Spend the weekend with Cathy Emmott, who works under the name Dear Emma Designs, to create a stunning stitched lampshade that will perfectly compliment your home.
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.
Come along and work on a PHD, UFO, or WIP for the morning or afternoon on Saturday 25 Janrary 2020.
Start the New Year with a needle in your hand and a chat with friends being social and creative.
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!
Over the course of four months develop your patchwork skills by learning how to sew triangles to make the Flying Geese block, how to Foundation Piece, work with curved piecing and put together blocks using part-sewn seams all under the expert guidance of Lis Binns.
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.
Patterns may vary. Create a beautiful yet comfy stretch t-shirt for every day wear. Follow the complete tailoring journey from measuring, laying and cutting out pattern pieces and finally construction getting to know about using stretch fabrics along the way..
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 Monday evenings 6.30 – 9pm.
