This weekend’s a workshop double whammy, after a fab candle making session yesterday, it’s a silk painting workshop today. I run silk painting in the gorgeous wee craft shop on Gillygate, The York Makery. My eight booked ladies turned up nice and early and we got started on some festive silk painting, with everyone choosing or in some cases designing their four scenes for the fronts of their Christmas cards. Starting with the gutta outlines we then moved on to using the colou

Between now and Christmas I’m teaching a different workshop each weekend. This weekend’s class (Sat 12 November) was soap making. I ran it through City of York Council so they handled the bookings side of things and provided the teaching space, a cookery room in Huntington School. Every learner had a hob and work space. In each workspace I’d set out moulds and equipment and in the centre of the room I set up a station where everyone could come and collect their clear or opaqu

Over the summer I’ve ran several more felt making for beginner’s classes. I love showing people how to make felt and guiding them through the various steps, through to seeing their finished pieces of felted fabric…. but I’ve already said all that on this blog in previous posts. I’m writing this post really just as an excuse to show off the pictures of the work completed on the last two classes as I’m just so thrilled with them all! Quite a few people turned up with set ideas

This is part of the HAFNEY art project that I wrote about on 27th February. After a wee bit of backwards and forwards with the school, I went and did my felt making workshop with their A-Level art students today. We only had two hours, so it was pretty full on, but it was a fab session. There are only four students doing this module, so it was a lovely small group to work with and as I showed them the felt making process and the science behind how the strands of dyed wool fus