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Prices (per person) Day School: £85

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Day School: 3-course lunch and afternoon tea

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By Phone: Call 0333 456 8580 (please leave a message out of normal office hours and we will phone you back.)

By Post: Please send your booking form and payment to: FAO Mandy Morrison, Farncombe Estate, Broadway Worcestershire, WR12 7LJ

Payment: Places are only confirmed on receipt of payment or deposit. Payments can be made securely via our website, by card over the phone or by sending us a cheque made payable to 'Farncombe Courses'

Patchwork & Quilting – An Introduction for Absolute Beginners

Start: 17th March 2013 at 9:30am
End: 17th March 2013 at 4:30pm
Tutor: Sue Hazell

This day is an introduction to the art of Patchwork & Quilting without have to buy lots of expensive equipment first. You can learn on this one day course, how to select suitable fabrics, cut out with accuracy, test your design first, assemble with accuracy, apply quilting fabric, quilt the easy way, add backing to your desired item.  Then take home a small item to treasure or give to a loved one!

***SORRY, THIS COURSE IS NOW FULLY BOOKED.  PLEASE CALL 0333 456 8580 IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO GO ON THE WAITING LIST***

Tutor Profile: Sue Hazell

Sue Hazell

Sewing and Textiles Tutor

Sue holds the National Teaching Certificate & lectures nation-wide, training interior designers’ staff & those wishing to furnish their homes or start a business.

Students have travelled from as far as Victoria BC Canada, Florida, Eire, France, Spain, Finland, Belgium, New Delhi, NSW Australia, New Zealand to Edinburgh.

Sue contributes ‘How to Make’ articles for various sewing magazines. The BBC Good Homes Show brought audiences of 200 plus to see Sue demonstrate her skills in 11 sessions over a period of 5 days.  She showed how to have ‘High Style Window Dressings at Low Cost’.

She runs her own Soft Furnishing Business, being a specialist in Arch Window Treatments and Loose Covers. Her approach is the easier way to make soft furnishings from low cost fabrics with emphasis on style, taking the ‘mystery’ out of working with fabrics, and also knowing how “Adults learn best”.

“I enjoyed Sue’s course so much. It was a wonderful day with great company and professional, fun tuition and I have great plans for future projects – all thanks to you. Good luck in everything you do in the future and I hope we shall meet again.”

Other Courses for Sue Hazell

SATURDAY8 Jun Title: Patchwork & Quilting – An Introduction for Absolute Beginners Tutor: Sue Hazell More Info  
SUNDAY6 Oct Title: Baby Bits to Sew Tutor: Sue Hazell More Info  
SUNDAY9 Jun Title: Patchwork & Quilting – An Introduction for Absolute Beginners Tutor: Sue Hazell More Info  
SUNDAY19 May Title: Sewing Machine – How to use Yours or Ours Tutor: Sue Hazell More Info  
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