Courses

Come and learn this lovely method of creating a design which can be used as a hanging, cushion, needlecase, glasses case, bag and many more items, using beautiful wool and felt fabrics and simple embroidery stitches.

Stitch a Month Part 1 is a half-day course once a month where you can enjoy a few hours of hand-stitching. We will explore a different embroidery stitch each month, working towards making your own fabric book of stitch samples. This course is suitable for beginners and those with more experience looking for inspiration.

Crafternoon Tea is a session where you can bring something you’re working on and stitch/knit/chat/drink tea and eat cake with a group of like-minded people!

Create a decorative wreath to hang in your home. Using fabrics in springtime colours this is a fun session and simpler than you think ! You should also have time to make a felt decoration to hang in the centre of your wreath, and can take the pattern home too.

A guest tutor, Sarah Dickinson, will teach you have to learn this technique. You can choose from a bowl and a coaster or a set of four coasters, to be collected the following week after firing.

Stitch a Month Part 2 is aimed at those who have completed part 1. This focusses on different stitch techniques, working a collection of samples which will be combined to create a textile collage.

Using the beautiful prints by Angie Lewin as your inspiration you will be able to create a textile piece for your wall. This course covers applique with stunning silk fabrics plus embellishment with a lovely selection of embroidery threads and beads.

Crafternoon Tea is a session where you can bring something you’re working on and stitch/knit/chat/drink tea and eat cake with a group of like-minded people!

Make your own needlecase and pincushion, or to give as gifts. Choose from several designs to work simple felt applique and embellish with embroidery.

Learn all about the basic printing techniques. Design and create your own printing block, print onto paper and fabric using water based printing inks. Print your own cards, or prints to frame.

Stitch a Month Part 1 is a half-day course once a month where you can enjoy a few hours of hand-stitching. We will explore a different embroidery stitch each month, working towards making your own fabric book of stitch samples. This course is suitable for beginners and those with more experience looking for inspiration.

Guest tutor Pat Akerman will teach you this lovely technique. Wool and needles provided, packs also available to buy.

Crafternoon Tea is a session where you can bring something you’re working on and stitch/knit/chat/drink tea and eat cake with a group of like-minded people!

Choose from our selection of fabric to make your own unique bag. Easy sewing machine skills.

Make a lovely bear using fabrics with a special meaning. People have previously made these using outgrown baby clothes, or clothes from someone who has passed on. A lovely memento. Basic sewing machine skills needed.

Stitch a Month Part 2 is aimed at those who have completed part 1. This focusses on different stitch techniques, working a collection of samples which will be combined to create a textile collage.

A lovely technique, my favourite! This course is suitable both for beginners and those with more experience. I will teach you the methods used in Goldwork embroidery while you create a picture you can frame.

The Crafternoon Tea session is not running on this date.

Another favourite! This simple foundation piecing technique can be done by hand or machine. Using our large selection of fabrics – silk, brocade and velvet, or cotton prints and checks, make a pieced panel which is then embellished with stitch, buttons, beads and charms.

Stitch a Month Part 1 is a half-day course once a month where you can enjoy a few hours of hand-stitching. We will explore a different embroidery stitch each month, working towards making your own fabric book of stitch samples. This course is suitable for beginners and those with more experience looking for inspiration.

Pat Akerman will teach you how to make this lovely needle felted hare. Wool and needles included, wool also available to buy.

A lovely hand-stitched technique – learn to make these traditional gathered circles of fabric and use them to make a brooch or decorate a bag, or both! Another technique where you can recycle fabrics.

Design and create your own lino-print block. Print on fabric and use this to make textile pieces such as decorative hanging decorations, or to make into cushions or bags.

Crafternoon Tea is a session where you can bring something you’re working on and stitch/knit/chat/drink tea and eat cake with a group of like-minded people!

Another version of rag rugging using long strips of fabric pulled through a hessian base. Start a cushion panel, hanging or small rug. Use one of our designs or bring your own ideas. Great for recycling lots of different fabrics, and very addictive !

This is the technique of mending and patching fabrics with the addition of running stitch. Originally used by Japanese peasants and farmers it extended the life of their clothing. It is now having a resurgence as an enjoyable and creative way to use fabric scraps, whilst the hand-stitching element is very relaxing and meditative.

Stitch a Month Part 2 is aimed at those who have completed part 1. This focusses on different stitch techniques, working a collection of samples which will be combined to create a textile collage.

This is always a popular course. Use scraps of printed cotton fabrics to make ‘mini-quilts’ which are then combined and embellished to make items such as book covers, phone cases and bags.

Crafternoon Tea is a session where you can bring something you’re working on and stitch/knit/chat/drink tea and eat cake with a group of like-minded people!

Choose from our lovely selection of fabrics to make one of these items. Easy machining skills, we will teach you how to put a zip in and how to line your bag.

Fine embroidery work using sheer fabrics, silk and beads. You will learn the skills to make your own beautiful dragonfly, and how to complete it at home.

Stitch a Month Part 1 is a half-day course once a month where you can enjoy a few hours of hand-stitching. We will explore a different embroidery stitch each month, working towards making your own fabric book of stitch samples. This course is suitable for beginners and those with more experience looking for inspiration.

Pat Akerman will teach you how to make a mini version of your own dog in needle felting!