
Face Covering – master those pleats
Help and tips for folding the pleats on your machine sewn face covering.
Help and tips for folding the pleats on your machine sewn face covering.
~Technique Tuesday~ This session we will be focusing on inserting a zip using your sewing machine. Spend the evening making a cute purse complete with zip fastening – perfect for storing your sewing supplies!
In just a couple of hours you can create your very own unique lampshade to brighten a corner in your home, sewing room or office.
If you love dressmaking, patchwork, embroidery, knitting, felt making, card making, cake decorating and more this is the trip for you. With exhibitions by national and international textile artists there is so much to see and do, it is arguably the BEST show in the North.
Create a beautiful fabric heart that is full of texture and depth. Kate will demonstrate traditional and modern fabric manipulation techniques that introduce volume and interest allowing you to create your very own stunning piece of art.
In this relaxed workshop Janet will show you how to make your very own tiny stitched garden using free motion machine embroidery combined with reverse applique and finished with hand stitch.
Let Diane Jones inspire you with colour and guide you through the techniques of working on a silk screen to make mono prints using procion dyes.
The piece displayed was made on a past workshop by Gill which she went onto embellished with stitch.
Create your very own fabric ‘story book’ with pages of layered fabrics including recycled fabric, felt, scrim and lace all beautifully embellished using applique, needle felting and hand stitching. A workshop where you can really let your imagination free!
Spend the day learning lots of skills to create your very own beautiful roomy tote bag complete with pockets, a zip closure and shoulder straps.
Master the basics of a machine sewing, from how to thread up the machine to sewing in a straight line! You’ll get lots of practice with your sewing machine creating a variety of easy to sew projects.
Discover how to use your machine needle as a drawing tool and create a selection of samples suitable for decorating bags, books or cards. A great beginners day.
Using landscapes as inspiration you will experiment with various conventional and unconventional batik techniques and tools to capture the essence of your landscape on fabric.