Make a lovely sitting brown Hare of approx 50cm high with the ears . You can decide on your own pose, either alert with either with ears up or wistfully  "moongazing" with ears back. We will be using natural brown wools and all materials and tools are provided.

9.30am – 5.30pm
£75 incl lovely 2 course Aga Lunch and home baking
Material Charges £45

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Create your own unique and characterful heavy Herdwick doorstop (around 3.5kg) - although mostly those made with Annis are placed to be admired on tables and shelves!

9.30am – 5pm
£75 incl lovely 2 course Aga Lunch and home baking
Material Charges £30

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Needlefelt a pair of similar size pair of owls using a variety of wools adding texture and interest with locks and natural fleece . All tools and material are provided and both owls are weighted, each one is around 6 inches high.

9.30am – 4.30pm
£75 inc. a tasty 2 course Aga lunch & home baking
Material Charges £14

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Spend a relaxing day creating this irresistible little character under the guidance of Annis.  Each bunny is approx 22.5m long and will bring a smile to everyone's face, He can be made with light natural browns and greys.   

9.30am – 4.30pm
£75 inc. a tasty 2 course Aga lunch & home baking
Material Charges £20

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Perfect for beginners as well as those with some experience, discover the joys of working with various wool fibres and wam soapy water to create your own unique piece of wetted felt ....Marieke will show various techniques and how to incorprate special stitches and definitions to highlight certain areas of your piece.

9.30am – 4.00pm
£68 inc. a tasty 2 course Aga Lunch & home baking.
Material Charges: around £6-£10

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Marian will bring a variety of coloured merino wools, dyed silks, threads and other fibres used to create a richly textured wool picture. You will learn how to lay out the fibres, blend colours, create shapes and then use the wet felting technique which involves warm soapy water, and some rockin’ and rollin’.

9.30am – 4pm
£75 inc. a tasty 2 course Aga lunch & home baking.
Material Charge : approx £15

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In this workshop you will be able to make a handbag-sized bag using merino wool roving and sections of sari silk for embellishment. This technique is known as Nuno felting. You will be working with a foam form as a resist, either cut to your own shape or you can use one that is provided on the day. You will then learn how to build up several layers of wool around this form to create a bag that is created seamlessly in one piece and needs no stitching.

9.30am – 4.30pm
£75 inc. a tasty 2 course Aga lunch & home baking.
Material Charge : approx £20

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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
£68 Lunch included
Material Charges £12

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Over the day you will learn how to make your own Felt from scratch in the shape of holly leaves or another festive outline. Marieke will show you how best to use the wool fibres she provides, and you can select from a vast colour range, along with many inclusions of wools, fibres, silks and other special threads to create substantial felt leaves to fit in your own festive colour palette.

10am – 4pm
£68 inc. a tasty 2 course Aga lunch & home baking. 
Material Charge : approx £12

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Spend a fascinating day with Deborah Dawn learning how to create beautiful prints using leaves and seeds on fabric/ paper & print a silk scarf.  Botanical contact printing uses nothing other than leaves, fabric or paper and heat. The heat encourages the tannins in the leaves to print on to the chosen substrate. The serendipitous nature of the technique never fails to amaze. This course is suitable for all abilities,

10.00am to 3.00pm
£78 Lunch included
Material Charges £25

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This workshop will give you the basic skills needed for leather work and at the same time you will make yourself a lovely bag using pre cut leather panels carefully prepared by Ruth. There will also be an option to dye the panels various colours using stains provided by Ruth.

9.30am – 5pm
£85 inc. a tasty Aga Lunch & home baking
Material Charges : approx £25

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Freehand machine embroidery is among the favourite of techniques in the crafting world, it's easy, quick, effective and produces a great range of results. Your day with Sarah will teach you all the basic skills you need to use freehand machining on a variety of projects.

10am – 4pm
£68 Lunch included
Material Charges: up to £5

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A course to flatter your figure:
 
Late June : Create your own unique trouser pattern


A one day course to create a very basic trouser pattern to suit your own personal figure. .

10.00am – 4.00pm
£75 Lunch included
Material Charges £0 

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Spend an exciting day with Margaret creating a design and painting this onto pure silk, using steam-fix dyes and hot wax.

Silk is a protein, like all the animal-based yarns such as cashmere, angora, mohair and wool and Silk painting is hundreds of years old (like felt-making) and has been practised extensively in Europe as well as Asia. 

9.30am to 4.00pm
£82 Lunch included
Material Charges:   £12 

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 A lovely day with Kay being guided through the process pf 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
£75 Lunch included
Material Charges £15

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Spend a morning or afternoon with Sonja which either starts or ends with a quick light lunch. The course includes the basic 30cm lampshade kit. Bring your favourite fabric or choose on the day from Sonja's lovely selection for a few £'s more. Please pre- order other shade sizes.

Morning session 10am to 12.30pm...... Afternoon session 12.30pm –3pm
£35 a quick light lunch included

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Sonja will bring the large kit for a  50cm x 30cm drum lampshade and we will spread out in the new barn workshop space and set about creating a lovely large shade under her careful guidance, she will also bring a selection of pom poms and other trimmings for you to add at the bottom of your shade at the end of the session.

Morning session 09.15am - 12.45pm  inc light lunch at end  12.15 -45
Afternoon 12.45pm – 4.45pm inc light lunch at start 12.45 -1.15
£38 inc a quick light lunch included, £10 on day for the kit

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Heather teaches both Hookie and Proddie methods in her rug making classes. Include lovely flowers in your rug design - suitable for wall hangings or cushion covers as well as floor rugs.  Heather brings along many of er own rugs as inspiration, aswell as lovely ideas and fabric.

9.30am – 4.00pm
£75 inc. lovely 2 course Aga Lunch and home baking.
Material Charges - only if you wish to purchase equipment at the end of the day.

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