either use the supplied materials or bring your own fabric to make a piped and zipped square cushion and a bolster. Included are discussions about different fillings and shaps of pad, making bias strips and piping and inserting a zip in a piped seam.

Blinds add a new dimension to your window furnishings and Roman blinds can be created in a range of different styles. The following will be covered:
Measuring and estimating fabric requirements
Headrail systems
Rings, rods, tapes, weight bars
Designing and creating shaped bottom edges

Students will make a sample, lined, Roman blind using some of the techniques learned.

Do you want to set up business as a curtain maker, but don’t know where to start? This day will give you the basics of the skills you need to turn a hobby into a business. Topics covered include how to run a business in a professional manner, setting your price, how to measure and record the data, estimating and tips on how to work in an efficient manner to make the most of your time. Other subjects will also be covered included marketing, setting up trade accounts and laying out your workroom.

Making loose covers can be a daunting prospect. Come and learn where to start, as well as the following topics:
- Designing a cover
- Measuring up and fabric requirements
- Cutting and pin-fitting
- Making and applying piping
- Inserting zips and other closures
- Skirts and bottom edges.

Then make a sample cover on half a chair, before embarking on the real thing!

For those with little or no experience of curtain making, as well as those who want to improve on their skills and learn the proper techniques. The following topics are covered:

- Tracks and poles
- Taped curtain headings
- Measuring and estimating fabric requirements
- Locked in linings and mitred corners

Students will make a sample, lined curtain with hand finished hem and sides, and machined heading tape to take away along with handouts.

Learn more advanced techniques of curtain making to add to your basic skills:

- Different types of interlining and how to apply them
- Hand made headings with buckram - triple pleats and goblets
- Finishing touches for hand made headings

You will make a sample lined and interlined curtain with a hand sewn heading to take away, along with handouts.

Are you about to embark on a project that is too large for your table or room?Or you are not sure where to start or how to finish? Book a day here in our workshop on an individual basis and have access to all the equipment including full size cutting out tables. I will be on hand to help and advise as you work through your curtains, blinds, pelmets, in fact any soft furnishing project. You will need to bring a packed lunch.