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Third Saturday Toss n Tell
What to bring: Check your eNews for details of events on the day.Our monthly eNews is sent on the Thursday before Toss n Tell
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July Toss n Tell – Felt a thon
After Toss n Tell will be a felt-a-thon! The perfect time for your Heartland Fibres Group Project piece or maybe a vessel/bowl for the Royal Show or your Discovery Days piece? Get felting! Bring your pieces to be displayed at Craft Alive!
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June Toss n Tell – Uthando Dolls
“Touching hearts and bringing play to life” – Handmade dolls for the children of KwaZulu-Natal This month we have some very special guests from the Uthando Doll Project. Uthando will be speaking about the project and leading us in a doll making & dressing session then creating jewellery and a shoulder bag for the dolls…
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May Toss n Tell – Bilby Yarns
We are very pleased to have June from Bilby Yarns come and share her wealth of knowledge with us. June will have a Pop Up shop with her so bring your credit cards and a shopping bag! June’s Story I began my textile journey at 16 years of age, sewing my clothes on a Treadle…
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Felting Day
Some of our members have asked for some quiet felting time at Craft House – excellent! It will be just felting – nothing else is organised – sounds like bliss! Usual $2 at the door, bring your lunch, tea and coffee provided. Here are the dates: February 27th, March 13th & April 3rd 9:30am –…
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Toss n Tell – Name Badges or Necklaces!
Not all of us have good memories – especially for names but a plain old name badge fixes this dilemma. But! We are felters – we don’t do plain or old. Join us in our first Demo & Do session for 2025 and we will make name badges or even necklaces. Maybe they should be…
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Toss n Tell – Shrinkage Rates
As felters we all know that felt shrinks as it fulls, but the age old discussion is how to measure that shrinkage. I often hear felters talking about shrinkage in percentage values ie “It shrank by 30%.” but this is an inaccurate and mathematically incorrect way of measuring shrinkage. Soosie Jobson will explain why, and…
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Toss n Tell – Language of Fibre
Peta Korb of Country Chicks Creations will join us for the first Toss n Tell of the year and will welcome you to the world of fibre and help you to unravel the sometimes confusing language used. Explore the mystery of the different types of wool, stages of processing and uses along with the added…
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August Toss n Tell – AGM + Trash & Treasure
It’s that time of the year our AGM is around the corner. Doors will be open at 9:30am for Trash & Treasure sellers but the day will start at 10am. All details are on the website under the Members section and include:
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Toss n Tell – July
Talk with Raye Facic Working with leather is just like working with any textile, you never know what you are able to make with it until you push the boundaries a little. It’s expected that furniture weight leather is for furniture alone but saturated with watered down PVA glue it can be sculpted into variety…