Quilt with Judy Newman - 26th, 27th and 28th Feb 2025

We are so lucky to have the beautiful Judy Newman back in our workshop space in February 2025!

Judy has loved needle and thread her whole life, and is an inspiring, talented, welcoming and generous teacher.  She has been designing quilts and teaching for many years, authored books for Quiltmania and designs her own fabric ranges for Devonstone Collections. 

Her quilts are generally made in soft colours with occasional pops of muted brights, vintage style and inspired. Hand piecing, EPP and applique are her preferred methods of patchwork and she loves to assist with colour choices, mixing up scale and density to help create beautiful quilts for her students. Judy loves to hand quilt, the gentle rhythm of the needle through the thread is comforting and slow but gives her time to think about what comes next as her quilts are rarely planned from beginning to end, they evolve with the colours and prints as she uses them.

Judy loves teaching patchwork and quilting and is grateful that it enables her to travel the world passing on this wonderful craft.

In her workshop, you have the freedom to work on any desired quilt out of her latest pattern releases, receiving tips and guidance from the expert herself. We will have the following patterns available for the workshop: The Agnes (new!),The Dutch Darning Sampler, Posy, Portmeirion, Vermont Summer Medallion, and Fleurs Garden (The Chateau Project). 

We will have new Agnes quilt pattern and kit

as well as starter kits for the Dutch Darning Sampler and The Posy Quilt available a week or two prior to workshop for purchase - just get in touch and let us know if you'd like a kit put aside for you! 

We already have a few of Judy's patterns in store - if you can't make it in to browse they can be viewed online here.

This is a hand-sewing workshop, however Judy will be happy to answer questions about machine quilting throughout the day. 

*All quilt patterns, templates and kits will be for sale in-store and online a week or two prior to the workshops. 

All levels of quilting experience welcomed.

As a general guide please bring;

• embroidery scissors
• range of needles and threads 
• your Judy quilt pattern of choice along with fabrics (though you can choose on the day if you'd like guidance from Judy)
• notebook and pen
• your own lunch (a light morning tea will be provided)

Workshops will be held on 3 days, you can attend 1, 2 or all 3 days. 

A discount of 10% can be applied for purchases of 2 or more days when purchased in the same transaction - just use the coupon code WORKSHOP10 at the checkout to see your discount apply!

• Wednesday 26 February 9am - 3.30pm
• Thursday 27 February 9am-3:30pm
• Friday 28 February 8.30am-3pm

Workshop Policy:

• All workshops to be paid in full at the time of booking.
• Bookings can be made online, in-store or over the phone on (08) 9383 3794.
• Workshop fees will be refunded if workshop is cancelled by Calico & Ivy. 
• If participants cancel within 14 days of workshop date, no refunds will be provided, however, place can be transferred to a friend. 
• Cancellations more than 14 days prior can be transferred to a friend or we can issue a store credit.