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Classes & Retreats 2010

For general Class Outline and info, please click on Basic Class Info Form.
For Interstate Retreat Info and booking forms, please go to Printable forms.

In 2010, we shall continue to teach, in Sydney, at our new shop at Shop 2, 293 Pennant Hills Road, Thornleigh. Please note the major change in our teaching schedule: In order to be more efficient and adjust our face-to-face and hands on teaching to compliment our online teaching (the more I work on the video teachings, the more future I see in online teaching! Watch this site), I shall only teach full day classes - hand quilting and hand applique and jacket making are the ones need a full day course. The rest subjects are better taught online at a much cheaper cost and flexible timetable to suit your life. The shop will become a hands on tuition place as an addition to the online teaching: Let me help you trouble shoot your problems whenever and if ever you need throughout the week from Tue -Sat; Sunday the shop opens if there is a class on and Mon totally closes so I can get a real day off. Find more on hands on tuition on the Sydney class page.  

We shall also organise teaching retreats around Australia at State Libraries starting from May in Perth, July in Melbourne, Oct in Brisbane and Nov in Adelaide.

Please help us to spread the word, so more quilters can join us. Let's work together to keep making perfect quilts affordable in difficult times and still have lots of fun!
 
You can also book by phone and mail. You are more than welcome to print these information off for your friends who are not computer savvy.

To book your classes in Sydney, please go to:
To book your Retreat class inter State, please go to:

  • $37.20 Bag of techniques
    New! Pick a bag from Thimblelady designs and come to the Shop for a day to learn a bag of techniques involved in the making.

  • $35.34 Eye Candy Bag #2
    Coming soon.... This pattern contains 3 pages of pattern, original size templates and instructions. Most instructions are pictures and diagrams, so even if you don't speak English, it is still as easy to follow the instructions. The bag is a pretty...

  • $35.34 Eye Candy Bag#1
    New Quilt as you go bag with a focus on colour play. Try this design with your Thimblelady's Club fabrics. You will find high quality fabrics are good to piece too, not just applique and quilting! If you are not a Club member yes, get this design...

  • $37.20 Free hand domestic machine quilting
    New! Free hand machine quilting - stipling and beyond. If you have done all the free hand machine quilting classes and still haven't got a grip of free hand machine quilting, then come to learn the Thimblelady way! It is easy.

  • $74.40 QBUG technique class
    Book a two day classes on our new QBUG techniques. You can choose from our range of QBUG design/kits. Once you make your booking online, please put the dates of your choice in the "order comment" column.  

  • $41.85 Retreat bag
    This design is out of stock. A new similar design will be ready soon. New Quilt before you go class with a focus on needle turn applique. The applique designed for the bag covers technique on how to applique curves (both concave and convex),...

  • $110.67 Choose Options Simple Elegance kit
    This design is dedicated to quilter, Louise Humphry, who has helped and encouraged me as a true friend during the very difficult first year of our new shop. Louise kept telling me to make a simple design but pretty! Here it is. This fabric kit...

  • $60.45 Choose Options Special silk scarf kit
    Finished scarf size: approx 60in x 10in or 150cm x 25cm. Silk: mat finish. Most have double sided patterns that give you more choices in colours. Wrinkle free. Breath well for area of high humidity. Dry easily. Warm iron, warm hand wash. ...

  • $74.40 Syd_Applique Class
    Come and join Liuxin Newman for a fun day to discover how easy needle turn applique really is! How to turn seams, how to stitch perfectly without pain, how to turn seams at points, indentations, tight curves and fine circles... It is a class about...

  • $111.60 Syd_Jacket making Class
    This jacket design is now named by quilters as "One style fits all"! Fee for the two full day classes is $120. You will also need to get a jacket of your choice: $110 for cotton jacket (Fine cotton fabric, cotton batting plus synthetic lining and...

  • $37.20 Syd_Magic Square Piecing Tuition
    We have decided to start this project tuition ($40/10am-1pm) for both scarf piecing and magic square tuition. This is due to the shift of quilters need from magic square to perfection on using regulator and learning the freedom of free hand...

  • $74.40 Syd_QBUG
    QBUG class is a two-day classes. First day, you start your project and then come on the second day when you finish. You can choose any of our QBUG design and kits. Select the dates of your choice against the class dates given on the Sydney Classes...

  • $74.40 Syd_Quilting Class
     

  • $37.20 Tuition - regulator hand piecing
    This is a 3 hour tuition on whipstitch piecing with Thimblelady's Stitch Regulator. You can choose to piece Magic Square or our new silk scarf (free hand). No prior sewing skill required.  You need to purchase a set of the stitch regulators...

  • $111.60 Tuition - Simple Elegance
    This is a tuition package of a 3 hour section/month for three months designed for those who want Liuxin's hands on tuition for confidence to create this stunning quilt. This design requires only rather basic needle applique techniques - everyone who...