Meet our Teachers

Catherine is an enthusiastic quilter who enjoys sharing her knowledge and skills of the craft.

Over the years Catherine has attended a wide variety of patchworking and quilting classes,
dressmaking classes, and completed the NSW Embroiderers’ Guild Introductory Embroidery Course.

Catherine looks forward to welcoming you into her classes, working with you to make your
patchwork quilt as well as giving you the skills and confidence to continue to make many more beautiful quilts.

Katrina has lived in Sydney, Australia all her life and has been making quilts since 1992 and teaching her own designs for the past 20+ years. Katrina enjoys machine piecing samplers as well as intricate paper foundation pieced designs. Often these quilts are drafted on the computer and the colours of the different segments are manipulated to create secondary patterns. These designs on paper are then translated to fabric. Katrina loves to add machine applique to soften the straight lines of the piecing.

Katrina is a specialist in English paper piecing and fine hand applique.  Many of her quilts incorporate several hand stitching techniques to create beautiful quilts and small projects, often embellished with hand quilting. She enjoys the quiet therapeutic rhythm of hand stitching her much loved hexagons.

Awards

Katrina's quilts have won numerous prizes at local quilt shows and the QuiltNSW Quilt Show held in Sydney every year. Some of the most recent ribbons she has received are:

2015 2nd Place in the Special Red and White Commercially Quilted category of the Sydney Quilt Show for “Winchester”

2016 Judges’ Commendation in the Commercially Quilted category of the Sydney Quilt Show for “Wentworth”

2017 1st Place in the Professional Quilt Top, Quilted by Another category of the Sydney Quilt Show for “Hartfield”

2022 1st Place in the Professional Applique category for “Anatolia”

2022 3rd Place in the Entrant’s Quilt Top Quilted by Another Professional category for “Delaford” with magnificent quilting by Leanne Harvey of Mount Vincent Quilting

Jemima Flendt is the designer behind the Quilt, Sewing and Crochet Patterns at Tied with a Ribbon. Specialising in modern, fun designs that pack a punch and deliver helpful skills and tips so that even a beginner Quilter can feel confident in making.

Her professional background as a High School Home Economics Teacher has driven her passion for teaching. Jemima is the Author of three books – Weekend Quilting, Quilt Big and Quilt It, Crochet it! As well as having designed Fabric Collections for Robert Kaufman.

She loves teaching classes, Retreats and Workshops in Australia and overseas as well as contributing to many major Quilting Publications worldwide. She has launched her signature Online Beginners Quilt Course – New Quilt on the Block.

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