Creative Textile Course - First Session

Before we look at the first session I thought I would give you some information about what my 10 week Creative Textile course covers. Firstly, this is not a course to teach you how to make things, it is a course where you will learn a range of textile techniques and the course programme is as follows:

Collage
Yarn Wrapping and Weaving
Feltmaking
Rag Rug
Knitting with more than wool
Fabric Dyeing
Silk Painting
Batik
Hand Stitching
Machine Stitching

At the end of course you will have samples and handouts for all these techniques.

So the first session of the course will be looking at a technique that I learned from Sue Dove, which is designed to help people find some inspiration to begin a piece of work.  I give students some magazines to look at for them to find a picture which they like the look of and then show them how to make a small viewfinder from two L shaped pieces of card.  The students move the viewfinder over the picture until they find an area which is pleasing to them, when they fasten the viewfinder down with masking tape and create a collage of this area so they have an image to work from during the course.

So this is the end result of the first session and can be the basis for future pieces of work.  The next blog post will be about the second session on Yarn Wrapping and Weaving.

I will be running this course at Penwith College, St. Clare Street, Penzance for 10 weeks on a Wednesday evening from 7 - 9 p.m. starting on Wednesday 19th April and it will be repeated in the autumn from Wednesday 13th September.
For more information and to book a place - go to:
Penwith College - Creative Textiles Course

It may also be running in St. Ives Library for 10 weeks on a Wednesday afternoon, from 1 - 3 p.m., after Easter, through the  Workers Education Association (WEA) - dates to be confirmed.
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