Mixed Media Textiles - Project - Beeston Library - Adult Learning

Beeston Library, Beeston

Date	25 March - 8 April 2025
Sessions	Tuesdays: 2:30pm - 4:30pm
No. sessions	3
Venue	Beeston Library, Beeston View venue details
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 12
Cost	FREE - £14

About this course

Create a mixed media textile art piece, incorporating your own craft skills. Building from the skills learnt on the Mixed Media Textiles Wall Hanging course, you will design your own project, bringing your own craft skills to create your own unique design. Choosing to start from a wooden dowel, frame or fabric panel, you will plan out your design and create sections of textiles to build up into the final piece. You are encouraged to bring your own craft skills to the course, including knitting, crochet, beading, quilting, felting etc.

What will learners achieve by the end of the course?

Learn how to independently design a mixed media textile piece
Learn how to attach and incorporate different textile crafts
How to create a balanced design
Increase creative confidence by creating your own unique design independently

Resources required:

Fabric offcuts; these can be from sewing projects, old clothes or offcuts from fabric shops
Wooden dowel, picture frame or fabric to create your base
Fabric
Selection of yarn, wool or cords
Selections of sewing thread and embroidery threads
Sewing needle and embroidery needle
Scissors
Any other craft supplies you want to bring!

Supplies can be purchased from:

The Range
Boyes
Local fabric shops and market stalls
Hobbycraft
Amazon

Booking your place and fee information

If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our webpage for further information https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/

To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING, AND
Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking. If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.

Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required). As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas: