Articles featuring Anglia Leisure Learning | LeisureCourses.net - short courses & residential study breaks in great locations - Part 2
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Bangle Weaving
Listed on May 20, 2016 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesPlease enquire for details
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Picture it in Collage and Stitch
Listed on May 13, 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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Beautiful Birds
Listed on May 6, 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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Wild weaving weekend
Listed on May 6, 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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Jacobean Tree of Life – Crewel Work Embroidery
Listed on April 8, 2016 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesA weekend residential course on 8 – 10 April 2016 on traditional embroidery in the heart of the Midlands.Read more ... -
Bobbin Lace Making
Listed on April 8, 2016 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesA two-day course making beautiful lace in a quality hotel in the Midlands on 8 – 10 April 2016.Read more ... -
Discover the Joys of Playing the Ukulele
Listed on March 18, 2016 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesWhether you are a beginner or an improver on the ukulele, this workshop weekend is for you.Read more ... -
Bead Needle Weaving
Listed on March 11, 2016 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesWhether new to beading or more experienced, you will quickly be able to complete a first piece of jewellery before moving on to something more complex.Read more ... -
Christmas Creations Patchwork and Quilting
Listed on November 20, 2015 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesLearn new techniques as you stitch Gail’s gorgeous designs: there will be lots of projects to choose from, to suit all tastes, including three sumptuous kings, spectacular Rose Window wall quilts, doves, a poinsettia, a folded patchwork star, Bethlehem rooftops at night, and an exotic Indian embroidered bird rope.Read more ... -
The Magic of Silk Painting
Listed on October 31, 2015 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesOn this one day course you will have an opportunity to explore key techniques associated with Silk Painting - watercolour effects, salt patterning and gutta resist designs. Read more ... -
Making Art Cloth – Textile Workshop
Listed on October 30, 2015 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesOn this experimental textile weekend you will be able to try out a range of different techniques as you design your own art cloth ready for you to make it into quilts, clothes, bags etc.Read more ... -
Bead Needle Weaving
Listed on October 30, 2015 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesSpend a relaxing weekend making beautiful beaded jewellery with just beads and thread. Your tutor, Olive, has an ever growing selection of easy to follow patterns for you to use, with explanation diagrams as well as words.Read more ... -
Discover the Joys of Playing the Ukulele
Listed on October 23, 2015 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesWhether you are a beginner or an improver on the ukulele, this workshop weekend is for you. You’ll be given a kick start in improving your skills on this wonderful instrument, as well as an opportunity to sing and play with a group of like-minded enthusiasts.Read more ... -
Silken Soutache Braid
Listed on October 23, 2015 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesDiscover the sewn craft of Soutache Braid on a weekend residential course in Bristol. Your course starts with Friday dinner at 7 pm and runs through to Sunday afternoon tea, but you can check in from 3 pm and take advantage of the hotel’s facilities before you meet your fellow students. Fees include an en...
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Batik into Book-making
Listed on October 17, 2015 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. YRead more ... -
Our new website
Listed on August 3, 2015 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Blogs!Here is our new website, with a whole range of short leisure courses running this autumn and in to 2016. More courses will be added regularly. Do let us have your feedback on this site. What do you like about it? What can we improve? And is there anything you would like us to add? […]
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Find out more about us!
Listed on June 12, 2015 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Blogs!Are you thinking of coming on one of our courses? If you have a question, please do contact us and we will be delighted to help you. The post Find out more about us! appeared first on Anglia Leisure Learning. Read more ... -
Craft courses near Central Birmingham
Listed on November 30, 2014 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Crafts & TextilesCourses organised by Anglia Leisure Learning Limited - spend a weekend that you will thoroughly enjoy and remember for many monthsRead more ... -
Making Christmas Lace
Listed on November 21, 2014 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesWhether you are a beginner wishing to unearth the joys of lace making, or you are experienced in this traditional craft, here is the course for youRead more ... -
Ukulele for Beginners
Listed on October 31, 2014 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesCan’t read music? Never played before? Failed with other instruments? If you answer ‘yes’ to any of these questions, this course is aimed at you, because it makes the ukulele easily accessible to complete beginners who need a quick fix to get going without a long hard slog to success. Read more ... -
A Patchwork Trip around the World
Listed on October 31, 2014 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesThe decorative motifs of different countries have inspired stitchers through the ages, and this course builds on that international inspiration. Read more ... -
Colour Coral Reef – creative embroidery and beadwork
Listed on October 31, 2014 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesThis weekend course takes the skills of both embroidery and beadwork and combines them to achieve a unique piece of creative textile art. Read more ... -
Making Money from Magazine Journalism
Listed on October 31, 2014 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesThis weekend is for anyone who would like to see their name in print and earn some money at the same time. Maureen Moody’s practical workshop, covering non-fiction writing, is an inspirational introduction to magazine journalism for adults of all ages and backgrounds.Read more ... -
Jacobean Tree Tree of Life – Crewel work embroidery
Listed on October 24, 2014 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesCrewel work is a very old, traditional and historically important embroidery technique, which can also be used with great success in modern design. A course for newcomers and improvers.Read more ... -
Encaustic Art
Listed on October 18, 2014 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesIn this one day workshop, we will look at producing vivid abstracts, fantasy pictures and landscapes. Read more ... -
Unravelling the Irish ‘Troubles’
Listed on October 17, 2014 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesThis weekend history course unearths just what a muddle various politicians and religious leaders have created in their wish to reconcile the diverse views, often held passionately, as to whether Ulster should remain within the United Kingdom or be unified with the southRead more ... -
Bobbin Lace Making
Listed on October 17, 2014 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesWhether you are a beginner wishing to unearth the joys of lace making, or you are experienced in this traditional craft, here is the course for you.Read more ... -
Pencil Art
Listed on October 17, 2014 by Anglia Leisure Learning in Featured CoursesPencils are probably the most common implements used for making marks on paper, and one with which we come to grips before we have learned to write intelligibly. Read more ... -
Textiles into Bookmaking
Listed on August 30, 2014 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.Read more ... -
21 today – is this the key to the door ?
Listed on August 24, 2014 by LeisureCourses.net in Member NewsThere are 21 different courses on offer from Anglia Leisure Learning this autumn, with subjects ranging from patchwork and quilting, embroidery and lace making to drawing, history and making money from non-fiction journalism, and many more. Read more ...