Macky will be giving classes in Roodepoort and Boksburg and booking will be essential due to space limitations.

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NEW AT CRAFT ACADEMY MAY JUNE 2012 (Roodepoort)

Macky Cilliers Boksburg 2012

Welcome back! Hope it has gone great with the centre of your quilt and that you had fun designing it!
This month’s round: You must add a 3 inch border and incorporate circles please.

From now on it will be a monthly clue that will be given…
To find your May clue you need to decide if it’s Trash or Treasure…..

Wendy has taught for many years starting with samplers for beginners and then forming a partnership with Suzen Bornman. She teaches on a regular basis at Quiltec on the West Rand and has been travelling far and wide teaching patchwork to people as far away as Swaziland. In order to keep her knowledge fresh and up to date she continually takes classes with our own local as well as international teachers and has visited and attended classes at the Houston Quilt Festival.

She was accepted to teach at the National Quilt Festival held in South Africa in 2008 and is a registered teacher with the Golden Rand Guild.

Through her happy and outgoing character, Wendy has gained popularity as a teacher.

Suzen’s favourite technique is English piecing and hand quilting but she has also mastered the art of free hand machine quilting.

She is fondest of scrappy, informal quilts and she also very much enjoys making and teaching the more informal, unmeasured piecing techniques.

She teaches regularly at Quiltec, and is a registered teacher with the Golden Rand Guild and a member of the South African Quilters Guild.

The wonderful combination of a passion for quilting and the skill and temperament to teach others, makes her a popular teacher.

CLARENS FESTIVAL  from 3 to 7 July

Check back later for venues and times.

Teaches at Craft Academy, 23 Judd Street, Horison, Roodepoort: Cell phone 083 2940356: Email: Crafttime@telkomsa.net

Workshops and Classes available

Stack the Deck

This workshop runs for 1 day and will teach you the technique to complete the quilt own your own.  Depending on how you work most of the quilt can be completed in a weekend. A fun quilt resulting in not one block the same and every person’s quilt will be different.

My Neighbourhood Sampler

This workshop runs for 10 -11 months and teaches beginners the basic skills to patchwork, rotary cutting, what equipment is required and where to start. Blocks are provided according to size of quilt being made and how many classes attended.

Just Up My Street

A 1 day workshop teaching 2 different methods of paper-piecing. Great for beginners.

Heart by Heart – Beginners Applique Club

An appliqué quilt teaching 7 methods of appliqué.

My expertise is general, and I have travelled a number of times to quilt festivals in America where I attend lessons with many different teachers. I keep up with the latest trends and study continually from the various quilting publications that we subscribe to. My everyday job is that of a long-arm quilter, as well as submitting projects for the Stitches and Craftwise magazines.

I like to help my students to each produce work pleasing to their own tastes. I aim to make my workshops relaxed and fun and am teased for my words “we will work it out!”

My classes are usually inspired by my own ideas, but these classes have been proved to be successful, as well as leaving scope to introduce different ideas such as new rulers and quick-cutting methods for the busy quilter.

I organise and run two weekend Retreats a year with the help of others. The first is in March and the second in October.  The aim of the Retreats is to give quilters, particularly those who do not have time to attend scheduled lessons, two full days in which to learn new skills, both from me and from fellow quilters.

We offer an Open Day at UMNYAMA in January of every year. This takes the form of a mini Quilt Show at which we display examples of quilts we intend teaching during the coming year.

We also hold an annual celebration of our birthday – Christmas in July.

A Dozen Basic Binding Techniques – Would you like to learn how to bind different tie dye patterns? In this class we look at different binding techniques so that you can learn how to make different textures and geometric patterns. Learn how to make crushes, camouflage, circles, stripes, diamonds, checks and many other patterns. Become master of creating the patterns that you want for your specific outcome.

Dip Dyeing – Dip dyeing is a classic finish that has enjoyed a revival in the fashion industry in recent years. You will often see it strutting down the catwalk of fashion shows in New York and Milan. The name “Dip Dyeing” leads many people to believe that it is a very simple finish where you just dip the fabric in the colour and you are done. Dip dyeing is actually a very technical finish, which is why we need a whole class for it on its own. In this class you will learn how to master the art of bleeding a smooth even coat of colour gently onto the border of your fabric. This class is particularly useful for fashion designers who want to reduce costs by bringing such finishes in-house.

Lino Block Making – Would you like to learn how to make your own hand carved stamps for printing on fabric, card, pvc, wood, leather, candles and many other surfaces? Do you feel limited by the range of ready-made stamps that are on the market? Would you like to see your own designs come to life? Would you like to make some really big stamps because the ones that are available in stores are just so small? Lino block making is really easy and most people can master the basic technique in one class. This class will set you free to print your own graphic images on just about anything. This is a useful class for scrap bookers as well.

Two-Day Intensive Printing Course -Printing With Found Objects – We spend a whole day learning how to print fabrics with items that you find around your house. I will also teach you how to make re-usable stamps using things that you will find in your dustbin. This activity has a high fun factor and you will return home with “new eyes” for the world around you.

How do I book my place in a Slipstream class? – Request a class schedule via e-mail at info@dyeandprints.co.za