Crafts and Textiles Courses
Cotswolds crafts and textiles courses for all skill levels
Always popular, our crafts and textiles courses cover a range of skills, from basic sewing to art quilts, Chinese brush painting to working with willow. If you love making beautiful things out of fabric, scraps and natural materials, click below.
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Would you like to make a wholecloth quilt for your bed by machine but are worried about quilting something that size on a small sewing machine? Perhaps you just fancy making a wholecloth quilt to hang on the wall …
More InfoThis is a one-day introduction to the art of Patchwork and Quilting and you needn’t buy expensive equipment for it. You learn how to select suitable fabrics, cut out with accuracy, test your design, assemble accurately, apply quilting fabric, quilt …
More InfoThis is a one-day introduction to the art of Patchwork and Quilting and you needn’t buy expensive equipment for it. You learn how to select suitable fabrics, cut out with accuracy, test your design, assemble accurately, apply quilting fabric, quilt …
More InfoThe essence of Chinese Brush painting is simplicity and spontaneity. This is achieved using subtle colours to suggest rather than represent the likeness of an object. You will learn basic brush painting, supplemented with PowerPoint presentations on Chinese culture …
More InfoCreate a unique, 3D, textured, embroidered and embellished landscape. Discover the manipulative marvels of scrunching, ruching, tucking, folding, inserting and pleating for a dynamically tactile design. Add decorative embroidery from free motion to set machine patterns, learn machine quilting either …
More InfoThere will be no traditional samplers on this course! We shall be taking traditional embroidery and exploring how to make it uniquely yours to help you create and develop your own individual artworks. We shall experiment with a variety of …
More InfoHave you ever dreamt of kindling your creative talents and creating a sculpture? With this highly interactive workshop, you will learn simple techniques to work with withies (basket-making willow rods), sculpt any model with them you choose and take …
More InfoPyrography is the ancient and unusual art also known as “fire writing”. It’s an effect produced by burning the surface of wood to various depths of brown to create a design or picture. Anyone can do pyrography, the technique is …
More InfoAnother chance to make art quilts. This time we will be focusing on a technique to give an impressionist look to our quilts. Ferret will show you how to prepare a pattern from your own photographs, but you will be …
More InfoThis 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 …
More InfoHave you ever wanted to know how to make ‘Basic Baby Bits’? We can show you how to make a Bib, Hooded Towel or Hat, all of which can be personalised on our Embroidery Machine. Make a special item for …
More InfoExperiment with these delectable, textural and tactile circular designs. Tuck, twist and twiddle the pleats for a stunning square or circular wall- hanging, cushion or quilt centre. Embellish the tucked edges with stitch or yarn, Add an interesting textured edging …
More InfoThis course is for all of you who love your sewing machine and want to draw pictures with it. Start the course by thinking that the needle is your pen and the thread is your ink and start scribbling! Then …
More InfoDecorate your home this year with your own beautiful willow creations. we will start with a wreath then go on to weave hearts, stars, wands, mince pie platters, spheres and perhaps an angel. All tools are supplied by the tutor. …
More InfoCreate texture without stitching! Cut fabric without using scissors!. With the popularisation of synthetic fabrics, a whole new world has opened up to traditional textiles practitioners. In this weekend workshop we will be creating a simple book using fabrics such …
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Sun 30 June 2013 Mini Cakes: The Flower Collection
Mini Cakes are a delightful alternative to the cupcake and they feature highly on the list of alternative offering for wedding and celebration cakes. In this class, you will learn a vast amount of cake decorating skills that will also …
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Sat 9 November 2013 How to Read a Painting
There is a saying: ‘Every picture tells a story’. Do you sometimes get the feeling, as you walk around an Art Gallery, that you are missing the plot? Paintings can be full of information in the form of …
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