Details of all our courses are available below. Prices include all materials needed (unless otherwise stated).Courses can be booked online, over the telephone on 01858 466692, by post or in person at Leicestershire Craft Centre, 10a High Street, Market Harborough (above Monsoon).
Please note refunds and transfers for workshops and courses can only be given in the unlikely event of a workshop or course being cancelled due to insufficient numbers or unforeseeable circumstances.
Taster Courses Art & Sculpture Jewellery Sewing Dressmaking Homemaking Wellbeing Knitting/Crochet Felting & Textiles Seasonal Other Children's Courses
Taster Courses
| Book Binding Taster |
| ONLINE TASTER! Receive a kit containing all you need to make 3-4 different types of books and notebooks plus a link to our live online Zoom class. An introduction to making your own books and notebooks - we'll tackle folded books and a basic Japanese stabbed binding book - relaxing and fun.
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| Tutor: Katharine Wright |
| Cost: £15.00 |
| Available Dates Select a date below to add it to your basket |
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Or order the Craft Kit to learn at home |
| Button Pictures |
| Raid our huge button stash, choose a shape (perhaps and animal or letter) and a colour scheme and make a unique piece of art for your home!
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| Tutor: Meg Bonser |
| Cost: £18.00 |
| Available Dates Select a date below to add it to your basket |
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Or order the Craft Kit to learn at home |
| Decoupage Lantern |
| Come and spend an afternoon making a lovely decoupage lantern. Choose from our range of patterned papers and learn how to neatly decorate the glass panels. A quick and effective craft which will look great in your garden with some fairy lights inside or in the window for Christmas! Materials and lantern included. There will be plenty of other items to decoupage too, if you wish.
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| Tutor: Meg Bonser / Katharine Wright |
| Cost: £15.00 |
| Available Dates Select a date below to add it to your basket |
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Or order the Craft Kit to learn at home |
| Dorset Button Taster |
| ONLINE COURSE! Receive a kit containing everything you need to make three decorative Dorset buttons as well as a link to our live Zoom class. Come and learn how to make beautiful decorative Dorset buttons - an old craft using embroidery threads.
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| Tutor: Katharine Wright |
| Cost: £15.00 |
| Available Dates Select a date below to add it to your basket |
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Or order the Craft Kit to learn at home |
| Everlasting Wreath |
| Celebrate with a wreath decoration that will last and last! Raid our fabric and ribbon stash picking out your favourite colours to create this easy take on a rag wreath.
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| Tutor: Meg Bonser |
| Cost: £20.00 |
| Available Dates Select a date below to add it to your basket |
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Or order the Craft Kit to learn at home |
| Glass Fusion Jewellery Taster |
| ONLINE COURSE! Join our first online course of 2021 and learn basic glass fusion. You will receive a kit containing all the materials you need to make 5 pieces of jewellery or decorations and take part in the Live Zoom class at the time advertised. The cost also includes postage costs and firing as you will need to return your makes to us for firing. An introduction to glass fusion where you will learn to make small jewellery pendants and little decorations using a microwave glass kiln.
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| Tutor: Katharine Wright |
| Cost: £25.00 |
| Available Dates Select a date below to add it to your basket |
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Or order the Craft Kit to learn at home |
| Jewellery Making Taster |
| An hour's introduction to beading and stringing - learn about the different kinds of findings, strings and beads and begin to use pliers to make bracelets, earrings and a simple necklace.
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| Tutor: Katharine Wright |
| Cost: £15.00 |
| Available Dates Select a date below to add it to your basket |
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Or order the Craft Kit to learn at home |
| Leather Tassels and Charms |
| ONLINE TASTER! Receive a kit to make a funky leather tassel and super woolly pom-pom bag charms as well as a link to our live Zoom class. Start working with leather, learning how to cut, stitch and attach hardware to make your own stylish keyrings and bag charms. You will get to make 2 pieces during the class.
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| Tutor: Hannah Harrison/Katharine Wright |
| Cost: £18.00 |
| Available Dates Select a date below to add it to your basket |
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Or order the Craft Kit to learn at home |
| Needlefelted Landscape Taster |
| ONLINE COURSE! You will receive a kit containing all the tools and materials you need to create a needlefelted landscape picture and a link to our live Zoom class. A relaxing and addictive craft to learn. A lovely introduction to needlefelting. You will get to create your own mini landscape picture. We'll provide lots of inspiration and all the materials, but if you have a picture of your own you wish to bring to reproduce, then feel free to do so.
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| Tutor: Katharine Wright |
| Cost: £18.00 |
| Available Dates Select a date below to add it to your basket |
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Or order the Craft Kit to learn at home |
| Rope Bowls |
| A brilliant way of using up scrap fabric or rope and creating something useful and beautiful in the process! Learn to make a sturdy rope bowl perfect for gifts or holding all your bits and bobs!
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| Tutor: Katharine Wright |
| Cost: £18.00 |
| Available Dates Select a date below to add it to your basket |
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Or order the Craft Kit to learn at home |
| Wet Felting Taster |
| ONLINE TASTER COURSE! Learn how to make felt using the wet felting technique - receive a kit with all the materials you need to take part in our love Zoom class. Wet Felting is a fun and exciting way to make felt - as well as one of the most ancient ways to make fabric. Using wool tops with the addition of soap and hot water, felt can be made and sculpted into beautiful shapes. In this quick taster session, we will make a simple flat piece of felt with a picture.
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| Tutor: Katharine Wright |
| Cost: £18.00 |
| Available Dates Select a date below to add it to your basket |
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Or order the Craft Kit to learn at home |
