Weaving Your Own Story

Weaving workshop where you use materials such as personal objects, found materials, or natural fibres, to create a round woven wall artwork, run by Blue Mountains artist Sandi Lucock.

This work can be a reminder of an event, your favourite book and characters, or be a visual reminder of a loved one or their hobby. You will weave your memories with other materials and have them displayed in a prominent place where they will be a daily reminder of what that person, event, location, or book meant to you at a particular time in your life.

Participants are to bring items they want to weave into their work such as badges, feathers, ribbons, pages from a book for example. Note the objects must be able to be adhered to the woven work with thread or natural materials so must have a pin, a loop or a hole already in existence on the item.

Please bring:

Items to include such as badges, feathers, ribbons, pages from a book for example. Participants may also choose to bring thread or ribbon to bind the artwork together along with the materials that will be available on the day. Note the objects must be able to be adhered to the woven work with thread or natural materials so must have a pin, a loop or a hole already in existence on the item.

Materials for participants to bring:

• Light gardening gloves to size

• Apron to protect clothing

• Personal items to include in weave

• Weaving thread, twine or ribbon that can be used as well as the provided materials

Materials provided for participant:

• Waxed thread 15m in 3 colours

• Handy Needle Assortment

Materials that will be available on the day to use:

• Scissors

• Additional thread, may be a combination of upholstery or embroidery thread

• Measuring tape and ruler

• Cutting board

• Box cutter

• Dried bark, seeds, twigs, paper rafia, dried flax, feathers etc