Featured Courses | LeisureCourses.net - short courses & residential study breaks in great locations - Part 13
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Hand quilting
Listed on April 3, 2016 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesHere is your opportunity to develop your hand quilting expertise with one of the best tutors in the field. On this weekend you will discover all the essential steps to produce beautiful hand quilting, including how to mark out a cushion-sized pattern using one of Barbara’s exclusive designs. Barbara will show you the correct way...
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Shadowlands
Listed on April 3, 2016 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesDrawing inspiration from ideas surrounding the landscape (gardens, plants) or abstract interpretations (Sonia Delaunay’s Orphism art, Cubism) using found materials as a resource, you will explore direct approaches for creating colour and movement in cloth. A whole range of techniques will be covered such as transfer printing with plants and stencils, simple resists methods, stitch and...
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Enamelling on Silver Clay
Listed on April 3, 2016 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesSilver clay is magical stuff. It is a mixture of tiny particles of pure silver mixed with a binder. * work with silver clay and enamel * create your own original jewellery * embellish your work to make it unique to you * ideal day course for all, whatever your skill level The clay binder enables you to mould the...
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Batik
Listed on April 3, 2016 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesOn this relaxing one day course, you will discover how to design and create a beautiful hard-backed book with your own piece of batik on the cover. * create a unique piece of batik * learn formal book binding * use your batik as a cover for your book * suitable for beginners and more experienced crafters You will begin...
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Creative Textiles
Listed on April 3, 2016 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesPlease enquire for further details
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Drawing for the Terrified
Listed on April 3, 2016 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesAre you terrified of drawing but have a secret longing to learn how to do it? Then this is the course for you. * Secretly longing to draw? * Not sure where to start? * Discover how to truly SEE objects * Monochrome and colour techniques Your tutor, Richard Box, will guide you through certain processes slowly, gently and step...
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Creating a pattern reference book
Listed on April 3, 2016 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured Courses* Create your own pattern reference book * Mark making, layering, collage and much more * Explore pattern as a precursor to stitch * Ideal for anyone who wants to develop their techniques Here is a weekend for anyone with a love of pattern and who enjoys creating their own using a range of pens, pencils and crayons, paper...
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Blackwork Embroidery
Listed on April 3, 2016 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesBlackwork is a form of counted thread embroidery. It is worked on evenly woven fabric, using very simple straight and diagonal stitches to develop many spectacular patterns, often with a geometric theme. Despite the name, it is sometimes sewn in blue, green or red and highlighted in gold. This traditional hand embroidery is both attractive to...
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Bangle Weaving
Listed on April 3, 2016 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesPlease enquire for details
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Wild weaving weekend
Listed on April 3, 2016 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesTake a relaxing, fun weekend to consider and explore a whole range of ideas and topics associated with weaving effects. You will use unconventional materials such as wire to construct a warp and then develop a weft (that’s the one from left to right!). You will focus on unusual combinations using a variety of materials...
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Beautiful Birds
Listed on April 3, 2016 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesTreat yourself to a weekend doing the craft you love along with like-minded people – and try out some new techniques into the bargain. * discover a new slant on patchwork * try out new techniques * extend your skills with numerous patterns * ideal for beginners and accomplishers stitchers Birds provide the soundtrack to our lives, and all the...
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Picture it in Collage and Stitch
Listed on April 3, 2016 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesHave you ever wanted to create one of your own designs and then translate this into a work of art using the combined techniques of fabric collage with both machine and hand embroidery? * Long to create your own designs? * Combine fabric collage and embroidery * Both machine and hand techniques * Ideal for beginners and experienced Under Richard...
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Patchwork and Christmas Crafts Part 3
Listed on March 7, 2016 by Knuston Hall in Featured CoursesThis course aims to bring together a group of like-minded students who enjoy crafting together. They will share their knowledge and enthusiasm during their time together and produce a number of Christmas Crafts which are be kept or passed on to celebrate the season.
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Patchwork and Christmas Crafts Part 2
Listed on March 7, 2016 by Knuston Hall in Featured CoursesThis course aims to bring together a group of like-minded students who enjoy crafting together. They will share their knowledge and enthusiasm during their time together and produce a number of Christmas Crafts which are be kept or passed on to celebrate the season.
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Patchwork and Christmas Crafts Part 1
Listed on March 7, 2016 by Knuston Hall in Featured CoursesThis course aims to bring together a group of like-minded students who enjoy crafting together. They will share their knowledge and enthusiasm during their time together and produce a number of Christmas Crafts which are be kept or passed on to celebrate the season.
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Silver Jewellery Weekend
Listed on March 7, 2016 by Knuston Hall in Featured CoursesThis course is an introduction to a variety of traditional silver jewellery making techniques, but is also suitable for those with some experience. You will use the techniques to construct at least two wearable items, such as earrings, cufflinks, pendant and also a ring with a tube stone setting. The course will cover...
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Drawing With the Sewing Machine Needle
Listed on March 7, 2016 by Knuston Hall in Featured CoursesDo you want to develop your skills with your sewing machine and learn how to ‘draw’ with the simple straight stitch? Then this is your course! You will start by stitching a design which Richard, your tutor, has prepared for you. He will demonstrate every stage step-by-step. This will give you the confidence...
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Papermaking with Textiles
Listed on March 7, 2016 by Knuston Hall in Featured CoursesFor people who love textiles and want to expand into new areas. Learn how various fabrics and rag pulp can be recycled to make beautiful papers. The handmade papers will be filled with colourful threads, fibres, textures, and pieces of cloth; some will be finished pieces of artwork in their own right. Your...
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Upholstery
Listed on March 7, 2016 by Knuston Hall in Featured CoursesThis course offers the opportunity to learn the basics of upholstery, or develop those you already have and at the same time produce a useful piece of furniture in a fabric of your choice. Beginning with the application of webbing and base hessian, then going through the stages of various filling materials, we...
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Singing for the Terrified
Listed on March 7, 2016 by Knuston Hall in Featured CoursesThis is the course for you if you have been told not to sing, to mime or if you reserve your singing for the car and the shower. For complete beginners, the course will show you that everyone can sing – yes even you! The course is performance based and is relaxed, supportive...
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Your Sewing Machine Know-How
Listed on March 7, 2016 by Knuston Hall in Featured CoursesIf the machine can do it, you can make it with a little know how Beginners and experienced welcome to make an article of your choice or simply experiment with a variety of sewing techniques. Your machine can be an older basic type or a modern more advanced model. There will be a...
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Art Appreciation: Four Major Artists- 1435 – 1903
Listed on March 7, 2016 by Knuston Hall in Featured CoursesGiovanni Bellini, Pieter Bruegel, Rembrandt and Cézanne. We will explore some of the work of the four artists. Each was born in a different century and a different country. Each stands, to many, as one of the masters of art within the European tradition. Examples of paintings and drawings by each will be...
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Your Sewing Machine Know-How
Listed on March 7, 2016 by Knuston Hall in Featured CoursesIf the machine can do it, you can make it with a little know how Beginners and experienced welcome to make an article of your choice or simply experiment with a variety of sewing techniques. Your machine can be an older basic type or a modern more advanced model. There will be a...
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Scrapbook in a Weekend
Listed on March 7, 2016 by Knuston Hall in Featured CoursesDuring the weekend we will complete a 12 x 12 inch scrapbook (2 single page and 9 double page layouts). The layouts will be based on 6x4 inch photos, and these can be trimmed to required size on the day. Although we are creating a whole scrapbook, the pages do not all have...
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Plants that changed the World
Listed on March 7, 2016 by Knuston Hall in Featured CoursesPlants provide us with most things we need, medicine, shelter, food, fuel and oxygen. They have played a significant part in history. We’ll delve into the world of extraordinary plants which brought about massive changes around the world. Starting with the cinchona or quinine tree, we’ll also consider the growing, production, uses and...
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Dao Yin and Tai Chi
Listed on March 7, 2016 by Knuston Hall in Featured CoursesSpend a day enjoying a variety of flowing Chinese exercises and leave feeling relaxed. This course is suitable for men and women, for beginners and those with experience of Dao Yin or Tai Chi. We will work on a variety of Dao Yin exercises, including some from the Baton set, and a section...
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Rameses the Great: An Egyptian Superman
Listed on March 7, 2016 by Knuston Hall in Featured CoursesEverything about Ramses II was great. His reign was the longest of any pharaoh, his building works were the most colossal, his military successes were outstanding, his children numbered over one hundred and his self-praise was unlimited. His reign ushered in the height of Egyptian power in the region with Ramses crushing any...
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Ukulele Jam
Listed on March 7, 2016 by Knuston Hall in Featured CoursesThis will be a fun and relaxed day of playing the uke and jamming with a group of equally enthusiastic players. You’ll already be able to play the uke to a basic standard (know some basic chords and strumming patterns) so we’ll start with some songs that get us playing together and then...
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Bobbin Lace: Beginners & Beyond
Listed on March 7, 2016 by Knuston Hall in Featured CoursesHave you always wanted to make lace but are worried that it looks complicated? Are you a beginner wishing to continue to develop your skills? Are you already a lace maker but would like to continue with your work or start a new pattern? Help is at hand! This is the ideal course...
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Bobbin Lace: Beginners & Beyond
Listed on March 7, 2016 by Knuston Hall in Featured CoursesHave you always wanted to make lace but are worried that it looks complicated? Are you a beginner wishing to continue to develop your skills? Are you already a lace maker but would like to continue with your work or start a new pattern? Help is at hand! This is the ideal course...
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