21 Sep Jillian Culey: Basketry – twining and cords
Jillian Culey's twining and cord making workshop was excellent fun. We learnt a few speedy ways of making cords and then incorporated them into baskets and/or bags....
20 Apr Jan Clark: Takeaway Dye Day
Jan's Takeaway Dye Day is always a fun workshop. Students are encouraged to experiment with coloured dyes to create bright new fabrics. Jan shows students a variety of ways to use dye on fabrics that they might not have thought of. The effects of folding,...
08 Jul Terry Cooke: Creative Thinking for Photographers
With a full class for this workshop, Terry Cooke was kept on his toes! He set a number of tasks for his students including photographing objects in various scenes, taking photographs for a specific purpose - in this case he used Go Create as a...
28 Jun Kath Caddy: Shoe Making
We braved the elements for this workshop - winter has really set in to the New England now and our students worked hard to get their shoes done before dark on the second day. Students chose a variety of fabrics and leathers for their shoes....
02 Jun Polly Giacchina: New Fibre Surfaces
My head is still buzzing from the amount of information gleaned in this workshop. Over the three days Polly taught us coiling, twining, knotless netting and cobbling. We used as many different types of fibres as we could lay our hands on. Anything from electrical...