The talented Ruth Brown has been teaching her Books for Textile Artists workshop in my studio this week and I loved participating. In the space of 4 days we completed six books - three folded books, a drum leaf bound book, a long stitch leather bound journal and, my favourite, a secret Belgium bound book using book cloth made from hand dyed fabric. And I got to ‘test drive’ using a webcam and projector so that students could see Ruth’s demonstrations in a social distanced and safe way. My thanks to the other students - Alison, Jan, Mandy, Phil, Tracy and Tracey - for their good company!

Ruth will be teaching again in my studio next year. Dates to be confirmed …. so watch this space!

In the meantime I have now loaded all the workshops that I will be teaching in 2022 onto my website. As well as the workshops I’ve announced over the last couple of weeks I have added new dates for:

Simply Screen Printing 2 day workshop

Print, Stitch, Go! 5 day workshop

Print Your Palette 5 day workshop

Colour Your Palette 5 day workshop

And, of course, Breakdown Your Palette 5 day workshop

Click on the links above to find more details. Pricing is the same as this year - £160 for the 2 day workshops and £400 for the 5 day workshops. If you can’t wait until 2022 there is still availability of some 2021 workshops. Have a look at my workshop page here.

And now I need to crack on with my preparations for Festival of Quilts …. opens on Thursday, very excited!!