Clippings January 2019
The Monthly Newsletter of Queensland Spinners Weavers & Fibre Artists Journal
Get your order in for your very own QSWFA journal.
If you get in early before 15 January it will be $28 for your own little piece of QSWFA history. This hard covered A5 journal will be filled with colour photos, quotes from members and information about our group.
Not only will the commemorative Journal be a keepsake of notes, samples, ideas & projects for QSWFA members it is also a beautiful piece for others to enjoy. If you wish you could donate it (when you have finished your own notes and entries) to QWSFA time capsule to be reopened at anniversary 75y or 100y. We are a creative artist group of QLD creating history!
Available now for pre-order sale @ $28.00 up until 15 January 2019.
Your order can be made through Eventbrite or order and pay through our Emporium Shop.
Your pre-ordered journal will be available for collection from 2 February.
Purchase from Emporium at the full price of $30.00.
Enjoy this bonus edition
Happy holiday wishes to all of our spinners family. May your art journey continue with passion and purpose.
Kym Textor QSWFA President
22 High Tea 2 February 2019 High noon Tickets available from Eventbrite and the Emporium
We look forward to launching our new look and our 50th-year celebrations with a high tea at our first general meeting on Saturday 2 February 2019. Get in quick to secure your $20 ticket from the Emporium or Eventbrite. This delightful function will set the ball rolling for our 50th year anniversary. Save the first Saturday in February for this event with tea, fine food, bubbles in our freshly decorated hall.
Book in quickly, as numbers are limited! Don’t forget the Dress Code is Vintage Retro……
Raffle prizes of two Gala Dinner tickets! Tickets $10
There will be a short meeting first and then you can collect your journal before the delicious high tea.
Ticket sales end 21 Jan
Membership program
We have just got a new membership It will even set up a recurring payment program which plugs into our website. for you so that you automatically renew your membership. There is now a 'members only' area of To access all this, click on 'members'. our website which we can put things You can change any of your details, eg into especially for our members, eg phone number, directly in the 'about' videos of our guest speakers, patterns section. Under 'profile' you can also etc. Any ideas or contributions? upload a photo and your social media handles. You can log in and set up a password. Also check out our website, we have you can also renew and pay online prettied it a bit and it has a few new through our secure payment provider, little things. We are continuing to work stripe. on updating content.
Media
You can't swing a cat without seeing or hearing us on the media lately.
Alleyne has been on ABC radio having a little chat with Peter Gooch about a sheep called Nibbles. https://www.abc.net.au/radio/brisba ne/programs/afternoons/nibbles- wool-spinning/10573070
The mid week crafters were featured on channel 10 news. https://www.facebook.com/10News QLD/videos/306981096600483/Uzpf STE1NDI0MTc1MTc4MToxMDE1NTg wMDAwOTgyNjc4Mg/
Thanks Gold name tag Thanks to Judy Worsley for making a photo emulsion screen so that we can brand everything in sight with our 50th logo. Would you like a new shiny gold name badge?
Order and pay for your very own on our website
We are collecting photos as part of our 50th celebrations. Please could you have a look and see if you have any lovely pictures of the last 50 years. It could be digital or an actual hardcopy photo. If you've got lots, we could loan you a memory stick.
Could you please label them with: A huge thanks to Felicity Clarke. she does the names of people in it an amazing job as our facebook when it was taken administrator. She is always posting the event it was taken at interesting things and keeping our page vibrant and engaging and very successful. Please post or email to us: We have thousands of people look at our [email protected] posts every day. Check out the graph: 12 Payne St Auchenflower Q 4066 K4BN 2019 dates
We are having a collection point at QSWFA if anyone wants to drop off a 2 Feb High Tea - Fibrecraft House donation for K4BN's school appeal $20 tickets before 23 January. 13 Apr Gala Dinner - The Landing at Dockside Knitting for Brisbane's Needy $120 tickets SCHOOL SUPPLIES NEEDED PLEASE A couple of organisations we help in 11 May Open Day country areas have asked if we can 28 June Fibre Arts Expo help with school supplies to help Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot tha children from needy families . 2-4 Aug Fibre Arts Retreat - Mapleton Some of these children go to school 9-18Aug Ekka with not even a pen or paper. 26 Aug Gallery Shop - Richard Randall Needed the most : Exercise books Pens Birthdays Coloured pencils A very happy birthday to all our Rulers members having a birthday Erasers this month, including: Glue sticks Lyn Baxter Pencil cases Andrea Blackford Back packs Susan Doel Lunch boxes Margaret Dudgeon Drink bottles Susan Ford Even socks, shoes, school shirts, Megan Gould shorts, hats and for winter fleecy track Roslyn Hamilton pants, windcheaters etc. Susan Josey Also knitted beanies, jumpers etc...still Joan Kelly waiting for them to let us know what Judy Kennedy colours! Kathy Lathouras We have been told that some of these Leonie Macfarlane areas get no donations whatsoever Marian McHugh from anywhere, except us! Ann Molony So if you want to buy an extra pen etc Rachel Schousboe we will accept them to take to the Jill Sheridan areas who desperately need them. Kate Thomas Thank you! Lena Tisdall Jane Tudor Merrill Woodhouse Tugulawa kindy
Michelle & Alleyne visited a kindy and showed the children how to spin and dye and make paper from the silk that their silk worms made.
They had a wonderful day.
One of the parents donated a new spinning wheel to us. Visit with Cecile Jonna, Michelle and Kym popped in to tell Cecile Falvey all about the ideas for the 50th.
The view from her deck on Mt Tambourine correspondence
I just wanted to share a lovely letter we received.
Thank you. Not sure if you have been told yet, but I want to say from my own observation, how vitally alive and energetic and interesting the group has become. Dynamic leadership bringing us up to date and into the future, air- conditioning, decluttering and improving the meeting rooms, spreading the word of all the good things our group has to offer, via every social media platform available and bringing in new young members to learn, teach and pass on these most basic and essential life skills to satisfy our need for creativity and companionship as a culture. Well done, and looking forward to renewing my membership. cheers, Shannon Brookfield show Butterfly net
We are sponsoring the If you know of any one that needs a little handspun garment extra love and attention at the moment. If hand woven garment they are not well or you think they would felted garment benefit from a little card with our best in the Yarn Creations section. thoughts. Email Yvonne with the details so she can send a card on our behalf. I told the organiser that if we entered [email protected] that we would clean up. So prove me right! Read up on the requirements and make something wonderful. Enter the show and we will look forward to seeing the winning results.
17, 18 & 19 May Brookfield Show http://www.brookfieldshowground.com. au/show- competitions/needlework/attachment/2 019-schedule/
Gala Dinner
The jewel in our 50th-year crown is the gala dinner. It is going to be a wonderful night full of friends, food, music, nostalgia and a fabulous way to be 50. Get together with your mates and buy a table! We have locked in our musical entertainment, Robbie Balmer, a contestant on the Voice who was on Kylie's team, it will be great. Tickets are available from the Emporium and Eventbrite until 1 April 2019 for $120 per person.
A very special celebration Gala Dinner for QSWFA members, family and friends is in the works for 13 April 2019. This gala event will celebrate our beginnings, our members past and present, our achievements and our future. We are so proud to be turning 50! This is our time to truly shine and celebrate with an event befitting this extraordinary milestone in our fibre artist's group.This special evening is being held at a beautiful location beside the Brisbane River, The Landing at Dockside, Kangaroo Point. Starting at 5.30 with welcome drinks and canapes on the riverfront terrace to watch the sunset over the Story Bridge.
Make a weekend of it, a mini break if you will! Accommodation is available at Central Dockside Apartments (the building on top of the event) and others nearby. 1 bedroom apartment is currently $157.50 - this is a flexi rate with the discount code. 2 bedroom apartment $ 229.50 (These rates will fluctuate This is during QLD school holidays.) To book use website: http://www.centralapartmenthotels.com.au/accommodation/2/dockside-apartment- hotel/details or call 0738916644 promo code online: thelanding
The Gala Dinner is on the top of the list of golden activities that we will celebrate in our 50th year, let's take the opportunity of being together with a big celebration. Here’s to a very exciting 50th year everyone. We will be celebrating with every fibre of our being!!! Camp 2 -4 August 2019 Mapleton Celebrate the actual 50th anniversary of QSWFA first meeting 2 Aug 1969 at our crafting weekend away in Mapleton for fibre arts retreat 2-4 Aug 2019. Early bird price is available until 8 June and some cabins are still available .
Gold Gold Gold! There is going to be a golden glow at our retreat next year for QSWFA 50th year anniversary. Our weekend in Mapleton promises to be bigger and brighter than ever. We have planned a fabulous celebration gourmet lunch for Saturday. The registration form for this weekend away on QSWFA website Fibre Arts Retreat 2019 and QSWFA Eventbrite
Open 9-5 daily Richard Randall Studio Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot tha [email protected]
Workshop tutors wanted
We would like to share the immense talents and skills of our members. We are Would you like to be paid to teach a 2-3 working on a workshop calendar for hour Friday night class in something? 2019. Can you help? inkle loom weaving Would you like to be paid to teach a day learn to knit or weekend class in something? learn to crochet felting granny squares dyeing wool or cotton block printing screen printing baskets Our goal is to have two workshops each indigo dyeing month from March to November to macrame introduce more people to our crafting lino printing community. journal making rag rugs If you don't want to run solo perhaps you photography could find a friend. Do you know weaving someone who would be good at leading a block printing workshop? Do you have any other ideas spinning for workshops? drop spindle Can you be a hall helper or support Please think about this and let us know if person for someone running a workshop you are interested. by opening or closing the facilities? [email protected] Christmas Party
On 1 December we had a ball at our Christmas party. Everyone brought delicious morsels to snack on, the secret santa and the Xmas hamper raffle were fun, with Nicky Montgomery taking home the goodies.
Thanks everyone for the fabulous donations for the women's shelter, they were very grateful for your generosity. Life members
On 1 December at our Christmas meeting we had a special presentation of life membership awarded for contribution and length of membership to: Joan Apthorp Maida Snell Barry Snell Alleyne Learmonth
Joan Apthorp Alleyne Learmonth Joan & Barry
Maida and Barry Snell