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!

Newsletter- if you would like to be kept up to date with new workshops, guest tutors and studio news join our newsletter- simply use the contact us form on the last page or drop an email contact@littleheathbarnstudio.com

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Wednesday 9th & Thursday 10th October 2024, 10:00-16:00 *1 place available

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This new 2-day workshop is inspired by monastery floor tiles and nature taking over.

It is a mixed media course covering a multitude of techniques, including; using stencilling, stitch, machine embroidery on soluble fabric and organza. You will create a piece of textie art that could be framed. 

The course was inspired by Angie's piece that was at the stitch-by-stitch exhibition in Oswestry.

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£180 including some materials and refreshments. Own sewing machine required.

Friday 29th November 2024, 10:00-16:00

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Come and spend the day creating this beautiful hand embroidered Christmas wreath panel with Laura Houel, a textile artist and tutor based in Warwickshire.

Laura creates textiles predominantly using vintage, found and repurposed materials and threads and is forever searching at car boots, charity shops and antiques centres for textile ‘treasure’.

 

During this workshop you will be guided through creating your own festive hand quilted panel using Laura’s pattern (which you will be provided with on the day). 

 

Laura will teach a variety of hand embroidery stitches so you can first create your hand quilted base on beautiful vintage linen before embellishing and embroidering the wreath design, learning about composition and placement to create a balanced design. 

 

You will receive a pack of materials on the day to create your panel but please feel free to bring along any special bits of lace or fabric (snippets of lace or fabric from old garments, buttons, even old bits of jewellery) to incorporate into your piece to make it extra special. 

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£75 including most materials and refreshments. 

Friday 6th December 2024, 10:00-13:00

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Join us on this fun morning making festive decorations from willow. You will learn the techniques needed to make these sweet little Christmas trees in a log stand which you can decorate with ribbons, bells and other bits, then learn how to make some pretty 2D stars, these are great for hanging on your tree or as tags on presents. During the session you will be able to make plenty so will be able to perfect your skills !

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£50 including all materials and refreshments. 

Thursday 5th December 2024, 10:00-16:00 *full, e'mail to be first to know if place becomes available

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Inspired by the exciting art of batik – hot wax resist – on paper and tissue paper with inks we will use traditional and non traditional tools to create beautiful images inspired by birds & berries.  

We will explore different approaches to the technique appropriate to the theme including collage  backgrounds and other forms of resist such as stencils and oil pastels.

Robins, blackbirds, sparrows, holly berries, rosehips..... just bring images for inspiration

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£80 including most materials and refreshments. 

Monday 27th January 2025, 10:00-16:00 *full, e'mail to be first to know if a place becomes available

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Suzette will show you how to transfer vintage imagery onto fabric, and provide ideas for layering and creating small collages with this technique. These will be developed further with fabric, lace and stitching. You may prefer to use hand or free machine stitching or a combination of both.

A perfect technique to use in experimental textile books and to add a different surface, imagery and text into a piece of work. There will be plenty of samples and work shown for inspiration.

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£80 including most materials and refreshments. 

5th & 6th February 2025, 10:00-16:00 *full, e'mail to be first to know if place becomes available

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Taking observations from nature we will explore and experiment with an eclectic mix of media, materials and techniques.

These explorations will be small scale responses to textures, shapes and colours seen within nature using wrapping and binding techniques with fine hand dyed threads and fabric, hand stitching for embellishment along with fragments of paper & print.  These will be combined & incorporated with wire to give structure, form and shape.

The studies will be brought together to create a formal display suggestive of a nature table or botanical textbook layout.

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£200 including most materials and refreshments. 

10th February 2025, 10:00-16:00

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This is a full day technique based workshop for anyone who would like to learn more about free machine embroidery, or polish up their skills. 

You will learn;

-Useful feet for machine embroidery

-Using the correct threads and needles for the job

-How to use stitch programmes creatively

-Build confidence with free machine embroidery, whip stitch, cable stitch, mixing textures and more....

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£85 including most materials and refreshments. 

12th & 13th March 2025, 10:00-16:00 *full, e'mail to be first to know if a place becomes available

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This workshop explores how to weather and distress cloth.

 

In the workshop you will learn:

• Painting techniques to make cloth look weathered, including underpainting, stitched resists and washes.

• Techniques for making holes, including cutting, sanding, sewing eyelets.

• Textured surface decoration, including machine stitching and washing paper.

• Waxing techniques

• Rusting techniques

You will produce: a series of samples using various weathering techniques & simple bags and containers from your weathered samples

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£200 including most materials and refreshments. 

3rd & 4th April 2025, 10:00-16:00

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An exciting two-day stitch and dye workshop, exploring indigo-dye with pattern making, resist and overdyeing techniques. Stitching using mixed media collage with found objects, appliqué and shadow quilting.

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Day one - using indigo cake a natural dye once known as blue gold, learn how to set up a home indigo vat and prepare fabrics for dying. Explore folded-resist pattern making with Itajime a traditional cloth-clamping technique. Over dye and refresh old fabrics and new, with varied shades of blue.

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Day two - working with new and pre-loved materials, combine traditional quilting with Maria’s creative approach to reusing found things. Explore layering and appliqué, shadow and cutwork using both machine and hand techniques. Tap into the ancient art of Japanese Boro - repairing old things to make something new.

Outcomes could be an experimental quilted rolll/hanging or a collar or small jacket hanging.

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£180 including most materials and refreshments. 

Friday 9th May 2025, 10:00-16:00 

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We're looking forward to welcoming back Jen with her signature style of beautiful stitched paper.

Jennifer will show you a range of traditional hand and machine stitch techniques, including Paper Patchwork, Pleating, Paper Pockets, Button Loops, Covered Buttons and Covered Bindings which be used on found papers.

These skills will be used these to create small paper dresses. Please bring along your favourite books and papers to incorporate into your work.

Some sewing experience required.

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£80 including most materials and refreshments. 

4th & 5th June 2025, 10:00-16:00 *full, e'mail to be first to know if place becomes available

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To the horizon and back with free-machine embroidery and mixed media play 

Experiment with fabric paint, Inktense pencils, free-machine embroidery and a whole array of materials including water soluble fabric and Lutradur, to produce a layered sea/landscape.

Ruth will guide you through the creation and construction of the various layers, that make up this piece.

 

Suitable for all levels of experience.

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£180 including most materials and refreshments. 

30th June 2025, 10:00-16:00 

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Explore the exciting marks and effects created by using different forms of resist- Batik - hot wax, brushable wax resist, oil pastels, candles, acrylic paint and stencils, singly and in combination.

With tissue and paper as the base, as well as found papers you will work with the resists, inks and bleach. You will explore the use of a wide range of traditional and non traditional tools to apply the hot wax. From potato mashers and whisks to tjantings and brushes.

Many samples will be developed as well as larger pieces. You may choose to work from abstract images for inspiration such as textures of bark, rust, etc or you may choose to enjoy the freedom of exploring the effects you can achieve with the range of materials and equipment provided.

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£80 including most materials and refreshments. 

29th & 30th August 2025, 10:00-16:00 

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For 2025 we're offering a 2-day indigo dyeing workshop that is purely focussed on Katagami and Katazome.

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Ise Katagami is the Japanese art of stencil cutting intricate designs into a specialist paper. 

Katazome is the process of resist dyeing textiles usng a rice paste which is applied to cloth through the stencil.

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On this workshop we will cut our own simple stencils in which to apply a paste through. You will also learn how to use commercial stencils to create a collection of samples.

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On day two we will explore double sided pieces, as well as two colour designs.

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All samples will be indigo dyed. You will learn how to build depth with multiple dips into the dye.

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£175 including most materials and refreshments. Own natural fabrics required (or can be ordered from us)

Thursday 11th & Friday 12th September 2025, 10:00-16:00 

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Mandy's favourite workshop which really introduces her personal philosophies about mark and stitch/paper and cloth.

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Enjoy the calming nature of hand stitch whilst absorbing the serendipity of composition. With a pared down palette of naturals you will explore the techniques of cutwork, darning, applique, layering and inlay using transparent qualities as well as your favourite cloth qualities.

You will work towards developing an individual series of work from your own imagery using your own visual language. I believe that paring down to bare formal elements can help us to understand ourselves, especially our likes and dislikes, and develop our own individual visual language. Some embroiderers feel they have to draw but do not necessarily know why. This course will show you how to ‘draw for a reason’. It will also open a dialogue of ‘What is drawing?’

I have strong philosophies, which I love to share, about linking paper and cloth qualities, also mark and stitch. The course will help you understand how links and connections are made with your work and yourself…the course is not about introducing one piece of work but reinforcing a work process that you will revisit constantly afterwards.

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£175 including most materials and refreshments. 

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

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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.