Beautiful beach weaving pieces made in yesterday’s workshop with @jackietapestry . The textures and colours are absolutely lovely!

Jackie has other weaving workshops coming up here in September, with a full day course on Saturday 5th and circular weaving on Thursday 10th September. Spaces available for both. Bookings can be made via our website, over the phone or in store.

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Well what an exciting (and exhausting) month August was!
There was a lot of hot, sweaty and dusty removal of furniture and old stands, plus drilling and building new display areas and tables. We now have our beautiful workshop studio space and have so far held three workshops, a stitchers’ social event and a weaving demonstration in there!

The shop continues to have new stock added in, more fabrics arrived, new yarns, new gift ideas, autumn kit ranges… and there have been several supplier meetings with orders placed for the coming months.

We also revamped the newsletter!! And sent out a test, and our first proper, newsletter which gives updates on what’s happening, workshop dates, new products, community projects… It goes out every two weeks on a Friday so do sign up if you’re interested! Just scroll to the bottom of our web page to enter your details and make sure you don’t miss a thing!

What have you enjoyed seeing the most? What should we do next?

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💥 POW! 💥

Check this fabric out! Isn’t it gorgeous? Like leafy flames or painted metal shining in the sunshine.

We’ve had three new viscose satin prints in this week and they are glorious!

(We’ve also had linen look cotton, hessian, cotton sheeting, blackout curtain lining, dress net…)

The viscose satin feels almost like silk, it’s cool to the touch, fairly lightweight (but not see-through) and would make wonderful blouses or skirts, maybe some flowy wide leg trousers? Swipe to see the close ups, and the second design we’ve brought in as well.

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We had a rather lovely Sashiko & Boro workshop in the studio yesterday morning, held by the brilliant @marilynscreativethreads .
There is something so pleasing about choosing fabric combinations and simple repetitive stitching - the samples that were made are really lovely!!

Marilyn spoke a little about the history of this Japanese stitching and mending technique, before showing the class how to use the templates and different stitch techniques.

Swipe to see what everyone got up to.

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Thank you to Melissa of @lostwoodsworkshops for bringing her calming blend of mindful stitching, peaceful fabric piecing and calming conversation to yesterday’s Stitched Vessels workshop.

These are double sided little fabric pots made with the smallest of scraps and two beautiful vessels were started with the ladies just piecing the second sides together by the end of the workshop. They then had enough pieces squirrelled inside their pots to take home and finish off.

What a brilliant way to spend a morning!!

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