Beginners & Improvers Basket weaving

Friday 22nd March 2024 (9.30-5)

Saturday 23rd March 2024 (9.30-5)

Berry basket

This is a lovely achievable basket in a day where you will learn a simple round base

and an English rand, a wale and a simple trac border.

Friday 22nd March 2024 (9.30-5) (2 spaces)

Saturday 23rd March 2024 (9.30-5) (2 spaces)

Bocking Essex

Please contact for more dates

Would suit all levels

Course fee £100

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Asymetrical basket

Wednesday 10th April 2024 9.30-5pm

Wednesday 10th April 2024 9.30-5pm (6 spaces)

Bocking Essex

This is a great wine basket or something special to carry your hand tools in when gardening!

Please contact for more dates

if you have already made a beginners basket then you could come and learn French Randing, if you’ve done this already then perhaps some zigzag weaving .

cost per person £100

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Larger Basket with Incorporated Handles

Wednesday 17th April 2024 9.30-5pm

Wednesday 17th April 2024 9.30-5pm (5 spaces)

Friday 13th September 2024 9.30-5 (4 spaces)

if you have already made a beginners basket then you could come and learn French Randing, if you’ve done this already then perhaps some zigzag weaving .

Bocking Essex

cost per person £100

suitable for beginners

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Zarzo Basket

Tuesday 23rd April 2024 10-4.30pm

Tuesday 23rd April 2024 10-4.30pm (6 spaces)

Cost £110

suitable for beginners

Venue: Bocking

This lovely strong basket is quite simple design and very strong for shopping etc,

but excellent workshop for beginner

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Swallows and Spinners

Saturday 9th March 2024 10-3.30

Saturday 9th March 2024 10-3.30 (5 spaces)

willow swallows and spirals that spin around in the breeze are suitable for beginners or anyone to make

they look lovely in the garden.

cost £100

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Cristmas Large Star Workshop

Saturday 18th November 10-3.30

In this workshop you can create a large random woven star.

Suitable for beginners

cost £80  all materials included

Saturday 18th November (fully booked)

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Willow Christmas Reindeer

Sunday 10th December 2023 (9.30-5pm)

This is a one day workshop to weave a reindeer for Christmas

cost£110 includig materials

Sunday 10th December 2023 (fully booked)

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Making Willow Dragonfly’s

Sunday 28th April 10 – 3.30 2024

Learn this lovely corn dolly weave to create your very own dragonfly for the garden. just a note for people with limited strength in their hands may find this a bit tricky. you will start with 2 bird feeders to learn the technique then make your first dragonfly before lunch followed by a second to make sure you remember how to do it.

Sunday 28th April 10 – 3.30 2024 (4 spaces)

Cost £105

Bocking, Essex

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 Making Willow Garden Structures

  Friday 12th April 2024 (10-3.30)

  Saturday 13th April 2024 (10-3.30)

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Friday 12th April 2024 10-3.30 (10 spaces)

Saturday 13th April 2024 10-3.30 (10 spaces)

cost £110

suitable for beginners

Bocking, Essex

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please contact me for more dates or private workshop

We start with an obelisk in the morning which you will create and realise how enjoyable weaving can be and how easy it is to create something that looks so professional.

After lunch we will be making some thing else for the garden such as swallows, snails or Catalonian tension platters

If you have been on one of my courses before and want to make something else call me for a chat and we can discuss your project.

willow obelisk woven with bamboo uprights.

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Bee Skep

2024

willow Bee Skep

2024

These are lovely for encouraging bees into your garden, we weave an entrance at the base there is a cross section at the top inside so they have something to attach their comb to, or you can weave it without the entrance to catch swarms.

cost £110 including materials

Would suit all levels

t workshop for beginner

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Large Random Weave Heart

Sunday 5th May 2024 (10-3.30)

Large Woven Heart

These are quite large so need a big space to position them as a focal point either in your house or garden.

Sunday 5th May 2024 10-3.30 (5 spaces)

Cost £130

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suitable for beginners

 Bocking Essex

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Peony /Herbaceous Support

book to come on a garden structures workshop for this item, but let me know that this is what you would like to make.

A really lovely structure to add to your garden, but also an excellent lesson

in controlling your willow.

cost £110

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suitable for beginners

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Large Sunflower And Bird feeder

TBA 2024

Come and learn how to make a spectacular sunflower in willow. you can alter the design to your own taste,

and make them completely them 3D.

cost £95

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suitable for beginners

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Fencing 

  Saturday 30th March 2024 (10-3.30)

  Sunday 7th April 2024 (10-3.30)

Learn the technique of weaving t0 make a piece of woven fence panel in the morning and in the afternoon you will make a

fedge (living fence or Harlequin tree) to take home and grow.

 Saturday 30th March 2024 (10-3.30) (8 spaces)

  Sunday 7th April 2024 (10-3.30)  (8 spaces)

(when booking this course I will need to know what your choice of item is for the afternoon session.)

cost : £125

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suitable for beginners

Bocking Essex

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Pheasant Workshop

Friday 15th March 2024 (10-3.30)

Saturday 16th March 2024 (10-3.30)

Willow Pheasants

will teach you bird bases in English willow which can be built up and manipulated into your interpretation of a pheasant or another bird.

Friday 15th March 2024 (10-3.30) (spaces)

Saturday 16th March 2024 (10-3.30) (spaces)

please contact me for more dates or private workshop 

Cost £100

Bocking, Essex

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Limited to 6 people come and create a wonderful pheasant for your garden.

Would suit all levels

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Heron Workshop 2024

TBA

TBA

cost £110 including materials

Would suit all levels

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Deer workshop 2023

TBA 2024

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Suitable for beginners, random weave sculpture,metal base, good subject for your creative hands.

some weaveing experience would be helpful but not essential.

TBA

Cost £270

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 Willow Wren Ball  / Poppy Head Workshop

TBA

Willow balls are a fabulous overnight stop for wrens to sleep in. They will require some patience but look lovely hanging from a tree or bush. Approx size 18 inches. learning to random weave is an excellent way to start sculpture weaving from people to animals.

Suitable for beginners

TBA

Cost £110

Venue: Bocking Essex

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 Hare Sculpture Workshop 

  23rd & 24th May 2024

This will be a moon gazing hare, making a bird base structure then a random weave to infill.

suitable for beginners. This is a 2 day  workshop so please contact me for details, happy to do private workshop for this.

23rd &24th May 2024 10-3.30 (5 spaces)

Cost £155

Venue: Bocking Essex

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_Limited to 5 people__

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Frame basket 

TBA

frame willow basket

Great basket for French bread or displaying fruit!

Cost: £95

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Bocking, Essex.

This handy little basket is lovely to construct and is great for absolute beginners. It can constructed with various materials such as other plant material, string, raffia, rush and anything else  you want to incorporate which makes it very personal to you.

please feel free to call me for a chat if you would like to discuss this.

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Bird Table 

TBA 2024

This is a 2 day workshop to weave this lovely large bird table, some previous weaving would be beneficial. The base is now wooden to increase the hygiene of the table for the birds.

TBA

Cost £170

Maximum 5 people

Braintree, Essex.

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Gift Vouchers – contact me if you’d like to buy a gift voucher for a course – makes a lovely (and environmentally friendly) present for a friend or relative.

Private Workshops – I’m happy to run a private course or workshop in your own garden for yourself and your friends – please contact me to discuss.

I do teach workshops at other establishments such as RHS Hyde Hall, Beth Chatto Gardens, , FSC Flatford Mill, Norfolk Creative Arts, Watershed Studio, Create 98 and private gardens.

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TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Please note that as from 2022 the terms and conditions of the workshops will be. Students can email me to book , full payment will be required via bank transfer . Once full payment or deposit has been made no refunds are given, however you can transfer your place to another person for the same workshop. If you book your place and do not arrive no refund will be made.

Venue: WI Hall, High Roding, Essex, CM6 1NW.  Map