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
| Applique Taster |
| A lovely evening session where you will learn all about applique. No sewing experience is necessary. You will create your own simple design using pretty fabrics and stitching. All materials are provided. |
| Tutor: Katharine Wright |
| Cost: £20.00 |
| Available Dates Select a date below to add it to your basket |
| Cardmaking - using your Sewing Machine! |
| Take your cardmaking in a new direction and incorporate fabric and paper with stitching to make some beautiful and unusual designs. |
| Tutor: Katharine Wright |
| Cost: £15.00 |
| Available Dates Select a date below to add it to your basket |
| Clean Earth Crafting |
| A new course looking at ways of using common resources around us. One taster session will be held each month. Session 1: Paper Session 2: Plastic Session 3: Fabric Session 4: Christmas |
| Tutor: Katharine Wright |
| Cost: £15.00 |
| Available Dates Select a date below to add it to your basket |
| Crochet Taster |
| An introduction to crochet for complete beginners. If you have ever thought about learning to crochet, then this is the workshop for you! You will learn how to start crocheting and tackle a chain and double crochet stitch. You will then crochet a daisy using the stitches you have just learnt. If you find you enjoy crochet, our longer 3 week Crochet Course is perfect to develop your skills and for you to learn more stitches and how to read a crochet pattern.
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| Tutor: Katharine Wright |
| Cost: £12.00 |
| Available Dates Select a date below to add it to your basket |
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| Decoupage |
| Come and spend a happy hour learning how to decoupage - it's the ultimate upcycling craft!
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| Tutor: Meg Bonser |
| Cost: £12.00 |
| Available Dates Select a date below to add it to your basket |
| Embroidery Taster |
| A workshop designed to give you an introduction to the world of hand embroidery. Katharine will show you some different styles of embroidery and stitches and you will choose a simple design to begin stitching yourself. Embroidery is a gentle and relaxing craft, perfect for taking time out from our busy schedules.
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| Tutor: Katharine Wright |
| Cost: £15.00 |
| Available Dates Select a date below to add it to your basket |
| Glass Fusion Jewellery Taster |
| 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: £22.00 |
| Available Dates Select a date below to add it to your basket |
| Introduction to Dressmaking Patterns |
| A starter session showing you how to begin working with dressmaking patterns: measuring correctly for your body size (the sizings on dressmaking patterns differ from brand to brand, and don't seem to match any high street sizing), choosing the right fabric for the pattern, and laying and cutting correctly. A great intro recommended for anyone who is new, or returning to dressmaking after some time.
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| Tutor: Katharine Wright |
| Cost: £15.00 |
| Available Dates Select a date below to add it to your basket |
| Jewellery Taster |
| In this workshop, you will have to opportunity to make some simple pieces of jewellery, such as beaded bracelets and necklaces. You can spend a happy hour looking through our extensive collection of beads, to choose a selection of your favourites to turn in to a wearable piece of artwork! If you have attended some of our jewellery workshops before, you are welcome to come along and tackle more complex projects.
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| Tutor: Meg Bonser |
| Cost: £15.00 |
| Available Dates Select a date below to add it to your basket |
| Kantha Embroidery |
| A beautifully simple form of stitching originating in India stitched on layers of delicate fabric. Lovely designs and pictures can be made using this free flowing technique and in our taster session you will stitch a simple design learning all the techniques to carry on this relaxing craft at home.
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| Tutor: Katharine Wright |
| Cost: £18.00 |
| Available Dates Select a date below to add it to your basket |
| Macrame Wall Hanging Taster |
| On this taster workshop we will introduce you to the wonderful world of macrame! High on the trend list for homes at the moment, macrame is enjoying a return to fashion. In this workshop, you will learn the basic knots used in macrame and have the opportunity to practise making them, before using them to make a small wall hanging.
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| Tutor: Meg Bonser |
| Cost: £18.00 |
| Available Dates Select a date below to add it to your basket |
| Marbling |
| A quick taster where you will learn how to marble paper and fabric. Lots of fun, quite messy and you'll have lots of finished pieces to take home to use in your crafting such as card making, scrap booking, art journalling or textile art.
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| Tutor: Meg Bonser |
| Cost: £10.00 |
| Available Dates Select a date below to add it to your basket |
| Needlefelted Landscape Taster |
| 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: £12.00 |
| Available Dates Select a date below to add it to your basket |
| Paper Cutting Taster |
| In this taster session you will learn the basics of paper cutting yusing - a great skill to add to cardmaking, or making delicate collages for your home. See how man pieces you can make during the session! Materials included.
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| Tutor: Meg Bonser |
| Cost: £15.00 |
| Available Dates Select a date below to add it to your basket |
| Tunisian Crochet Taster |
| Come and spend a peaceful hour and half learning how to do Tunisian Crochet! It makes a beautiful soft, dense fabric perfect for resuable face cloths.
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| Tutor: Katharine Wright |
| Cost: £15.00 |
| Available Dates Select a date below to add it to your basket |
| Wet Felting Taster |
| Come and have a go at Wet Felting. Learn the basic technique using wool tops, soap and water and have a go at making a mini picture in felt to take home.
Why not add our Starter Wet Felting kit to your basket? Click here to find it in the shop. |
| Tutor: Katharine Wright |
| Cost: £15.00 |
| Available Dates Select a date below to add it to your basket |
