Come along and enjoy some relaxed Scandi style Christmas crafting. Using recycled textiles and inspired by Nordic folk art, you will create a festive lovebird wall hanging for your home or as a handmade gift for someone special.


Design and make your own textile wall hanging with the folksy style love birds are at the centre, surrounded by Scandi style geometric patterns and winter motifs. Using simple cutting, pressing and sticking techniques, the wall hanging will be finished off with beads, buttons and textile accessories.


This workshop will focuse on:

• Scandinavian Folk Art Design Layouts (central symmetry, stylised nature motifs, mirroring and bold color blocking)

• Textile Techniques using a variety of recycled textiles, including cotton, wool blanket and felt, exploring different techniques to attach them including layering, sticking and hanging

• Pattern Transfer using stencils/images to trace shapes (curved leaf sprigs and holly shapes) onto fabric incorporating iron-on backing to give more structure to the main motifs

• Textile Cutting using fabric scissors ensuring clean edges

• Centerline Alignment by marking a center line with tape on the background cloth and arranging the pieces symmetrically

• Finished Layout including lightly glueing the geometric borders and various cutouts onto the background fabric, adding red button accessories at the end

• Finishing Off by folding the fabric over a stick or piece of wood to create a tube, carefully glueing down to secure. Finally, adding some cord and beads to hang the final piece.


Take some time for yourself, do some fun eco crafting and be part of the Women's Creative Collective at Pause and Breathe.


We have received funding from the Kelvin Valley and Falkirk CLLD Fund to hold a series of creative workshops. Themes of the workshops include recycling (and upcycling), reducing waste and promoting circular economy principles.


This session will be held on Wednesday 25th November 10.30am-12.30pm. The session is free, as it's funded - but please do come along if you book a space, and spaces are limited. Hot drinks and biscuits are provided.


The sessions will be held by Caroline Muirhead, a local artist.


Get in touch with any questions: susie@pauseandbreathe.co.uk


Meet your facilitator:

Caroline Muirhead is a professional mixed media artist and maker and knowledgeable arts educator with over 30 years experience of working creatively within communities. A keen environmentalist with a passion for sustainable design, Caroline is on a mission to redefine and reinvent found materials into quality finished art works and craft pieces. She has exhibited and sold her creative work in Central Scotland, London, Lisbon and Sydney.


In December 2024, Caroline launched Green at Heart Art Studio on the rural working farm in Stirlingshire where she lives. Made using recycled materials, this unique studio and exhibition space is a beautifully repurposed container and works around the ethos of creativity, nature connection and sustainability. Immersed in nature, the Green at Heart Studio is a place for women of all abilities and experience levels to embrace their creativity through the process of making and crafting using a zero waste approach.


Caroline is committed to offering accessible art and craft workshops that are the perfect mix of inspiration, practical making, relaxation and fun. She will expertly guide you through the creative process which will result in you going home with your own unique finished product.

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