~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!
Spend a fabulous day under the guidance of Tilly Rose who will show you how you can preserve your treasured keepsakes, be they jewellery, trinkets, photographs or maps, in the company of a little creativity, colour, texture and design in the form of a wonderful stitched journal.
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!
Romantic landscapes, a wet felt technique workshop. Using merino fibres in a painterly way create a landscape or flower garden scene. Which can be embellished at home with needle felting and stitch.
Spend four weeks gaining a bank of knowledge on two of the fundamental building blocks of beading: Brick stitch and Peyote stitch. By working through the design, draft and implementation process of a number of projects you will learn not only how to work with the two stitches but also how they can be modified and manipulated to fit the projects of your imagination!
Spend the day hand dyeing a range of natural threads. You will use your unique threads to create a beautiful brooch based on a flower garden that you can wear home with pride.
Romantic landscapes, a wet felt technique workshop. Using merino fibres in a painterly way create a landscape or flower garden scene. Which can be embellished at home with needle felting and stitch.
Layer colourful scraps of scrim, lace, calico and wool fibres, using an embellishing machine or hand-held needle felting tool, to make a quirky birdy wall hanging.
Using a variety of hand embroidery stitches spend a relaxing day creating a beautiful vase of flowers under the guidance of tutor Linda Robinson.
Lis Binns will introduce you to a variety of applique techniques including machine, hand and reverse applique in this four session workshop.
Learn how to make felt using bright colourful merino fibres. You will be making pictures, learning how to use a resist to make a bowl and nuno felting a lovely silk and fibre scarf.
During this 8 week course you will learn a variety of lovely hand embroidery stitches which will be combined to create a beautiful flower garden following step by step guidance. The course runs on Wednesday evenings 6 – 8.30pm.
