Teaching Schedule

Monthly Regular Group Classes
One Day Workshops


Monthly Regular Group Classes

Contact the venue directly for more information and availability.

Classes at Tudor Rose Patchwork (Oakley, Bedford, MK43 7RB)

Elements of Nature in Hand Embroidery with Kathleen Laurel Sage

Brush up and improve your embroidery skills as you work small embroideries based on elements from Mother Nature and all her environmental fauna, flora, wildlife, beauty of landscape, countryside, sea and sky to inspire your design. Each month your embroidery will represent a subject of nature whilst we use stitches and traditional background techniques to elevate your chosen design.    At the end of the year, you will have a body of work that could become a bound book, a sampler, a journal, a scroll or become part of a larger textile project of your choosing.

Tuesday’s Class4th April, 2nd May, 6th June, 4th July, 1st August, 5th September, 3rd October, 7th November and 5th December.
Wednesday’s Class19th April, 17th May, 21st June, 19th July, 16th August, 20th September, 18th October, 15th November and 20th December

Free Motion Machine Embroidery with Kathleen Laurel Sage

Free motion machine embroidery allows for total individuality and creativity using beautiful machine threads that take your fabrics and designs to a different level.  Come and learn traditional and modern techniques each month using both your machine programmed stitches and the freedom of a free motion spring action embroidery foot to create and master all the skills you will need to design, create, and develop your own unique style of embroidery

Tuesday’s Class18th March, 16th May, 20th June, 18th July, 15th August, 19th September, 17th October, 21st November and 19th December
Wednesday’s Class12th April, 10th May, 14th June, 12th July, 23rd August, 13th September, 11th October, 15th November and 13th December

Messy Play Monthly Course with Kathleen Laurel Sage 

Have you ever wondered how to create and make fabrics in your own style, showcasing your own designs that can elevate your embroidery skills when using them.  This is a Tuesday class where you will become a printer/designer of original materials for use in your personal project(s).  Experiment with fabric painting, stencilling, lino printing, batik, tie dying, cram jar dying, marbling fabrics, making your own blocks for printing, silk painting, transfer painting and soooo much more.  Create a collection of fabrics for a personal project which Kathleen will help you with or simply experiment and enjoy the process.  Everyone can be catered for in this enthusiastic and experimental class.

Tuesday’s Class11th April, 9th May, 13th June, 11th July, 22nd August, 12th September,
10th October, 14th November and 12th December.

Classes at Be Crafty (Ellington, Huntingdon, PE28 0AE)

Machine Embroidery – Monday Morning Classes – More info here. 10am – 1pm

13th MarchEmbroidery with Fabric and Paper
Using fabrics that suggest landscape we will create a setting to appliqué and free motion stitch an iconic skyline. Using paper as the medium of choice we will combine it with stitch and add detailing to create a modern textile panel.
12th JuneUsing free motion stitching, painted lutradur and use of a soldering iron you will embroider a unique fabric that will be heat zapped and soldered to allow light to illuminate it.  Add a few dimensional embellishments and create a stunning art lamp for your home.
10th July Free Motion Cut Work Boxes
Learn how to use your machine to create cut work flower windows.  Working on pale coloured felt use your free motion stitching to decorate and embellish a church window box in this sweet flat packed design that will showcase all your free motion stitching
11th SeptemberFree Motion Felt Appliqué
Let’s cut simple shapes in felt and then free motion appliqué them adding whimsical details as we go.  This is an ideal workshop for those who are a little nervous of this free form technique whilst those with a little more experience can get really creative as they meander around the felt shapes.  It’s not all about these cute little houses as many other shapes can be used and brought to life with your stitching.
9th OctoberFree Motion Undersea Glitter Film Sea Life
Practice and improve your free motion embroidery as you create a wavy background to display and arrange your freeform stitched fish and reeds to make this small dimensional panel.  If you don’t fancy fish what about flowers and grasses.
13th NovemberFree Motion Red Work Decorations
Free motion sketch a collection of festive decorations to dec your Christmas tree or use as gift tags on those special gifts. Not keen on red then stitch them in gold or silver.
11th DecemberTeardrop Decorations
Layered, free motion stitched and soldered Indian teardrop decorations worked between water soluble film with trapped and layered Organza scraps to give beautiful layered colour

Hand Embroidery – Monday Morning Classes – More info here. 10am – 1pm

13th March
 
Embroidered Temari Baubles
Come and  make an embroidered bauble and learn how to segment your bauble for the basic intro patterns to get started in this very addictive and ancient Japanese craft.
12th JuneGoldwork Flower
A small flower project to introduce you to the traditional couching methods needed for this ancient craft.  Learn how to apply a metallic leather and how to cut and attach purl wires to produce a small gold work flower to frame or make into a special greetings card.
10th JulyIndian Elephant
Have fun working and reviewing many of our general hand sewing stitches to embroider this charming bright elephant.  Dabble with some gold sequins and beads to add richness and finish with bright shisha mirrors.
14th AugustInk Sketched Florals
Get to grips with free motion sketching as you stitch sketch a selection of our finest garden blooms.  The idea is to use your stitching to create a water coloured floral with an inked outline creating a dramatic effect that clearly stands out on the fabric.  Make a stunning cushion panel or make more drawing on all our heritage florals and make a beautiful quilt.
11th SeptemberCanvas work formal garden
Paint your canvas and then work the stitches to make this formal garden embroidery with embellishments of buttons and beads
9th OctoberStump Work Pansy
Brush up or learn the traditional techniques of embroidering over wire to make raised petals and leaves to create a stylised pansy on a beaded padded panel.
13th NovemberWoodland Texture Ring
Make a small ring of raised boulders with dimensional stitches growing from between the nooks and crevasses to create a textured forest wall.  Finish with a scatter of dimensional hand embroidered leaves.
11th DecemberEmbroidered Mini Squares
Take a selection of simple stitches to create small mini squares that when assembled back together on a painted canvas make a stunning larger textile depicting your chosen stitches worked in many arrangements but all becoming one piece.

Day Courses

Date/TimeVenueDescription
Friday 10th February
10am – 4pm
Tudor Rose Patchwork,
Oakley, Bedfordshire, MK43 7RB (Website)
Digitalised Embroidered Bag
Friday 24th February
10am – 4pm
Tudor Rose Patchwork, Oakley, Bedfordshire, MK43 7RB (Website)Free Motion Embroidered Tealights
Saturday 4th March
10am – 4pm
Tudor Rose Patchwork, Oakley, Bedfordshire, MK43 7RB (Website)Free Motion Flower Explosions
Wednesday 8th March
7.30pm
Fitzwilliam Quilters, PeterboroughEvening Meeting and Mini Workshop
Friday 10th March
10am – 4pm
Tudor Rose Patchwork, Oakley, Bedfordshire, MK43 7RB (Website)Goldwork Squirrel
16th, 17th, 18th and 19th MarchNEC Sewing for Pleasure & Fashion and Embroidery Show Kathy will be teaching an demonstrating at this show.
Friday 24th March
10am – 4pm
Tudor Rose Patchwork, Oakley, Bedfordshire, MK43 7RBDigitised embroidery class looking at using the fonts on embroidery machine
Saturday 25th March
10am – 4pm
Fitzwilliam Quilters, PeterboroughSummer Wreath
Using glitter films and machine stitch
Friday 21st April to
Sunday 23rd April
10am – 4pm
Tudor Rose Patchwork, Oakley, Bedfordshire, MK43 7RBSTUDENT EXHIBITION
Come and see what our amazing students have been creating in classes
Saturday 29th April
10:30am – 4:30pm
Bee Crafty, Ellington, Huntingdon (Website)Goldwork Squirrel
Wednesday 10th May
7.30pm
Fitzwilliam Quilters, PeterboroughEvening Meeting and Mini Workshop
Friday 12th May
10am – 4pm
Tudor Rose Patchwork, Oakley, Bedfordshire, MK43 7RB (Website)Digitised embroidery using patterns and fonts from your machine.
Saturday 13th May
10am – 4pm
King Sutton, BanburyEmbroidered Fairy Houses
Thursday 18th May
10am – 4pm
Tudor Rose Patchwork, Oakley, Bedfordshire, MK43 7RB (Website)Embroidered Japanese Temari Baubles
Saturday 20th May
10am – 4pm
Tudor Rose Patchwork, Oakley, Bedfordshire, MK43 7RBBeaded Dorset Buttons
Monday 22nd May
10am – 4pm
Coles Sewing Centre, NottinghamSeaside Harbour Free Motion and Mixed Media Cameos
Tuesday 30th May
10am – 4pm
Tudor Rose Patchwork, Oakley, Bedfordshire, MK43 7RB (Website)Kathleen’s Finishing School
Saturday 3rd June
10am – 4pm
Bee Crafty, Ellington, Huntingdon (Website)Stumpwork Dragonflies
Friday 23rd June
10am – 4pm
Tudor Rose Patchwork, Oakley, BedfordshireInk Sketched Free Motion Florals
Tuesday 27th June
10am – 4pm
Stow Textile Group
Friday 7th July
10am – 4pm
Tudor Rose Patchwork, Oakley, Bedfordshire, MK43 7RBDigitised Embroidery – How to Move Your Fabric and Repeat A Design
Thursday 20th July
10am – 4pm
Coles Sewing Centre, NottinghamDigitised and Soldered 3-D Fishy Panel
Friday 4th August
10am – 4pm
Tudor Rose Patchwork, Oakley, Bedfordshire, MK43 7RB (Website)Summer Botanical Floral Blocks
Tuesday 29th AugustTudor Rose Patchwork, Oakley, Bedfordshire, MK43 7RB (Website)Kathy’s Finishing School
Saturday 9th September
10am – 4pm
Bee Crafty, Ellington, Huntingdon (Website)Japanese Fabric Folded Dolls
Wednesday 13th September
7.30pm
Fitzwilliam Quilters, PeterboroughEvening Meeting and Mini Workshop = Dorset Button Making
Friday 22nd September
10am – 4pm
Tudor Rose Patchwork, Oakley, Bedfordshire (Website)Digitised Embroidery – Playing with Inbuilt Designs to Flip and Rotate
Monday 25th September
10am – 4pm
Coles Sewing Centre, NottinghamStrip It, Stitch It and Block Print It – Bag or Hanging
Tuesday 26th September
10am – 4pm
Tudor Rose Patchwork, Oakley, Bedfordshire (Website)Kathy’s Handmade Christmas
Friday 20th – Sunday 22nd OctoberKeep On Sewing Retreat, CoventryKathy will be teaching for this group
Tuesday 24th October
10am – 4pm
Tudor Rose Patchwork, Oakley, Bedfordshire (Website)Kathy’s Handmade Christmas
Tuesday 31st October
10am – 4pm
Tudor Rose Patchwork, Oakley, Bedfordshire (Website)Kathy’s Finishing School
Friday 3rd November
10am – 4pm
Tudor Rose Patchwork, Oakley, Bedfordshire (Website)Digitised Embroidery – Festive Gift Bags
Saturday 11th November
10:30am – 4:30pm
Bee Crafty, Ellington, Huntingdon (Website)Contemporary Dorset Buttons
Tuesday 28th November
10am – 4pm
Tudor Rose Patchwork, Oakley, Bedfordshire (Website)Kathy’s Handmade Christmas