Jenny Woodward from ABC Queensland News posted on her Facebook page: It has been such a delight to be involved in the Queensland Quarantine Quilt. The project was brainchild of ABC Brisbane Breakfast presenters Craig Zonca and Loretta Ryan. The challenge was to design and make a 15 x 15cm quilt square in any medium,…
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Our talented members have been busy making great gifts for you and your friends. Buy local. Buy handmade. Support local artists.
Queensland Quarantine Quilt
Take part in the ABC Radio Brisbane’s ‘Queensland Quarantine Quilt’ project. Make a piece to depict a snapshot of your time in quarantine. What made you happy? What gave you joy? Use your brightest, boldest fibre, yarn, and thread, dig through your stash and find some treasure! The theme is Quarantine Time Capsule. CREATIVE SPECIFICATIONS: Feature…
Easter Egg hunt
Every year on Easter Sunday morning we do an Easter Egg hunt in the lounge room. (Even though my boys are 22 & 25 yo and past this little kids game, they still love the family and competitive race to find the most). This year a bit different since we can’t all be together in…
Morning tea with the Masters.
What a wonderful way to celebrate the masters of our arts. A delicious morning tea, a glass of bubbles and the opportunity to chat to amazing women at the top of their field.
Operation Cuddles part 3!
We are back for part three, with a whole week of cuddles and pouch making for rescued marsupials. We have put together a Crafting Event Week to entice our members and outside crafting visitors to Fibrecraft House four times in one week to help produce pouches – particularly aiming to give people who work during…
Operation Cuddles continues!
Thanks so much to all the folks who came along to make marsupial pouches on Thursday 21 November. It has been so successful and awakened a movement! We made 576 pouches in one day……. amazing! Great job everyone. Let’s not stop here. Operation Cuddles is back by popular demand on Tuesday 26 November from 10…
Operation Cuddles
Join our working bee to make pouches for orphaned wildlife for the RSPCA. Let’s use our craft skills to help native animals injured and displaced by bushfires. We are going to make marsupial pouches, check them out here. We will sew, knit, crochet and felt pouches for sugar gliders, possums, kangaroo joeys and koalas. Bring along…
Stash Bash is back!
You Can BUY! Take advantage of our spring clean and grab a huge bargain at QSWFA’s Stash Bash marketplace.Tools and equipment at run out prices including spinning wheels and weaving looms. Craft supplies will be available for purchase at a bargain including yarn, wool, fabric, sewing & knitting supplies, magazines, books, beads, scrapbook supplies, stamps,…
We are living art!!!
Jessica Anderson’s Miles Franklin winning novel Tirra Lirra by the River has been imagined by Anna Spiro into a beautiful room at the state library as part of the Brisbane Writer’s Festival. We have been invited to be a part of the art installation over the opening weekend.