Needle Felt a Pet Portrait
'Paint with Wool' and Needle Felt your own Pet Portrait ~ with Jane Makes
Over the course of the day, with Jane's expertise and guidance, you'll see your beloved pet (or chosen animal) slowly appear beneath your fingertips as a 2D needle felted and 'painted with wool' picture.
9.30am – 4.30pm
£80 inc. a tasty Lunch & home baking.
Material Charges: around £15
Upcoming Dates
Hole House Bags with Emma Redfern - 'The Wendy Bag'
Join Emma for a lovely day of beautiful Bag making!
Anyone who loves textiles and handbags will already know Emma Redfern's very popular 'Hole House' facebook page, from where she sells her wonderfully original, unique and quirky bags. With a background in art history and an interest in the Victorian Arts and Crafts movement, Emma believes that anyone can produce something beautiful and useful, given a little instruction and some inspiring fabric.
9.30/10.00am – 4.00/4.30pm
£various inc. a tasty lunch & home baking.
Material Charge : Varies- see individual Bag details
Upcoming Dates
Hole House Bags with Emma Redfern The June Convertible'
Join Emma for a lovely day of beautiful Bag making!
Anyone who loves textiles and handbags will already know Emma Redfern's very popular 'Hole House' facebook page, from where she sells her wonderfully original, unique and quirky bags. With a background in art history and an interest in the Victorian Arts and Crafts movement, Emma believes that anyone can produce something beautiful and useful, given a little instruction and some inspiring fabric.
9.30/10.00am – 4.00/4.30pm
£170 inc. a tasty lunch & home baking.
Material Charge : £25
Upcoming Dates
Hole House Bags with Emma Redfern - 'The Forager Bag'
Join Emma for a lovely day of beautiful Bag making!
Anyone who loves textiles and handbags will already know Emma Redfern's very popular 'Hole House' facebook page, from where she sells her wonderfully original, unique and quirky bags. With a background in art history and an interest in the Victorian Arts and Crafts movement, Emma believes that anyone can produce something beautiful and useful, given a little instruction and some inspiring fabric.
9.30/10.00am – 4.00/4.30pm
£170 inc. tasty lunch, fresh coffee & home baking
Material Charges: £25
Upcoming Dates
Hole House Bags with Emma Redfern - 'The Satchell Bag'
Join Emma for a lovely day of beautiful Bag making!
Anyone who loves textiles and handbags will already know Emma Redfern's very popular 'Hole House' facebook page, from where she sells her wonderfully original, unique and quirky bags. With a background in art history and an interest in the Victorian Arts and Crafts movement, Emma believes that anyone can produce something beautiful and useful, given a little instruction and some inspiring fabric.
9.30/10.00am – 4.00/4.30pm
£170 inc. a tasty lunch & home baking.
Material Charge : £25
Upcoming Dates
Needle Felt a Herdwick portrait with Jane Makes
Join Jane for the day and needle felt a portrait of the iconic Lakeland Herdwick
Learn how to paint with wool to create a beautiful Herdwick sheep, crafted with real wool fibres into a hessian background.
Over the duration of the day Jane will show you how to create a 2D Herdwick head using the needle felting technique. You don’t need any drawing skills, and everyone is welcome.
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9.30am – 4.30pm
£80 inc. tasty Lunch and home baking.
Material Charges - around £15
Upcoming Dates
'Needle Felted Sheep Portrait' - 'The Cheviot' with Helen Hammond (low relief)
Learn to dry Needle felt this characterful Cheviot sheep in low relief, with Helen Hammond.
Spend a lovely day being guided through how to make this very popular native Sheep breed 'The Cheviot' using the needle felting process. The piece will have a slightly sculpted low relief appearance, subtly enhancing the natural features and onece mounted, will give the appearance of almost escaping from the frame!
9.30am – 4.30pm
£78 inc. a tasty Lunch & home baking.
Material Charges: £25 with frame
Upcoming Dates
Needle Felt a Robin ~ low relief
Learn to dry Needle felt this gorgeous little festive Robin in low relief, with Helen Hammond.
Spend a lovely day with Helen & learn how to make this beautifully detailed Robin using the dry needle felting process. Your little bird will have a slightly sculpted low relief appearance, subtly enhancing the natural features of this little characterful bird.
9.30am – 4.30pm
£80 inc. a tasty Lunch & home baking.
Material Charges: £25 with frame
Upcoming Dates
Needle Felt a Blue Tit ~ low relief
Learn to dry Needle felt this colourful little Blue Tit in low relief, with Helen Hammond.
Spend a lovely day with Helen & learn how to make this beautifully detailed Blue Tit using the dry needle felting process. Your little bird will have a slightly sculpted low relief appearance, subtly enhancing the natural features of this little characterful bird.
9.30am – 4.30pm
£80 inc. a tasty Lunch & home baking.
Material Charges: £25 with frame
Upcoming Dates
Needle Felt a Wren ~ low relief
Learn to dry Needle felt this gorgeous little Wren in low relief, with Helen Hammond.
Spend a lovely day with Helen & learn how to make this beautifully detailed Wren using the dry needle felting process. Your Wren will have a slightly sculpted low relief appearance, subtly enhancing the natural features of this little characterful bird.
9.30am – 4.30pm
£78 inc. a tasty Lunch & home baking.
Material Charges: £25 with frame
Upcoming Dates
Paint, Print and Stitch with Kay Leech
Paint, print and stitch a canvas with Kay Leech
A lovely day with Kay being guided through the process of creating using paint, then print,and stitch. Working in mixed media you will create a picture based on flowers, you can bring your own image or use one of the ones provided for inspiration.
You will paint the background directly onto calico and then add layers with simple stencils and print blocks that you have created. Finally you will add stitch which can be machine and or hand embroidery and embellish with beads and buttons.
9.30am – 4.30pm
£82 Lunch included
Material Charges £15
Upcoming Dates
''Flowers in the Landscape' experimenting with free machine embroidery & stitched collage
''Flowers in the Landscape' experimenting with free machine embroidery & stitched collage
Flowers in the Landscape' in stitched collage with Kay Leech
Spend a creative day with Kay developing a fabric collage picture embellished with flowers. With Kay's expert guidance you will create a layered background and flowers using water-soluble fabric and free-motion embroidery. Your picture will be mounted on a stretched canvas frame.
Bring your sewing machine with feed dogs that can be lowered and be equipped with a free-motion embroidery foot.
9.30am – 4.30pm
£82 Lunch included
Material Charges £20
Upcoming Dates
Felt Slippers
Learn how to make your very own warm felt slippers with Marieke Tomlin
Design and create your very own bespoke, warm and funky felt slippers from 100% merino wool. These will be seamless and moulded cleverly to your feet, unique and made to fit, as plain or as fancy as you like!
9.30am – 4pm
£75 Lunch included
Material Charges £15
Upcoming Dates
from 'Sheep to Spin to Skein' ...Learn to Spin with Susan of Wild Wool Workshop
Join Susan Denham -Smith from 'Wild Wool Workshops' and learn the processes of taking a fleece raw from the sheep and transforming it into useable yarn/wool.
Join Susan Denham-Smith of 'Wild Wool Workshops' in one of the studios for a 'Hands On' day learning the techniques & processes in turning raw fleece into a useable skein of yarn (wool) using traditional Spinning Wheels and Drop Spindles!
9.30am – 4.30pm
£95 inc. tasty Lunch and home baking.
Material Charges/ tutor costs - £15