Thank you to the lovely ladies who have been to one or all of my recent quilling classes at Yandles Hobby Shop. Extra thanks to Val who bought in a lovely selection of quilled flowers for the Guinness world record attempt for most quilled flowers in one place, much appreciated.
Do pop over to see Val's recent quilling and craft exploits on her blog, her recent bunnies and alpaca are super: http://www.aquarius-aquariusblog.blogspot.co.uk
I'm afraid workshops, samples and commissions have depleted my blogging a little.
This is a taster of some of the butterflies that were options for the last workshop which I shall be repeating (and adding to for the ladies that wish to come again):
Dates for the next workshops at Yandles Hobby Shop, Martock, Somerset TA12 6JU are:
Saturday 21st May - Beginners Quilling
Saturday 25th June - Quilled Butterflies
Saturday 30th July - Quilled Flowers
All workshops cost £15 and include a cuppa and fresh scone.
Book your place by calling the hobby shop on 01935 822571.
Contact me at Jill.Lackford@me.com if you have any queries or questions.
I must share some pics of the workshops next time.
A quick spot of advertising today. If you are interested or know someone that might be please let them know about these Quilling Workshops happening next month.
So, last Saturday I ran 2 workshops in Yandles, Martock in Somerset.
I had 9 ladies in the morning for 'Quilling for Beginners', some stayed for the afternoon, some didn't but were replaced by new recruits so we had 8 ladies for the afternoon workshop which was 'Christmas Quilling'.
This is half of the morning group. Everyone made a small shape sampler to practice forming coils in to teardrops, marquise, star etc.
You can probably then see on the table that project 2 was a snowflake card which was good to make using a few basic shapes.
The third project which everyone finished was a quilled frog which is mainly made of marquise shapes but in different lengths which is good for showing how to size projects.
This picture shows the other side of the table and the ladies who stuck with me all day!
(One of whom was my first teacher at primary school!!).
They were a very quiet group which they put down to concentrating.
In the afternoon they made a Christmas card which incorporated some shapes we hadn't used in the morning including ring coil, holly and fringing!
Everyone completed the card and some even started (& finished) a little filigree heart Christmas tree too.
This is the card:
I was very impressed with everyone else's fir cones as mine were cut a little too finely (a habit as I like small & fine things) but they actually looked much better with thicker fringing.
I also made a couple of variations of this card with a Christmas rose, a tapered candle, alternate side looping and a different way of adding yellow to the poinsettia just to show how you can change a card.
Everyone took away lots of finished projects and enjoyed themselves so a successful day all round for spreading the quilling word!
I also handed out my last few copies of print overruns of Quillers Today (with a membership form of course) to inspire everyone along the way.
