.....possibilities.....

In case the last message slipped through your fingers (or landed straight into you spam file!), we thought you would like to know that our calendar for 2015 is now confirmed and ready to view on our website.   We are thrilled with the new line-up; a combination of popular previous workshop leaders, together with a few highly recommended new craftist/teachers whom we've admired for a long time.  We hope you're as delighted at the prospect as us and we look forward to welcoming back some previous participants as well as new guests in the New Year.   Here goes.....

 Janet Bolton:  NARRATIVE STITCHES  6th-12th May
Julie Arkell:  TOYS  3rd-9th June
India Flint:  BEING (T)HERE  23rd-29th August
Ray Stitch: Dressmaking Retreat 6th-12 September
Asa Soderman of Asa Tricosa:  SEAMLESSLY CLEVER  14th-20th October

 Please note that there has been some confusion with the dates for the Asa Tricosa
workshop.  It is in October NOT November

It's quite a line up and we're delighted by the range of creative textile opportunities we've put together. If you feel like simply working on a project (or two) of your own in the incredible light and space of our beautiful studio but with all the accommodation options of a regular workshop, there is an opportunity to join a group of like-minded artist/crafters at the end of September for a week of Open Studio / Yoga.  You'll discover a lot more dates and details and information about the venue if you haven't joined us before on our website.  

Meanwhile, you might be interested in a new website we've come across called Botanica Tinctoria, a Candian company that sells trimmings and threads in a wide range of beautiful and fast colours. 

The carefully curated collection of trimmings includes ribbons, tapes, broderie anglaise and rick rack as well as high quality perle and 6-strand embroidery threads in 14 natural colours which are all sourced from traditional dye plants such as indigo and madder. I'm particularly tempted by the cotton voile.....Yummy!

Some of us are now off to Japan (with our knitting, of course) for four weeks of textile research and a much-needed break after a full-on summer season.  But we'll still be open for bookings and you can, of course, contact us directly if anything needs clarifying - we're always happy to help.

ready, steady, ready...

Hurrah!  We are delighted to announce that Les Soeurs Anglaises' NEW CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR 2015 is available to view on our website and you can now book a place on one of our exciting textile workshops planned for next year.      The ever-popular, gentle but abundantly creative Janet Bolton will be returning to lead another of her superb stitched collage events, as will the ebullient and inspirational Julie Arkell whose workshops are always sell-outs. To keep things fresh we have also invited a few delightful new workshop leaders to join us next year, including  the Internationally acclaimed  dyer and stitcher, India Flint, (who will be flying in from Australia to lead her first ever event for us); the captivatingly stylish and original knitwear designer Åsa Söderman (of Åsa Tricosa fame who will be  following in the massively experience footsteps of knitwear designer, Marion Foale, and will be teaching her own version of the Ziggurat technique). And finally the dynamic duo, Gen and Rachel, from Ray Stitch haberdashery, situated in London's fashionable Islington, who will leading a much-requested Dressmaking Retreat for both beginners and more advanced dressmakers. It's quite a line up and we're delighted by the range of creative textile opportunities we've put together.  If, however, you feel like simply working on a project (or two) of your own in the incredible light and space of our beautiful studio, there is an opportunity to join a group of like-minded artist/crafters at the end of September for a week of Open Studio / Yoga. You'll discover a lot more dates and details and information about the venue if you haven't joined us before on our website, as well as booking forms, but do contact us directly if anything needs clarifying - we're always happy to help. Meanwhile, we look forward to meeting some of you next year! Katie Susie Carol