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  • £149

Water Soluble Magic

  • Course
  • 46 Lessons

Water-soluble fabric is a magical ingredient, allowing you to create intricate weaves, laces, and grids from scraps of fabric and tangles of threads. You can use it to create edgings, jewellery and sculptural vessels and make stitches float over textural surfaces. Best of all, it all looks so much more intricate and complicated than it really is!
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Explore a world of experimental possibility with magical water soluble fabric!

Water Soluble Magic is here!


  • If you love playing and experimenting with textiles this course is perfect for you. We will be creating samples but there will be plenty of suggestions for how you can use them in dressmaking, up-cycling, interiors and art.

  • You can use the chapters as prompts, then go off for hours/days exploring more possibilities. The course kept growing as I filmed it and I don't think you could possibly finish it in a weekend :) it's more like a 6 week course now!

  • It's amazing, once you start playing, how the ideas begin to flow. Once purchased the course can be taken at your own pace and you can spend as long as you want on each section.

  • You can ask questions and share work both within the course and in our private Facebook group. I also run Zoom Open Studio Hour's once a month where we chat about what everyone is up to.
I already know this is perfect for me, where do I sign up!

Watch 'over my shoulder' as I create these samples and talk you through my design and thought process.

More reasons to play!


  • You are impatient, love quick results and maybe a little rebellious!

  • You love textiles and want inspiration for new ways of working. 

  • You love up-cycling fabrics and exploring new techniques, playing and creating happy accidents.

  • You have a huge fabric/fibre/thread stash and need inspiration!  

  • You want to create interesting fabrics to stitch into or use in larger work

  • You are working in another medium and want to incorporate water soluble into your work


That's so me! I want to play...

"Each lesson leads your mind in all sorts of directions. “What if?” Has been going through my head constantly. Moving to next lesson 👀"

“There are so many little nuggets in Jayne's videos....I'll have to watch them again and again.”

"Wow, thank you so much. Just made my first bowl. How amazing is soluble fabric and a few scrap threads. Buzzing 🤩"
tangle threads edging on ochre wool. Experimental textile edging sample
Take me to the magic...

Why Learn from me?

  • I have over 25 years experience as a conceptual textile designer. Selling internationally to clients ranging from Chanel and Dior to M&S and Boden.

  • Author of 6 craft books, including Simply Felt, The Impatient Patchworker and New From Old all about up-cycling your wardrobe

  • TV appearances with Kirstie Allsopp on her show Kirstie's Handmade Britain. Regular expert at her annual Handmade Fair

  • In-person workshops for Soho Farmhouse, Liberty, Dyson Institute, John Lewis, Festival of Quilts and The Knitting and Stitching Show.

  • Featured in Embroidery Magazine, Vogue, The Observer and The Makers Story

  • Founded reclaimed clothing label Salvage and sold collections to Koh Samui in London and Colette in Paris. 

  • An MA in Fashion from Central St Martins and a 1st class honours degree in Multi Media Textiles from Loughborough College of Art

  • I absolutely love sharing my ideas and techniques and I get super excited to see how you interpret them. 



Contents

My courses contain short inspirational videos, packed full of ideas and jumping-off points. I love it when lessons are short and concise as there's more time for play!

Introduction

Welcome
Water soluble fabric
Materials
Dissolving

Tangled Threads

Introduction and ideas
Preview
Messy lace bowls
Messy lace fabric
Fabric backed Tangles
Creating messy florals
Mohair, wool and cashmere

Decorative Lace and details

Using shapes to make lace, edgings and details
Bonding fabric
Stitching small details
Patchwork doilies

Grids and nets

The possibilities of a grid
Basic stitched grids
Zig zag stitch grids
Decorative stitched grid
Ready made grids
Badminton net
Badminton dots

Sewing scraps

Denim scrap fabric
Ombre scraps
Indigo offcuts
Scrap applique

'Weaving' on a Sewing Machine

Creating weave like structures
Weaving with old samples
Weaving with ribbon and braids

Floating Threads

Floating ideas
Floating threads
Floating applique
Darns and holes

Edgings and inserts

Tangled
Floral
Fringing
Scallops

Further ideas and mixing techniques

Petal lace
Paper as a substitute for soluble
Adding paint and ink
Water soluble magic x Experimental needle felting
Water Soluble Magic x No Rules Patchwork

What's next?!

Thank you

Zoom recordings

Water soluble Zoom recording 1
Water soluble Zoom recording 2
Water soluble Zoom recording 4

Future unrecorded Zoom meet ups

Open Studio Hours
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