A festive version of Free machine embroidery – discover how to use your machine needle as a drawing tool and create a selection of festive motifs to mount onto card to give to friend and family.
Learn how to make these beautiful sustainable Fabric Christmas Crackers – which will soon become a favourite family tradition as you reuse them every year, perfect to add a personal small gift for your friends and family.
Need a confidence boost to set you off on your machine sewing journey, join us for a morning and learn the basics of machine sewing, make a pin cushion to take home.
Spend the day hand dyeing a range of natural threads. You will use your unique threads to create a beautiful mini embroidery based on a flower garden.
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!
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.
Using embroidery and stumpwork techniques Corinne will show you how to create your very own 3D flowers that can be used to decorate your home, clothes or textile work!
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.
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.
