Workshops

Where Inspiration Blooms – Bluebell Applique Landscape with Kate Findlay

Venue: The Pavilion, Penn Street, Bucks, HP7 0PX
Cost: £85
Timing: 10am-4pm
Date: 11 April to 11 April 2026

To book this class please click here – https://www.whereinspirationblooms.co.uk/product-page/bluebells-appliqu%C3%A9-confetti-landscape-with-kate-findlay
Suitable for absolute beginners and stitchers with previous experience. Some materials will be provided, so please do check the list below before booking

We are so excited to introduce you to a brand-new teacher for us here at Where Inspiration Blooms. Kate Findlay is a wonderful textile artist and highly experienced workshop teacher who we have hoped to bring to you for several years now. This Spring we are delighted to be able to invite you to join us for not one, but two, of her classes -both deeply rooted in the beauty of the British countryside.

In this one-day workshop you will learn how to make a small landscape inspired by beautiful beechwoods and bluebells (which the Chilterns, especially near Penn Street have in abundance!).

We’ll begin the day choosing a beautifully unique fabric background on which to create our fabric pictures (which Kate will provide). We will then go on to add all the details…tree trunks, branches, leaves and bluebells.

In this class we will explore how adding layers of carefully chosen fabric and individual stitches can create really effective compositions. We will also learn how to add detail through a confetti technique – cutting tiny pieces of fabric with rotary cutters, sprinkling them onto ‘mistyfuse’ before adding tulle and then ironing and stitching.

Your final piece can be finished with hand stitching or using a sewing machine – whichever you prefer. Your completed masterpiece will measure approximately 45cm long by 30cm high max.

You will spend your day immersed in the beauty of nature, fabrics and stitching…and please don’t worry if ‘art’ isn’t your area of expertise.. we will have plenty of images for inspiration or you can pop into the woods by The Pavilion and take your own photo before you arrive!!

What to bring:

Sewing kit containing pins & fabric scissors
A fabric marker
A rotary cutter and small or medium cutting mat (if you have them – if not don’t worry we will have some spare)
A quilters ruler
Your sewing machine, ideally with a free motion quilting foot (we can provide one if necessary to share)
A variety of threads in woodland colours
A mixture of extra fabrics that you might want to use in your composition – the cotton fabrics that work best are ideally textured, mottled, batiks, or randomly dyed, or with small patterns. Colours that will work well include light blue, greys, browns, greens, yellows & mauves
Where Inspiration Blooms will provide irons and ironing boards, baking parchment, spare sewing machines if you don’t have one and would like to use one, some pieces of fabric you are welcome to use, 3 spare rotary cutters and mats and extra pins, needles & threads
Kate will provide the felt backing fabric, bondaweb & MistyFuse/wondaweb

Please note that it is possible to complete this as a hand sewing project if preferred, so a sewing machine isn’t essential.