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Design Your First Repeating Fabric workshop

Design Your First Repeating Fabric
Design Your First Repeating Fabric

Overview

Have you ever wondered how textile designers create fabric with perfect, seamless repeating patterns? In this class, students will learn a simple method to make a seamless repeating motif.

This class is fun for all sorts of artists and crafts people. You'll have fun and learn whether you're a quilter, a knitter or an illustrator.

This workshop is beginner-friendly, with no pre-requisite skills required.

Xandy Peters is a knitting designer and teacher, best known as the innovator of the stacked stitch technique and for the Fox Paws pattern. Starting out as a footwear and product designer, he turned to knitting as a way to explore textiles and surfaces without using factory production and has since made a career out of publishing new patterns and teaching workshops.

Xandy has been published in magazines such as Vogue Knitting, Twist Collective, Knitscene, Knitty, and Pom Pom Quarterly, has a Craftsy class teaching the stacked stitch technique and continues to self publish patterns on a regular basis.

Dates

5 Mar 2027
March 2027
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QT Canberra6 Marcus Clarke St, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, AustraliaGet Directions
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