Bunting For The Green Patch Part 2

Phiona Richards lead a lovely outdoor session at The Green Patch to create more bunting, here are some of the fabulous designs made by the children.

You can see the full set here 

Threads and Chatter - Character Squares

Our lovely artist Phiona Richards decided that our next Threads and Chatter project would be a three session event. She thought it would be great fun if everyone designed and made a square character soft toy.

We wrote words to describe our characters

then drew our designs, 

using fabric crayons on paper, 

inspired by our words.

 Everyone drew very different patterns and 

Phiona took them away to be 

ironed onto the calico. 

We can't wait to see how they turn out!

As an added bonus Phiona taught us how to fold a square Flexigon

here is a lovely video tutorial if you would like to try it yourself!

Did you know that flexigons can help you with your maths?

You can download and print out a ready designed one here

Our group thought they also made good square masks!

If you live in the Avondale / Grange ward do join us again 

Tuesday 9th of February

The Resource Centre, 

9 Grange Place, Kettering. 

NN16 0NT

Phiona will be running her inventive, creative 

session between 3.30 and 5.00pm

Sessions and refreshments are family friendly, fun and free!

Threads and Chatter - Weaving

This week Phiona Richards 

set the group a weaving project

yes, that's right, weaving!

We used an ingenious basket frame

paper twine and beads. 

It was tricky but great fun, 

everybody completed their basket

although we did think about 

wearing them as hats instead!

See more here

And Phiona made this Flipagram reel

which you can see here

If you live in the Avondale / Grange ward do join us again 

Tuesday 2nd of February

The Resource Centre, 

9 Grange Place, Kettering. 

NN16 0NT

Phiona will be running her inventive, creative 

session between 3.30 and 5.00pm

Sessions and refreshments are family friendly, fun and free!

Unusual Decorations!

We were delighted to join the lovely 

and very creative Phiona Richards

for a session to learn how o make

some unique tree decorations

from sink plug traps, which also gave us time

to consider how to protect our water pipes.

Phiona taught us how to choose then thread 

beads through the holes in the sink traps.

Here are some of the finished results.

Carole  was on hand to assist and to 

continue sewing our gift bags!

Threads and Chatter June

Artist Phiona richards showed participants 

at KBA and at The Green Patch

how to design

transfer

and stitch

cards

and pictures

It was lovely to

 watch the pierced dots

turn into words

and images.

Great work everyone!

 

You can read Phiona's blog about the sessions here

and see more pictures here

Threads and Chatter at KBA With Phiona Richards

A lovely box of threads, a room full of chatter

during our May session at KBA

where artist Phiona Richards had the group 

in stitches as she showed participants

 how to design and make

a beautiful felt bookmark.

You can read Phiona's lovely Blog about the session here

and view the whole photo set here.

Image above courtesy of Phiona Rhichards