February Retreat 2017

Russellee BnB Craft Retreats
Five Day February Retreat
20th—24th February 2017

Tutors
Chris Dowell, Juniata Buggé and Dorothy Clee

The Retreat comprises of 2 X 2 day Workshops plus a Mystery Workshop, and a visit to the Pioneer  Women's  Hut Tumbarumba.  Drinks and Nibbles' included at a private viewing of Tumut’s Fabric and Things patchwork shop.  Lunch is included each day plus a Group Dinner, Thursday evening, with Lucky Prize Draw.

Class sizes are kept small with a maximum of six participants.  Three workshops will be running simultaneously. Choices need to be submitted early to avoid disappointment.  Please choose three from the list below with the first two being your preferred choices.

Chris Dowell, a talented  artist and successful quilter from Toowoomba .

Floral Fantasy—Create a panel that can be used in a quilt or as a wall hanging using appliqué, fabric manipulation and adding optional texture with beads, cords etc.  Chris will take you step by step to create a beautiful panel unique to you.

Captivating Panels—Chris will help you design your own one of a kind quilt based around purchased panel fabric.  Look at different types of blocks to enhance your panel/s for a stunning result.

Juniata Buggé, authorised Judy Niemeyer tutor, quilt designer and owner of Sewing Buddies Australia

Judy Niemeyer Class A—choose one of Judy Niemeyer’s wonderful paper pieced designs. 

 Judy Niemeyer Class B—choose one of Judy Niemeyer’s wonderful paper pieced designs or continue with your previous project.

Patterns and kits are available for these workshops. Note there is a $20 materials fee payable to tutor at the start of the classes.  You can choose to undertake one or both of the Judy Niemeyer classes.

Dorothy Clee, thread painter and art quilter.

Trio of Bags —this workshop gives you the opportunity to create one or all three bags offered.  The techniques to create the bags  include chenille, fabric weaving, bag hardware and also look at fabric designs for bags.  Kits available.

Landscape Panel with optional Pineapple Log Cabin—Create your own landscape panel  using one of Dorothy’s designs or she will take you through the steps to create your own landscape.  Optional pineapple log cabins can be added to your panel to create a larger quilt.

 Mystery Class

Chris will be presenting a fun Mystery Class for all.  A kit will be provided for this class.

Accommodation requests are filling fast at Russellee.  There is limited availability.  We have also organised extra accommodation a short distance from Russellee with breakfast being served at Russellee each morning.  Accommodation allocation is on a first in first allocated basis.

 

Carol's Christmas In July Scrappers and Sewers

Carol's Scrappers and Sewers from Canberra are at Russellee for their second Christmas in July. All have been working into the late night (and some into the early hours of the morning) on their chosen interest be it scrapbooking or hand sewing. Today was the day for present sharing and a traditional Christmas

 

 

 
 

dinner. Alas there was no snow but the snow is not far away up the mountain.

Fabric Mosaic Retreat

Robyn Taylor held a Fabric Mosaics class at Russelle BnB Tumut this weekend. Two ladies travelled up from Sydney plus Wagga and Batlow. The results were stunning.

Our Bali Quilting Retreat is now full for 2016. The guest teacher for the 2016, retreat is Chris Dowell for Toowoomba.  Chris is a wonderful artist as well as a brilliant quilter. 

Chris was runner up for the AQC Traditions with a Twist completion this year.  We are taking expressions of interest for our 2017.  If you and information for this retreat when it is finalised please let us know and we will send the information out. The retreat gives you the opportunity to make your own batik panel, sew with like minded ladies, learn about the culture of Bali and of course buying lots of fabric. 

Russellee BnB welcomes groups of like minded people to enjoy a retreat in their chosen field of craft.  If you have a group of 5 - 10 looking for a venue please contact us.

Vicky's Monday Night Quilting Group from Albury/Wondanga have a quilting weekend at Russellee BnB Craft Retreats.

Russellee offers a venue for quilters, scrapbookers or other crafters to indulge in their passion.  We provide accommodation and organise meals.  This allows you the have a weekend to concentrate on you passion and we will look after you.

Successful Retreat

Following the success of our 5 day Quilting Cruise without the Boat we have been asked to run it again next February. Both Juanita Bugee and Chris Dowell have agreed to attend again.

Juanita will be offering two 2 day Judy Niemeyer workshops.
Chris will be offering workshops in designing your own quilt using printed panels as the starting point. Maureen's lovely quilt from this workshop is shown here. I will be offering workshops on landscape quilts. Designing you own or ...using one of my patterns.

On the Wednesday we will be doing a morning trip to Tumbarumba visiting the Pioneer Women's Hut to view the antique quilts followed by lunch. In the afternoon Chris will be holding her Mystery Workshop. This proved very popular this year.

We keep our groups small. Russellee BnB has accommodation and it is on a first in first receive basis. There is alternate accommodation with in a 5 minute drive. Our overall numbers are also limited and we have 6 ladies booked so far. if you are interested in coming please let me know. Final dates, workshop details and pricing will be released shortly.

This weekend is a Scrapping Weekend.  A lovely group of regular ladies will be attending.  Air cons are working well so they will keep cool.

I have two spots left on our Bail Quilting, Fabric and Cultural Tour starting the 5th of September.  Please contact me if you are interested.

Until next time.
Dorothy

Quilting Cruise without the Boat Retreat

We are on out last day of Russell BnB's Quilting Cruise without  the Boat. We have had ladies from Sydney and the Canberra area as well as the local area. Our two guests tutors, Chris Dowell from QLD and Juniata Bungee from Melbourne, have offered some great classes and wonderful work is being produced.
There has been five days of sewing and great fun. The retreat has been a success and enjoyed by all.

Work in Progress January February 2016

I have been working on 2 large projects over the past few weeks.  They are both a combination of applique and thread painting (free machine embroidery).
The waterfall is finished and is being blocked at the moment.  It will eventually be framed. 70 cm x 40 

Waterfall in progress

Before the main falls are added

The finished waterfall

My Lizard, not sure why I started doing a lizard, has been interesting to do.  Totally different to what I have done before. Definitely different to cats and dogs.  He still has some finishing to do so will post a finished shot at a later date. 75 cm x 75 cm 

The back of the lizard showing the stitching.  It is very like a pencil sketch.