There is nothing quite like the pride and joy that comes from making your own clothes!  This course with Jane, held over 5 Monday mornings, will help you experience just that. 

 This course will provide the skills and confidence to begin making your own clothes.  There will be demonstrations, sample making, times for one to one help and of course lots of sewing!

Autumn Series 2022 starts Monday 17th October

9.45am – 12.45pm
£140 (£15 deposit)  incl coffee/ tea
Material Charges n/a

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You will learn the little known craft of Locker Hooking to create a stunning place mat  (approx 10inch x 10inch) with Herdwick sheep design and, fittingly, using Herdwick wool from the oldest flocks in the country. The method is similar to that used to make traditional hooked rugs, but with a specially designed, crochet hook-style needle, threaded with linen to fix the design in place.

9.30am – 4.30pm
£75 inc. tasty Lunch and home baking.
Material Charges - £25 with the hook, and £20 without.

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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
£75 inc. a tasty Lunch & home baking.
Material Charges: £25 with frame

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 An exciting new workshop with the very talented Annis McGowan,  making this wonderful large Needle Felted Fox sitting some 16 inches high and looking forward to acting as sentry in your entrance hall!

Made entirely from natural and blended carded wool, of whites, glorious russets and reds,  plus some Swaledale for added texture, to create a fine, plumped-up chest and an extra bushy tail, Freddie can grace a very special corner of your home.  Annis' instruction and many resources will help you bring this lovely character to life.

9.30am – 5.00pm
£85 incl tasty Lunch and home baking
Material Charges £35

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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
£85 incl tasty 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
£85 incl tasty Lunch and home baking
Material Charges £30

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Needle Felt a Pet PortraitOver 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
£75 inc. a tasty Lunch & home baking.
Material Charges: around £15

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Marian will bring a variety of coloured merino wools, dyed silks, many coloured threads and other fibres used to create a richly textured wool picture. You will learn how to lay out the fibres, blend colours and shapes using wet felting technique. Once the piece is complete Marian will teach the many and various hand stitches she uses in embellishing her work.

9.30am – 4pm
£78 inc. lunch & home baking.
Material Charge : £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
£85 inc. a tasty 2 course Aga lunch & home baking.
Material Charge : approx £20

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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
£75 inc. a tasty lunch & home baking.
Material Charge : Varies- see individual Bag details

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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
£75 Lunch included
Material Charges £15

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A fascinating day with Marian learning how to create your own Botanical contact prints with real leaves on fabric and paper, printing your own unique silk scarf and paper prints.

Join Marian for a day of botanical discovery and create a beautiful printed silk scarf using fresh leaves, flowers and natural dyes. You will learn all about the printing process involved,  how to prepare fabrics for dyeing with vegetables and flowers and how to choose the leaves that will give good prints.  And you will prepare some paper prints which you can finish at home.

10.00am to 3.30pm
£85 Lunch included
Material Charges £20

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Three course types to flatter your own personal figure:

Days courses on
1.  The Tunic Block - to make your dresses and shirts fit properly
2. The Trouser pattern -  for great fitting trousers
3.  Adaptations to the Tunic block for creating great sleeves and collars.

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

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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
£75 Lunch included
Material Charges: up to £5

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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 lunch & home baking
Material Charges : approx £25

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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 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
£75 Lunch included
Material Charges:   £12 

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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 25cm 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 1.00pm ..... Afternoon session 1.00pm –3.45/4.00pm
£38 a quick light lunch included

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