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  • Embroidered Flowers – Free Machine Embroidery

    Braintree Community Centre 19-21 Bocking End, Braintree, United Kingdom
    Sewing & Embroidery

    With Vendulka Battais. REQUIREMENTS: You can create your background and the flowers in realistic colours or work very abstract in the colours you fancy. • Fabrics for the background – between 10-15 shades of one colour or moving from one colour into another one – remnants from previous projects will work well as we will only need strips about 2″ wide 16″ long (around that size) Or you can work with one fabric for the background – 50cm. Choose fabrics with not very dominant pattern, best are mottled, batiks or colour on colour prints. • Fabrics for leaves (FQ or […]

    £50

  • Watercolours – Summer Skies

    Braintree Community Centre 19-21 Bocking End, Braintree, United Kingdom
    Art

    With David Pasfield.   Paint with confidence in this challenging medium. Beginning with a simple landscape and progressing to a larger stunning piece of work. Bring fresh colours and light to your landscapes. Work from your tutors ideas or bring your own sketches or photographs for inspiration.   Equipment & Materials Water colour paints Water colour paper (NOT surface preferably) Watercolour brushes Easel – table or free standing plus board to fix paper to 2 Water pots, & palettes with large mixing wells Roll of kitchen paper Masking fluid Sketches or photos for inspiration

    £45

  • Cupcake Workshop

    Braintree Community Centre 19-21 Bocking End, Braintree, United Kingdom
    Food & Drink

    With Angela Flynn. Would you like your cupcakes to WOW?  Now is your opportunity to develop the skills at this cake decorating workshop.  In the morning you will learn how to colour and condition fondant so that you can make beautiful stable pastel-coloured decorations and practice your piping skills.  In the afternoon learn how to dome your cakes, giving a perfect place for your decorations then finish with dots and lines.  You will go home with 6 decorated cupcakes as well as recipes for the cupcakes with buttercream or royal icing. Your tutor will be Angela Flynn who has been […]

    £40

  • Bedbugs Don’t Bite!

    Braintree Community Centre 19-21 Bocking End, Braintree, United Kingdom
    Sewing & Embroidery

    With Tabatha Mitchel-Simons. Making a characterful doll, using a sewing machine.

    £45

  • Watercolours – Harvest Landscapes

    Braintree Community Centre 19-21 Bocking End, Braintree, United Kingdom
    Art

    With David Pasfield.   Make a “warm” colour painting of a harvest landscape. Conquer the pitfalls and frustrations of working in watercolour. The course will follow a step by step landscape led by the tutor.   Equipment & Materials Water colour paints Water colour paper (NOT surface preferably) Watercolour brushes Easel – table or free standing plus board to fix paper to 2 Water pots, & palettes with large mixing wells Roll of kitchen paper Masking fluid Sketches or photos for inspiration

    £45

  • Craft Hub

    Braintree Community Centre 19-21 Bocking End, Braintree, United Kingdom
    Art

    Helping unwanted craft materials get  passed on! 30p-50p for “how?” sheets £1 for a pack of materials.   Its green and it saves you money! More info : 01376 323280 or info@braintreecommunitycentre.org.uk   Free help to learn how to make things! Craft goodies at exceptionally low prices Packs of craft materials with patterns Suitable for all   PS We can re-home any crafty bits which you don’t want anymore!

  • Embroidered Curves (Raw Edge Applique)

    Braintree Community Centre 19-21 Bocking End, Braintree, United Kingdom
    Sewing & Embroidery

    With Vendulka Battais. REQUIREMENTS: For 12” square cushion: 14” x 4 1⁄2” strips - 6 times For 12” x 24” cushion : 14” x 4 1⁄2” strips - 12 times For book cover (A5 book): 10 1⁄2” x 3 1⁄2” - 14 times Decide which project you’d like to do - small cushion, long cushion or book cover. You don’t have to cut your fabric to the given size, as we will have time to do it on the day. The size and amount of strips is just a guide. You can have each strip from a different fabric (going […]

    £50

  • Thick & Thin Acrylics – Autumn Colours in the Garden

    Braintree Community Centre 19-21 Bocking End, Braintree, United Kingdom
    Art

    With David Pasfield.   Use an underpainting technique to apply a first impression painting followed by texture with heavy body acrylics in an “impasto” style. Free up your painting style - being bold and not worrying about details.   Equipment & Materials Acrylic paints in vibrant colours Impasto gel (heavy duty) MDF board pre primed with white gesso – or you can use canvas or canvas board if you prefer – at least 50 x 50 cms) Large bristle brushes (old decorators brushes will suffice) Palette knife Easel – table or free standing plus board to fix paper to Palettes […]

  • Craft Hub

    Braintree Community Centre 19-21 Bocking End, Braintree, United Kingdom
    Art

    Helping unwanted craft materials get  passed on! 30p-50p for “how?” sheets £1 for a pack of materials.   Its green and it saves you money! More info : 01376 323280 or info@braintreecommunitycentre.org.uk   Free help to learn how to make things! Craft goodies at exceptionally low prices Packs of craft materials with patterns Suitable for all   PS We can re-home any crafty bits which you don’t want anymore!

  • Patchwork and Quilting Taster Workshop

    Braintree Community Centre 19-21 Bocking End, Braintree, United Kingdom
    Sewing & Embroidery

    Explore patchwork and quilting in relaxed Saturday sessions. All you need to bring is your usual sewing kit. Monthly meetings start January 2023.

    £8

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Information for Students

Limited parking to the side and rear of the centre.  Wheelchair access is available at the front of the Centre.
 

Payment

Class fees are payable on the day at reception on arrival.  Workshop fees must be paid 2 weeks before, either in person or by phone unless otherwise stated.