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March 2020
Textile Landscape Pattern and Print workshop – Day 1
In this new and exciting class, you can paint, print and stencil your own materials to create a very personal textile collage with tutor Morag Gray to guide you. Gather your inspiration and use a variety of mixed-media techniques to build up colour and pattern to make a meaningful artwork.
Find out more »Creative Textiles Group – 4-day class
Textile designer Morag Gray encourages you to explore your creative potential and learn exciting textile techniques to transform your stitching into artwork. Awaken your creativity and surprise yourself with what you can do with leftover materials.
Find out more »Charm Pack bag
Make a “charming” bag using a charm pack (a small package of fabrics measuring about 5 x 5 inches), wadding, lining and webbing for handles. Your beautiful bag will have a quilted exterior and will be fully lined, with comfortable secure handles and no unfinished internal seams. This simple but effective pattern will help to hone your skills in accurate piecing, precision quilting and accuracy of final assembly.
Find out more »Make your own Trousers!
Learn how to get the fit right on tricky trousers! Bring along your own chosen pattern, a prepared toile and your final fabrics, pockets, linings, zips etc and learn how to transfer fitting adjustments from your pattern and get the fit right before embarking on the final garment.
Find out more »Shadow Appliqué workshop
In this new and fascinating class, you'll use fabric strips of solid colour, black fabric and "improv" strip piecing with appliqué detail to create a small quilted landscape. The finished result would be ideal for a number of purposes such as a wall hanging, a table mat of the front of a bag. You'll learn with experienced tutor Diane Smyth.
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