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
- Bee Hive, FPP. Tutor - Linda Robinson
12/01/2019
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Start your Foundation Paper Piecing journey by making this beautiful Bee Happy hoop designed by Susi Allman, finished with embroidered bees and perfectly framed in a bound embroidery hoop.
- Stories in the Round, Tutor - Liz Cooksey
26/01/2019
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
A wonderful day with Liz Cooksey professional artist and teacher, join Liz on a journey, making your own small intricate composition using crochet, tatting and hand stitch.
- Stories in the Round, Tutor - Liz Cooksey
27/01/2019
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
A wonderful SUNDAY with Liz Cooksey professional artist and teacher, join Liz on a journey, making your own small intricate composition using crochet, tatting and hand stitch.
- 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.
- 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
- Fur & Feather Embroidery - Tutor Sarah Perry
02/04/2019 - 03/04/2019
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Two days of wonderful embroidery with Sarah, TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY 2nd & 3rd April 2019. Working in layers of stitch you will produce a raised bird or animal to apply to a background fabric. A wonderful way of producing a sculptured, life-like work of art.
- Twilight Silhouette, Tutor - Gail Lawther
10/06/2019
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Monday 10am – 4pm – As the light of the sun fades, the silhouettes of different birds appear against the twilight landscapes. Create a beautiful silhouette wall hanging with Gail’s expert guidance.
- Enchanted Garden, Tutor - Gail Lawther
11/06/2019
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Tuesday 10am – 4pm Creating your own pretty scene from Gail’s Enchanted Garden series – choose either Dragonfly or Butterfly to stitch on the day, and you can take the other design away with you to do at home.
- Sun Prints & Stitch - Tutor Sian Hughes
22/06/2019 - 23/06/2019
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
On Saturday, Sian will teach you the process of sun printing, working on paper initially using flowers, buttons, seeds and haberdashery objects to make lovely prints. Sunday will be a day of stitch working on your lovely prints with Linda
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