Author: Teri Berry
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Rare Breed Challenge
This post is from Angela Stanfield A lovely lady, Jill, came up with the idea of a Rare Breed Challenge and got two other lovely ladies, Adrina and June to help her turn it into reality. They have a wealth of experience and talent crafting with a variety of sheep breeds found in New Zealand,…
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Heartfelt Community Project
Wendy Bailye will be hosting a session on Monday at Convergence about this project and explaining how she makes the hearts but you do not need to attend Convergence to join in. Wendy has generously provided instructions and a video so everyone can take part: This link will take you to Wendy’s video on YouTube:…
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Special Offers From Our Traders
We have some wonderful traders attending Convergence who are keen to fulfil all your felting and fibre needs. Some of them also have special discounts and offers to tempt you, read on to find out more….. If you can’t make it to Convergence but want to take advantage of the special offers or just do…
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Bring a Smile, Leave with a Smile
As part of the felting fun, we would love it if you could bring a felted smile to Convergence. Hand it in at registration and we will have a team ready to pin it to a fabric panel that will decorate the walls of the staircase. The details:
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Accommodation discount codes
We have had an overwhelming response to our registration opening. We do have a maximum number of attendees that we can accept, so please, if you are thinking of attending, don’t delay…. please get your registration in. Here is the link https://aucklandfelters.org.nz/southern-hemisphere-felters-convergence-2025-registration-form/ Just a word on ACCOMODATION … The Parnell Hotel and Conference Centre is where we…
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Registration is open!
We’re delighted to let you know that Convergence 2025 registration is now OPEN! Update 19th Aug 2025 – Registration has been closed while we make the final preparations for Convergence We can’t wait to see you at the Convergence! Please take a look at our previous blog posts for more information about our confirmed tutors…
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Making Payments
Convergence is an exciting but not-for-profit event. We have been working hard to minimise costs at every opportunity and to make attending the best value for money it can possibly be. One way we are reducing costs is by only accepting payments via bank transfer to the Convergence bank account. In this way we have…
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Prices and what’s included
While taking a break from sunbathing by the pool, we hope you managed to read over the wonderful classes that our two international tutors are preparing to teach at Convergence? So now, after further drum rolling, we thought you’d like to know a bit more before Registration opens on Sat Feb 1st. In addition to…
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More details on Nancy’s classes
Where did 2024 go?!! We are just a few days from welcoming the start of 2025 and what promises to be a fabulous year for Southern Hemisphere felters. I hope you are as excited as we are?!! 🙂 I like to think of the Felter’s Convergence Committee as a swan, on the surface gracefully gliding…
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Introducing our headline tutors…
Thanks to everyone for registering on our website. With a year to go, we already have over 270 people interested in our event! Thank you very much for waiting so patiently for our update. With generous support and backing from Creative Fibre we have been able to go ahead and host the event which we hugely…