Hand Stitching Weekend
Take some time out of your busy summer schedule and enjoy two days of hand stitching workshops with Carolyn Forster. Workshops are suitable for everyone, from beginners to the more advanced.
Your Tour Includes
- 2 nights full-board accommodation, starting with dinner on Friday and ending with lunch on Sunday
- 2 days tuition with Carolyn Forster, kit included
- Tea/coffee during workshops
- Use of the hotel leisure facilities (subject to availability); gym, heated indoor swimming pool, jacuzzi, sauna & steam room
- Complimentary Wi-Fi
Carolyn Forster
Carolyn Forster is a quilt designer, teacher and author from Tunbridge Wells in Kent. Since self-publishing her first book ‘Quilting on the Go’ in 2007, Carolyn has written ten more patchwork and quilting books with Search Press in the UK and Landauer Publishing in the USA. She has been a regular project contributor for magazines in the UK, including Today's Quilter, as well as abroad.
Carolyn's quilts are an eclectic mix of fabrics, a posh way to say she makes scrappy quilts, and they always have their roots from some point in the past, being inspired by quilt makers who have gone before us. Accessibility is Carolyn’s key philosophy with her teaching, demystifying techniques to allow every quilter to discover their own voice.
Teaching for Arena travel is a great opportunity to combine her love of travel and stitching and the projects for these trips will reflect and explore techniques from Quilting on the Go.
Itinerary
Check in to your room from 3pm. Meet your expert, tour manager and fellow crafters for dinner at 7pm.
Includes Dinner
Perfect your hand pieced patchwork with the sewing of a Friendship Garden patchwork block. Suitable for beginners and those wanting to stretch their hand piecing skills. You will make templates, mark the fabric, cut and sew the blocks. Learn skills including set-in piecing and curves. The block can be used on its own, or when four are set together a secondary pattern occurs which would work well as a frame quilt centre or part of a repeat block quilt.
Includes Breakfast
Includes Lunch
Includes Dinner
Included Highlights
Today we will look at the techniques of Borro, Kawandi, Kantha & Tile Blocks, which all come from different cultural textile backgrounds, but all have in common the use of fabric scraps and hand stitching. You will create a mini quilt/coaster using your choice of technique and learn a fun, hassle free method of binding the quilt edges, all by hand.
Includes Breakfast
Includes Lunch
Included Highlights
Tour Notes: Although there are no mobility requirements for this tour, please note that you will need to be able to make your own way between our workshop room, your bedroom and the restaurant, which could involve walks of up to 5 minutes. If you require full disabled access, please check with us before booking.
Perfect for Textile Lovers
Uniquely created for textile lovers, this Stitchtopia textile holiday is the perfect way to discover fascinating fabrics and cultures, whilst travelling to some of the world’s most inspiring places. Our talented stitching expert will be on hand throughout the holiday and host creative workshops with beautifully designed projects inspired by your travels.
Accommodation
You will be staying at the 4-star Staverton Park Hotel & Golf Club for 2 nights.