CRAFT/EMBROIDERY CLASSES with Lesley Irving

Each day school begins at 10.00am with a welcoming cup of coffee and ends around 4.00pm.
The cost of each day school is £35.00. Pease bring your own lunch.

We reserve the right to cancel any day that does not attract four or more students.
lesleyirving22@gmail.com Tel: 01761 241539

 

Christmas Decorations

Enjoy a day of sewing decorations for Christmas. The date of this course leaves you plenty of time to make a lot in time for the festival season.

Blooming Beautiful

Exceptionally pretty stitched flowers in a variety of shapes that make lovely lasting arrangements. I still have mine from 2011.   ​​​​

Make a Japanese Rice Bag

These handy bags are a joy to make and can easily be completed in a day. Excellent for last minute Christmas presents or indeed ‘wrapping’ items. That are awkward shapes!

Medieval Tiles

I ran this course last year and it was so enjoyable that I have been persuaded to put it on again. Using traditional heraldic images we will make a set of three tiles which can be mounted together or separately.

Metal Sculpture

Start saving your tomato paste tubes now. This flower can be made in a day from eight of them, or you can purchase especially produced shim.. Either way this is great fun and your finished piece can be used indoors or out.

Circular Boxes

Delightful boxes with flush fitting lids that make really special presents if you can bear to give them away.

A touch of Eastern Promise

This is course for machine embroiderers who have a little experience. The joy of this project is the scope there is for embellishment; you can really go over the top and it will look fabulous. There are two basic outlines to choose from both taken from Indian architecture. Having created your base you will be

Create Your Own Icon

These much revered panels are things of beauty in their own right as well as being devotional objects. We will use a variety of techniques to simulate ‘age'. You can invent your own or use one of many internet images as a starting point.

Lovely Lino Cutting

This is really good way to begin printmaking. Forget your schooldays experiences — the modern craft lino allows accuracy without pressure. Create a simple design and print on cloth or paper (make your own greeting cards) all in one day.

Wiggly-Woggly Cushions

Using multi - coloured fabrics cut with wavy lines, woven and stitched with the automatic patterns on the sewing machine, no two turn out alike. You will create a unique cushion cover in a day. Everyone who makes one always wants to do another.

Dye, Hard

Most years we end the season with a dying day, keeping fingers crossed for good weather. This year is no different, I’ve just changed the name! A chance for you to replenish your stock of hand dyed fabric (with instruction if needed) for the sewing year ahead.