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From pottery classes for children to glass-blowing lessons for grown-ups, in the Lake District you can really get to grips with a host of crafts. You can learn how to carve wood and engrave stone, work with paper and try your hand at weaving yarn out of wool.
 

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  1. Understanding Your Camera
    Understanding Your Camera

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    Cowshed Creative, Cowshed Creative, Browfoot Farm, Staveley, Kendal, Cumbria, LA89JQ

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    01539 821210

    info@cowshedcreative.co.uk

    Staveley, Kendal

    Ideal for a budding photographer, you need a refresher course or would just like to take better photos. Learn how to use the controls on your camera, discover the elements for strong composition and how to review your photos effectively, to ensure…

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  2. Stylish Tote Bags
    Stylish Tote Bags

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    Cowshed Creative, Cowshed Creative, Browfoot Farm, Staveley, Kendal, Cumbria, LA89JQ

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    01539 821210

    info@cowshedcreative.co.uk

    Staveley, Kendal

    Create a stylish tote bag in a day. With expert step-by-step guidance, you will work from a pattern and learn how to cut out and stitch a beautifully lined bag with a pocket. Choose from leather or faux leather handles or straps, for a really…

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  3. Blacksmith For a Day - Two Sculptural Garden Flowers
    Blacksmith For a Day - Two Sculptural Garden Flowers

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    Quirky Workshops at Greystoke Craft Garden & Barns, Greystoke Craft Garden & Barns, Greystoke Craft Garden, Greystoke, Penrith, Cumbria, CA11 0UT

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    +441768483984

    annie@quirkyworkshops.co.uk

    Greystoke Craft Garden, Greystoke, Penrith

    Be an artist Blacksmith for a Day with Adrian Woods - making two Sculptural Garden Flowers.

    Take Artist Blacksmith Adrian Wood arriving with his apprentice Andy from Cleveland equipped with 4 portable blacksmith furnaces, anvils and many tools…

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  4. Blacksmith For a Day - Two Sculptural Garden Flowers
    Blacksmith For a Day - Two Sculptural Garden Flowers

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    Quirky Workshops at Greystoke Craft Garden & Barns, Greystoke Craft Garden & Barns, Greystoke Craft Garden, Greystoke, Penrith, Cumbria, CA11 0UT

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    +441768483984

    annie@quirkyworkshops.co.uk

    Greystoke Craft Garden, Greystoke, Penrith

    Be an artist Blacksmith for a Day with Adrian Woods - making two Sculptural Garden Flowers.

    Take Artist Blacksmith Adrian Wood arriving with his apprentice Andy from Cleveland equipped with 4 portable blacksmith furnaces, anvils and many tools…

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  5. Needle Felted Cushions ~ Herdwicks
    Needle Felted Cushions ~ Herdwicks

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    Quirky Workshops at Greystoke Craft Garden & Barns, Greystoke Craft Garden & Barns, Greystoke Craft Garden, Greystoke, Penrith, Cumbria, CA11 0UT

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    +441768483984

    annie@quirkyworkshops.co.uk

    Greystoke Craft Garden, Greystoke, Penrith

    A day with Richard & Annis creating your own Needle felt Herdwick Cushion top

    Create your own unique and characterful needle felted Herdwick cushion top using quality Herdwick wools and other blends from local Cumbrian flocks!

    Richard and Annis…

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  6. Dry Stone Walling Course
    Dry Stone Walling Course

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    Cowshed Creative, Cowshed Creative, Browfoot Farm, Staveley, Kendal, Cumbria, LA89JQ

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    01539 821210

    info@cowshedcreative.co.uk

    Staveley, Kendal

    Enjoy a great day out in the countryside on our Lakeland farm learning traditional dry stone walling skills from an experienced and friendly tutor who will take your through the process. You will learn the basic principles; sorting stone, building…

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  7. A day discovering Raku
    A day discovering Raku
    Firing pottery In The Raku Style with Dave Norman at Quirky Workshops

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    Greystoke Craft Garden & Barns, Greystoke Craft Garden, Greystoke, Penrith, Cumbria, CA11 0UT

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    017684 83984

    annie@quirkyworkshops.co.uk

    Greystoke, Penrith

    Come and enjoy a day experimenting in this ancient Japanese technique of glazing and firing pottery, using heat, sawdust, fire and smoky bins!

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  8. Drawing from Life
    Drawing from Life

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    Quirky Workshops at Greystoke Craft Garden & Barns, Greystoke Craft Garden & Barns, Greystoke Craft Garden, Greystoke, Penrith, Cumbria, CA11 0UT

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    +441768483984

    annie@quirkyworkshops.co.uk

    Greystoke Craft Garden, Greystoke, Penrith

    "To draw well, we must first learn to see well" . . . Observational Drawing Day with David Cemmick

    Wildlife artist David Cemmick has drawn from life all over the world. Be it animals on the move or an animal skull in the studio, but we must all…

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  9. 'Drawing from Life'' day with David Cemmick
    'Drawing from Life'' day with David Cemmick

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    Quirky Workshops at Greystoke Craft Garden & Barns, Greystoke Craft Garden & Barns, Greystoke Craft Garden, Greystoke, Penrith, Cumbria, CA11 0UT

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    +441768483984

    annie@quirkyworkshops.co.uk

    Greystoke Craft Garden, Greystoke, Penrith

    "To draw well, we must first learn to see well" . . . Observational Drawing Day with David Cemmick

    Wildlife artist David Cemmick has drawn from life all over the world. Be it animals on the move or an animal skull in the studio, but we must all…

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  10. Loose Botanical Watercolours with Lyn Evans
    Loose Botanical Watercolours with Lyn Evans

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    Quirky Workshops at Greystoke Craft Garden & Barns, Greystoke Craft Garden & Barns, Greystoke Craft Garden, Greystoke, Penrith, Cumbria, CA11 0UT

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    +441768483984

    annie@quirkyworkshops.co.uk

    Greystoke Craft Garden, Greystoke, Penrith

    Painting a Looser Botanical in Watercolour with Lyn Evans

    Lyn likes to paint her watercolours largely from life, choosing blooms which will stay open for a couple of days. She likes interesting shapes so Iris, Lilies and Tulips feature largely in…

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  11. Pizza Oven Building 1 day course
    Pizza Oven Building 1 day course
    Build a Cob Pizza Oven - 1 day course at Quirky Workshops

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    Greystoke Craft Garden & Barns, Greystoke Craft Garden, Greystoke, Penrith, Cumbria, CA11 0UT

    Telephone

    017684 83984

    annie@quikryworkshops.co.uk

    Greystoke, Penrith

    Over this busy one day course you will together build a cob pizza oven and so take home the knowledge to recreate your very own outdoor pizza oven (and huge source of warmth) in your own garden.

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  12. Drawing Local Wildlife in Mixed Media
    Drawing Local Wildlife in Mixed Media

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    Cowshed Creative, Cowshed Creative, Browfoot Farm, Staveley, Kendal, Cumbria, LA89JQ

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    01539821210

    george.grange@rocketmail.com

    Staveley, Kendal

    Join us for a fun day on a traditional Lakeland farm to develop the basic drawing skills you need to draw animals confidently and to observe animals in their natural environment. On this art course, you will have plenty of opportunities to…

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  13. Loose Botanical Watercolours with Lyn Evans
    Loose Botanical Watercolours with Lyn Evans

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    Quirky Workshops at Greystoke Craft Garden & Barns, Greystoke Craft Garden & Barns, Greystoke Craft Garden, Greystoke, Penrith, Cumbria, CA11 0UT

    Telephone

    +441768483984

    annie@quirkyworkshops.co.uk

    Greystoke Craft Garden, Greystoke, Penrith

    Painting a Looser Botanical in Watercolour with Lyn Evans

    Lyn likes to paint her watercolours largely from life, choosing blooms which will stay open for a couple of days. She likes interesting shapes so Iris, Lilies and Tulips feature largely in…

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  14. Beginners Calligraphy
    Beginners Calligraphy

    Address

    Quirky Workshops at Greystoke Craft Garden & Barns, Greystoke Craft Garden & Barns, Greystoke Craft Garden, Greystoke, Penrith, Cumbria, CA11 0UT

    Telephone

    017684 83984

    annie@quirkyworkshops.co.uk

    Greystoke Craft Garden, Greystoke, Penrith

    Beginners' Calligraphy Day with Gillian Hazeldine

    Come and spend a day beginning to learn art of calligraphy, literally 'beautiful writing'. Contemporary calligraphy is based on the writing of scribes working from the 5th century AD right up to the…

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  15. Beginners' Calligraphy Day course with Gillian Hazeldine
    Beginners' Calligraphy Day course with Gillian Hazeldine

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    Quirky Workshops at Greystoke Craft Garden & Barns, Greystoke Craft Garden & Barns, Greystoke Craft Garden, Greystoke, Penrith, Cumbria, CA11 0UT

    Telephone

    +441768483984

    annie@quirkyworkshops.co.uk

    Greystoke Craft Garden, Greystoke, Penrith

    Beginners' Calligraphy Day with Gillian Hazeldine

    Come and spend a day beginning to learn art of calligraphy, literally 'beautiful writing'. Contemporary calligraphy is based on the writing of scribes working from the 5th century AD right up to the…

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  16. Raku Pottery & Firing - 2 day course
    Raku Pottery & Firing - 2 day course

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    Cowshed Creative, Cowshed Creative, Browfoot Farm, Staveley, Kendal, Cumbria, LA89JQ

    Telephone

    01539 821210

    info@cowshedcreative.co.uk

    Staveley, Kendal

    Held on two consecutive Saturdays, you will develop hand-building skills to create a range of pots or models that will exploit Raku glaze effects. These will be dried and biscuit fired ready for you to experiment with glazes and oxides the…

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  17. A Green Man for the Garden with Dave Norman at Quirky Workshops
    A Green Man for the Garden with Dave Norman at Quirky Workshops
    A Green Man for the Garden with Dave Norman at Quirky Workshops

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    Greystoke Craft Garden & Barns, Greystoke Craft Garden, Greystoke, Penrith, Cumbria, CA11 0UT

    Telephone

    017684 83984

    annie@quirkyworkshops.co.uk

    Greystoke, Penrith

    Another great day with clay creating your own green man from stoneware pottery under Dave's guidance and expertise. Dave Norman Studied at the Glasgow School of Art, and then ran his own studio in Scotland, producing large architectural ceramics for…

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  18. Intro to Silver Clay Jewellery with Jo Dix
    Intro to Silver Clay Jewellery with Jo Dix
    Intro to Silver Clay Jewellery with Jo Dix at Quirky Workshops

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    Greystoke Craft Garden & Barns, Greystoke Craft Garden, Greystoke, Penrith, Cumbria, CA11 0UT

    Telephone

    017684 83984

    annie@quirkyworkshops.co.uk

    Greystoke, Penrith

    Design and make your own bespoke beautiful jewellery in a day. You can even bring along a small personal treasure to copy and make into a stunning personalised piece.

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  19. Wildlife and Hedgerow in Lino Printing
    Wildlife and Hedgerow in Lino Printing

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    Cowshed Creative, Cowshed Creative, Browfoot Farm, Staveley, Kendal, Cumbria, LA89JQ

    Telephone

    01539 821210

    info@cowshedcreative.co.uk

    Staveley, Kendal

    Be inspired by the wildlife and hedgerows of the Kentmere valley and learn the skills you will need to cut and print your own unique lino design, creating a small edition of stunning prints to take home.

    With expert guidance, explore the…

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  20. Oil Painting with Catherine MacDiarmid
    Oil Painting with Catherine MacDiarmid

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    Cowshed Creative, Cowshed Creative, Browfoot Farm, Staveley, Kendal, Cumbria, LA89JQ

    Telephone

    01539 821210

    info@cowshedcreative.co.uk

    Staveley, Kendal

    Be guided by an expert through a variety of oil painting techniques, with an emphasis on experimenting with different approaches to mark making using both thin and thick paint, brushes and palette knives. You will also develop your skills in mixing…

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