The Brisbane Craft & Quilt Fair is coming to Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre from 9 to 12 October and features demonstrations and workshops with some of the country’s finest crafters.
The Craft & Quilt Fair is the largest and longest running craft show with a huge selection of incredible quilts, representation of a range of crafts, guest artists, tutor-led workshops, demonstrations and short workshops from exhibitors and over 60 stands selling craft supplies, materials and tools. This year’s show will include demonstrations from multidisciplinary artist Rowan Sivyer, crochet artist Alison Thompson and Jane Milburn, author of Slow Clothing, Textile Beat.
Sivyer has turned her hand to many different crafting techniques including acrylics, collage, screen printing and stitching. Throughout the four days of the show Sivyer will be running block printing workshops and presenting a talk. Joining Sivyer is crochet artist, Alison Thompson who will be running workshops through the weekend and presenting a talk about her work with yarn bombing, which is the term for using large crochet projects as art installations/street art and how a large outdoor craft feature can be turned into a fundraiser or feel good community project.
And rounding out the craft talent will be Jane Milburn, agricultural scientist and author of Slow Clothing, Textile Beat, who will be talking about her research into slowing clothing consumption on Saturday 12th October at midday. Milburn is always mending, tweaking, and adapting quality natural-fibre clothing to suit herself. She believes in regenerating people’s agency by gaining skills, knowledge and desire to assemble a wardrobe of garments that they want to wear and know how to keep in service for longer.
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