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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fortnightly crochet mornings 10.30am -12pm~ a great introduction to crochet. Learn from the beginning and chain, single, double and triple crochet stitches will be demystified over four weeks. Great for beginners and those wishing to improve their technique.
