Monthly Regular Group Classes
One Day Workshops
Monthly Regular Group Classes
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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 Class | 4th April, 2nd May, 6th June, 4th July, 1st August, 5th September, 3rd October, 7th November and 5th December. |
| Wednesday’s Class | 19th 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 Class | 18th March, 16th May, 20th June, 18th July, 15th August, 19th September, 17th October, 21st November and 19th December |
| Wednesday’s Class | 12th 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 Class | 11th 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 March | Embroidery 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 June | Using 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 September | Free 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 October | Free 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 November | Free 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 December | Teardrop 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 June | Goldwork 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 July | Indian 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 August | Ink 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 September | Canvas work formal garden Paint your canvas and then work the stitches to make this formal garden embroidery with embellishments of buttons and beads |
| 9th October | Stump 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 November | Woodland 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 December | Embroidered 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/Time | Venue | Description |
| 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, Peterborough | Evening Meeting and Mini Workshop |
| Friday 10th March 10am – 4pm | Tudor Rose Patchwork, Oakley, Bedfordshire, MK43 7RB (Website) | Goldwork Squirrel |
| 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th March | NEC 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 7RB | Digitised embroidery class looking at using the fonts on embroidery machine |
| Saturday 25th March 10am – 4pm | Fitzwilliam Quilters, Peterborough | Summer Wreath Using glitter films and machine stitch |
| Friday 21st April to Sunday 23rd April 10am – 4pm | Tudor Rose Patchwork, Oakley, Bedfordshire, MK43 7RB | STUDENT 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, Peterborough | Evening 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, Banbury | Embroidered 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 7RB | Beaded Dorset Buttons |
| Monday 22nd May 10am – 4pm | Coles Sewing Centre, Nottingham | Seaside 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, Bedfordshire | Ink Sketched Free Motion Florals |
| Tuesday 27th June 10am – 4pm | Stow Textile Group | |
| Friday 7th July 10am – 4pm | Tudor Rose Patchwork, Oakley, Bedfordshire, MK43 7RB | Digitised Embroidery – How to Move Your Fabric and Repeat A Design |
| Thursday 20th July 10am – 4pm | Coles Sewing Centre, Nottingham | Digitised 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 August | Tudor 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, Peterborough | Evening 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, Nottingham | Strip 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 October | Keep On Sewing Retreat, Coventry | Kathy 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 |