This is an opportunity to meet like-minded people and learn new patchworking methods.

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The workshop tutor is Brenda Burgess, a Dungog local and owner of the patchworking business, “Flip La K”.

Brenda is much in demand to teach workshops around Australia and overseas.

At this workshop she will demonstrate her unique construction methods, using templates of her own design.

Brenda says these “specialised templates help patchworkers of all skill levels achieve intricate designs with perfect points”.

(Patch-workers aim for neat, symmetrical corners and joins in their work.)

The workshop will show participants how to make a wide variety of innovative, colourful patchwork designs to turn into quilts, table runners, bags and other items.

A kit with free template and fabric will be provided to each workshop participant.

Tea/coffee and scones will be supplied to start the day off, while Brenda demonstrates cutting and positioning fabric pieces in designs like Flip ‘n Easy Laced Star and Flip ‘n Geese in a Row.

By the end of the day participants will have made a table runner or similar sized project of their choice.

Dungog Arts Society recently ran another workshop with Brenda.

Participants from the Hunter and Central Coast attended that initial workshop.

The response was very positive, so Dungog Arts Society applied for a micro-grant, hoping to run another.

Arts Upper Hunter and Create NSW are funding the free workshop via that microgrant.

Upper Hunter artisan Bev Parkins has already booked her place for the free workshop.

She said she is “looking forward to having a fun day with you all”.

The workshop is open to members and non-members of Dungog Arts Society.

Places are still available but numbers are limited.

The workshop will take place from 9.30am to 3.30pm at the Dungog Uniting Church Hall, 246 Dowling Street Dungog.

Bookings can be made at Dungog Arts Society or by emailing secretary@dungogarts.com.au.

More information is available on www.dungogarts.com.au

By Lisa WISEMAN