Artsy Crafts

I was fortunate enough to be on what turned out to be the last Artsy Crafts workshop weekend in Warrington on 08/06/12 to 10/06/12. The descriptions of the workshops really appealed to me and I have to say that they didn't disappoint.



I sat with some great ladies over the weekend, for the fabric book I was sat with Thelma [not in the photo] and Nicky, on the Saturday for the sewing box I was sat with Nicky, Ruth and Andrea [who seems to be distracted by something] and on the final day Andrea was on the next table as another lady joined Nicky, Ruth and myself [and I can't remember her name - sorry]



This was Linda's sample for the fabric book. The workshop started at 9am and, with breaks for lunch, buns and tea, continued until 10:30 [or that's when I called it a draw, some people were still there when I went to bed]. I don't know how Linda and Leandra kept going as they had the following days class to prep.

I finally finished my book after a week at home [including some late nights/mornings - 2:30 on Friday/Saturday]. I am going to put the photos of mine into a separate blog as I took a photo of each page.



And these are Linda's samples for the sewing box. It is two frames, painted and hinged together with sewing related embellishments.



The other side of the box. This class was shorter but not by much - we actually finished at 9pm and my box was just about complete [although I think I still want to make a few tweaks to it].



And the Rusty Relic was the final class. It was a shorter class as everything had to be packed up by 6:30, it was brilliant though. I learnt how to do so many new things over the weekend it's sad that it was the last one.



We did a collection and [someone] got flowers, wine, chocolates and a union jack rubber duck for each of them. Having seen the amount of work that went into the event I'm not surprised that they need a rest from it.

Sara