Get festive and creative with this beautiful little workshop inside our cosy café shrub under the twinkling fairy lights as night time falls.

During this creative workshop, textile artist Jessica Kinnersley will show you how to create a miniature stitched abstract landscape. Working with a small photograph, pre-printed onto cotton, we will develop our landscapes, exploring texture and colour, using small snippets of cloth and some simple hand embroidery stitches. You can also add some whimsical words to your landscape, using snippets from my old books.

Once completed, the stitched collages are wrapped around a vintage wooden bobbin, which can then be hung or displayed in the home.

All materials are provided in small kits although there will be some shared materials available too. Whilst some knowledge of basic sewing is useful, it is not essential and beginners are very welcome!

Booking essential.

Cost £40 including Eventbrite fees, materials, glass of wine and festive platter of nibbles.

Perfect workshop to treat yourself, come with a friend or as a Christmas gift for someone special.

The Heritage Centre and café shrub will be closed to the general public. Only 8 places available to enable social distancing - we will be following current Covid-19 guidelines.

About the artist:

Jessica Kinnersley is a local textile artist who creates mixed media pieces using vintage linens, papers and found objects. She is inspired by the things she finds, which often inform the scale and theme of a piece. Lovingly repurposed; her work often features stitched musings and printed images, layered to create nostalgic textile art and collages.