Residential Weekend and Day Courses organised by Anglia Leisure Learning Ltd Request a booking form for your chosen course from [email protected] and spend a weekend that you will thoroughly enjoy and remember for many months. Gift vouchers in multiples of £25 available for use on any course. Developing New Ideas from Old Textiles with Cas Holmes It’s a Wrap - textile workshop with Annette Morgan Drawing with the sewing machine needle with Richard Box Christmas Creations with Gail Lawther This weekend residential course is a great opportunity to learn a wide range of techniques which will enable you to create individual and highly unusual background fabrics. You will then use these to make into unique book wraps (covers) and other textile mementoes. Annette will also reveal to you a technique she has developed which she calls “Layer Upon a Quilt”. 10-12 April 2015 in Suffolk 17-19 April 2015 in Suffolk 2-4 October 2014 in the Midlands 20-22 November 2015 in Suffolk The Magic of Silk Painting with Melinda Berkovitz Saturday, 31 October 2015 on the London/Essex border On this one day course you will have an opportunity to explore key techniques associated with Silk Painting - watercolour effects, salt patterning and gutta resist designs. There is no need to be able to draw, just have an interest in exploring the magical qualities of vibrant colour and design when painting on silk. We will also explore colour layering effects and incorporate print and stamp overlays, allowing each participant to produce unique and exciting results. Treat yourself to a weekend of stitching seasonal projects ready for Christmas and use them to decorate your own home, or give them as special presents. Stars, kings, doves, poinsettias, angels, Christmas trees; you’ll ﬁnd them all here in abundance and this course is ideal for complete beginners to patchwork or accomplished stitchers who want to extend their skills. Here’s a weekend course for all of you who would like to learn how to ‘draw’ with the sewing machine needle. Imagine that the thread is your ‘ink’ and the needle is your ‘pen’ and you will be amazed how many effects you can achieve with the simple straight stitch. It would be helpful if you practice free machining with a walking foot if you have one a little beforehand. Discover how to take raw materials and textiles, and by applying a range of experimental techniques, explore the qualities and characters of fabric and paper to express your individual designs. Here is a truly unconventional and creative textile weekend residential course where you can develop your own unique ideas. Take a new look at ‘Green thinking’ and use found or discarded items to stimulate your creativity. Courses organised by Anglia Leisure Learning Limited See website for details of all courses in The Midlands and East of England. www.anglialeisurelearning.co.uk Email: [email protected] Tel: 020 7834 1066

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Some of our textile courses taking place this year in Suffolk, the Midlands and on the London/Essex border.

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Residential Weekend and Day Courses organised by Anglia Leisure Learning Ltd

Request a booking form for your chosen course from [email protected] and spend a weekend that you will thoroughly

enjoy and remember for many months.Gift vouchers in multiples of £25 available for use on any course.

Developing New Ideas from OldTextiles with Cas Holmes

It’s a Wrap - textile workshopwith Annette Morgan

Drawing with the sewing machine needle with Richard Box

Christmas Creationswith Gail Lawther

This weekend residential course is a great opportunity to learn a wide range of techniques which will enable you to create individual and highly unusual background fabrics. You will then use these to make into unique book wraps (covers) and other textile mementoes. Annette will also reveal to you a technique she has developed which she calls “Layer Upon a Quilt”.

10-12 April 2015in Suffolk

17-19 April 2015in Suffolk

2-4 October 2014in the Midlands

20-22 November 2015 in Suffolk

The Magic of Silk Paintingwith Melinda BerkovitzSaturday, 31 October 2015on the London/Essex border

On this one day course you will have an opportunity to explore key techniques associated with Silk Painting - watercolour effects, salt patterning and gutta resist designs. There is no need to be able to draw, just have an interest in exploring

the magical qualities of vibrant colour and design when painting on silk. We will also explore colour layering effects and

incorporate print and stamp overlays, allowing each participant to produce unique and exciting results.

Treat yourself to a weekend of stitching seasonal projects ready for Christmas and use them to decorate your own home, or give them as special presents. Stars, kings, doves, poinsettias, angels, Christmas trees; you’ll find them all here in abundance and this course is ideal for complete beginners to patchwork or accomplished stitchers who want to extend their skills.

Here’s a weekend course for all of you who would like to learn how to ‘draw’ with the sewing machine needle. Imagine that the thread is your ‘ink’ and the needle is your ‘pen’ and you will be amazed how many effects you can achieve with the simple straight stitch. It would be helpful if you practice free machining with a walking foot if you have one a little beforehand.

Discover how to take raw materials and textiles, and by applying a range of experimental techniques, explore the qualities and characters of fabric and paper to express your individual designs. Here is a truly unconventional and creative textile weekend residential course where you can develop your own unique ideas. Take a new look at ‘Green thinking’ and use found or discarded items to stimulate your creativity.

Courses organised by Anglia Leisure Learning LimitedSee website for details of all courses in The Midlands and East of England. www.anglialeisurelearning.co.ukEmail: [email protected]: 020 7834 1066