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
- 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.
- Natures Quilted Hanging; Tutor Louise Nichols
15/06/2019 - 16/06/2019
10:00 am - 3:30 pm
Natures Quilted Hanging with Louise Nichols. Create your own Lino prints that will then be embellished and turned into a wall hanging over the course of Saturday 15 June 10-4pm and Sunday 16 June 10-3:30pm
- 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
- Embellishments and birds - Tutor, Annette Emms
13/07/2019
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Layer colourful scraps of scrim, lace, calico and wool fibres, using an embellishing machine or hand-held needle felting tool, to make a quirky birdy wall hanging.
- An Introduction to Applique - Tutor Lis Binns
05/09/2019 - 05/12/2019
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Lis Binns will introduce you to a variety of applique techniques including machine, hand and reverse applique in this four session workshop.
- Embellish a Lino Print, Applique Cushion. Tutor Louise Nichols
14/09/2019 - 15/09/2019
10:00 am - 3:30 pm
A weekend workshop with Louise Nichols learning embellishing techniques including applique and embroidery stitches on pre-printed Lino prints of either a hare of a cowparsley that you will then transform into cushion cover. Saturday 14 September 10-4pm and Sunday 15 September 10-3.30pm.
- Whimsical Wall hanging, Tutor - Emily Notman
05/10/2019
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
A creative Saturday with Emily, embracing a range of mixed media methods with stitch to create a whimsical wall hanging.
- Whimsical Wall hanging, Tutor - Emily Notman
06/10/2019
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
A creative Sunday stitching with Emily, embracing a range of mixed media methods to create an embroidered landscape vessel suitable for a candle or flowers.
- Mono Print Haberdashery - Tutor Flossy Teacake
26/10/2019
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
On this Saturday workshop with Flossy Teacake create a beautiful mixed media mono-printed picture based on items from the haberdashery.
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