My healthy little pancakes

Pancakes

I have always loved making pancakes as they are such an easy thing to put together if you have run out of breakfast or teatime treats. My pancakes/drop scones are bursting fully of lovely bits and bobs I chuck in from my larder, this always changes depending what I have when I make them. I … read more…

New Craft Courses for 2020

Ali spinning

I can never believe quite how fast a year can go by…we have had such a busy 2019, that we have suddenly rolled into 2020! We have all our usual craft courses and holidays for 2020, plus a few new ones – including our Fleece to Needle Felt a Picture with Karen Price, which we … read more…

Amazing last minute offer!

£250 off the last few places on our May Fleece to Felt craft holiday in the Scottish Highlands! We have two places left on our May craft holiday, perfect for either two to share or a solo traveller. Join us for a wonderfully relaxing week of wool based craft in the Highlands of Scotland. Learn … read more…

Last minute spaces on our May Craft Retreat..

We are lucky enough to have Fi Oberon come and visit us in May. She is returning to run a part of our week long Fleece to Felt week.  This year we thought we would go with a bit of a theme, as Fi has been doing alot of work around Venus Figurines and the … read more…

New for 2019! Our Indigo Weekend

Our new Indigo course I have just put together a new weekend course for 2019 -Indigo dyeing. The weekend will combine shibori techniques from Japan and Batik techniques from Java, to create resists on fabric, which will be dyed in an Indigo vat.  I love both these techniques, and first learnt about Batik, when I … read more…

September Spinning Retreat! Special Offer!

Learn to spin – join us for a wonderful retreat which includes two days of spinning tuition with Alison. Special Offer.. £150 off  per person!! As part of our Craft Retreat this year we are offering two days of spinning, instead of other optional craft sessions. We have had such a demand for a spinning courses … read more…

Fleece to Needle Felt week with Fi Oberon

We just finished our Fleece to Needle Felt week, which was a great success, we had a fantastic group from all over, Canada, USA, England and Scotland. There was certainly a lot of laughter through-out the week. Some of the group were complete beginners, while others had more experience, but they were all keen to … read more…

Natural Dyeing & Felting Course in May

Special Offer £75 off! In May we are lucky enough to have Fi Oberon come and work with us. I met Fi a few years ago at the Country Living Show in London, we worked next to each other, I was demonstrating wet felting and she was demonstrating needle felting. She had crowds of people … read more…

A talk on the History of Natural Dyeing

I just got back from Glasgow where I spent the weekend with the West of Scotland Guild of Spinners, Dyers and Weavers. The guild meet once a month in Milngavie and I was asked to come and give a talk and run a felting workshop well in advance. Infact Jill from the Guild had asked … read more…

Natural Dyeing & Needle Felting Course, Highlands, Scotland

We are so please to be welcoming Fi Oberon back again this year. Last year Fi Joined us for the first time, which was a great success. We spent the first half of the week learning about fleeces, sorting, washing and carding them. We went foraging in the woods for dye plants, including, Bracken fronds, … read more…