Collection: #peaceandcraft Craft Workshops

AnnaJane is a long term multi-discipline crafter, offering Peace&Craft workshops around the Cotswolds & South West as well as, more recently, online.

Simple & satisfying crafting sessions for all abilities using interesting, beautiful materials and always encouraging peace & self-care.

• Creative social gatherings;
• Timeout for busy or full heads;
• 'Busy fingers' distractions & self-caring creativity;
  
• Welcoming new mums with 'pre-mover' babies for some crucial self-care in the earliest phases of maternity (where venues permit/appropriate);
• Specialising in beginner-friendly, multi-ability, accessible and unusual crafts;
• Wide range of crafts & materials including wire, paper, felt, thread, vintage & upcycled fabrics, buttons & other notions.

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NEW FOR 2021/22:

Peace&Craft - Mindful Scrap Crafting
at Kingshill House Arts Centre, Dursley GL11
Wednesday's 15, 22, 29 September, 6, 13 and 20 October 2021
10:00 - 12:30​ (x6 weeks)

"Discover the peace of crafting simply for the joy of it and learn to look at your scraps differently with Anna on this introductory scrapcrafting course. You’ll enjoy an inspirational collection of remnant materials - textiles, papers, haberdashery, fibres, lace... reclaimed, vintage, luxe, surprising... always beautiful and always interesting.

Craft or art experience is not needed but very welcome. Whether you've never put thread to needle, or are a skilled crafter already, this is a no-rules creativity that focuses more on process and experience than results. Take time for yourself, get lost rummaging in a basket of gorgeous scraps, let go of expectations and embrace the opportunity to play with colours & textures.

While products are secondary to the making here, nobody goes home empty handed. The course will shape around participants and include mini projects such as textile feather making, 'scrapstack' tiny artworks & embellishments, snippet patches, layered textile art, handstitched experiments, mark-making and collage."

CUSTOM GROUP BOOKINGS and ONLINE WORKSHOPS:

(Currently on hold - message to express interest in hearing when these are available again)

1. Pick a project - select from various craft projects detailed in this section. 
2. Mine or yours?! - choose a venue; Studio AJD, your own home or event venue or another location (see below).
3. Gather your tribe - work out how many of you there are. 4-8 is a good guide but I can chat through options for smaller or larger groups.
4. Days & dates - weekdays, evenings or weekend? Any particular days of the week or specific dates? Availability is limited so it's good to have flexibility.
5. Send me a message with your answers 1-4 and I'll send a bespoke quote & some suggested dates.

Locations: Wotton-under-Edge, Hawkesbury Upton, Cam & Dursley, Cirencester, Bristol, Old Sodbury & many other areas - contact to discuss a mutually convenient place.

2020 WORKSHOP HOSTING VENUES:

The Craft Room: Wotton-under-Edge, GL12 (nicola@thecraftroomwotton.co.uk)

Loving Home: Long Street, Wotton-under-Edge, GL12 (lisa@lovinghome.co.uk)

Studio AJD: France Lance, Hawkesbury Upton, GL9

Koala Kreations: Hatherell's Yard, Chipping Sodbury BS37

WHO IS BEHIND PEACE&CRAFT?

Anna Marshall is a long term multi-discipline crafter and hosts her Peace&Craft workshops around the Cotswolds and online. Growing up in a family of lots of different handcrafters and inheriting a pre-disposition for using what you have, Anna has tried most crafts, enjoyed the majority, favoured & practiced several and collected skills, techniques & inspirations along the way to create her own blended style of stitching, snipping, sticking and sketching.

After an eclectic career path, Anna is now a parent of primary age twins and works out of her home studio in South Gloucestershire on various creative endeavours, including selling her own handmade products and running regular creative sessions for a charity supporting new mothers facing post-natal challenges as well as her own scrapcrafting workshops.

Anna works alongside participants for a relaxed, inspirationally creative environment. Her simple & satisfying crafting sessions are accessible for all abilities and often offer demonstrations, techniques & examples rather than step by step projects. Anna will always encourage recycling, reclamation, 'make do and mend' and using every scrap, alongside helping her students find peace & self-care through a focus on the process over results.