GLENESK FOLK MUSEUM – 3 SEPTEMBER 2017
Come along – meet the handicraft experts – bring your handiwork and textile treasures to show and share 🙂
Alyth
Alyth Creates a 3-day festival 26 – 28 May
WORKSHOPS! Ever wanted to crochet and no idea how to start? Or do you know the basics and want to learn different techniques..? I am a contemporary crochet artist and tutor. I will be running a series of workshops through Fri, Sat & Sun 26-28 May at the Alyth Festival.
Each day there is a BEGINNERS workshop 10am – 2pm, advanced in the afternoon 2pm – 4pm. I cater for left-handers. £10 per class.
SPECIALIST WORKSHOPS – £15 per class.
Fri pm – BROOMSTICK CROCHET Worked on a broomstick! This simple method creates loose fabric which has many uses. Why not start with a simple scarf?
Sat pm – HAIRPIN CROCHET Traditionally made on a shell hairpin this work grows quickly.
Sunday pm – AFGHAN CROCHET Working on an elongated hook this work sits somewhere between knitting and crochet. Quick and easy to learn, produces fabric from firm to lacy.
Contact Ellie on 01307 466354 to book.
You can pay me easily through Paypal at https://www.paypal.me/EllieFiddes
FUN A DAY DUNDEE 12 FEBRUARY 2017
Big huge thanks to all of you in the Fun A Day Dundee team for all the hard work you put into this event. It was an absolute pleasure to take part.
Here are a few more photographs of the fun I had. Enjoy!
THE THERAPEUTIC ART OF CROCHET – HARRIS ACADEMY, DUNDEE
All 15 places on this course are now taken.
If you would like tuition from me, please get in touch. Whether you are a complete beginner, or wish to learn a specific technique – such as broomstick crochet – I am happy to organise a session, or sessions, to suit. Here are examples of students’ previous work, firstly a beginner’s, then somebody working beyond the basics.
FUN A DAY DUNDEE DAY 3-5 – FOZZICKING ABOUT WITH CROCHET
- Experimenting with 4mm hook and DK weight cotton.
- Different ideas, quintuple treble, Irish net grounds, Irish net fill-ins.
- Work vertically or horizontally?
- Been worked up and rattled down a few times before reasonably happy with these two different sides.
- A few problems to solve still.
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Fun A Day Dundee 2 January 2017
Well, I’m a crochet tutor! So the first thing I saw when I looked at this shed snakeskin was a beautiful lacy crochet pattern. Don’t know quite how it would turn out or what I might use it for. Maybe give this a try out sometime and see if it can be made into a working pattern. Probably would need a more delicate name than Boa’s Belly Stitch though!
Fun A Day 1 January 2017
Last night somebody handed me an strange object (as they do on Hogmanay) and said “What could you make from this? Take it away and see what you can do with it.”
So my Fun A day project is going to be – working out what I can do with the shed skin from a six foot boa constrictor.
First take photographs of it in all it’s complex beauty. Here are four of them.
