NEEDLE FELTED AMIGUWOOLLI PENGUIN with Steffi Stern, The Makerss – Thursday 31st October 2024 10.00am

90 minute workshop – cost £25.00

Learn how to needle felt this miniature super cute Penguin on his sparkling icy base using just natural and fast felting wool and felting needles.

Steffi Stern, will teach you techniques and tricks on how to make basic shapes, join them together, attach other shapes to the surface. Steffi’s style is supportive, encouraging and fun filled.

Take your little penguin home together with any left over wool, The Makerss Eco Wool Felting Mat, felting needles and full colour step-by-step instructions.

A complete boxed needle felting kit is included in this workshop.

The finished size is about 8cm tall.

Advisory Note:

Suitable for total beginners, children 14+ with parental supervision.

Meet the Tutor

Steffi Stern

German born Steffi Stern is a craft enthusiast and has been crafting for as long as she can remember. In 2010 Steffi turned her passion into her profession when she opened her first craft shop in Gloucestershire.

Fast forward to today and she now runs the successful craft business The Makerss. She has written four books on needle felting and doll making. Steffi loves combining her business experience with her passion of crafting and helping others to realise their creativity. Steffi’s teaching style is supportive, encouraging and fun filled.

FESTIVE FLORA AND FOLIAGE INSPRED FREE-MOTION EMBROIDERED DOODLE with Ruth Parkinson-Johns – Thursday 31st October 2024 09.45am

2-hour workshop – cost £36.00

Enjoy the rhythm of free-motion embroidery in this fabulous workshop to create a festive flora and foliage inspired stitched doodle.

Ruth will guide you through your design, offering inspiration and tips on building up your composition and working with free-motion embroidery.

After stitching, enhance your pattern with colour, by layering Inktense pencils onto your design. Finish off by blending the colours together, with a paintbrush and a gel medium.

All materials and equipment provided.

Advisory Note:

Suitable for over 16’s only.

No previous machine embroidery experience is necessary, although some knowledge of using a sewing machine would be useful.

Meet the Tutor

Ruth Parkinson-Johns

Ruth works from her garden studio on the edge of the Cotswolds, creating unique textiles with dyed, painted or printed cloth. These creations are further enhanced with free-motion stitching and hand embroidery. Ruth finds her inspiration in the landscape, flowers, the ever-changing weather and beautiful ocean.

She endeavours to capture the essence of her inspiration, working intuitively from observation, memory and imagination.

In addition to working as an artist, she also is a dedicated educator. Teaching both recreational, accredited (City & Guilds) courses, demonstrating at various events and providing tailored workshops for Art and Textile groups.

POPPY PETALS with Anita O’Neill, Eau Brink Studio – Thursday 31st October 2024 14.15pm

90-minute workshop – cost £25.00

Join Anita for this ‘Poppy Petals’ workshop and discover the art of poppy-inspired machine embroidery.

Learn to transfer your designs onto fabric and prepare them for free motion embroidery.

Guided by Anita you’ll create stunning 3D elements using organza fabrics and master free-motion machine stitching techniques.

Advisory Note:

Perfect for both seasoned embroiderers and beginners, over the age of 16.

Meet the Tutor

Anita O’Neill

Anita is a textile artist and tutor based in West Norfolk, specializing in mixed media textile art and free motion embroidery. Anita loves sharing her passion through teaching and exhibiting at UK textile events and in her local county of Norfolk.

SEASCAPE DEEP PINK SUNRISE COLLAGE with Yvonne Pratt – Thursday 31st October 2024 12.15pm

90-minute workshop – cost £25.00

Learn how to machine embroider a seascape deep pink sunrise collage.

Yvonne will share her tips and techniques on how to create your very own fabric art collage. Learn how to create your piece using, ready hand painted base to work on, hand dyed fabrics, hand printed fabrics, voile netting fabric, ribbon and simplistic embroidery stitches and lastly adding embellishments to pull the scenic fabric collage together.

During workshop you will learn how to build your collage with prepared fabrics and then using the sewing machine learn to machine embroider your fabrics and wildflower design onto a prepared hand painted base.

The kit for the workshop provided includes handbook with full instructions to create your wildflower fabric collage, hand painted base, fabrics, threads, ribbon, handmade buttons, needles and thimble.

Advisory Note:

This workshop is great for beginners or intermediate level sewers over the age of 16.

Meet the Tutor

Yvonne Pratt

Yvonne is a contemporary textile artist based in Norfolk, England. Having always been a creative person with a love for drawing and using texture to create art, it was not until later in life through taking on a BA(Hon) degree in Textiles Design and then, a Masters in contemporary craft practice that textiles became a passion.

Having had the privileged of working within education most of her adult life this has allowed Yvonne’s skills to be transferred to working as a freelance workshop teacher turning her hand to both hand and free-motion embroidery.

Yvonne is a truly passionate and highly motivated maker who loves to pass, on her knowledge and skills in hand crafted textiles

SEW A BOXED ZIPPY POUCH with Mark Francis – Thursday 31st October 2024 09.45am

90-minute workshop – cost £25.00

Join Mark Francis, a contestant from the Great British Sewing Bee, to make a really useful zipped pouch, perfect for make up, toiletries and gifting at Christmas. This pouch is fully lined, with zip tabs and boxed out corners finished with bias binding.

Advisory Note:

Not suitable to children under 16 years. Experience with using a sewing machine preferable.

Meet the Tutor

Mark Francis

Mark’s practical sewing experiences began quite late in life, but his relationship with sewing began when he was a small child. However, needlework was not something that little boys were encouraged to do in the 1980’s.

Many years passed until he found the confidence to finally learn to use a sewing machine, and he discovered his passion for making clothes and costumes. Then, a few years ago, Mark’s husband entered him for series 6 of the Great British Sewing (2020) and life has never been the same since!

Mark now works across the sewing industry, teaching, presenting talks and developing his growing range of sewing patterns.

QUILTED PRESENT POUCH with Katharine Wright, Leicestershire Craft Centre – Thursday 31st October 2024 11.45am

90-minute workshop – cost £25.00

Learn to quilt and make a cute origami-style pouch perfect for putting little gifts and sweets in, or used as a decoration.

You will decorate and quilt some fabric; add a lining and ribbon tie and then with some clever manipulation turn our flat fabric into a 3D Christmas tree style shape.

Advisory Note:

Suitable for over 16s and confidant beginners upward.

Meet the Tutor

Katharine Wright, Leicestershire Craft Centre

Owner of Leicestershire Craft Centre, Katharine has been crafting all her life. Her particular passions are dressmaking, patchwork and embroidery and passing her knowledge onto new sewists. She loves to try her hand at any other crafts though and enjoys glass fusion, silversmithing, knitting and crochet.

Katharine teaches at a variety of national Craft Events and appears as a Guest Demonstrator on Sewing Street TV. She also has her own range of sewing and dressmaking patterns called Top Stitch Makes.

CATHEDRAL WINDOW TOTE BAG with Kerrie Padmore, Living in Loveliness – Friday 1st November 2024 11.45am

2 hour workshop – cost £36.00

Join Kerrie from Living In Loveliness for an enchanting journey into the world of delightful fabrics and the captivating art of cathedral windows.

Cathedral window quilting is a celebration of creativity, self-expression, and the sheer beauty of fabric. This is the perfect opportunity to awaken your inner artist and design something truly exceptional.

In this class, you’ll experiment with exquisite fabric scraps to create your very own cathedral window tote bag, showcasing your newfound skills and creativity!

Book your space today and let your imagination soar!

Advisory Note:

This hands-on session is perfect for those looking to enhance their sewing skills and create a beautiful Tote Bag. Not suitable for children under the age of 16.

Meet the Tutor

Kerrie Padmore – Living in Loveliness

Since launching ‘Living In Loveliness’ 11 years ago, Kerrie’s passion for teaching and super-cute fabrics has blossomed and grown even more. With sewing classes and sewing retreats from beginners to the more advanced sewers, plus her fabulous range of sewing kits and patterns.

Kerrie’s passion lies in bringing people together in workshops through their shared joy of sewing, and she looks forward to welcoming you to her wonderful world of ‘Living in Loveliness’ at the Creative Craft & Stitching Shows.

CATHEDRAL WINDOW TOTE BAG with Kerrie Padmore, Living in Loveliness – Thursday 31st 0ctober 2024 13.45pm

2 hour workshop – cost £36.00

Join Kerrie from Living In Loveliness for an enchanting journey into the world of delightful fabrics and the captivating art of cathedral windows.

In this class, you’ll experiment with exquisite fabric scraps to create your very own cathedral window tote bag, showcasing your newfound skills and creativity!

Book your space today and let your imagination soar!

Advisory Note:

This hands-on session is perfect for those looking to enhance their sewing skills and create a beautiful Tote Bag. Not suitable for children under the age of 16.

Meet the Tutor

Kerrie Padmore – Living in Loveliness

MACRAME ANGEL DECORATION with Laura Mitchell, Sew Confident – Thursday 13.45pm

60-minute workshop – cost £18.00

Learn the art of macramé to make this beautiful Angel decoration for your Christmas tree. Laura from Sew Confident will take you through the process step by step to create your very own macramé masterpiece that can be displayed over the festive period.

Advisory Note:

No experience necessary for this class and all ages are welcome, under 16’s with parental supervision only.

Meet the Tutor

Laura Mitchelle, Sew Confident

A dressmaker for many years Laura loves to learn a new skill and challenge herself with different fibre crafts. Laura’s love of Christmas time shows in the fun macramé classes she has chosen to teach at the Creative Craft Show this autumn.

STITCHED CONCERTINA BOOK with Helen McKenna – Thursday 14.15pm

90-minute workshop – cost £25.00

Take time out in this lovely slow stitching workshop and create a beautiful heirloom fabric book.

During this workshop Helen will lead you through the process of creating a vintage fabric concertina book using a pre-cut and painted backing fabric. A variety of fabrics, threads and buttons are provided in your kit, but Helen will also have plenty of extra ‘bits’ to choose from.

Helen loves making stitched books and says, “This little book is a lovely way to keep precious little treasures safe. Please bring along any small items that you would like to include in your book.”

Advisory Note:

This workshop is suitable for adults over the age of 16: some stitching experience is required.

Meet the Tutor

Helen McKenna

Helen originally learned to sew as a child making clothes for her dolls. As a teenager she would rush to buy fabric after school to make something for a Saturday night out. A City and Guilds in Fashion followed and then one in Creative Embroidery too.

As part of a stitching group Helen’s work was exhibited locally and further afield. Then a chance conversation whilst visiting a textile show, led to Helen attaining BA Hons first class in Contemporary Applied Art in 2007. In that same year Helen became a finalist in the Hand and Lock embroidery competition.

Although no longer part of the stitching group, Helen continues to find inspiration through workshops, exhibitions and visiting galleries. She has been involved with demonstrating and teaching at ICHF Events for 15 years and is looking forward to the Glasgow shows.