To book onto a workshop please contact the studio via our email contact@littleheathbarnstudio.com or

call Liske  07980772064 or Claire  07713875119

Alternatively use the Contact us form on the last page.

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We will notify you of any equipment requirements for the workshops.

Waiting list- if you are interested in any workshops that are currently full you can drop us a line to be put on the waiting list. Quite often places become available so it's worth being on the list!

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Thursday 25th September 2025, 10:00-16:00 *full, email to go on waiting list

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Create a hand embroidered stitched doodle, inspired by taking a walk on the beach.

Bring in your own beach finds from a special place or use ones provided by Ruth (eg.  Shells, driftwood or sea glass).

Trap these special finds down amongst layers of fabrics and threads and embellish this further with beautiful textures and patterns created with hand embroidery.

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£80 including most materials and refreshments. 

October 22nd, 23rd, 24th 2025, 10:00-16:00 *Full - e'mail to be first on waiting list!

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2026 dates! 15th, 16th & 17th April

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When you are learning a new surface design technique there is a natural tendency to just use that technique to create a single layer of colour, mark, texture, line or shape. But what happens when you combine multiple techniques on a piece of fabric, building layers...

You get complex beautiful art cloth; fabric that can simply be framed or hung, fabric that can be enhanced by stitch, fabric that can be used in conjuncture with other fabrics to create spectacular wall art, fabric that can be used to make truly unique clothing.

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This three-day workshop is aimed at those with experience of using Procion MX dyes to add colour to fabric using a range of techniques such as screen printing, mark making, monoprinting, dyeing etc. It is not suitable for beginners as it assumes prior knowledge of multiple surface design techniques.

At the end of the three days you will have a series of samples that combine different techniques, exploring the impact of scale of marks, colour value and colour proportion (these may be little works of art in their own right!).

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£300 including most materials and refreshments. 

Friday 14th November 2025, 10:00-16:00 *full

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A one-day course with artist, tutor, and author Anne Kelly.

Using techniques and inspiration from her latest book, Anne will demonstrate how to print and make a scroll, using simple and effective methods and materials. Your scroll will be symbolic, before your arrive on the course it might be a good idea to choose a journey, local of holiday, that can inspire your piece. Any photos of landscape might be helpful - these will be abstracted within your scroll.

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£85 including most materials and refreshments. 

Wednesday 19th November 2025, 10:00-16:00 

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Paper Flowers Christmas Wreaths with Paper Sculptor Jennifer Collier:

In the morning you will be shown how to create decorative paper flowers from recycled papers, with a choice of five different types of flowers to make, from the very easy through to a 5 petal origami flower. In the afternoon you will be shown how to use these flowers to make a beautiful everlasting floral wreath. All materials are provided but you may wish to bring along your own papers, books, buttons and beads to personalise your flowers.

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£85 including materials and refreshments. 

Thursday 29th January 2026, 10:00-16:00 *full, e'mail to go on waiting list

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In this full day workshop you will be shown Jennifer’s trademark experimental techniques, such as waxing, stitching and trapping recycled papers to create sketchbook pages. These will then be made into a traditionally bound A5 soft backed sketchbook, embellished with beautiful hand stitched details, fold out pages and page pockets. All materials and equipment are provided, but you may wish to bring your own special papers, books, maps, photo's, tags, envelopes etc to personalise your sketchbook.

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£85 including materials and refreshments. 

Wednesday 4th February 2026, 10:00-16:00 *Full, e'mail to go on a waiting list

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Maria Thomas is an artist and alternaive quilter. Maria describes her work as being a celebration of our daily rituals and the associated epherma that passes through our hands.

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This course is a one-day mixed media workshop with hand embroidery, patchwork, quilting and found materials.

Combine traditional patchwork with a creative approach to gathering and reusing redundant textile materials. Explore patchwork, quilting and collage, and appliqué with small found items. Embellish details with Indian inspired hand sewing techniques.

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£85 including materials and refreshments. 

4th & 5th March 2026, 9.30-16:00 *Full, e'mail to go on a waiting list

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An exciting course with mixed media textile artisit Alex Waylett.

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We will spend the first day working with Koh i noor inks and various other paints and metallic wax to produce a mixed median textural background, before on the second day, stitching into your designs using your floral pictures as a design source.

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You will be taken through a series of steps to create the triptych using sheers and stitch to link all the pieces. On the second day Alex will show you how to further stitch into the piece accenting some of the flowers and leaves. We will begin to create 3d structural elements to add to your piece -flower heads and leaves are created using such methods as water soluble in a hoop.  

 

You will create a 3D stitched artwork\s to be fully completed at home but we will ensure you go home with all the necessary knowledge and processes to finish and frame in your own time.

 

This course is suitable for those with experience of free machine embroidery and is ideal for those who are excited about creating structural textiles in their work.

£180 including materials and refreshments. 

Monday 9th March, 10:00-16:00

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Judith will be returning with this nature inspired workshop where you’ll create a variety of detailed wire seed head stems to display in a vase.

Inspiration will come from seed heads such as cow parsley, poppies, grasses and more.

Judith will teach you how to use various gauges of wire and different techniques to create your seed heads. You can expect to come away with a bunch of stems to display at home, based on the ideas pictured in the photo.
All materials and use of tools is included. If you have a small (around 14-
18cm tall) narrow necked vase you wish to display your finished stems in
at home do bring that along, if not, you can borrow one from Judith for the day. The vase pictured is not included. 

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£85 including all materials and refreshments. 

Wednesday 6th & Thursday 7th May 2026, 10:00-16:00

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Working with a well-known or favourite painting from history, we will be ‘mining’ images for various visual elements, collecting a bank of patterns, marks, colours, motifs at different scales to translate onto cloth.  You will then build a range of fabrics from plain-coloured to those with variety of patterns and marks which we will fragment and re-assemble. 

 

Time will be spent with your fabrics to re-construct into abstracted designs in your chosen format.  These can be hand or machine-stitched into.  Help and advice will be given on an individual basis.

 

This workshop is designed to be open-ended in terms of chosen format and the days are planned to welcome individuality and your own preferences.  I recommend thinking about a fairly simple format such as a scroll, a 9 square format, or small designs/samples that could be collated into a concertina book. 

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£180 including most materials and refreshments. 

Monday 1st June, 10:00-16:00

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Lettering, text, words, symbols, language, alphabet…..a letter, a poem, a story.

This will be our starting point but can be personal to you in the words and letters that you use. They may be purely abstract, seen as shapes and forms or may be related to something that means something to you.

We will work with the hot wax resist -  batik, plus other forms of resist such as oil pastels,  acrylic paint and stencils with drawing inks. You may  choose to work onto existing pieces of text such as old book pages, packaging such as paper bags with lettering on, tissue wrapping paper that has text on, the possibilities are endless and depend on what you have in your stash that you would like to use.

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£85 including all materials and refreshments. 

Friday 3rd & Saturday 4th July, 10:00-16:00

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In this workshop you will explore the many interesting and exciting possibilities achieved by using watercolour with different mediums such as wax, pastels crayons, ink and elements of collage. From sketchbooks to finished paintings, added texture and layers of resists will create lively, original paintings.​

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You will work on creating a collection of sketchbook studies, looking at flowers and gardens, or from your own areas of interest. You may choose to develop these ideas into a finished painting or series of designs for textiles. Tessa will work with you individually to discuss possible ways mixed media would work with your own practice.​

Suitable for all levels of experience.

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£180 including most materials and refreshments.