kingston 10:30am -12:30pm (doors open 10am)…

Let’s Explore – Cyanotype Printing

Kingborough Women's Club Rooms Ewing Avenue, Kingston Beach, Tasmania

This month (assuming we don't have rain!) we will be exploring cyanotype (commonly called blue printing). Cyanotype is a photographic printing process using two chemicals (ferric ammonium and potassium ferricyanide)…

Let’s Explore – Transparent Fabrics

Kingborough Women's Club Rooms Ewing Avenue, Kingston Beach, Tasmania

Let's Explore Transparent Fabrics This month Sue Roberts will lead us in exploring ideas for using fine, see-through fabrics in creative ways. We will be focusing on very simple hand…