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  Day ClassesThe day classes are held in our Studio, at 4 Wheelers Yard, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, UK. Situated on the first floor, it has good natural light. Unless stated otherwise, classes will run from 10.00 to 4.00, with plenty of time for shopping in the showroom! Tea, coffee and biscuits are provided. We now have a lady call at about 10am Mon-Fri, with delicious hand-made sandwiches along with drinks, cakes, sweets and fruit. Alternatively bring your own lunch or purchase it locally in the pubs and bakers' just a minute's walk away. All materials are included in the cost of the class, except where stated. We must point out that even though the workshop is on the first floor, the loo is on the ground floor. We have a display of information about the classes, with samples and photos, on the Ground Floor of the Studio - if you are visiting do make sure you have a look. If you have any queries about the classes please email us on email caroline@rainbowsilks.co.uk For further details of these courses, refer to the Rainbow Silks website at www.rainbowsilks.co.ukRaring to Rust Marilyn Pipe 9 Mar 2013 (Sat) £40.00 Step into Spring in Silk Ribbons Marilyn Pipe 13 Mar 2013 (Wed) £40.00 Introduction to Silk Painting Jill Kennedy 16 Mar 2013 (Sat) £40.00 Felted Landscapes (2 days) Gilda Baron 25 - 26 Apr 2013 (Thu - Fri) £90.00 Digital Images on Fabric - 6 students only (2 days) Ruth Brown 2 - 3 May 2013 (Thu - Fri) £110.00 Photoshop Elements for Textiles (4 students only) (3 days) Ruth Brown 4 - 6 May 2013 (Sat - Mon) £195.00 Cyanotyping - blueprinting (2 days) Ruth Brown 8 - 9 May 2013 (Wed - Thu) £90.00 Indigo Dyeing with Simple Shibori - 6 students only Ruth Brown 10 May 2013 (Fri) £55.00 Freehand Screenprinting on Fabric - 4 students only (2 days) Ruth Brown 11 - 12 May 2013 (Sat - Sun) £130.00 Make your own Blocks for Printing on Fabric and Paper - 6 students only Ruth Brown 13 May 2013 (Mon) £55.00 Simple Hand-Made Books Ruth Brown 14 May 2013 (Tue) £45.00 Crochet for Beginners Ruth Brown 15 May 2013 (Wed) £45.00 Landscapes that Glitter and Shine (2 days) Gilda Baron 17 - 18 May 2013 (Fri - Sat) £90.00 Rainbow Silks (WOW), 6 Wheelers Yard, High Street, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, HP16 0AL, UK. Email caroline@rainbowsilks.co.uk. See our website at www.rainbowsilks.co.uk |
  TEXTILE AND EMBROIDERY WORKSHOPS AND LECTURES with SIÂN MARTIN For details please email sian@distantstitch.co.uk or visit the Distant Stitch website Siân Martin offers the following stimulating workshops to your group. There are a number of topics from which your group can select. Take a look at the suggestions below. All workshops will enable participants to explore ways in which a well-known embroidery technique can be developed and made experimental and exciting.
Most are one day workshops but can easily be extended if you would like two days or more days.
A. THE STRIKING CONTRASTS OF BLACK AND WHITE A new look at Black Work § Use bonding and transfoils § Embellish with stitching - all in glorious combinations of black and white. Each student will make small stitched squares, which will contribute, to a larger communal piece for your Guild or Group. Choose your own image maybe a local landmark or building that is special to your Branch. Left: Communal piece by South Somerset Embroiderers' Guild
B. REMOVE AND REPLACE A fresh look at Drawn Thread Work § Add colour! § Pull threads to rearrange the colour pattern to make interesting colour mixtures and a loopy surface. § Draw out threads from the weave and replace them back into the fabric in different patterns. § Withdraw threads and replace with interesting yarns, ribbons.
C. COLOURFUL WRAPPING § Learn how to 'dip-dye' silk fabric to produce multi-coloured fabrics in Siân's individual way. § Wrap, twist and bind around shapes to create richly decorated surfaces. Create embroidered wrapped embellishments that could form gorgeous jewellery forms, interior decoration trimmings or small sculptural shapes.
D. DRAMATIC RELIEF SURFACES IN FABRIC Discover the exciting technique of SHIBORI § Create dramatic and permanent relief shapes in fabric using the simple Japanese method of steaming setting. § Tie and bind the fabric into different formations before being steamed for 10 minutes to set the shapes. The ties and stitches are then removed to reveal the exciting results. Left: Shell shapes in satin
F. PRINTING THE STITCH § Print your stitch and stitch your print! § Make your bold stitch into a printing block and decorate a surface with stitch-like patterns. § Add real stitches to complete a richly embroidered surface. § Make your textile mark in an unconventional way for embroiderers or quilters. Left: 'Stitch' printing blocks
G. ASSEMBLAGE
§ Create a flowing textile from your stack of old greetings cards, photos and postcards or tiny fragments of abandoned stitched samples and discarded fabrics and even drawings and papers § Your sewing machine will link these into a mosaic curtain to celebrate the contents of the fragments perhaps. |
 Weekend Craft Breaks in the Cotswolds
Tuesday 2 April
Weave a Small Round Fruit Basket for your Table with Norah Kennedy Spend an enjoyable day weaving your own small, round fruit basket for the table. Norah, your tutor, comes from a farming background and she will teach you how to make baskets that are 'right in themselves and good for use'. By the end of the day you will have an attractive basket to take away. There will be a charge of £10 on the day for materials. Single: £80.00 Fri 5 April - Sun 7 April All Squared Up for Fabric Manipluation with Jennie Rayment This is an excellent class for all fabric manipulators or 'wannabees' - no experience needed - just a desire to tweak and twitch fabric a little. Make a 15 in. square panel - add borders for an excellent hanging/bag or large cushion. Use these designs for quilt blocks, garments, home décor or wherever, once you have discovered how simple they are to create. Fold and roll for fabric fun - this is sewing for pleasure! We'll be working with six unique and innovative designs created by manipulating squares in ingenious forms from Origami-type folds and finding other novel ways to conjure surface texture in material. Single: £280.00 Shared: £260.00 Non Res: £181.00 Saturday 4 May Craft and Textile Day: Medieval Impressions with Wendy Cotterill Lutradur is a spun-bonded polyester fabric which, when heated with a heat gun, dissolves rather than melts into the most beautiful cobweb effect. When used in conjunction with a wet medium, such as acrylic paint or a three-dimensional medium as a mask, Lutradur dissolves around the medium, but not into it. On this day course, we will use a simple book project to explore effective print techniques with this interesting fabric. We will revisit transfer dye methods and build up a very textural surface using a variety of mediums and colours. DS: £75.00 Saturday 11 May Saturday 20 July Willow Sculpture - create a 'masterpiece' to take away! with Charlie Lupton Have 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 it away with you. Most students are absolute beginners in this technique, so it is suitable for all (age seven and up) and students are always delighted with what they create. DS: £80.00 Sunday 19 May Sewing Machine - How to use Yours or Ours with Sue Hazell On the one day workshop, you will see how you like sewing by using your own machine or one of ours, with assistance, through demonstration and 'hands on'. The day will teach you what can be achieved with the push of the pedal and controls; how to adjust tensions, select stitches and maintain a machine. You will have the opportunity to make a small cushion to take home. Please say if you'd like to hire a machine. DS: £85.00 Fri 7 June - Sun 9 June Large Wholecloths - Small Machines with Ferret 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 or throw over the sofa? This is the class for you. We will discuss designing your quilt and breaking it up in to easily-managed sections. You will learn how you can use the built-in stitches on your machine in your quilting and, if you want to try it, freehand machine quilting. Single: £290.00 Shared: £270.00 Non Res: £191.00 Fri 28 June - Sun 30 June Textured Land and Seascapes with Jennie Rayment Create 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 with or without a walking foot. It is creative play for all - twiddle and fiddle your way through a wide range of amazingly manoeuvred machinations. No artistic ability required - it can't go wrong and if the result is not as intended, the effect will just be a little different! Single: £280.00 Shared: £260.00 Non Res: £181.00 Fri 12 July - Sun 14 July Experimenting with Embroidery & Mixed Media with Rosalind Davis There 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 different yarns and threads, using both hand and machine embroidery, to build up dynamic and exciting surfaces. Using thread, painting, pens, experimental drawing, collage, print and paint, you will create a series of experimental samples which demonstrate new techniques and will become a record to inspire you in the future. All techniques taught can be continued at home with minimal equipment, so this could be the start of an exciting journey into creating or developing your own art works. There are no entry requirements, only an interest and a desire to develop your skills. Single: £295.00 Shared: £275.00 Non Res: £196.00 Fri 19 July - Sun 21 July The Art of Pyrography with Bob Neill Pyrography 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 quite simple - similar to drawing or sketching with an pen or pencil. On this weekend, you will start with the simple decoration of small plaques, key rings, small spoons and coasters, then move onto larger and more ambitious pieces (bread boards, large plaques for picture making) use of transfers and various decorative techniques. There will be an extra charge for materials of between £15 and £20. Single: £290.00 Shared: £270.00 Non Res: £191.00 Fri 27 September - Sun 29 September Art Quilts again - Impressionism with Ferret Another 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 supplied a pattern to get you started right away. You will learn how a computer programme can help you produce a pattern, and how stitching holds your pieces together, quilts your quilt and adds detail all at the same time. You don't need any artistic skills, just a desire for a fun weekend of quilt making. If you have been to one of Ferret's other art quilt classes and would like to bring along a project you've started, please feel free to do so. Single: £290.00 Shared: £270.00 Non Res: £191.00 Sunday 6 October Baby Bits to Sew with Sue Hazell Learn on this one-day course how to make lovely things for little ones. Maybe a bib, nappy bag, hooded towel, hat, rompers or other small items - join in the delights of creating something unique to you. Each item can be personalised on our Embroidery Machine. You will be helped with your pattern - Simplicity or New Look are recommended. See what can be made with the cut of the scissors & sewn with a sewing machine. You need to know how to sew a straight line on a sewing machine and an equipment list will be provided. DS: £85.00 Fri 11 October - Sun 13 October Tucked Up and Embellished Circles with Jennie Rayment Experiment 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 and binding, or some decorative stitching. Mount the panel onto wadding and backing then complete with a little machine quilting - free or otherwise. Single: £280.00 Shared: £260.00 Non Res: £181.00 Fri 25 October - Sun 27 October Drawing with the Sewing Machine Needle with Richard Box This 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 follow a design which your tutor, has prepared for you. Richard will take you through each stage step-by-step and give you confidence to empower you to stitch your own picture with coloured threads in unusually creative ways. Single: £295.00 Shared: £275.00 Non Res: £196.00 Sunday 10 November Festive Willow Decorations with Norah Kennedy Decorate 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. There will be a charge of £20 on the day for materials. DS: £75.00 Fri 22 November - Sun 24 November Fabulous Fabric Fusion with Wendy Cotterill Create 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 as Evolon and Zeelon and some revolutionary new methods. These will include creating texture using a craft soldering iron and complex effects created through colouring techniques and use of coloured organzas. You will also learn a simple bookbinding technique which will allow you to complete your project. Single: £285.00 Shared: £265.00 Non Res: £186.00
Farncombe Estate Centre, Farncombe Estate, Broadway, Worcestershire, WR12 7LJ, UK, Direct Tel. 01386 854100 email enquiries@farncombecourses.co.uk Short weekend courses at an award-winning venue: www.farncombecourses.co.uk. |
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