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Hanging by a Thread - Creative Textile Studio
A Creative Textiles Teaching & Learning Center in Warrington
The Old School, Fairfield Street, Warrington
Updates
Wet Felted Landscape Workshop
Mar 31, 2022 – Mar 31, 2022Thurs 31st March
Building a landscape with a meadow flower feel.
Suitable for beginners
- Allow 4.5+ hours - £42 -
Posted on Mar 17, 2022
Call nowFelt - Making Landscape Workshop
Contact Maria – 07951 046780 or hangingbyathread@yahoo.com
Learn to wet felt – A fun workshop creating a wet felted landscape with wool fibres. We’ll also be doing a bit of needle felting and stitch. This is a 4.5+ hour session with refreshments. Just bring your ...
Feltmaking Tuesdays & Creative Textile Wednesdays
Jan 18, 2022 – Mar 30, 2022Beginners courses restart in January 2022 in feltmaking (wet and needle felting and creative textiles (free stitch, image transfer etc)
Lino stamp cut, print & Stitch collage 2 day workshop
Jan 13, 2022 – Jan 14, 2022This is a new workshop inspired by Angie Lewin prints. (We have been working on free stitched collages as part of the Creative Textiles block.) We are looking at cutting your own flora and fauna based heads and stems stamps, printing these on different fabrics and creating a stitch fabric collage...
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Lino Printing Workshop This Saturday
Nov 27, 2021 – Nov 27, 2021If You Fancy Trying it out we will be using soft cut plates.
A fun intro into lino cutting and printing!
Posted on Sep 17, 2021
Busy creating lino printed bee's for the open studio event trees that we will be putting up on Saturday... Art works on the tree will be free to take home after the open studios next Sunday!
Posted on Sep 13, 2021
2021-2022 Classes and workshops...
Warrington Creative Collective
Sep 26, 2021 – Sep 26, 2021An Artsy day a head folks...Have a wee look at the line up for the day, demos, taster sessions in painting through to ceramics etc. Wonder round the studios at The Old school or The Hive, take part or chill with a coffee!
I'm running taster sessions in Lino printing at in the studio at The Old Sc...
Testimonials
9 months ago
- Bertha BI really enjoy classes with Maria, very well prepared and resourced. Plenty of advice, ideas and encouragement. Allows you to develop your own ideas with help, rather than sticking to a rigid formula. Lovely atmosphere in class, supporting each other and sharing ideas. I've done felting, free machine embroidery, lino cut etc. Missed them so much in lockdown, so glad to be returning
9 months ago
- Gillianne AI have learned so much from Maria's classes. The amount of preparation she puts into samples and instructions makes the projects achievable for all. The sessions are friendly and sociable and the students support and encourage each other. The studio is a joy to be in and the skills and confidence gained is worth every penny. And I must give a nod to the chocolate brownies!
9 months ago
- Madeleine DA joy to attend Maria’a workshops. Enlightening and fun. Maria connects really well with her students offering great inspiration and support. The tea and biscuits are good too!!
Print, Free Stitch & Feltmaking Classes
Classes and workshops are run by Maria Livesey in a bright airy studio within The Old School.
At different points in the year you will find, wet felting & needle felting; screen, gelli, or Lino printing; image transfer; free machine stitch; devoré, dyes and stitch manipulation. Which go hand in hand with a number of making projects, including bag and lampshade making.
Most of the sessions are geared to adults, with some half term sessions for parents & children. Courses generally run on a Tuesday morning for a termly block.
Day 'one off' workshops: These tend to cover lino printing (Christmas cards is very popular) and felt-making and generally run on a Friday.
WI's and guilds: I take requests for larger workshops these can be live or zoom.
Requests private individuals: These are also welcome for 1:1 skills development eg teaching free machine stitch or family groups who would like to engage in a bit of creativity together.
02/07 Pandemic update - In trying to adapt to the pandemic I'm running short courses, Zoom sessions and looking at pre recorded sessions with kits.
Take a peak at what we get up to...
SUPPLIES: I do hold some...
Feltmaking (Needle felting equipment, Merino and specialty fibers)
Fabrics (including devoré velvet),
Buttons, beads and other bits and bobs.
Lino/silk screen printing equipment and inks if you fancy a try at home.
Lampshade kits
Coin purse clasps
Frames/Mounts
Please just ask, I may have what your looking for (message me!)
New Year Workshops and classes...
WORKSHOPS
A fun introduction to various crafts
suitable for beginners (to intermediate*) with
tea/coffee on tap and home-made brownies.
Unless other-wise stated sessions
usually run on a Friday at 10am – Weekend workshops are suitable for motivated teens!
SPRING 2022
Lino Cut, Print
& Stitch on Fabric
2
Days – Thurs 13 & Fri 14th Jan
- Allow 4 hours each day - £68 -
Wet Felted Valentines
Picture: Fri 11th Feb
A bit of nuno and a resist as we explore texture
for a valentine’s design.
- Allow 4.5+ hours - £42 -
Wet felted Landscape*: Fri 25th March
Building a landscape with a meadow flower feel.
- Allow 4.5+ hours - £42 -
Image transfer & stitch:
Thurs 28th & Fri 29th
April
Exploring image transfer – creating canvas art and a vintage style
broach
- Allow 4+ hours each day- £72 -
Wet Felted Bag (TBC):
Fri 13th May
Using resist to create your own bag
- Allow 4.5+ hours - £47 -
CLASSES
Courses run as 3 independent blocks/terms (9 Weeks in each term) but they will progress as you go through the year or stand alone in their own right as a short course (with each block different to the previous one) -
- Felt making - Exploring and advancing various felt making techniques as we go throughout the year. Including wet, dry, nuno and resist etc as we go.
Courses run as 3 independent blocks/terms (9 Weeks in each term) but they will progress as you go through the year or stand alone in their own right as a short course (with each block different to the previous one) -
- Felt making - Exploring and advancing various felt making techniques as we go throughout the year. Including wet, dry, nuno and resist etc as we go.
Tuesdays: 10am –
12.30pm
Term 1: 5th Oct to 7th Dec
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Excl: 26th Oct
Term 2: 18th Jan -29th
March -
Excl:22nd Feb &
1st March
Term 3: 3rd May – 12th July
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Excl 31st May &
7th June -
- Creative Textiles – Exploring free machine stitch, print, dyes, chemical treatments etc. Towards the end of each term we work towards creating a final piece (bag, cushion cover, wall hanging etc) which incorporates the techniques we have covered during the block.
Wednesday’s 10am -12.30pm
Term 1: 6th Oct – 8th Dec
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Excl: 27th
Oct
Term 2: 19th Jan – 30th
March -
Excl: 23rd Feb
& 2nd March
Term 3: 4th May -13th July -
Excl 1st and 8th
June
Course Fees: are £16.50 per session plus £3.50 towards materials for 9 weeks: £180 total (Paid in full 2 weeks before the block starts) Free machine stitch introduction is supplemental to these blocks.
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