Everyone is invited to our Open Day, particularly if you are interested in fibre arts and crafts. Come and expand your stash, with traders selling fibres for spinning and felting, yarns for knitting and weaving, various pieces of equipment, such as looms, needle felting supplies, warping boards and much, much more! Members will be selling their goods also, with a range of unique hand dyed, hand spun yarns and handmade wearables such as vests, scarves and beanies, perfect for this time of year. Plus there will be tea and coffee with yummy handmade refreshments to warm the tummy. Bring along a friend and enjoy a great day out!
Saturday, 8 July, 9.30am – 3.30pm at St Paul’s Church Hall, 205 Burwood Road, Burwood.

  • Treasure Bag Competition
    Whether it holds your phone, pearls, glasses or even your marbles, this is a perfect opportunity to use leftover weaving samples, yarn or knitted tension squares to fashion a Treasure Bag. Exercise your imagination to create the perfect bag for those jewels.
  • Members unique handmade work for sale
    Items such as handspun yarn, handwoven, handknitted and handfelted wearables
  • Traders
    Selling books, spinning and weaving supplies and equipment, yarns and other fibre related supplies. Traders include:

    • Virginia Farm Wool Works
      Jenny and Phil Dunn of Virginia Farm Wool, have been supplying Sydney’s spinners with fibre and equipment for the last 15 years. They will be at the Open Day with a range of dyes and also undyed yarns in silk, wool, mohair, Optim wool and cotton. New for this year is naturally coloured organically grown cotton yarn in 8 ply and good enough to eat colours such as Vanilla, Caf&eacute and Chocolate
    • Positively Original
      After completing her Diploma of Applied Art and Graduate Diploma of Education, Lynne Britten began her career in textiles as a Textile Designer in 1985. Lynne teaches workshops in fabric and thread dyeing, shibori, silk painting, batik, block printing, through her own studio, Batik Oetoro, WEA, North Sydney Community Centre and others. Through her studio and website she retails an expanding range of ready to dye cotton and rayon yarns, braids and cords; dyes, silk painting supplies and lots more
    • Freelance Fibres
      Gerda Smith creates sophisticated blends of mohair, cashmere, alpaca and merino. In addition to carding and blending she has also developed a range of different colour combinations using a blend of Gaywool and Landscape dyes. Gerda’s range includes batts of fleece ready for felting, slivers and rovings for spinners and is now establishing a new range of luxury yarns.
    • Come in Spinner, Margaret Brown
    • Magnolia Books, Anne Miller
    • Spun Out, Patricia Gledhill-Bennett
    • Ron Stewart with his Weave-it squares
    • Felt From The Heart with Kangaroo Valley Spinning Supplies
  • Demonstrations
    Spinning and Weaving
  • Refreshments
    Tea and biscuits plus a Lions sausage sizzle

Last year the winners by Popular Choice of the Designer Yarn Award for 2005 were boxed up and sent to guilds and groups around Australia. They will be coming home after their travels to be replaced by the winners of this year’s Designer Yarn Award. Groups are invited to request the box and asked to send it on to the next interested group.
For more information contact the guild.