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Sussex Prairie Garden   Tutor: Pauline Mc Bride and Emma Taylor

Dates: Sunday 18^th May 2025           Times: 10am-2pm

Course outline: Crazy Creature Cushions

Costs: £65 includes refreshments and garden entry.

Pauline and Emma will inspire you will a fabulous selection of textile and embellishment which will be used to create a crazy creature cushion. We will supply a basic template to scale up simple designs which will form the main body and then help you to select patterns and textures that will contrast for the main features of the animal. We will have a menagerie of animal motifs to choose from or you might bring a design based on one of your own pets. We will also experiment various stitch to add finer detail and texture to the piece. A well placed button will complete a rather squiffy dog or wonky eyed elephant.

This workshop does not require any specific artistic skills other than an open mind and a sense of play. We are certain that your cushion will fill you with quirky amusement and joy! You might become so addicted that you return home with ideas of creating a circus of crazy creature cushions to decorate your sofa or to gift to someone special. 

This is the first time we have teamed up to teach and we guarantee fun and some very special outcomes! 

Costs: £65 with all materials, tea, coffee and biscuits plus garden entry.

All materials will be included in the price.

For more details and to secure a place on this workshop please contact..

emmaktaylor@hotmail.com or 07540191437

Pauline Mcbride is the co-owner and creator of The Sussex Prairie Gardens and her love for all things textile and stitch is evident in her embroideries and patchworks which festoon the gardens. Her textile work has been inspired by her worldwide travels; especially a passion for all things Indian and bright.

Emma is a artist, printmaker and educator teaching from Lupin Cottage Workshops in East Sussex. She is currently Leader of Art and Photography in Seahaven Academy as well as running weekly art classes from her home and studio.

She also leads a new group of artists as Salt Edge Arts showing at South Hill Barn in Seaford.

Emma has been teaching inspiring workshops at Sussex Prairie Gardens since 2017 and sees it as her second home!

www.saltedgearts.com

Social Media: Emma Taylor Printmaker

Emmaktaylor@hotmail.com

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