• The NEW LOOK Retreats will be:
• Smaller & more intimate retreats
• Offering creative indulgence from the past
  in affordable and inspirational luxury by the
  sea
• Relaxed learning in three-day spacious
  workshops with the tutor of your choice
• High Profile National and International
  tutors
• Three retreats over the next two years.
• The Last Warmth of Summer!
   Opal Cove Resort Coffs Harbour
   8th to 15th May, 2010
• Creative Winter Escape
   Opal Cove Resort Coffs Harbour
   3rd to 10th July, 2010
• Something Special
   International Parade!
   Opal Cove Resort Coffs Harbour
   30th April to 8th May, 2011

Registration for 2010 Retreats
Open 1st January 2010
Wendy Martin 02 6652 1483
Email: becreative07@westnet.com.au

Robyn Alexander – Secret Garden. – Felting with
exquisite embellishment and exploring a wide variety of
hand embroidery technique.

Rosalie Dace (South Africa) is a full time quiltmaker
and high profile international tutor, whose work reflects her
passion for colour, pattern and texture While she values the
traditions from which our quiltmaking has come, she
believes that a quilt should say something about its time and
place in history. This and her awareness of being a South
African artist give her work its particular character.

Sue Dennis Whole Cloth Design – creating unique and individual fabrics and Garden View exploring a multitude of creative techniques.

Lorraine Parker – Landscapes featuring Silk paper, photo to fabric transfer and embellishing.

Brenda Gail Smith – Traditional Patchwork with a Contemporary Twist.

Jane Sassaman (USA) Contemporary Quilt Artist, fabric designer, author and teacher whose critically acclaimed work inspires creative confidence in aspiring textile artists of all backgrounds. Jane’s quilts are known internationally for their bold designs celebrating the energy and miraculous beauty of garden flowers, plants and nature.

Nic Bridges – Painted Surfaces for Quilters. Developing Designs in Abstraction.

Deborah Louie – Machine Quilting with style and individuality.

Liz Scobie – Inspirational 3-D Machine Embroidery - adding NEW DIMENSION with colour and stitch.

Lisa Walton – Textured Treasure – producing through surface design a collected inspiration to use to create a pieced wall hanging.

Mariya Waters – The Secrets of Turned Edged Applique by hand and machine. Learn and be inspired by this extradinarily successful artist and international Award Winner. One of her
most outstanding award winning quilts - "Renaissance Revival" (years in the making) now hangs in the National Quilt Museum in Paducah (USA).