TexStyle is a new fibre and textile festival in the north of England. We’re bringing together independent stitch craft creators under one roof. There are talks and workshops plus lots of stalls. Join us at Manchester Central to celebrate all the fibre crafts you love. We’ll have a hall full of knitting and crochet, sewing …
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Make a sculptural / architectural enclosure for artwork, treasures or ephemera. You’ll design and construct a unique paper based case; equal parts functional and expressive. The vessel you will create during this workshop becomes integral to its contents, shaping how they’re stored, revealed, and experienced….
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I have a bunch of creative nyc workshops coming up and hope you can join!…
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Create expressive block-printed fabric and paper with instructor April Sproule. Use repurposed materials, carve blocks, layer color, collage, stitch, and leave with a finished textile piece….
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In this three-day advanced appliqué class, students will use either silk or cotton fabrics to make one of the blocks featured in Deborah Kemball’s pattern pack Floral Abundance. Attendees will make various insects, skinny stems, leaves, and petals and learn pattern transfer techniques, sequencing layered applique, and several embroidery stitches. For all skill levels. WHEN: …
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Fiber artists of all kinds are invited to join us for a weekend of creativity at our biannual retreat. You will have full access to both of our spacious studios: our sewing studio and our dye/wet studio. Lunch is complementary. Just bring yourself and your work! WHEN: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 13-15, 2026 …
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Want to escape from those ho-hum stitch patterns you always use? We’re going to spend three days stitching for fun. The end result? A beast to join a parade. Imagination, clairvoyance and experimentation are all in the mix. We’ll play with patterns and scribble new textures. Our focus will be on loosening up, finding our …
Read More »Participants in this workshop will work with their own inspirational photo, painting or imagination to create a unique wall quilt. By breaking down their inspirational photo or picture to its basic design elements students will use fused appliqué and free motion quilting to realize their vision. Quilts are made in a collage method on a …
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In this experimental workshop, students will learn lashing and chaotic weaving methods for building skeletal structures with rattan and bamboo. On these frameworks, explore methods for building skins with rice papers, pigmented and unpigmented gut, and recycled netting. Paintable graphite, acrylics, shellac and Japanese suminagashi marbleizing will further modify membrane surfaces and structures. A series …
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Just Silkscreens is just that –Silkscreens! We will exhaust every way to use silkscreen in printing cloth in the time we have. Working in fiber reactive dyes, our prints will leave your work with the same original hand, so that you can use the fabric for apparel or art quilts. We’ll use stencils, paper barriers, …
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