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Do you like to: |
Make things? |
Fibre? |
Colour? |
Experimenting
with stitches?
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Developing your own ideas? |
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Learn about textiles
and fibres with the Young Textile and Fibre Group (YTFG). YTFG
is open to girls and boys between 5 and 18 years of age. There is
a network of YTFG groups through out NSW. |
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There are YTFG clubs meeting at: |
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For members who are unable to come to Club activities,
for distance or other reasons,
there is a Distance Leader, Distance course and Distance Education is also available. For more information about the YTFG contact The Embroiderer's' Guild on 9743 2501. |
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| YTFG Aims |
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The aim of the Young Textile and Fibre Group is to encourage those interested
in using textiles and fibre.
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The ladies who assess the work of our YTFG Distance Club students are very special people. These ladies take a great deal of care to write a letter of encouragement to the young person whose work they are assessing.This is no mean task having never met the student concerned.all our youngsters do not return the comment sheet, which is a guide for the tutor, the assessing is sometimes made more difficult.Also, there are a great many levels of skills to be taken into account.
However, the student is always complimented on their work, while subtle suggestions are made as to ways of improving the stitching if this is deemed necessary.Direction of stitches in cross stitch is one such example.
Wendy Fuller recently assessed the Counted Thread lessons for Sigrid and Erin.Sigrid has embroidered a bear which looked cute and Wendy commented to Sigrid that she could see his little eyes pleading for a reassuring hug.
Next came Erin’s work, a colourful gecko which looks equally as cute.This sent Wendy scurrying to look up her atlas to see just where Erin lives in far western New South Wales, then next to the “Complete Guide to Reptiles in Australia” to see if Erin had actually embroidered a particular gecko.Wendy learnt there are at least 10 different types of geckos which may inhabit the region where Erin lives.
In her assessment letter, Wendy commented that she thought the “Marbled Velvet Gecko” or the “Barking Gecko” came closest to Erin’s colourations.Wendy then wrote to Erin, “But then, any artist is entitled to be creative with colour, so I think this one should be named “Erinus Gekkonidae”.
I am sure whenever I see an embroidered gecko from now on, I will think of Erin and Wendy!
Don’t you agree?The ladies who do the assessing are very special people!
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