• Sewing machine in good working order. Bring instruction booklet and any accessories – particularly those used for free motion work
• Size 100/16 topstitch (preferable) or jeans machine needles
• Power board, extension cord
• Masking tape
• Rotary cutter, ruler and mat
• Scissors
• Pins
• Thread both ordinary and decorative e.g. metallic
• Scraps of fabric, threads, knitting yarns, ribbons, etc
• Black or coloured tulle (black works best)
• Hand dyed or other firm cotton fabric for backing of textured fabrics (enough for 2 or 3 a4 sized pieces)
• Iron and ironing board (a couple shared by the group will be enough)

If you have any queries, Jane can be contacted on 02 9869 0567 or 0408 494 805

• Old clothes or an apron, an old towel
• Dust mask (from hardware store)
• Rubber gloves (long washing up ones, not disposables – you will be delving into the buckets)
• Packet of large ziplock plastic bags
• 1 one cup measuring jug
• 1 two-litre measuring jug
• Large plastic spoon for stirring
• 1 plastic bucket
• Plastic kitty litter tray or similar (e.g. Large ice-cream containers – several if possible)
  None of this equipment should be used for food preparation afterwards
   
• At least 5 metres of white 100% cotton fabric washed in hot water and detergent (ironing is not necessary)
• You may also like to bring some printed fabric for over dyeing.
• Large needle and strong thread
• Scissors (not your good ones)
• Note book, biro and pencil

Outcome: All participants will have several pieces of hand-dyed fabrics.

If you have any queries, Jane can be contacted on 02 9869 0567 or 0408 494 805

• Simple quilt top about 1 metre square. ( E.g. 4 block log cabin or rail fence)

             
   

• A few strips of varying widths of 2 fabrics
   
• A piece of fabric with a large scale print.
   
• 2 metres “background fabric” – one that is already in the “top” (you could also use 1 metre each of two very similar fabrics)
   
•  ½ - 1 metre of at least 6 other fabrics – make sure you have a “dark dark”, a light and a “zinger” among them.
   
• If you have long strips left over from other projects, bring them but fat quarters won’t work (if it is the only piece of a fabric that you have and you really want to use it, bring it & we’ll work round it). As well as contrast in values (light/dark), have a variety of scale in the prints. This is a good project for any fabrics that you bought because you loved the colour and them found the print was difficult to work with. I suggest you pull out an assortment of fabrics from your stash that make a nice splash of colour from across the room and only buy extra if you need a dark, a light or a “zinger”.
   
• Rotary cutter
• Long ruler
• Mat (as large as you can)
• Sewing machine
• Neutral thread (or to match fabrics)
• Pins, scissors and usual sewing equipment
• Pen, paper or notebook, paper scissors & glue stick
• Extension cord
• Power board
• Masking tape

If you have any queries, Jane can be contacted on 02 9869 0567 or 0408 494 805

• Simple quilt top about 1 metre square. ( E.g. 4 block log cabin or rail fence)

             

• Bargello, or a 4 block with the pieces cut from strip-pieced fabric. This is the ideal place to use up a UFO – add some borders if it is too small.
   
• Batting
• Backing
• Safety pins
• A variety of decorative machine threads – variegated, rayon, whatever you have. Also some ordinary thread and bobbin thread if you use one.
• Sewing machine with free motion quilting/darning foot
• 100/16 topstitch (preferable) or jeans needles
• Any fabric paints, shiva paint sticks, etc that you have (there will be some available for use)
• Any rubber stamps, stencils, etc that you have (there will be some available for use)
• Small washable or disposable objects for printing e.g. leaves, lego blocks, stickers from the newsagent (to be used as a resist so don’t need to be fancy but different sized circles for example work well)
• Small sponge paint roller (not the textured kind)
• Small sponge paint brush
• 1-2 plastic plates (preferably white, dinner plate size) for palettes
• Printing pad made by wrapping about 3 Sunday papers in a garbage bag and taping any excess of the bag to the back to make a smooth surface.
• Vliesofix and an assortment of fabrics if you wish to add appliqué
• 1 metre black tulle (optional – it will be used to hold small scraps in place if you wish to add them to the quilt top)
• Beads, ribbons, fancy knitting yarns etc for embellishment
• Pins, scissors and usual sewing equipment
• Pen, paper or notebook, paper scissors & glue stick
• Extension cord
• Power board
• Masking tape

If you have any queries, I can be contacted on 02 9869 0567 or 0408 494 805