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.

Lynn brings a wealth of experience, creative skills and enthusiasm. Growing up
in the country, Lynn’s mother and grandmother instilled in her a passion for craft, sewing and practical home-making skills. Lynn went on to forge a career in the clothing industry, establishing a fashion label designing and sewing everything from fashion garments (for labels such as Collette Dinnigan, Lee Mathews) to Army uniforms and wedding dresses. Before starting a family, she embarked on a career as a horticulturist putting to use her colour and texture skills.

Since becoming a mum, Lynn has turned her creative hand to craft projects – both for children and adults. She loves using fabric remnants recyclable products and found objects to create beautiful items with a practical use.

Lynn is a presenter of online craft tutorial and craft kits who loves to share her skills and experiences in the world of textile techniques.

She has participated in numerous group and paired exhibitions as an emerging textile artist.

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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

Wendy is a multi disciplinary patchwork and quilting teacher offering many styles and techniques.

Her work exhibits a preference for modern and improvised methods being influenced by her surroundings in both design and colour.

Wendy’s unique designs have been rewarded with multiple awards and has also succeeded in exhibiting internationally with The Modern Quilt Guild, SAQA (Small Art Quilt Association) and an invitational exhibition held in China during 2020.

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Anna Fran is originally from the UK and has been living in Sydney for over 10 years now. In this time, Anna Fran has spent time quilting, dyeing fabric and growing her small business By Anna Fran making small bags and fabrics to sell at local markets. She works with a range of materials from woven fabrics to felt.

Anna Fran will be running some workshops for both kids and adults throughout the year and looks forward to sharing her passion for crafts with you.

Anna has the Working with Children Check.

Follow Anna Fran on:

Instagram - @ByAnnaFran

Facebook - By Anna Fran

Bronnie started crafting as a way to practise mindfulness and create time for herself in a busy world. Her journey started with sewing cushions and beach bags which proved to be very popular at local markets and in her Etsy store.

Bronnie began to explore other crafts including jewellery making, crochet and macrame. While she loves making her own creations and handmade gifts for family and friends, her real passion is inspiring others to get creative and enjoy making their own projects. Bronnie believes everybody has a creative side!

Follow Bronnie on Instagram - @createwithusworkshops

Contact us to enquire about private classes or parties (kids or adults).