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Celebrate the festive season by creating your own needlepoint design based on your favourite evergreen foliage or winter plant. Join tutor Shaun Richardson at Ilkley Manor House on Friday, 6 December.

At what can sometimes be a stressful time of the year, be immersed in the creative practice of needlepoint and be reminded that even in winter, the natural world provides much to celebrate. You can bring along a photograph, magazine, book, or other image to help you, or you can work entirely from your imagination. Your inspiration could be an evergreen such as holly, ivy or an old pine tree, plants varying from mistletoe to poinsettias, the bark of a birch tree or a dogwood, or even a Green Man!

You will learn three simple beginner stitches and be shown how to use them creatively, together with demonstrations of how to combine different colours for various effects. You will be provided with all the materials (canvas, needles and yarn) needed to continue and complete your design at home.