Wonderful Workshops
Workshops
Workshops are a wonderful way to explore your creativity, make new friends, learn new skills and relax away from everyday life.
Our workshop venues in and around Garstang offer space and large work areas. They are equipped with excellent lighting and seating facilities, for your comfort, they are warm and airy. Remember when booking a workshop to check which of our many venues you will be attending.
Upcoming Events
- Crazy Patchwork & Embroidery, Tutor - Linda Robinson
22/01/2019 - 19/03/2019
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Sumptuous silks, cool cottons, warm velvets and lace if you love fabrics, beads and embroidery this Crazy Patchwork course is perfect for you. Eight weeks of stitch indulgence to include ribbon work, Tuesday evenings between 6.30 and 9pm are evenings just for you… Dates are – 22, 29 Jan, 5, 12, 26 Feb, 5, 12, 19 and 26 March 2019
- Crochet Morning - Tutor April Haxby Feb/March 2019
13/02/2019 - 27/03/2019
10:30 am - 12:00 pm - Crochet Morning - Tutor April Haxby April/May 2019
10/04/2019 - 22/05/2019
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Fortnightly crochet mornings ~ a great introduction to crochet, learn from the beginning, chain, single, double and triple crochet stitches will be demystified over four weeks. Great for beginners!
- Lovely Lampshades - Tutor Linda Robinson
20/02/2019
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
In this Wednesday evening workshop discover how to make your own unique lampshade to brighten a corner in your workshop, office or home.
- Free Machine Embroidery - Tutor Linda Robinson
02/03/2019
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Discover how to use your machine needle as a drawing tool and create a selection of samples suitable for decorating bags, books or cards. Great beginners day.
- Creative Hand Embroidered Gardens for Beginners - Tutor Linda Robinson 8 week course
06/03/2019 - 01/05/2019
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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.
- An Introduction to Patchwork - Tutor Lis Binns
07/03/2019 - 06/06/2019
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Starting from the very beginning learn how to create traditional patchwork blocks over this four session course with tutor Lis Binns.
- Ewe Can Needle Felt with Linda
16/03/2019
10:00 am - 3:00 pm
A fun Saturday workshop learning the very basics of needle felting to create a gorgeous woolly sheep. All materials are included.
- Sewing For Pleasure Coach Trip NEC Birmingham
17/03/2019
8:00 am - 7:15 pm
If you love dressmaking, patchwork, embroidery, knitting, felt making, card making, cake decorating and more this is the trip for you. Exhibitions by national and international textile artists. There is so much to see and do, it’s arguably the BEST show in the North.
- Print and Bloom, Tutor Anne Brooke
23/03/2019
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Ann Brooke leads a day teaching a variety of techniques including creating and using printing blocks, building up a floral collage and adding machine and hand embroidery resulting in your own unique mixed media vase of flowers. This course runs on Saturday 23 March 2019.
- Animal Stitched Collage - Tutor Anne Brooke
24/03/2019
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Take the challenge of minimal materials – to create a charming Birdy stitched collage canvas using a collage technique and hand or machine embroidery to finish
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