Book A Crochet Workshop With The Original Box Artist & Yarnbomber!

Come to Box and learn how to crochet with the original Box Yarnbomber! Having been involved in several yarnbombs across Wiltshire, Emma Leith has also been crocheting for years, an art she learnt with her Grandmother and one she continues to enjoy to this day - around these parts she is known as  the number one crochet queen!

For just £20 you can enjoy a memorable morning or afternoon learning how to crochet, whilst drinking lashings of tea and scoffing Emma's delicious home-made cakes and brownies.

Emma is really hands on, lots of fun and will ensure that you thoroughly enjoy the process and have her help every step of the way - the classes have always been limited to six people - so that everyone gets the attention they need. 

There is just one more workshop left this year and it is this week - so if you would like to learn a new skill and have lots of fun doing it - then do not hesitate to book your workshop today!

Or book a workshop as a Christmas present for a friend or loved one - they are so wonderful to share with someone special, your partner, your friends, your mother, wife or daughter - they make the most excellent and unusual presents. 

Crochet Workshop

 

Crocheting is such a beautiful art form, you can use a myriad of colours and weave all sorts of shapes and designs, create pieces of art or woollen covers. Teaching people the skills and tradition of crocheting is a truly wonderful craft to share and I always recommend to clients that they start with the Granny Squares workshop first. 

Granny Squares are the ultimate in traditional crocheting and have been around for many, many years and have formed the cosy cover of so many beds in homes and on sofas and knees up and down the country. The original Granny Square is simply a joy to produce and once you have mastered the technique you can go on to make more and, of course, to attach them together. 

Once this skill is learnt - your crochet skills can step up a gear and learn how to make flowers, garlands and other pieces of art. 

If you are interested in learning this craft then book yourself onto one of my workshops and find out what it is all about, there is always lashings of tea and freshly baked cakes!

Christmas is coming!

I've had a wonderful day gathering together lots of sumptuous felt as I prepare for the upcoming Christmas Felting Workshops. Yes I know it's October but christmas will soon be upon us and to get us in the mood I've rustled up a few examples of the sort of tree decorations you can make in these 2 hour workshops.  Places are filling up fast but if you would like to join the fun then you can book your place here! 

Taking A Mosaic Workshop

Learning a new craft is a really exciting opportunity. There is something incredibly calming and life affirming when you begin the process of creating a piece of art.

Working with new and unusual mediums is so wonderful because the practice is very tactile and it is also so colourful - you can really explore unusual combinations and styles to achieve different effects. 

As you create the mosaic - you can piece together your image - but you can continue to move the pieces around and change how they look. It is rather like a puzzle - but one in which you produce the outcome.

Only when you are absolutely satisfied with the combination of colours and textiles can you attach the tiles - giving you a real chance to produce the perfect effect, unlike other mediums like paint which you cannot change once you have put brush to paper.

The image above of the mosaic cake stand gives you a real view of the process and you can see how it can be done - a complicated image turned into a piece of mosaic art.

If you would like to learn this magical practice and take part in a workshop - do not hesitate to get in touch with me or book a place at one of the many workshops I teach.