Tea and coffee will be available throughout the day, and on full day classes we will indulge ourselves with one of Alison's cakes for afternoon tea. (Please bring your own lunch or there are food outlets nearby).      

 STEF FRANCIS - SILK CARRIER RODS AND MORE!

 August 27th Friday                           10am to 4pm                          Fee £35

Join Stef for a day and make a beautiful bag using silk carrier rods, threads, silk cocoons, beads and more. The bag is stitched to a felt background.

Jewellery or a small panel can also be made using the same techniques if preferred. Stef will bring a selection of her beautiful dyed fibres, threads and all materials needed except for the bag handles. Pictures soon!

www.stef-francis.co.uk for more details of Stef's work on her gallery page.

  For further information and bookings email : mail@fabbeads.co.uk

  PATTI MEDARIS CULEA - A NEW CLOTH DOLL CREATION

October 1st, 2nd and 3rd Friday, Saturday and Sunday   10am to 4pm    Fee £140

We are very pleased that Patti can join us again for another of her beautiful doll construction and embellishing courses. We have asked Patti to stay for an extra day this year as everyone felt we could achieve so much more with the extra time. We may even get our new friend dressed completely this time!

Patti's new design is now available. She is a Dazzling Daze Doll called LiMei.

LiMei is of Chinese/Tibetan origin. Techniques explored will include faces, silk dyeing, silk painting using resist, creating fun embellishments with tubes of fabric, simple beadwork and fabric collage. As always with Patti this will be a fun and rewarding project, and this year we should get it finished (almost) in class.

I love the beautiful accessories that Patti has given LiMei.  

 For further information and bookings email : mail@fabbeads.co.uk

  PRE-PATTI CLOTH DOLL DAY

August 20th Friday                                 10am to 4pm                              Fee £10

We will make a start on the dolls body, as we need to complete this before the class with Patti. By doing this we have a head start on all the interesting details that Patti teaches us.

This is not a taught day, it is an opportunity for everyone to help each other in making a start on our pre-course preparations. We have found this day extremely helpful in previous years, it has also been good fun.

If you cannot make it to this day you will have all details needed to do any pre-course preparations at home.