Under Richard’s careful guidance you will be supplied with a learning pack at the start of course and he will teach you how to progress through it step by step. Once you have experienced the process you will be able to start interpreting northbound designs in this way using your own materials.

A selection of coloured photographs and magazine pictures which will act as your guide and inspiration. Choose uncomplicated images with clear distinctions of colours and tonal values
Sheet of tracing paper
Sellotape
Two pairs of scissors: one for paper, the other for fabric
Small jar of PVA plus a small brush for the adhesive
One square metre  ( approximately ) of hessian in any colour. Lots of scraps of all kinds of fabric sorted in reds, pinks, yellows, oranges, blues, purples, greens, brown, greys, whites, blacks and multicoloured
Electric sewing machine with which you are very familiar and possesses a darning foot, sometimes known as a free motion foot. Please note that this foot is crucial - ensure that you have practised with it beforehand so that you will be comfortable doing the free machine embroidery during the course itself
90 or 100 sized sewing machine needles
Machine sewing and machine embroidery threads in the same colours as above
Hand sewing yarns and threads in the same colours as above
Some coloured pencils
A large-eyed, sharp pointed needle ( e.g. a yarn darner ).