Residential Workshops & Courses in South West France

Workshop overview

After two hugely successful workshops here, Julie has made space in her heavy schedule of teaching, exhibitions and "works in progress" to lead a third creative workshop at our venue, a little longer than most of her courses in order to allow participants to relax for a few hours and consider their work in progress whilst enjoying a couple of mornings visiting local brocantes, marchés and vide greniers to discover, with Julie’s help, the joys and usability of collected ephemera.

Over five days, Julie will guide participants, individually and as a group, through the creative process of developing ideas, intuitively combining stitching and knitting with miscellaneous collected objects - to produce original and delightful compositions. (Please note, this is not a papier maché workshop)

"I love to make things with materials that have ‘seen life’; embroidering words and stories onto old cloth, stitching into books and paper, repairing, darning, making dolls, toys, jewellery and objects of eccentricity. We will spend a couple of mornings during the workshop scouring the local brocantes and markets, and inspired by our finds we will combine the wonderful old fabrics, trinkets, braid, lace and threads with the items from your personal collections to make inspirational mementos."

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